jindianajonz wrote:Does anybody have a list of titles that first appeared on Hulu but then moved to Criterion or Eclipse?
No but off memory
Monsieur Verdoux
Chronicle of a Summer
Purple Noon
Weekend
A Man Escaped
Les Visiteurs du Soir
Eating Raoul
Quadrophenia
Le Havre
The Gold Rush
Summer with Monika
Summer Interlude
The Organizer
Letter Never Sent
World On a Wire
Three Outlaw Samurai
The Moment of Truth
Godzilla
The Three Colors trilogy
Kuroneko
The Four Feathers
The Phantom Carriage(it was around this time they started mixing in new titles)
I'm a little shadier on Eclipse but I know
I Will Buy You
Black River
The Inheritance
Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell
The X from Outer Space
Jean Grémillon During the Occupation (all of them)
Pearls of the Czech New Wave (all of them)
I don't know about the title before that one.
Chronicle of a Summer was announced a few months before it appeared on Hulu, although it did pop up there before the actual release date by about a week or so.
jindianajonz wrote:If anyone cares, here's a spreadsheet I put together for the films in the collection (discs, not hulu). You can sort by year, director, or country, and it keeps track of what percent you own or have seen (the color coding has to be entered manually)
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I'm sure it has been mentioned previously (if so, a link would be much appreciated), but I was thinking of subscribing to hulu+, and was wondering how many titles are actually on there? I see on Criterion's website they show 483, but I notice in the original press release that it said it would be over 800. I thought it was advertised that hulu would have the entire collection? I'm curious what determines what films are included on hulu, besides a film being in print or not. I see only one of Melville's films, for example, is available on hulu.
It tends to depend on rights which films are included on Hulu. There are some Criterion films that are on Netflix, not because Criterion picks and chooses, but because of who the original rights holder is (for example, StudioCanal (or what's left of it), IFC, and some others have deals with Netflix and not Hulu). So sometimes you'll see a director who is underrepresented on Hulu because a lot of their films are under the same umbrella. Sorry - I don't have an exact tally for you, though - it really is worth it, and you should try it out for a month and see what you think.
Excellent, thanks for the info. It certainly does seem worth it. I'm also curious, they mention in the release that some criterion special features would be offered on hulu as well; has that happened at all yet/how extensive is it?
As far as I can tell just from scrolling around, it's not incredibly extensive, but certain movies do have features (the Paul Thomas Anderson intro to The Earrings of Madame De is the only one I've ever actually clocked on, though). Commentaries aren't available, either.
There are interviews, trailers, some full length making features, etc on many of the titles that are ported over from the physical releases.
Also for the record, I count 5 Melvilles on Hulu (2 on the Criterion channel and 3 now oop Criterions put up by Lionsgate). I would estimate that there are between 10-15 additional titles that Criterion has physically released available on Hulu spread across the IFC, Lionsgate, and Image channels.
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Earlier in this "Criterion" on Hulu thread, reference is made to Umetsugu Inoue's great film: Third Shadow Warrior (a film that pre-dates Kurosawa's treatment by about 17 years, by the way).
I was under the impression that Criterion, owned or released, films _include_ the Criterion Logo.
Is this a Criterion film?
The Cowboy and the Frenchman wasn't included on the Japanese Eraserhead blu-ray, so being that it was produced for French television (if memory serves), the rights may well be held by a different someone.
jindianajonz wrote:If anyone cares, here's a spreadsheet I put together for the films in the collection (discs, not hulu). You can sort by year, director, or country, and it keeps track of what percent you own or have seen (the color coding has to be entered manually)
This is awesome, thanks a lot for it. It's extremely useful to be able to easily see which titles are available in HD, as that often makes a huge quality difference with my setup. I cannot believe that H+ has removed (or did it ever offer?) filtered browsing for HD titles among ALL Criterion holdings; I think I could filter for HD using their 'topical menus', but I cannot remember how long ago I tried that...perhaps before the last 'upgrade'.
Apropos: Hulu seems absolutely determined to destroy all functionality fo their Criterion holdings. It's almost like they are going to great lengths to do EXTRA WORK to make the Criterion library unusable by the only people who will really use it; I couldn't even get an alphabetical menu of all Criterion titles, only those silly scrolling 'topical' menus. It was bad enough not making the online/PS3 queues align with one another a la Netflix, but removing the director/nationality sorting was the worst by far.
Does anyone have a list of all Criterion/Hulu titles available in HD (2-3.2mbps)? The great spreadsheet provided by jindianajonz (see the quote in my last post, immediately above) lists high-definition options for Hulu titles not yet released by Criterion in physical media, but it would be convenient to know which of the other streaming titles have an HD option. I think filtering used to be available, but not for a while now; at least not for all titles A-Z.
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As a special bonus, today we’ve also made six more classic titles free. These are Samuel Fuller’s The Naked Kiss, Robert Altman’s Secret Honor, Pietro Germi’s Seduced and Abandoned, Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal, and two unavailable on disc: Yasujiro Ozu’s A Hen in the Wind and François Truffaut’s Two English Girls. Check back at Hulu every day to see the latest film!
So hopefully we'll get some new titles because one a day kind of sucks if they are all rehashes
