Every so often, we remind you that hulu.com has some pretty eclectic movies for free. Right now they have a lot of Kurosawa flims, including Seven Samurai, Hidden Fortress, Ikiru, and High and Low. Other samurai films on there include Samurai Saga, Ugetsu, and a lot of Zatoichi movies.
Granted, most of what they offer is not worth watching, but there are other gems such as a lot of Chaplin movies like City Lights (my favorite), Lime Light, and Great Dictator. Even Buster Keaton's The General is in there.
Some other favorites of mine include Charade and Robin and Marian (Audrey Hepburn!).
Hulu also has a lot of TV series. Missed Survivor last night? You can catch it here. Same with Glee, The Amazing Race, and others.
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Thanks for pointing this out, Stan.
Aside from the Kurosawa movies, there are several other good movies from The Criterion Collection that you can watch on Hulu. You can't really go too wrong with any of them, but here are some I particularly recommend:
Fiend Without a Face (Fun horror movie with stop motion brain monsters)
Eyes Without a Face (Classic French horror movie, Actually very different from the previous movie despite the similar titles)
F For Fake (Interesting quasi-documentary by Orson Welles)
The Vanishing (aka Spoorloos, Great creepy movie, don't let anyone spoil the ending for you)
Diabolique (Henri Georges-Clouzot; makes a good double feature with The Vanishing, which I think is how I watched it when I first saw it; don't let anyone spoil the ending of this one for you either)
The Thief of Bagdad (1940 version, probably my favorite Arabian Nights movie next to Lotte Reiniger's The Adventures of Prince Achmed, completely mops the floor with Disney's Aladdin IMO)
House (Completely bonkers 70s Japanese horror movie I hope you've all seen already)
M (1931 Fritz Lang classic, just required viewing all around)
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Interesting Paul Schrader movie about Japanese writer Yukio Mishima, great Philip Glass score, I don't think it was ever actually released in Japan, the subject matter was so controversial that Schrader actually wore a knife-proof vest while directing it)
The Spirit of the Beehive (Beautiful Spanish movie)
Onibaba (Great 60s B&W Japanese horror movie)
If you want to see more Chaplin, The Gold Rush and Modern Times (both are pretty much tied for my favorite Chaplin movie) are on there too (I love the nonsense song that he sings toward the end of Modern Times). Definitely watch Monsieur Verdoux too if you haven't seen it.
Aside from the Kurosawa movies, there are several other good movies from The Criterion Collection that you can watch on Hulu. You can't really go too wrong with any of them, but here are some I particularly recommend:
Fiend Without a Face (Fun horror movie with stop motion brain monsters)
Eyes Without a Face (Classic French horror movie, Actually very different from the previous movie despite the similar titles)
F For Fake (Interesting quasi-documentary by Orson Welles)
The Vanishing (aka Spoorloos, Great creepy movie, don't let anyone spoil the ending for you)
Diabolique (Henri Georges-Clouzot; makes a good double feature with The Vanishing, which I think is how I watched it when I first saw it; don't let anyone spoil the ending of this one for you either)
The Thief of Bagdad (1940 version, probably my favorite Arabian Nights movie next to Lotte Reiniger's The Adventures of Prince Achmed, completely mops the floor with Disney's Aladdin IMO)
House (Completely bonkers 70s Japanese horror movie I hope you've all seen already)
M (1931 Fritz Lang classic, just required viewing all around)
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Interesting Paul Schrader movie about Japanese writer Yukio Mishima, great Philip Glass score, I don't think it was ever actually released in Japan, the subject matter was so controversial that Schrader actually wore a knife-proof vest while directing it)
The Spirit of the Beehive (Beautiful Spanish movie)
Onibaba (Great 60s B&W Japanese horror movie)
If you want to see more Chaplin, The Gold Rush and Modern Times (both are pretty much tied for my favorite Chaplin movie) are on there too (I love the nonsense song that he sings toward the end of Modern Times). Definitely watch Monsieur Verdoux too if you haven't seen it.
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