The Criterion Collection has turned its attention to the Hulu Plus channel, adding a number of exciting titles.
On The Hulu Channel
Each week, Scott Nye takes a look at a film or films on the Criterion Collection Hulu Plus Channel.
Ryan Gallagher
On the Hulu Channel: Heinosuke Gosho’s The Neighbor’s Wife and Mine
Japan's first talkie uses all manner of sounds for laughs and love.
Scott Nye
On the Hulu Channel: François Truffaut’s The Soft Skin
Truffaut's fourth film deals with modern romance, in all its inconvenience.
On the Hulu Channel: Ingmar Bergman’s The Devil’s Eye
Bergman perfects the mix of comedy and tragedy with a film that would prove a marked transition for him as a filmmaker.
On the Hulu Channel: Nagisa Oshima’s A Street of Love and Hope
Oshima's mini-feature makes no bones about its socio-political aims, and takes a personal, urgent view of the tough decisions that come with poverty.
On the Hulu Channel: Metin Erksan’s Dry Summer
The 1964 Golden Bear winner was a breakthrough for Turkish cinema.
On the Hulu Channel: Kim Ki-young’s The Housemaid
The rediscovered masterpiece of Korean psycho-melodrama is part of the World Cinema Foundation's partnership with Criterion.
On the Hulu Channel: Roberto Rossellini’s The Machine That Kills Bad People
Rossellini's rare foray into comedy is as sharp and imaginative as his more dramatic affairs.
On the Hulu Channel: Keisuke Kinoshita’s A Legend or Was it?
Kinoshita's meditation on mob mentality is, more urgently, a magnificently mean motion picture.
On the Hulu Channel: Anthony Asquith’s The Woman in Question
A Rashomon-like murder investigation continually challenges notions of truth, past and present.
On the Hulu Channel: Ken Russell’s Mahler
This 1974 biopic is far from what we expect from the genre, but all the revelatory for it.
On the Hulu Channel: Peter Weir’s The Plumber
Peter Weir's made-for-TV nail-biter is a satisfying little thriller from an epic director.
On the Hulu Channel: Mikio Naruse’s Floating Clouds
Naruse's theme of postwar depression finds its ultimate expression.
On the Hulu Channel: Seijun Suzuki’s Everything Goes Wrong
Suzuki's 1960 youth exploitation movie is fast, loose, and only barely in control.
