• What’s Happening on Hulu

    Size matters in this week’s festival of free Criterion films on Hulu, all of which are epics you can really dig into. Like great novels, these are perfect films to curl up with over the holidays: Masaki Kobayashi’s mammoth, three-part, 574-minute The Human Condition; Raymond Bernard’s brilliant 279-minute version of Les misérables; Akira Kurosawa’s endlessly pleasurable 207-minute Seven Samurai; Ingmar Bergman’s 188-minute theatrical cut of the sumptuous Fanny and Alexander; and the relatively brief, at 163 minutes, The Tin Drum, Volker Schlöndorff's Oscar-winning wartime allegory.

    Also on offer is Marcel Carné's 190-minute Children of Paradise, a richly textured epic set in the theater world of nineteenth-century Paris. Watch it in its entirety below, or at Hulu. And if you sign up for Hulu Plus for just $7.99 a month, you’ll be able to see the hundreds of other Criterion films streaming there.

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5 comments

  • By Michael English
    December 21, 2012
    03:12 PM

    I hope you guys make the Hulu Special a thing again. Those were fun.
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  • By Raheem Miah
    December 22, 2012
    02:13 PM

    The 163-minute version of The Tin Drum, the director's cut, is not on Hulu. Just the still-brilliant-but-not-complete 142-minute version.
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  • By Shazyzang
    December 23, 2012
    08:08 AM

    But what about Canada? :(
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  • By Gord
    December 27, 2012
    12:49 PM

    Of course Criterion is always generous giving free viewings on Hulu each week, but man what a week this is! The Human Condition! I mean...holy god that's generous. 10+ hours of Kobayashi? I accept your challenge.
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    • By Craig J. Clark
      December 27, 2012
      06:32 PM

      I wish I could, too, but I've got too much running around to do this week.

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