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Right in time for the weekend… Working in partnership with Stella Artois, TheAuteurs.com is now featuring a selection of its favorite films that have played at the Cannes Film Festival.
The lineup, including many prize winners, features movies by Federico Fellini (Amarcord), Wong Kar-wai (Happy Together), Michelangelo Antonioni (L’avventura), Jacques Tati (Mon oncle), and others. [...]
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This weekend, The Guardian film critic and select filmmakers listed their favorite movie scenes of all time. It starts with the iconic shower scene from Hitchcock’s Psycho (above). No surprise there. And then what? The very long car chase from The French Connection, Robet DeNiro’s talking to the mirror scene in Taxi Driver, the memorable last minutes of [...]
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This past weekend, François Alaux and Herve de Crecy’s 17 minute film, Logorama, won the Oscar for the best Short Film (Animated). The plot comes basically boils down to this: “In a world made up entirely of trademarks and brand names, Michelin Man [...]
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Fans of avant-garde art, take note. UbuWeb hosts a vast archive of online avant-garde media, and they’ve been doing it since 1996. The site features a large mp3 sound archive, alongside an extensive film/video collection where you’ll find some vintage clips. Take these items for example:
Four American Composers: Philip Glass – Peter Greenaway’s documentary from [...]
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Alice in Wonderland has a long tradition in American cinema. You can find versions from 2010, 1972, and 1951. You’ll even find a silent version dating all the way back to 1903. Thanks to the British Film Institute (BFI), you can watch online this silent version of Lewis Carroll’s classic tale for the first time. [...]
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With the Oscars coming up, American Public Media re-aired today our interview from last November. Here, we tell radio listeners about the wealth of great movies available online for free. You can listen to the interview below (or here), and explore our ever-growing collection of Free Movies Online, which includes films by Hitchcock, Polanski, Coppola, [...]
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Back in 1975, filmmaker Tom Schiller (only 20 years old at the time) made a short documentary on the novelist Henry Miller (Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn). In the scene above, Miller, then 81 years old, reminisces about his difficult early life in New York, and it all takes place on the [...]
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Ok, it’s not really Werner Herzog. Just a little playful satire. A guess at how the German director might reinterpret/read the children’s classic Curious George. This version is dark and existential.
via Abe Books
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Kurt Kuenne’s short film, ”Validation,” has played at 34 film festivals and won 17 awards. This 16 minute indie offers a “fable about the magic of free parking” — meaning they’re talking about “validation” in a larger sense than parking per se … We’ve added the clip to our YouTube favorites.
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Classic film buffs take note. Roger Ebert writes:
The eagerly awaited restored version of Fritz Lang’s silent classic “Metropolis” will steam live on the internet on Friday Feb. 12. In America, it can be see in the afternoon. It’s said that nearly an hour of footage, long thought to be lost, has been added. The footage was discovered [...]
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Alfred Hitchcock loved making cameo appearances in his own films. Apparently, he made 37 such cameos over a 50 year period. The appearances can be tough to spot. So the video above helps point out many of them.
If you’re looking for complete Hitchcock films, then head over to our collection of Free Movies Online. There, [...]
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If you get your kicks from uber kitschy B- films, then we’ve got a little something for you. AMC has launched a new site called B- Minus Classics, which we have added to our growing collection of Free Movies Online. (Our list now contains 125 free classic movies, and numerous sites where you can watch [...]
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Take the Coen Brothers’ 1998 cult film, The Big Lebowski, and put it in Shakespearean verse, and what do you get? Two Gentlemen of Lebowski as written by Adam Bertocci. It begins:
In wayfarer’s worlds out west was once a man,
A man I come not to bury, but to praise.
His name was Geoffrey Lebowski called, yet
Not [...]
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Welcome to the new world of digital filmmaking. Give this one a minute to get going.
Thanks Nats and Gary for sending this one along. Have a great link to share with us? (I know you do!) Write us at mail at openculture dot com.
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Our collection of Free Online Movies is the gift that keeps on giving. It led us unexpectedly to discover the wealth of World War II propaganda films made by some of America’s greatest directors. It also turned up (among other things) the Kurosawa Digital Archive. Opened last year by Kyoto’s Ryukoku University, the archive honors [...]
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Animated and directed by Jeff Chiba Stearns. The short film is the winner of the Prix du Public at Clermont-Ferrand.
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Yup, we mentioned Quentin Tarantino last week, and we’re doing it again this week because Rosario has unearthed this nice clip. In six snappy minutes, Tarantino (director of Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dog, Inglorious Basterds, etc) lists his favorites films made since 1992 — when he, himself, started making films. You’ll know some of these titles, [...]
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It’s that time of the year. Or rather that time of the decade. It’s time for “best of” lists — good ones, often banal ones, and sometimes bad ones. Here’s one good list that might serve you well next year. Twenty-Five Essential Films of the 2000s features some films that you’ve undoubtedly seen (The Lord [...]
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One thing is for sure. David Lynch has never been conventional. Not now, and not during his early years. While putting together our collection of Free Movies Online, we unearthed several short films from the 1960s, when Lynch was getting his start. His very first film, Six Men Getting Sick (Six Times), appears above. Links [...]
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Note that one of Quentin Tarantino’s very early films (My Best Friend’s Birthday) can be found in our collection of Free Movies Online.
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