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. There are nine movies in total, filmed between 1958 and 2008. And they’re free until June. These films should be available worldwide, but registration is required. Kick back and start watching here.

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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 2001: A Space Odyssey, the fighting skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts, Brian DePalma’s “blood at the prom” scene in Carrie, and some other memorable ones.

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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 cops pursue a criminal Ronald McDonald.” Obviously, there is some commentary here on how corporations permeate American society. The film has been brought online by GarageTV. For more films, check out our collection of Free Movies Online.

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• Four American Composers: Philip Glass – Peter Greenaway’s documentary from 1983 takes you inside the work of John Cage, Philip Glass, Meredith Monk, & Robert Ashley. The clip here features the Glass segment.
• Jorge Luis Borges: The Mirror Man - This 47 minute documentary focuses on Argentina’s beloved author. As UBU writes, the documentary is a bit of everything — “part biography, part literary criticism, part hero-worship, part book reading, and part psychology.”
• La villa Santo Sospir – Jean Cocteau, the French poet, novelist and dramatist, also shot a movie or two. Here’s his 35-minute color film from 1952…
• Scenes from Allen’s Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit – A video diary of beat writer Allen Ginsberg’s final days before death, and the days following.
• The Violence of the Image – Jean Baudrillard lectures at the European Graduate School.
• Un Chant d’Amour – French writer Jean Genet’s only film from 1950. Because of its explicit (though artistically presented) homosexual content, the 26-minute movie was banned and disowned by Genet later in his life, says UBU.
• Warhol’s Cinema – A Mirror for the Sixties – A 64-minute documentary on Andy Warhol’s cinema of the sixties, made in association with The Factory, MOMA and the Whitney Museum of Art.

This is just a quick sample of what UBU has to offer. You can dig deeper into their avant-garde media collection here. As you’ll see, the video quality can be a little uneven. But if you can’t get to a real arts cinema, then this is not a bad fallback resource.

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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. Produced just eight years after the birth of cinema, the film, originally running 12 minutes, was “the longest film produced in England at that time.” The version above is unfortunately incomplete, running just 9 and a half minutes. But it has been recently restored (to the best extent possible). BFI offers more information about this early cinema gem here. Finally, you can download a free audio book of Lewis Carroll’s classic, Alice in Wonderland, within our collection of Free Audio Books.

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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 set used to shoot the movie Hello, Dolly!. Schiller’s complete film, Henry Miller Asleep and Awake, can be watched for free on Snagfilms. (It’s also available at Amazon on DVD here.) The run time is 34 minutes. Excellent find by Mike.

Note: We’ve added Henry Miller Asleep and Awake to our growing film collection: Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Film Noir, Documentaries & More

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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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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 in a film archive in Buenos Aires…. It will be streamed via websites in both German and France. The actual film is scheduled to start playing at 1:40 PM CST, Chicago time.”

The French site streaming the film can be found here, and the German site here.

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