Here's some love from Criterion. Through Monday, all of the arthouse label's titles streaming on Hulu Plus are free to everyone. There are more than 800 titles now on Hulu Plus, including quite a few that never made it to home video release. The catch: The movies come with ads, which Hulu Plus paid subscribers rarely see. Criterion says … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2013
Bad video streams costly
Six out of 10 videos streams suffer from some sort of glitch, primarily slowness, delays and poor picture quality, according to a new report. That's probably no big surprise to regular users of streaming video, but content providers are getting a wake-up call: The quality-control issue cost more than $2 billion in lost viewer time last year, … [Read more...]
Pasolini’s ‘Trilogy of Life’
In retrospect, "Trilogy of Life" seems an odd and ironic title for any work credited to Pier Paolo Pasolini. The director's grisly murder in 1975 still haunts Italians. Pasolini's notorious work "Salò" is a study in death and depravity -- a sick work of art, but an essential work of art nonetheless. His was dubbed "the cinema of despair." In … [Read more...]