Over the past week, I’ve enjoyed a little “staycation” (that
is, a vacation where you don’t actually go anywhere) from my job at the Rainbow
Factory. I decided to take advantage of this by catching up on my movie
watching. To my surprise and delight, Hulu Plus offers a ton of Criterion films
commercial-free and unedited.
For
those of you unfamiliar, the Criterion Collection is a video label that
specializes in art-house foreign films, as well as American films with a unique
vision or voice, films like Rashomon,
Wild Strawberries, 8 ½ and Harold and
Maude. These DVDs/Blu-Rays tend to be higher in price, difficult to find in
brick and mortar stores and (lately) even hard to get to on Netflix. Thus,
finding a lot of them right at my fingertips, available to watch whenever I
want (for a low monthly fee of $7.99) was a godsend.
Oh, and
they have TV shows to, if you’re into that sort of thing.
So,
what did I watch?
