I would think it's meaningless, but if anything it would mean that it is the closest to the authoring stage. That's pure assumption though.

Also just added
Trial of Joan of Arc - Bresson
Youth of the Son - Kobayashi
as well as other shorter films by Malle, Pialat, Chaplin & Merchant Ivory

jwd5275, I'm not finding any of these titles you mention on the site. Does anyone else see them?

Also, is anyone else far more excited about the random hulu updates than for mainline updates these days?

Actually Hulu often adds shorter films (as well as any supplements too) under clips instead of movies. I always check there too and that is where I found them

I think it may be based upon them being untagged. A few times Criterion's put films up without directors, I'm guessing it's something similar, with the person in charge of this getting sloppy at the end of a Friday. Still obnoxious, though.

Some folks are so unappreciative.

Has anybody else tried to watch The Trial of Joan of Arc, and if so have you found that it has commercial interruptions? (Yes, I'm logged in to my Hulu+ account.)

I want to contact support about this, but before I do I'd like to know if it's a problem affecting everybody who tries to watch the film, or if it's one that affects just me.

It's probably one of the ones going for free in which case commercials are normal.

Not sure that's the case, as its also true for everything else they've uploaded as a clip instead of a feature film (i.e. all of the recent shorts). I imagine it's due to the category it's listed under..?

Yeah, I noticed that. How Trial of Joan is a "short film" while Zero de Conduit is a "full movie" is something of a mystery, though.

Speaking of egregiously obnoxious tagging, they have Port of Call listed as directed by Zoltan Korda.

Hulu has fixed it so most short films (except inexplicably for Kinoshita's Army and Naruse's Flunky, Work Hard) show as movies, not clips. The director error on Port of Call is fixed too.

It's not on the Criterion channel, but Tony Richardson's A Taste of Honey is now up.

Strange, it's from that same Westchester company that I explored earlier. Odd since Westchester has many of the films Criterion has streaming for free, but Godzilla was an exception as well. I suppose I just imagine that this probably lends itself well to a Criterion release.

Hey, cool, Life of the Marionettes is up for free this week, along with some other originally-made-for-TV titles.

Now up:
Boyhood - Kinoshita
Garden of Women - Kinoshita
Rose on his Arm - Kinoshita
Carmen's Innocent Love - Kinoshita
A Day in the Country - Renoir
Fountainhead - Kobayashi
Sweet Sounds - Robbins
All My Good Countrymen - Jasny
Vendetta of a Samurai - Mori
Killers on Parade - Shinoda
Story from Chikamatsu - Mizoguchi

Will Criterion ever run out of Kinoshita? Seems like there will be about 50 Eclipse sets in the future.
I'll add joke tags, since too many people have been missing humor lately.

Partie de campagne is great news though.

Seconded on the enthusiasm for Partie de Campagne! Almost have picked up the BFI disc several times, now will wait...at least for the time being

Killers on Parade is bonkers. I highly recommend it, if only for the rioting colors and the barely concealed Anti-American sentiments bubbling underneath its bubblegum pop facade.

Does anyone on the board have a real appreciation for Kinoshita? I've only seen 24 Eyes, but it drove me up the wall, and not (entirely) because of its politics. It was very pretty, but seemed to lack any reason for its pictorial beauty. I felt like I was watching a bad, stiff melodrama plumped up with a tourist's slideshow.

Glad to hear it. Shinoda's quickly becoming one of my favorite Japanese directors, I can't wait to see.

I had the same reaction to 24 Eyes, but it's still fairly great that they're putting up nearly his entire filmography (hard to say how many more they have the rights to) nonetheless. I'm in no rush to watch his movies, but they were pretty much unavailable in the West until now, and perhaps there's some gems hidden in there. And all joking aside, the fact that they have the rights to so many yet haven't even put out even one Eclipse release of them implies to me they have no interest in doing so. Criterion would probably be sitting on those rights for all time without doing anything with them.

I'd like to echo the excitement for Partie de campagne. This may be the most potently brilliant thing Renoir ever did, and I think it's about time it gets the treatment.

This was excellent news! In the past two years, they've shown it at a Renoir retrospective at BAM and I believe at an afternoon weekday screening at MoMA, but I couldn't see it either times. Until now, I had only seen a terrible VHS transfer that was lying around and collecting dust at my old school. The materials used on this one looks MUCH better - not pristine, but it must be pretty close to the original negative?

Such an interesting film - it really comes down to the last 15 minutes, it's tempting to argue that leaving this film unfinished was something of a gift -

Partie de campagne is easily one of my 2 or 3 favorite Renoir films. I've watched the BFI DVD at least a half dozen times over the years, but always hoped for a definitive Criterion edition.

Up now:
Kobayashi's I Will Buy You