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From the Criterion Collection, with love (and for free)

The Verge is reporting that the entire Criterion Collection of films will be available to stream for free via Hulu — from today through the weekend. Happy Valentine’s Day!

The company has routinely offered up selections from its catalog — normally exclusive to paying Hulu Plus subscribers — for complimentary viewing, but now it’s opening up the floodgates and making hundreds of classic motion pictures available at no cost. If you’re spending Valentine’s Day alone, at least you can now spend your evening lost in the timeless treasures of cinema.

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One-word book titles…

…or “Why I Love TheMillions.com:”

Ever since I fell in love with Jernigan I’ve been drawn to books with one-word titles – partly because Sonny Mehta loves one-word titles, but mainly because they can be so enviably concise and memorable, so perfect. At their best, one-word titles distill content to its purest essence, which is what all titles strive to do, and then they stick in the mind. Sometimes, of course, they fall flat, and much of the time they’re just lukewarm and vague or, worse, falsely grand.

Weirdly, I’ve always thought long names for movies (and perhaps books as well) were positively correlated with the indie-ness of the film. Thoughts?