Lost & Found: 500 Free Movies Online
Since I’ve decided to skip the Oscar coverage this year and there’s no new review ready this weekend, I’m going to introduce the new catergory Lost & Found for all the great stuff I’ve encountered somewhere on the web worthy of sharing. I’m probably not going to make this a regular feature, but once in a while there will be posts like this with interesting links, videos and other things.
Today’s find comes from the wonderful website Open Culture – which everybody should have in their Facebook or Google+ streams – and contains reportedly 500 free movies on the web. I must admit that I have not counted through the list, but it is utterly exhaustive and has an amazing collection of vintage and not-so-vintage movies from all genres, which are partly stored on Youtube and partly in other archives. Of course these are mostly not high-quality transfers, but in almost all cases still watchable, making them a wonderful starting point to browse for amazing movies and later look for better commercially released versions.
In addition there are a couple of other more specialized movie lists on Open Culture, whose contents are all contained in the big 500 collection: some of Alfred Hitchcock’s earlier movies, many Charlie Chaplin classics, a Film Noir section and even a couple of early Westerns with John Wayne. And for the current occasion there’s also a list of 33 Oscar-winning movies and short films. Unfortunately not everthing is still online – some of it has been taken down for copyright reasons, some are not playable in Germany because of the Youtube-Gema feud. But even with some entries missing, the movie collection from Open Culture is an amazing treasure trove for every movie enthusiast.
No Oscarcoverage this year… hmmmm – to bad, I had such a nice rant prepared (about slipper socks and other things… ;->
Sorry, I was too lazy and disinterested… and I don’t particularly like Seth McFarlane. And there was the problem of the still-frozen satellite dish I couldn’t turn back to 19.2°… the Oscars are not broadcast free-to-air on 28.2°.
But feel free to rant if you like, although I can’t tell you anything about the Oscar ceremony because I haven’t seen it :-):
Like last year I’m less concernd with the presentation then with who won.
Wat’ch’a do with the dish?
Fry the motor?
I actually mostly just watch for the show. The rest is just… show anyway.
There’s no motor on the dish – it’s fixed at 28.2° but usually it can be turned a bit – but not when it’s freezing. But who needs German television anyway…
8th grade MS-quieters with mandatory JTY and penatenary carmechanic apprenticeship who only learned russian in school, miss there lazy GDR-life, hate everything american that consider watching RTL and reading Bild culture.
Who where the what now? :-)
Exactly them.;-)
FR: 4yrs prepschool, 4yrs @ The Point and 5yrs with the 101. made my 8th grade german english peculiar to the point that americans refuse to belive I ain’t and brits think I’m a yank.B-)