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Choose Next Criterion Blu & Free Docs

Louis Malle's Au revoir les enfants,
Jim Jarmusch's Down By Law,
Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock

In a poll that requires you to log in over at Amazon, Criterion is soliciting input for which of five films should go Blu-ray next. My personal vote is for Au revoir les enfants, closely followed in preference by Down By Law and Picnic at Hanging Rock. The choice of the former is for the glorious monochromatic potential, and the latter for my admiration of decades-old Weir.

This month's free-to-watch-online Criterion titles have just been posted over on The Auteurs. They're all docs, including a couple personal favorites (General Idi Amin Dada and Harlan County, USA), one of the definitive concert docs (Monterey Pop), a classic being re-released fully remastered for HD in July on disc (For All Mankind), and a couple I haven't caught up with but can now (Salesman and Burden of Dreams).