I'm using this thread to also recommend titles on Criterion's Hulu Plus channel. At least one month-long, $8 binge would seem reasonable:
Robert Bresson's riveting masterpieces A Man Escaped and L'Argent
The Letter Never Sent, a Soviet adventure film from the makers of Cranes Are Flying, with outstanding cinematography (including an amazing forest fire sequence).
Ernst Lubitsch's great, extremely entertaining To Be or Not To Be.
Elaine May's Mikey & Nicky, w/ Cassavetes & Peter Falk
Fassbinder's tongue-in-cheek sci-fi miniseries World on a Wire
An absolute treasure trove of Japanese classics from most of the masters (Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, Ozu, Imamura, Oshima, Naruse, etc.)
All your fave Bergman laffers.
Death Shadows – I don’t know that this is a good movie, but it’s certainly campy and strange. The main plot as described on the site, about a trio of mute convicts forced to become samurai police, is completely dispensed with after half an hour, and instead shapes up as a duel between a member of the trio’s daughter and her vampy female nemesis. Features occasional interpretive dance interludes backed by disco lights, a character whose signature weapon is a long ribbon twirler, and one scruffy actor who literally chews the scenery.
