GreenCine Daily was a

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and

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news site operated by the defunct

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service

GreenCine GreenCine was an online DVD rental service similar to Netflix. Based in San Francisco, California, with its distribution center in the Los Angeles area (Van Nuys), it had a collection of over 30,000 titles, as well as over 9,000 video on demand t ...

. The site was originally edited by David Hudson, who developed a format that curated links to articles, reviews, interviews and

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. Over the course of Hudson's tenure, the site became one of the centers of the online film community. In 2009, Hudson moved the format to the website of IFC as the "IFC Daily," and later to

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as the "Daily Mubi." Between 2009 and 2013, GreenCine Daily was edited by

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. The site's emphasis was on original content, and it included writings by critics such as

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and

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Editorship

The site was originally edited and written by David Hudson, who held in his position until December 31, 2008, after which he moved the format to a similar blog at the website of IFC. Soon afterwards, Hudson moved the format to the film website

, where it became known as the "Daily Mubi." During his tenure, Hudson described the site as "not a blog people come to read about movies; it's a blog people come to find out where to read about movies." Though GreenCine itself is based in

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, Hudson lives in

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and published the site from there. Since January 1, 2009, GreenCine Daily was edited by Aaron Hillis, a film critic who was also one of the founders of the DVD label

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and the curator of the

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-based

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. Under Hillis' editorship, the site moved towards posting exclusively original content. In February 2015, the blog was shut down.

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