‘The Soft Skin’ – tragic romance from Truffaut on Max and Criterion Channel !Featured, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, French New Wave, International Classics, Max, Romance, suspense, SVOD 11/29/202311/29/2023 Sean Axmaker Francois Truffaut’s cool, creamy smooth story of a doomed affair channels the director’s love of Alfred Hitchcock into a romantic melodrama.
Leaving soon: ‘A Woman is a Woman’ – Jean-Luc Godard’s musical on Criterion Channel !Featured, Blu-ray, Comedy, Criterion Channel, DVD, French New Wave, International Classics, Musical, Romance, SVOD 03/05/202304/03/2023 Sean Axmaker Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy , and Jean-Paul Belmondo star in this bubbly, colorful, romantic lark.
‘Umbrellas’ and ‘Young Girls’ – the essential Jacques Demy on HBO Max and Criterion Channel !Featured, Academy Award nominee, Blu-ray, Cannes winner, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, Free, French New Wave, International Classics, Kanopy, Max, Musical, Romance, SVOD 02/05/202302/04/2023 Sean Axmaker Catherine Deneuve stars in these two musicals from the most romantic of the French New Wave filmmakers.
‘Breathless’ – Jean-Luc Godard’s new wave classic on Max, Criterion Channel, and Kanopy !Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Crime, Criterion, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, French New Wave, International Classics, Kanopy, Max, Sight & Sound 100 Greatest Films of All Time, SVOD 01/09/202309/09/2023 Sean Axmaker Jean-Paul Belmondo plays a charming rogue of a street thug in this cinematic blast across the bow of the French filmmaking and international cinema.
Agnes Varda’s ‘Cléo from 5 to 7’ on HBO Max and Criterion Channel !Featured, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, Directed by Women, drama, DVD, Free, French New Wave, International Classics, Kanopy, Max, Sight & Sound 100 Greatest Films of All Time, SVOD 12/12/202212/12/2022 Sean Axmaker Varda’s breakthrough film follows a flighty young pop singer through Paris for a day as she awaits potentially tragic news.
Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘Alphaville’ – crimes of the future free on Kanopy !Featured, Blu-ray, Crime, Cult Movies, DVD, Free, French New Wave, International Classics, Kanopy, Science Fiction, SVOD 06/25/202207/01/2022 Sean Axmaker Eddie Constantine is Lemmy Caution in this mix of science fiction drama and pulp fiction private eye thriller.
Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘Contempt’ with Brigitte Bardot on Criterion Channel !Featured, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, drama, DVD, French New Wave, International Classics, movies about movies, SVOD 05/03/202205/02/2022 Sean Axmaker Brigitte Bardot stars in Godard’s one and only flirtation with big budget studio production with Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, and filmmaking great Fritz Lang.
‘Zazie dans le metro’ – Louis Malle’s New Wave slapstick on Criterion Channel !Featured, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Comedy, Criterion, Criterion Channel, DVD, French New Wave, International Classics, literary adaptation, SVOD 04/11/202204/11/2022 Sean Axmaker An adolescent girl is on the loose through the streets of Paris in this fresh and freewheeling comedy out of the French New Wave.
Francois Truffaut’s ‘Bed and Board’ on Criterion Channel !Featured, Comedy, Criterion Channel, DVD, French New Wave, International Classics, SVOD 03/22/202205/16/2023 Sean Axmaker Jean-Pierre Leaud is Antoine Doinel in the fourth film in Truffaut’s quasi-autobiographical cycle of comedies.
Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘Vivre sa vie’ on HBO Max and Criterion Channel !Featured, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, Free, French New Wave, International Classics, Kanopy, Max, socially aware cinema, SVOD, Venice winner 03/14/202203/14/2022 Sean Axmaker Anna Karina stars in this drama of social and sexual politics about a shop girl and aspiring actress who becomes a professional prostitute.
