International Classics – Page 3

‘The Wages of Fear’ on HBO Max and Criterion Channel

!Featured, adventure, Blu-ray, Cannes winner, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, HBO Max, International Classics, road movie, SVOD, thriller 01/13/2022 Sean Axmaker

It’s man versus machine in Henri-Georges Clouzot’s gripping thriller of four men driving unstable nitroglycerin through the Amazon jungle.

‘Les Vampires’ – the original criminal conspiracy on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Crime Cinema, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, Have You Seen...?, International Classics, silent film, spies and espionage, suspense, SVOD 01/05/2022 Sean Axmaker

Louis Feuillade’s mad serialized tale of a master criminal organization that robs, kidnaps, and murders their way through Parisian society is a strange and wonderful masterpiece of early cinema.

‘Day For Night’ – a love letter to moviemaking on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Academy Award, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, French New Wave, International Cinema, International Classics, movies about movies, SVOD 01/03/2022 Sean Axmaker

François Truffaut directs and stars in this Oscar-winning drama that celebrates the glorious chaos and creative heartache of making movies.

‘Dracula’ – the 1931 Spanish version on Criterion Channel

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This little known alternate version, shot on the same sets as the Lugosi classic, features a different cast and a sexy style and is proclaimed by many fans as a superior version.

‘Breathless’ – Jean-Luc Godard’s new wave classic on HBO Max, Criterion Channel, and Kanopy

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic, Crime Cinema, Criterion, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, French New Wave, HBO Max, International Classics, Kanopy, SVOD 09/07/2021 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.

‘Le Doulos’ – the French criminal code on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, DVD, film noir, gangsters, Have You Seen...?, International Classics, SVOD 09/06/2021 Sean Axmaker

Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as the smiling underworld informer in Jean-Pierre Melville’s cool, often cruel classic French noir.

Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, and Claudia Cardinale star in Luchino Visconti's adaptation of Giuseppe di Lampedusa’s novel

Burt Lancaster is ‘The Leopard’ in Luchino Visconti’s masterpiece

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Blu-ray, Cannes winner, Classic, Criterion, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, historical, International Classics, literary adaptation, SVOD 07/20/2021 Sean Axmaker

A lush, powerful, complex drama set during Italy’s 19th century revolution and one of the grand masterpieces of world cinema.

‘Fantastic Planet’ – the animated cult classic on HBO Max and Criterion Channel

!Featured, Animation, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Cannes winner, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, fantasy, giant monsters, Have You Seen...?, HBO Max, International Classics, Science Fiction, socially aware cinema, SVOD 07/08/2021 Sean Axmaker

More fantasy than science fiction, the strange, metaphorical portrait from filmmaker Rene Laloux plays out in a world as psychedelic as ‘Yellow Submarine’ but far more predatory.

‘The Executioner’ – a satire of Spain under Franco on Criterion Channel

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The Executioner (Spain, 1963), Luis García Berlanga’s black comedy about an apprentice undertaker who marries the daughter of a veteran prison executioner and reluctantly takes his father-in-law’s job so they do not lose their government apartment, is a social satire with a sly sense of humor. Nino Manfredi plays the undertaker, a frustrated young man […]

Satyajit Ray’s ‘Charulata’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, historical, International Classics, socially aware cinema, SVOD 05/25/2021 Sean Axmaker

Ray considered this drama of a gifted and sensitive young woman in 19th century India his masterpiece.