1934 – Stream On Demand

‘Murder at the Vanities’ – a sexy showbiz musical mystery on Criterion Channel

!Featured, adapted from the stage, Classic, Comedy, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Musical, pre-code, SVOD 03/17/2022 Sean Axmaker

Mitchell Leisen directs this lively and sexy pre-code mix of backstage musical, showbiz comedy and murder mystery.

Karloff and Lugosi in ‘The Black Cat’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, based on a short story, Classic, Cult Movies, Halloween, Hollywood Classic, horror, pre-code, suspense 10/11/2021 Sean Axmaker

Edgar G. Ulmer’s baroque masterpiece is dark and brilliant and the pinnacle of expressionism in Hollywood horror cinema.

Jean Daste and Dita Parlo in Jean Vigo's 'L'Atalante'

‘L’Atalante’ – Poetry on the water on VOD and Criterion Blu-ray/DVD

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic, Criterion, DVD, Essential Viewing, International Cinema, Romance 11/18/2018 Sean Axmaker

L’Atalante (France, 1934), the sole feature from French filmmaker Jean Vigo, is a vision of everyday poetry. The romantic story of a young couple (Jean Daste and Dita Parlo) who marry and move onto a cramped barge that drifts through the canals of France is a simple tale, as much a visual song as a […]

Myrna Loy and William Powell (with Asta) as Nick and Nora Charles in the great mystery series

‘The Thin Man’ collection on VOD and DVD

Academy Award nominee, Action, Classic, DVD, family friendly, Hollywood Classic, literary adaptation, Mystery, SVOD 08/31/2018 Sean Axmaker

It’s cocktail hour on the mystery beat: William Powell and Myrna Loy are Nick and Nora Charles, the world’s most debonair detective team, in six delightful mysteries. It all begins with The Thin Man (1934), a sparkling adaptation of Dashiell Hammett’s novel of a former working class sleuth gone high society and his game social […]

Marlene Dietrich in the 1932 classic by Josef von Sternberg

Criterion Blu-ray: Dietrich & Von Sternberg in Hollywood

Blu-ray, Criterion Collecton, Hollywood Classic 08/10/2018 Sean Axmaker

Dietrich & Von Sternberg in Hollywood (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD) At the dawn of the sound era, as German movie star Emil Jannings left Hollywood to return to Germany, the actor invited Austrian-born/American-raised director Josef von Sternberg (who directed Jannings in The Last Command, 1928) to Universum Film A.G. to direct him in that studio’s first […]