1953 – Stream On Demand

‘The Earrings of Madame de…’ – Max Ophuls’ romantic classic on HBO Max and Criterion Channel

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, HBO Max, International Classics, Romance, Sight & Sound 100 Greatest Films of All Time, SVOD 02/13/2023 Sean Axmaker

Danielle Darrieux, Charles Boyer, and Vittorio De Sica star in this elegant drama of romance as an elaborate dance played out in a society where appearances are everything. It placed in the number 90 spot in the 2022 Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time poll.

‘Tokyo Story’ on HBO Max and Criterion Channel and free on Kanopy

!Featured, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Channel, drama, Essential Viewing, Free, HBO Max, International Classics, Kanopy, Sight & Sound 100 Greatest Films of All Time, socially aware cinema, SVOD 12/08/2022 Sean Axmaker

Yasujiro Ozu’s classic about an elderly couple neglected by their adult children is a gently devastating drama that placed in the number four spot in the 2022 Sight & Sound Top 100 Films poll.

‘The Blue Gardenia’ on Prime Video

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Classic Movie, DVD, film noir, Hollywood Classic, SVOD, thriller 11/30/2022 Sean Axmaker

Anne Baxter is young woman who becomes the suspect in a lurid murder case in Fritz Lang’s 1953 film noir.

‘It Came From Outer Space’ – an alien visitation on Peacock

!Featured, based on a short story, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Cult Movies, DVD, family friendly, Halloween, Hollywood Classic, Peacock, Science Fiction, SVOD 11/02/2022 Sean Axmaker

Ominous title aside, this 1953 science fiction classic is one of the more optimistic movies about visitors from the stars, and in its way was an inspiration for Steven Spielberg’s ‘E.T.’

John Wayne is ‘Hondo’ in the classic Louis L’Amour western on Prime Video and Paramount+

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Amazon Prime Video, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Paramount+, SVOD, western 10/15/2022 Sean Axmaker

The leathery frontier drama costars Geraldine Page as a lonely homesteader left alone with her son in the midst of war between the Apaches and the Cavalry.

‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes’ – Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell in a musical buddy comedy

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Howard Hawks discovered one of the great female screen teams in this musical take on the jazz age tale of two girls from Little Rock in Paris.

The original big screen ‘The War of the Worlds’ on Prime Video and Paramount+

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, DVD, Hollywood Classic, literary adaptation, Paramount+, Science Fiction, SVOD 05/24/2022 Sean Axmaker

The 1953 adaptation of the H.G. Wells classic is an impressive Technicolor spectacle with Oscar-winning special effects delivering the most terrifying alien invasion audiences had ever seen.