1959 – Stream On Demand

‘North by Northwest’ – Alfred Hitchcock at his breeziest on HBO Max

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Cary Grant goes on a cross-country romp with Eva Marie Saint and James Mason in Hitchcock’s breeziest romantic thriller.

‘A Bucket of Blood’ – Roger Corman’s beatnik horror on Amazon Prime and Paramount+

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Beloved character actor Dick Miller takes one of his only leading roles in the black comedy set in the 1950s beatnik coffeehouse culture of poets, artists, and wannabes.

‘The Twilight Zone’ – enter another dimension on Hulu and Paramount+

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Submitted for your approval: Rod Serling, a writer whose mix of science fiction, fantasy, and social commentary results in the most celebrated and respected anthology series of all time.

Peter Cushing is Sherlock Holmes in the Hammer version of the Arthur Conan Doyle classic

‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ – Hammer’s Gothic Holmes on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, based on a novel, Blu-ray, British Cinema, Classic, DVD, Mystery, SVOD, thriller 10/09/2021 Sean Axmaker

Peter Cushing is perfectly cast as the great detective in this 1959 mix mystery and supernatural horror from Hammer Studios and its top director, Terence Fisher.

Chhabi Biswas stars in Satyajit Ray's masterpiece from India

Satyajit Ray’s ‘The Music Room’ on The Criterion Channel

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Graceful and melancholy, this 1959 classic observes the old-world feudal life of the 1920s fading into irrelevance with both sympathy and disparagement.

Satyajit Ray’s ‘The Apu Trilogy’ on The Criterion Channel

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The three films that follow the life of a boy from his impoverished childhood in a rural village to the city and adulthood brought Indian cinema to an international audience.

‘Araya’ – a landmark of poetic nonfiction on Criterion Channel

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This 1959 portrait of an ancient existence in the modern world is a beautiful tone poem with narration to match.

Burl Ives and Robert Ryan star in the western noir by Andre de Toth

‘Day of the Outlaw’ – snowbound western noir on Amazon Prime

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Day of the Outlaw (1959), a western set in a snowbound mountain town on the high frontier, is one of the toughest, most tension-filled pictures from Andre de Toth, a studio filmmaker who could be counted on to bring a savage edge to his assignments. The town is already coiled like a spring thanks to […]

‘Eyes Without a Face’ – the poetry of horror on HBO Max, Criterion Channel, and Kanopy

!Featured, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, Free, Halloween, HBO Max, Hoopla, horror, International Classics, suspense, SVOD 10/26/2020 Sean Axmaker

Franju’s perverse and poetic French classic is at once lyrical, haunting, and deviant, an elegantly horrifying classic of sadism and shadowy grace.

Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing in the 1959 Hammer horror classic directed by Terence Fisher

Christopher Lee is ‘The Mummy’ on VOD and Blu-ray/DVD

!Featured, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Halloween, horror, remake, SVOD 10/30/2018 Sean Axmaker

Hammer Films’ greatest nemeses, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, once again square off in The Mummy (1959), the studio’s reworking of Universal’s The Mummy (with elements of The Mummy’s Tomb and The Mummy’s Ghost thrown in for good measure). Cushing stars as archaeologist John Banning, whose dig for a lost tomb results in untold treasures […]