1960 – Stream On Demand

‘Bells Are Ringing’ for Judy Holliday and Dean Martin on Max

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, adapted from the stage, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Comedy, DVD, Hollywood Classic, Max, Musical, SVOD 11/18/2023 Sean Axmaker

Vincente Minnelli directs this film version of the hit Broadway musical about an answering service operator who gets personally involved in the lives of her clients.

‘House of Usher’ – Vincent Price channels Edgar Allan Poe on Criterion Channel

!Featured, American Independent Cinema, based on a short story, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, DVD, Halloween, Hollywood Classic, horror, literary adaptation, National Film Registry, psychological drama, supernatural, SVOD 08/08/2023 Sean Axmaker

Roger Corman’s Gothic horror, shot in rich, vivid color, is a triumph of expressionism on a budget and became the first of eight successful adaptations of Poe’s works.

Alfred Hitchcock’s original ‘Psycho’ on Netflix

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Cult Movies, DVD, Essential Viewing, Halloween, Hollywood Classic, horror, Mother's Day, Mystery, National Film Registry, Netflix, suspense, SVOD, thriller 04/20/2023 Sean Axmaker

It may seem like cliché now but ‘Psycho’ was the granddaddy of all slasher films and psycho-thrillers and thrilled audiences with its shocking twists and tawdry details.

‘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 01/09/2023 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.

Laurence Olivier is ‘The Entertainer’ on HBO Max and Criterion Channel

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, BAFTA winner, based on a play, British Cinema, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, Max, movies about theater, SVOD 12/18/2022 Sean Axmaker

Olivier gives his all as the gap tooth vaudevillian living in the shadow of his music hall legend father in this screen adaptation of John Osborne’s celebrated play.

‘Brides of Dracula’ – the Hammer Films sequel on Peacock

!Featured, Blu-ray, British Cinema, Classic Movie, DVD, Halloween, horror, Peacock, SVOD 10/11/2022 Sean Axmaker

Peter Cushing returns as Van Helsing to track a disciple of Dracula in the 1960 sequel to the hit Gothic horror from director Terence Fisher.

‘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 04/11/2022 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.

‘Swiss Family Robinson’ – shipwrecked in Eden on Disney+

!Featured, adventure, based on a novel, Classic Movie, Disney+, DVD, family friendly, Hollywood Classic, literary adaptation, SVOD 02/23/2022 Sean Axmaker

This grand, colorful version of the Johann Wyss adventure from 1960 is a family friendly live action romp from Walt Disney Pictures.

‘Peeping Tom’ – Michael Powell’s subversive masterpiece on Amazon Prime and Criterion Channel

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, Free, Halloween, Hoopla, horror, suspense, SVOD, thriller 10/27/2020 Sean Axmaker

Michael Powell lays bare the cinema’s dark voyeuristic underside in his disturbing psychodrama Peeping Tom (1960). Handsome young Karlheinz Böhm (billed as Carl Boehm) is Mark Lewis, a shy, socially clumsy young man shaped by the psychic scars of an emotionally abusive parent, in this case a psychologist father (Michael Powell in a perverse cameo) […]

‘Adua and Her Friends’ on Amazon Prime Video

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, International Cinema, socially aware cinema, SVOD 08/30/2020 Sean Axmaker

Adua and Her Friends (Italy, 1960) are prostitutes from a Rome brothel attempting to take charge of their own lives after their place is shut down in the aftermath of Italy’s Merlin Law, which ended legalized prostitution in 1958. Adua (Simone Signoret), a veteran of the life, has a plan to open a restaurant as […]