1963 – Stream On Demand

‘Charade’ – Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn flirt through danger on Prime Video, Criterion Channel, and MUBI

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, DVD, Hollywood Classic, MUBI, Romance, SVOD, thriller 05/26/2022 Sean Axmaker

Stanley Donen’s sleek, chic, Hitchockian escapade sends Hepburn’s jet-setting American hopscotching across Europe followed by a charming Grant and a trio of less-charming criminals.

Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘Contempt’ with Brigitte Bardot on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, drama, DVD, French New Wave, International Classics, movies about movies, SVOD 05/03/2022 Sean Axmaker

Brigitte Bardot stars in Godard’s one and only flirtation with big budget studio production with Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, and filmmaking great Fritz Lang.

The original ‘The Nutty Professor’ – Dr. Jekyll and Jerry Lewis on Amazon Prime and Paramount+

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Comedy, Cult Movies, DVD, fantasy, Hollywood Classic, Paramount+, SVOD 09/21/2021 Sean Axmaker

This bizarro take on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde reimagines the good doctor as a nerdy college chemistry professor with a lounge lizard alter ego.

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 Movie, 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.

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

!Featured, Blu-ray, Comedy, Criterion, Criterion Channel, DVD, International Classics, Politics, satire, SVOD, Venice winner 06/17/2021 Sean Axmaker

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 ‘The Big City’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, International Classics, socially aware cinema 05/19/2021 Sean Axmaker

The tenth feature from the great Bengali filmmaker look at life in the economic desperation in 1950s Calcutta as the banks collapsed.

‘Any Number Can Win’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, caper, Criterion Channel, DVD, International Cinema, suspense 09/20/2020 Sean Axmaker

The classic meets the cool when dapper Jean Gabin teams up with smoldering matinee idol Alain Delon in Henri Verneuil’s caper film Any Number Can Win (France, 1963). White-haired Gabin is a little thick and doughy by this time in his career but he carries decades of French crime films and superstar gravitas with him […]

Ray Milland stars in Roger Corman's science fiction horror

Roger Corman’s ‘X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes’ on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Halloween, horror, Science Fiction, SVOD 10/23/2017 Sean Axmaker

Roger Corman and Ray Milland followed up their first collaboration, the Edgar Allan Poe adaptation The Premature Burial, with X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963), a science fiction thriller by way of a Greek tragedy. Milland is Dr. James Xavier, who experiments with a formula that will the human eye to see beyond […]