1964 – Stream On Demand

Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘Band of Outsiders’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Crime, Criterion Channel, DVD, French New Wave, International Classics, SVOD 02/24/2022 Sean Axmaker

Anna Karina stars with Sammi Frey and Claude Brasseur in this cinematically playful lark that takes a turn into outlaw crime drama.

‘The Soft Skin’ – tragic romance from Truffaut on HBO Max and Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, French New Wave, HBO Max, International Classics, Romance, suspense, SVOD 02/09/2022 Sean Axmaker

Francois Truffaut’s cool, creamy smooth story of a doomed affair channels the director’s love of Alfred Hitchcock into a romantic melodrama.

Catherine Deneuve stars in the bittersweet musical from Jacques Demy

‘Umbrellas’ and ‘Young Girls’ – the essential Jacques Demy on HBO Max and Criterion Channel

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Catherine Deneuve stars in these two musicals from the most romantic of the French New Wave filmmakers.

Peter Sellers stars in Stanley Kubrick's political satire of mutually assured destruction

Last chance: ‘Dr. Strangelove’ – the screwball satire of mutually assured destruction on HBO Max

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Peter Sellers plays three roles in Stanley Kubrick’s surreal farce of ideological hysteria and military arrogance, easily the funniest film ever made about nuclear holocaust.

‘Blood and Black Lace’ – Birth of the giallo on Criterion Channel

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Mario Bava’s elegant 1964 slasher picture as ballroom dance, bathed in intense, unreal sprays of red and purple and green, is where the distinctly Italian horror genre known as giallo was born.

‘Goldfinger’ – James Bond goes blockbuster on Hulu and Paramount+

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Sean Connery helped turn the James Bond spy series into a blockbuster franchise in his third outing as 007, perhaps the most iconic film in the series.

Satyajit Ray’s ‘Charulata’ on Criterion Channel

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Ray considered this drama of a gifted and sensitive young woman in 19th century India his masterpiece.

Rod Steiger is ‘The Pawnbroker’ on Amazon Prime and Hulu

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The Pawnbroker (1964), the Sidney Lumet-directed 1964 film based on the novel by Edward Lewis, is a real time capsule. It’s the first American film to really take on the legacy of the Holocaust on a personal level, and it’s set in a Harlem pawnshop where a stream of slum stereotypes wander in and out […]

‘The Long Hair of Death’ – Barbara Steele takes sweet revenge on Amazon Prime Video

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Antonio Margheriti is best known to modern audiences (if at all) thanks to Quentin Tarantino, who memorialized his name in Inglorious Basterds; it’s Brad Pitt’s cover name as he infiltrates a Nazi function and he can’t even pronounce it. The real Antonio Margheriti was a prolific director cranking out genre pictures through the 1960s and […]

‘Zulu’ on Amazon Prime Video

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The sun sets on the British Empire in Zulu (1964), an historical epic built around a legendary colonial battle of the late 19th century. Legendary to British history, that is. The Battle of Rorke’s Drift in South Africa would be all but unknown in the U.S outside of historical societies were it not for Zulu. […]