1970 – Stream On Demand

Coming of age in the ‘Deep End’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, drama, psychological drama, socially aware cinema, young adult 01/11/2023 Sean Axmaker

Jerzy Skolimowski’s darkly satirical psychological drama of young lust, sexual callousness, obsession, and fantasy is a different kind of coming of age film.

‘Woodstock: The Director’s Cut’ – three days of peace and music on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Academy Award, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, Documentary, DVD, music, National Film Registry, SVOD 01/01/2023 Sean Axmaker

More than just a concert film, this is a chronicle of both the music of a generation and the community that formed around it for a weekend in 1969.

Mick Jagger and James Fox in the 1970 film by Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell

‘Performance’ – British crime and counterculture collide on The Criterion Channel

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, British Cinema, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, gangsters, Have You Seen...?, music, SVOD, thriller 10/03/2022 Sean Axmaker

James Fox is a vicious young thug on the edge of spinning out of control and Mick Jagger is a reclusice rock star who gives him sanctuary in this cult movie from Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell.

‘Five Easy Pieces’ – Jack Nicholson breaks out on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, American Independent Cinema, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, HBO Max, National Film Registry, Streaming Movies, SVOD 07/24/2022 Sean Axmaker

Bob Rafelson helped usher in the New American Cinema of the 1970s with this provocative drama, a silent scream of alienation and narcissism with a revelatory performance by Nicholson.

Dominique Sanda and Stefania Sandrelli in Bernardo Bertolucci's 'The Conformist' starring Jean-Louis Trintignant

Bernardo Bertolucci’s ‘The Conformist’ free on Kanopy

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Blu-ray, DVD, Essential Viewing, Free, historical, International Classics, Kanopy, Politics, SVOD 06/19/2022 Sean Axmaker

Jean-Louis Trintignant is an Italian repressed bureaucrat who joins the Fascist party in 1930s Italy in Bertolucci’s brilliant study in sex, desire, politics, and personal responsibility.

‘Multiple Maniacs’ – John Waters’ trash classic on HBO Max and Criterion Channel

!Featured, American Independent Cinema, Blu-ray, Comedy, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, HBO Max, SVOD 04/28/2022 Sean Axmaker

Divine, David Lochary, Mink Stole, Edith Massey, and the rest of the gang deliver an aggressively tasteless parade of taboo-breaking scenes on the streets of Baltimore in this cult movie.

Francois Truffaut’s ‘Bed and Board’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Comedy, Criterion Channel, DVD, French New Wave, International Classics, SVOD 03/22/2022 Sean Axmaker

Jean-Pierre Leaud is Antoine Doinel in the fourth film in Truffaut’s quasi-autobiographical cycle of comedies.

Colin Blakely is Sherlock Holmes in the film by Billy Wilder

‘The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes’ on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Comedy, Cult Movies, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Mystery, Romance, SVOD 08/25/2021 Sean Axmaker

Bill Wilder’s sly, bittersweet, autumnal film approaches the Holmes legacy with both a sense of humor and a sense of respect.

‘No Blade of Grass’ – Surviving the end of the world on HBO Max

!Featured, Cult Movies, DVD, Have You Seen...?, HBO Max, Science Fiction, SVOD, thriller 12/28/2020 Sean Axmaker

Cornel Wilde’s grim No Blade of Grass (1970) is a forgotten dystopian classic due for rediscovery. Gritty and brutal, built on fears of ecological devastation through pollution and overcrowding (with hints of genetic manipulation gone bad), this 1970 end-of-the-world thriller seems to have gotten lost in the overcrowded apocalypse now science fiction cinema of the […]

‘Le Cercle Rouge’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, caper, Criterion, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, Have You Seen...?, International Cinema, SVOD 09/28/2020 Sean Axmaker

Crime cinema has never been so meticulously and coolly executed as in Le cercle rouge (France, 1970). Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1970 heist classic stars Alain Delon and Gian Maria Volonte as coolly professional thieves, Yves Montand as a soused sharpshooter who regains his self-respect when he joins their team, and Andre Bouvril as the unrelenting cop […]