1971 – Stream On Demand

Warren Beatty and Julie Christie in the 1971 western by Robert Altman

Warren Beatty and Julie Christie are ‘McCabe & Mrs. Miller’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, Last chance, National Film Registry, SVOD, western 12/17/2022 Sean Axmaker

Robert Altman turns the western myth into a metaphor for the fantasy of the American Dream colliding with the power of big business.

Last chance: Charlton Heston is ‘The Omega Man’ on HBO Max

!Featured, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Science Fiction, SVOD 07/24/2022 Sean Axmaker

The second screen adaptation of Richard Matheson’s haunting novel ‘I Am Legend’ stars as Heston as the last man on Earth (or so he believes) after a plague turns the populace into night-dwelling albino vampires.

‘Klute’ with Jane Fonda on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, DVD, Hollywood Classic, Max, Mystery, neo-noir, Streaming Movies, suspense, SVOD 06/01/2022 Sean Axmaker

The film is named for Donald Sutherland’s character but Alan Pakula’s stark, alienated neo-noir, is remembered for Jane Fonda’s Oscar-winning performance.

Clint Eastwood is ‘Dirty Harry’ on Netflix and HBO Max

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, DVD, Max, Netflix, SVOD 05/26/2022 Sean Axmaker

Clint Eastwood transformed his western persona into an urban cowboy for the mean streets of our urban world in this iconic 1971 crime classic.

Delphine Seyrig stars in Harry Kümel's elegant and sexy vampire

‘Daughters of Darkness’ – horror with elegance on Criterion Channel and Shudder

!Featured, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, horror, International Cinema, Shudder, SVOD 04/05/2022 Sean Axmaker

Delphine Seyrig stars in Harry Kümel’s elegant and sexy vampire film poised on the shadowy margins between art cinema and sexploitation.

‘Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song’ – Melvin Van Peebles’ outlaw indie on Criterion Channel

!Featured, African-American cinema, African-American filmmakers, American Independent Cinema, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Crime, Criterion, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, Essential Viewing, National Film Registry, socially aware cinema, SVOD, thriller 02/16/2022 Sean Axmaker

Raw, jagged, explosively angry, and shot guerrilla style on a starvation budget on the streets of Los Angeles, this is a landmark of American independent cinema.

King Hu directs this classic of Chinese cinema

King Hu’s ‘A Touch of Zen’ on The Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, Essential Viewing, International Classics, SVOD 05/18/2021 Sean Axmaker

This 1971 romantic chivalry adventure is a masterpiece of Chinese cinema, a magnificent epic with grand battles fought with the grace of a ballet with swords.

Karl Malden and James Franciscus in the giallo by Dario Argento

Dario Argento’s ‘Cat O’Nine Tails’ on Amazon Prime and Criterion Channel

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, giallo, Halloween, horror, suspense 05/12/2021 Sean Axmaker

The Cat O’Nine Tails (Italy, 1971), Dario Argento’s second feature, follows up his directorial debut The Bird With the Crystal Plumage in genre, style and “animal” theme (stretched into a trilogy with Four Flies on Gray Velvet). In Bird, Argento explores, pushes at, and plays with the mechanics of suspense and murder mystery spectacle in […]

James Garner and Jack Elam star in Burt Kennedy's comedy western

‘Support Your’ James Garner comedy westerns on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Comedy, DVD, Hollywood Classic, VOD, western 04/18/2021 Sean Axmaker

James Garner established himself as a natural for the comic western with the TV series Maverick, playing the reluctant hero who avoided conflict and gunplay with charm, wit, and a con-man’s knack for keeping his opponents off balance. The brought that sensibility to the big screen with Support Your Local Sheriff (1969), playing a drifter […]

Albert Finney plays ‘Gumshoe’ on Amazon Prime Video

!Featured, Action, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Mystery, Streaming Movies, suspense, SVOD 01/31/2019 Sean Axmaker

“I want to write The Maltese Falcon, record ‘Blue Suede Shoes’ and play Las Vegas.” So proclaims Eddie Ginley (Albert Finney), a small-time bingo caller and wannabe stand-up comic, to his therapist in the opening scene of Gumshoe (1971). But he’ll settle for running an ad in the local paper offering his services as a […]