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Voyage of ‘The Damned’ on Kanopy

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Rene Clement directs this noir-tinged 1947 French war thriller about a desperate escape from Europe by a group of Nazis and Axis sympathizers.

Gloria Stuart stars with Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton, Raymond Massey, and Ernest Thesiger in James Whale's classic horror comedy

James Whale’s ‘The Old Dark House’ on Shudder and free on Kanopy and Hoopla

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, Free, Halloween, Hoopla, horror, Kanopy, pre-code, Shudder, SVOD 10/29/2021 Sean Axmaker 2 Comments

Whale followed up his iconic horror classic ‘Frankenstein’ with this strange, sly, and sardonic project, part haunted house terror and part spoof, executed with baroque style.

French filmmaker and film historian Bertrand Tavernier is your tour guide in this personal documentary

Bertrand Tavernier presents ‘My Journey Through French Cinema’ on Kanopy

!Featured, Blu-ray, Documentary, DVD, film history, Free, International Cinema, Kanopy, movies about movies, SVOD 04/06/2019 Sean Axmaker

Bertrand Tavernier is both an essential French filmmaker and a dedicated film historian. His epic (over three hours long) documentary My Journey Through French Cinema (France, 2016) combines the two professional callings in a decidedly personal look at the cinema that shaped and excited him as both a cinephile and a filmmaker. Forget the familiar […]

François Cluzet and Emmanuelle Beart star in Claude Chabrol's film of Henri-George Clouzot's script

Blu-ray: 3 by Claude Chabrol – Betty / Torment / The Swindle

Blu-ray review, Cohen 03/08/2017 Sean Axmaker

Betty / Torment / The Swindle: 3 Classic Films by Claude Chabrol (Cohen, Blu-ray) – Claude Chabrol has been called the Gallic Hitchcock because of his fascination with the Master of Suspense (he co-authored the first groundbreaking study of Hitchcock with Eric Rohmer in 1957) and his career-defining work in the suspense genre. But where […]