The essentials: ‘All About Eve’ on Criterion Channel !Featured, Academy Award, Blu-ray, Classic, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, Hollywood Classic, SVOD 01/27/202201/25/2022 Sean Axmaker 0 Comments Bette Davis and Anne Baxter star in Joseph L. Mankeiwicz’s witty, acerbic classic that won six Academy Awards.
James Stewart is ‘The Man from Laramie’ on Criterion Channel !Featured, Blu-ray, Classic, Criterion Channel, DVD, Hollywood Classic, SVOD, western 01/26/202201/24/2022 Sean Axmaker Anthony Mann directs this frontier “King Lear,” a western drama of splintered families and filial betrayal set on the American plain.
Agnes Varda’s ‘Cléo from 5 to 7’ on HBO Max and Criterion Channel !Featured, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, Directed by Women, drama, DVD, Free, French New Wave, HBO Max, International Classics, Kanopy, SVOD 01/25/202201/23/2022 Sean Axmaker Varda’s breakthrough film follows a flighty young pop singer through Paris for a day as she awaits potentially tragic news.
Last chance: Marlon Brando in ‘On the Waterfront’ on Criterion Channel !Featured, Academy Award, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Classic, Criterion, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, Hollywood Classic, SVOD 01/23/202201/23/2022 Sean Axmaker Elia Kazan’s drama set on the mob-dominated docks of New York costars Karl Malden, Rod Steiger, and Eva Marie Saint and won eight Academy Awards.
Last chance: Dana Andrews goes ‘Where the Sidewalk Ends’ on Criterion Channel !Featured, Blu-ray, Classic, Crime Cinema, Criterion Channel, DVD, film noir, Hollywood Classic, Last chance, SVOD 01/23/202201/22/2022 Sean Axmaker Otto Preminger’s 1950 noir reunites Andrews and Gene Tierney, the stars of Laura, for a more streetwise cop drama with a bare-knuckle attitude.
Last chance: ‘Night and the City’ with Richard Widmark and Gene Tierney on Criterion Channel !Featured, Blu-ray, Classic, Crime Cinema, Criterion Channel, DVD, film noir, Hollywood Classic, Last chance, SVOD 01/22/202201/22/2022 Sean Axmaker Widmark plays one of cinema’s great heels in Jules Dassin’s superb film noir set in the London underworld of hustlers and gangsters after dark.
Last chance: ‘Nightmare Alley’ – Carny Noir on Criterion Channel !Featured, Blu-ray, Classic, Criterion, Criterion Channel, DVD, film noir, Hollywood Classic, Last chance, SVOD 01/22/202201/22/2022 Sean Axmaker Matinee idol Tyrone Power gets down and dirty as an opportunistic carny turned nightclub sensation in this pulpy 1947 film noir classic.
‘Jules and Jim’ – François Truffaut’s ménage-a-trois on HBO Max and Criterion Channel !Featured, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, Free, French New Wave, HBO Max, historical, International Classics, Kanopy, literary adaptation, SVOD 01/19/202201/19/2022 Sean Axmaker Jeanne Moreau stars in this romantic classic of the French New Wave with Oskar Werner and Henri Serre.
James Mason in ‘5 Fingers’ on Criterion Channel !Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a novel, Classic, Criterion Channel, DVD, film noir, Hollywood Classic, inspired by a true story, spies and espionage, suspense, SVOD 01/18/202201/18/2022 Sean Axmaker Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz spins a true story from World War II into a smart, ironic drama of spies and espionage.
Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘Alphaville’ – crimes of the future on Criterion Channel !Featured, Blu-ray, Crime Cinema, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, Free, French New Wave, International Classics, Kanopy, Science Fiction, SVOD 01/17/202201/16/2022 Sean Axmaker Eddie Constantine is Lemmy Caution in this mix of science fiction drama and pulp fiction private eye thriller.
