Criterion Collection – Page 2

‘Zazie dans le metro’ – Louis Malle’s New Wave slapstick on Criterion Channel

!Featured, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Comedy, Criterion, Criterion Channel, DVD, French New Wave, International Classics, literary adaptation, SVOD 04/11/2022 Sean Axmaker

An adolescent girl is on the loose through the streets of Paris in this fresh and freewheeling comedy out of the French New Wave.

Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘Vivre sa vie’ on HBO Max and Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, Free, French New Wave, International Classics, Kanopy, Max, socially aware cinema, SVOD, Venice winner 03/14/2022 Sean Axmaker

Anna Karina stars in this drama of social and sexual politics about a shop girl and aspiring actress who becomes a professional prostitute.

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.

‘Pickup on South Street’ – Sam Fuller’s pickpocket noir

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Crime, Criterion, DVD, film noir, Hollywood Classic, National Film Registry, SVOD, Venice winner 02/20/2022 Sean Axmaker

Richard Widmark gives his most feral performance as three-time loser who gets in the middle of a spy ring in this engaging 1953 film noir classic.

Rock Hudson and Jane Wyman in the 1955 film by Douglas Sirk

‘All that Heaven Allows’ – Love as suburban opera on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, Hollywood Classic, National Film Registry, Romance, SVOD 02/15/2022 Sean Axmaker

Rock Hudson and Jane Wyman reunite with director Douglas Sirk in this melodrama of “forbidden” romance in 1950s suburbia.

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

!Featured, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, French New Wave, International Classics, Max, 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.

‘Pierrot le fou’ – Belmondo and Karina crime spree on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Crime, Criterion, Criterion Channel, DVD, French New Wave, International Classics, satire, SVOD 01/31/2022 Sean Axmaker

Jean-Luc Godard directs this mix of road movie, a crime fantasy, a cultural satire, and modern film noir in Technicolor and CinemaScope.

‘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, historical, International Classics, Kanopy, literary adaptation, Max, SVOD 01/19/2022 Sean Axmaker

Jeanne Moreau stars in this romantic classic of the French New Wave with Oskar Werner and Henri Serre.

‘Make Way for Tomorrow’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, Hollywood Classic, National Film Registry 11/11/2020 Sean Axmaker

When Leo McCarey won the Oscar for Best Director for The Awful Truth in 1938, he reportedly accepted it with the comment, “Thank you very much, but you gave it to me for the wrong picture.” The “right picture” that McCarey was referring to is Make Way for Tomorrow (1937), the devastatingly moving story of […]

Albert Brooks is ‘Lost in America’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Comedy, Criterion, Criterion Channel, DVD, Essential Viewing, Have You Seen...?, road movie, satire, SVOD 09/17/2020 Sean Axmaker

Albert Brooks has been making his offbeat brand of satirical comedies about the neuroses and anxieties of affluent Americans, lost in the bubble of their own insular cultures, for more than 40 years. His third feature Lost in America (1985) remains his most incisive satire and most popular film. Brooks is David, a successful Los […]