‘Umbrellas’ and ‘Young Girls’ – the essential Jacques Demy on HBO Max and Criterion Channel !Featured, Academy Award nominee, Blu-ray, Cannes winner, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, Free, French New Wave, HBO Max, International Classics, Kanopy, Musical, Romance, SVOD 02/05/202302/04/2023 Sean Axmaker Catherine Deneuve stars in these two musicals from the most romantic of the French New Wave filmmakers.
‘The Soft Skin’ – tragic romance from Truffaut on HBO Max and Criterion Channel !Featured, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, French New Wave, HBO Max, International Classics, Romance, suspense, SVOD 02/09/202202/08/2022 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.
Roman Polanski’s ‘Cul-De-Sac’ on Criterion Channel !Featured, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, Have You Seen...?, satire, suspense, SVOD, thriller 10/20/202110/20/2021 Sean Axmaker Donald Pleasance, Françoise Dorléac, and Lionel Stander star in this sly little character piece set in an isolated medieval castle on the barren British coast, which Polanski claimed as his personal favorite of his films.
