Jack Cardiff – Stream On Demand

‘The Red Shoes’ – dance life on Max and Criterion Channel

!Featured, Academy Award, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, fantasy, Max, music, SVOD 09/12/2023 Sean Axmaker

This 1948 classic from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressberger is a magnificent work of cinema and has been called the greatest ballet film ever made.

Ava Gardner and James Mason star in the ravishing romantic drama from Albert Lewin

‘Pandora and the Flying Dutchman’ – James Mason and Ava Gardner on MUBI

!Featured, art and artists, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Cult Movies, drama, DVD, fantasy, Have You Seen...?, Hollywood Classic, MUBI, Romance, SVOD 12/27/2022 Sean Axmaker

Albert Lewin directs this lush romantic fantasy set amongst the lost generation of idle wealthy Europeans in early thirties Spain.

Kirk Douglas commands ‘The Vikings’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, adventure, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, DVD, historical, Hollywood Classic, SVOD 10/21/2021 Sean Axmaker

Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh costar in this grandly-mounted barbarian fantasy, shot in Technicolor on location in Norway, Germany, and France.

Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart in John Huston's 'The African Queen'

‘The African Queen’ – Bogie and Hepburn on Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel

!Featured, Academy Award, adventure, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, DVD, Essential Viewing, Hollywood Classic, literary adaptation, National Film Registry, SVOD 08/15/2021 Sean Axmaker

John Huston’s adaptation of C.S. Forester’s novel is a grand and romantic Hollywood adventure with two glorious performances, gorgeous locations, and a rickety, temperamental steam-powered boat as a memorable costar.

Kim Hunter and David Niven star in the 1946 romantic classic by Michael Powell and Emerich Pressburger

Criterion Blu-ray: A Matter of Life and Death

Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Collecton, DVD 07/28/2018 Sean Axmaker

A Matter of Life and Death (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD) Michael Powell and Emerich Pressburger’s A Matter of Life and Death (1946), originally released in the U.S. as Stairway to Heaven, is as gorgeous and romantic as films come. The film opens with a celestial prologue and narration providing a sense of cosmic comfort of someone […]