Léa Seydoux – Stream On Demand

Owen Wilson in Woody Allen's 'Midnight in Paris'

‘Midnight in Paris’ – a love letter to the city of lights on Netflix and Hulu

!Featured, Academy Award, Blu-ray, Comedy, DVD, historical, Hulu, movies about art, movies about literature, Netflix, Streaming Movies, SVOD 01/03/2022 Sean Axmaker

Owen Wilson is an American in Paris who get transported back in time to the company of the Lost Generation artists of the twenties in the romantic comedy from Woody Allen.

Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux star in 'Blue is the Warmest Color,' directed by Abdellatif Kechiche

‘Blue Is the Warmest Color’ on VOD and Blu-ray/DVD

!Featured, Blu-ray, Cannes winner, Criterion, DVD, Film Independent Spirit Awards, high school, International Cinema, LGBTQ, Romance, socially aware cinema, SVOD 08/15/2020 Sean Axmaker

Filmmaker Abdellatif Kechiche explores the lives of outsiders looking for their place in Blue is the Warmest Color (France, 2013) an intimate love story based on a graphic novel. Thanks to Academy rules for foreign films, it wasn’t eligible for an Oscar nomination due to the timing of its French theatrical release. But it took home […]

Léa Seydoux and Vincent Cassel star in Christophe Gans's lavish French version of the fairy tale.

A lavish French ‘Beauty and the Beast’ on Amazon Prime Video

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, DVD, fantasy, International Cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD 01/29/2019 Sean Axmaker

Beauty and the Beast (France, 2014) – No, not the new Disney live-action musical but a lush French version of the classic fairy tale starring Léa Seydoux (Blue is the Warmest Color) as Belle and Vincent Cassel as the hirsute Beast. Belle is the youngest and sunniest child of a prosperous merchant (André Dussollier) . […]

Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz star in 'The Lobster' from Yorgos Lanthimos.

Love is strange: ‘The Lobster’ free on Kanopy and Hoopla

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Blu-ray, Cannes winner, DVD, Free, Have You Seen...?, Hoopla, Kanopy, Streaming Movies, SVOD 12/02/2018 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos describes his English language debut The Lobster (2015) as his film about love (following Dogtooth, his film on life, and Alps, on death). Which is not necessarily to call it a love story. It is, in its own way, but it just as much about the social expectations of love and […]

‘Spectre’ on Amazon Prime and Hulu

!Featured, Action, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, Streaming Movies 10/22/2016 Sean Axmaker

Spectre (2015), the 24th James Bond film and the fourth starring Daniel Craig, continues to explore the origins of 007. The opening scene, set in Mexico City in the midst of the Day of the Dead celebrations, is one of the best in the series, and we get the fun of Bond once again going rogue, […]

Gaspard Ulliel is Yves Saint Laurent in Bertrand Bonello's biopic 'Saint Laurent'

‘Saint Laurent’ on Cable and Video on Demand

!Featured, VOD 09/22/2015 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

Saint Laurent, Bertrand Bonello’s portrait of one of the most influential fashion designers of the 20th century, focuses on just a few years of the life of Yves Saint Laurent (Gaspard Ulliel): 1967 through 1975, the height of his success and influence in the fashion world. There’s no backstory, no rising through the ranks, no […]