Pierre Brasseur – Stream On Demand

‘Eyes Without a Face’ – the poetry of horror on HBO Max, Criterion Channel, and Kanopy

!Featured, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, Free, Halloween, HBO Max, Hoopla, horror, International Classics, suspense, SVOD 10/26/2020 Sean Axmaker

Franju’s perverse and poetic French classic is at once lyrical, haunting, and deviant, an elegantly horrifying classic of sadism and shadowy grace.

Micheline Presle stars in Jean Grémillon's 1953 drama France

Blu-ray: French classics ‘The Love of a Woman’ and ‘Spotlight on a Murderer’ from Arrow

Arrow, Blu-ray, DVD 09/27/2017 Sean Axmaker 2 Comments

Jean Grémillon was one of the great French film directors of the golden age with a career that spanned from the end of the silent era through the late 1950s, but is one of the least known to American audiences and very few of his films are available in the U.S. (in fact, the only […]

Arletty, Marcel Herrand, Pierre Brasseur, and Jean-Louis Barrault star in Marcel Carné's classic of French cinema

‘Children of Paradise’ – The theatre of love and crime on The Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, DVD, Essential Viewing, International Cinema, SVOD 08/07/2017 Sean Axmaker

Children of Paradise (France, 1945), Marcel Carné’s legendary drama of love, theater, and crime in 19th Century Paris, is an epic in every sense of the word. It opens and ends on a stage curtain, which rises to reveal the Boulevard of Crime, the theater district of 1830s Paris, where street performers and pickpockets alike ply […]