Sam Fuller – Stream On Demand

Barbara Stanwyck packs ‘Forty Guns’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, Have You Seen...?, western 03/27/2023 Sean Axmaker

Sam Fuller’s 1957 classic is a western of operatic emotion and pulp style, a true maverick production filled with cinematic thunder and sexual tension.

Martin Scorsese and Michael Henry Wilson present this documentary

‘A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies’ – free on Kanopy

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This 1995 documentary, cowritten and codirected and hosted by Martin Scorsese, is one of the most passionate and informative explorations of classic American cinema.

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

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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.

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

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

Gene Evans stars in Sam Fuller's 1952 'Park Row.'

‘Park Row’ – Sam Fuller’s tribute to the press on Paramount+ and Criterion Channel

!Featured, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, DVD, historical, Hollywood Classic, Paramount+, SVOD 12/18/2021 Sean Axmaker

Free press and free enterprise are uniquely intertwined in this drama set in the wild days of the newspaper wars of 19th century New York City.

Dennis Hopper is Tom Ripley in Wim Wender's take on Patricia HIghsmith

‘The American Friend’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Action, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, International Cinema, international noir, neo-noir, SVOD, thriller 08/16/2020 Sean Axmaker

The American Friend (Germany, 1977) – “What’s wrong with a cowboy in Hamburg?” Dennis Hopper’s Tom Ripley is nothing like the character that Patricia Highsmith created and explored in five novels, and while Wim Wender’s adaptation of Ripley’s Game, the sequel to The Talented Mr. Ripley, remains more or less faithful to the plot (with […]