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Boris Karloff is The Body Snatcher (1945)
To view The Body Snatcher click here. Director Robert Wise is widely regarded as a journeyman filmmaker with no defining traits or distinct talents. In The American Cinema: Directors And Directions...
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Untapped Fears: The Plumber (1979)
To view The Plumber click here. Our fears take many forms. I was born and (mostly) raised in California so it’s probably not surprising that I fear natural disasters such as earthquakes and wildfires,...
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Women at War: Onibaba (1964)
To view Onibaba click here. In feudal Japan, war is being waged between Imperial forces loyal to the reigning emperor and those who support the shogun. Samurai warriors wearing expensive armor and...
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Crime & Passion: Pool of London (1951)
To view Pool of London click here. I, along with some of my fellow StreamLine colleagues, have been modestly building a case for the reassessment of Basil Dearden’s career during the past year by...
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One for all, and all for one!
To view The Three Musketeers click here. To view The Four Musketeers click here. Director Richard Lester was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania but he made some of the best British films of the 1960s....
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Die Laughing: Carry On Screaming! (1966)
To view Carry On Screaming! click here. “The usual charge to make against the Carry On films is to say that they could be much better done. This is true enough. They look dreadful, they seem to be...
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Moorland Suspense: A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929)
To view A Cottage on Dartmoor click here. “The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one’s soul, its vastness, and also its grim charm. When you are once out upon its...
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Question Authority: The Ruling Class (1972)
To view The Ruling Class click here. If you want a lesson in how awards are inadequate indicators of talent look no further than the case of the late, great Peter O’Toole. Before his death in 2013,...
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Three’s a Crowd: Daisy Kenyon (1947)
To view Daisy Kenyon click here. Daisy Kenyon (1947) is a rarity. It’s a romantic Hollywood movie made for adults that refuses to sentimentalize its subject and treats all its characters respectfully...
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Crime & Punishment: Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
FilmStruck is currently streaming 11 films featuring Alain Delon as part of their “Icons: Alain Delon” theme and for the next 4 weeks I’ll be spotlighting a few of my favorite titles in this...
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Honor Among Thieves: Farewell, Friend (1968)
To view Farewell, Friend click here. FilmStruck is currently streaming 11 films featuring Alain Delon as part of their “Icons: Alain Delon” theme and for the next 4 weeks I’ll be spotlighting a few of...
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Dueling Delons: Spirits of the Dead (1968)
To view Spirits of the Deadclick here. FilmStruck is currently streaming 11 films featuring Alain Delon as part of their “Icons: Alain Delon” theme and for the next 4 weeks I’ll be spotlighting a few...
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The Living and the Dead: L’Eclisse (1962)
To view L’Eclisse click here. FilmStruck is currently streaming 11 films featuring Alain Delon as part of their “Icons: Alain Delon” theme and for the next 4 weeks I’ll be spotlighting a few of my...
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A Daring Directorial Debut: Madonna of the Seven Moons (1944)
To view Madonna of the Seven Moons click here. Arthur Crabtree is chiefly remembered for helming two imaginative science fiction and horror thrillers in the late 1950s, Fiend Without a Face (1958) and...
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An Uneasy Friendship: David and Lisa (1962)
To view David and Lisa click here. David and Lisa (1962) introduces viewers to two young, attractive and deeply troubled patients living at a private mental health clinic. David (Keir Dullea) suffers...
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Mifune: The Last Samurai (2015)
To view the work of Toshirô Mifune on FIlmStruck, click here. A quick search of Filmstruck brought up an impressive 24 films featuring the late great Toshirô Mifune including Drunken Angel (1948),...
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Spies Among Us: Another Country (1984)
To view Another Country click here. “And there’s another country, I’ve heard of long ago, Most dear to them that love her, most great to them that know; We may not count her armies, we may not see her...
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Animal Passions: Cat People (1942)
To view Cat People click here. This year marks the 75th anniversary of Cat People (1942) and subscribers can currently catch this spine-chilling classic on the Criterion Channel of FilmStruck through...
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Revisiting Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet (1996)
To view Hamlet click here. Late last year I had the great pleasure of seeing Derek Jacobi perform MEASURE + DIDO, a modern update of William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure that includes excerpts...
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Fear of Flowers: Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees (1975)
To view Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees click here. “Without people, a forest of cherries in full bloom is not pretty, just something to be afraid of.” - Ango Sakaguchi Although typically described...
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