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Adolescent Adventure: The World of Henry Orient (1964)
To view The World of Henry Orientclick here. FilmStruck has been singled out as a great resource for film aficionados but it also includes exceptional family friendly entertainment that can provide...
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Margaret Lockwood is The Wicked Lady (1945)
To view The Wicked Lady click here. “I’ve got brains and looks and personality. I want to use them!” - Barbara Worth (Margaret Lockwood) in The Wicked Lady (1945) During WWII, many British citizens...
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The Future is Now: Remembrance of Things to Come (2001)
To view Remembrance of Things to Come click here. “Gone and never to return and being for myself alone a remembrance of things to come who fancied being a human” – From a poem by Claude Roy, quoted in...
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Equal Shares for All: The League of Gentlemen (1960)
To view The League of Gentlemen click here. The League of Gentlemen (1960) contains one of my favorite moments from postwar British cinema; a group of ex-soldiers carrying submachine guns plow through...
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Tokyo Gone Gagaga: Otaku (1994)
To view Otaku click here. Otaku: (in Japan) a young person who is obsessed with computers or particular aspects of popular culture to the detriment of their social skills. (definition from The Oxford...
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An Actor’s Revenge: Theatre of Blood (1973)
To view Theatre of Blood click here. “It was a marvelous role because I got to play eight Shakespearean parts in it, which is a feast for any actor. And I got to knock off eight critics. It was a...
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Under the Volcano (1984) with Albert Finney
To view Under the Volcano click here. One of my favorite actors is presently getting the red-carpet treatment at FilmStruck; “Starring Albert Finney” is a new theme that presents a batch of Finney’s...
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An Unusual Friendship: Tiger Bay (1959)
To view Tiger Bay click here. “Tiger Bay is one of my all-time favorite films that I made. I still can’t get over the thrill I got when I first saw Hayley on the screen, with those wonderful big eyes...
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Bigotry & Bloodshed: Sapphire (1959)
To view Sapphire click here. A beautiful young woman named Sapphire (Yvonne Buckingham) has been murdered. Her bloodied corpse was found in London’s Hampstead Heath park. A seasoned detective (Nigel...
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“Just shut up and watch!”: Remembering Seijun Suzuki (1923-2017)
To view the work of Seijun Suzuki click here. On February 13, we lost Seijun Suzuki. The Japanese director, screenwriter, actor and producer was 93-years-old at the time of his death and a titan in my...
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Mad Men & Women: Good Neighbor Sam (1964)
To view Good Neighbor Sam click here. In case you haven’t noticed, FilmStruck is spotlighting the lovely Romy Schneider with their Icons: Romy Schneider theme that brings together 17 of her films made...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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