Hilarious and affectionate parody of 1950's B-list horror and science fiction movies. Perfectly realized.
A painfully funny and ultimately profound television comedy about an woman who is either schizophrenic or is receiving spirit messages from animal-shaped nick-nacks in a Niagara Falls gift shop.
Winsor McCay invented animation and, as you'll discover in this collection, explored nearly all of its possibilities. All cartoons since are but a footnote.
A beautiful film of corruption and obsession; if you are not utterly repulsed, you too will be made complicit.
A brilliant interpretation of Gothe's Faust, mixing live action and stop-motion animation, that works dramatically, politically, and psychologically. Deeply funny and deeply frightening.
The best "end of the world" movie ever made (as well as Vincent Price's best film).
A beautiful, idyllic fable; gentle enough for the youngest child, but as profound and wise a film as has ever been made.
This detective series, set to Henry Mancini's jazz, made the 50's swing. Many episodes are dazzling film noire; but by the end of the first year the series began to degenerate into unfunny parody. There is a Peter Gunn Set 2 as well, but only a few of the later episodes are worth watching.
A perfect example of a B-movie.
Before he was The Prisoner... By far the best secret agent series ever in any medium: video, film, or book. See them all!
Eastern Europe meets the Summer of Love in a tale of the Spanish Inquisition. Jerry Garcia's favorite film.
A funny, entertaining, and profoundly humane movie about disease, abuse, and guilt.
Second only to Citizen Kane in Orson Welle's oeuvre. At this point in his career Welles had lost his money, his reputation, and his looks; with little left to lose, he made a fever dream that ends with his own character's bloody death.