Benjamin Christensen’s 1922 silent film Häxan, more than most of its era, still has the ability to shock and surprise audiences with its craft, visual adventurousness, and remarkable depictions of witchcraft and devilry.

This debut feature from Greg Mottola—whose next film would come a full decade later in the form of Superbad—was shot on a $50,000 budget, and went on to gross more than forty times that amount in the domestic box office.

Thought plenty have done so, it’s unfair to call director Albert Band’s 1977 potboiler Zoltan… Hound of Dracula a bad movie, as long as one meets it on its own level.

Total image over-saturation is here, as director Wim Wenders’ film Until the End of the World feared in 1991: our culture is electronic replications upon replication, blotting context until the only context for an image is another image.

Most modern art fans know at least a little about Fluxus, the post-Dada movement of the latter half of the 20th century whose exponents occasionally included Yoko Ono, Henry Flynt, and Nam June Paik, among many others.

The primary market for Shout! Factory’s Space 1999: The Complete Series Blu-ray set is a nostalgic one, but even if you didn’t grow up watching the show, modern sci-fi fans might find some historic value.

In the mid 1990s, Melissa Mathison approached Martin Scorsese with a project to adapt the Dalai Lama’s early life into a major feature film. This became Kundun.

Paul Verhoeven’s absurdly violent, comic book retelling of Frankenstein still holds up stupendously 32 years after its release.

Josef von Sternberg is a name synonymous with cutting-edge cinema and stylishly poignant storytelling, which has echoed throughout the past century as one of the greatest ever examples of the medium.