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Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

Chaos: The Manson Murders (Errol Morris)

Over half a century later, what new information can be gleaned from the nights of August 9 and 10, 1969? Tom O’Neill and Dan Piepenbring’s riveting (if convoluted) book Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties––released in June 2019, between the Cannes premiere and theatrical release of Quentin Tarantino’s cathartic rewrite of that history––argues that while all the evidence of the murders has been gleaned, there’s a complex and knotty web of conspiracies for the motivations, some more plausible than others. To pare down the 528-page book to its most overarching theory, it postulates Manson may have been allowed (and perhaps even directed) by the CIA to concoct a reign...

Gene Hackman, one of the greatest actors of all time, is dead at 95. The Academy Award-winning star and his wife Betsy Arakawa, 63, were found dead in their house in Santa Fe, New Mexico on 26 February 26. The entertainment world is reeling from the news, as Hackman's lengthy résumé had long established him as one of Hollywood's true greats. From his Oscar-winning turns as Jimmy Doyle in "The French Connection" (1971) and Little Bill Daggett in "Unforgiven" (1992) to his eye-catching turns as Lex Luthor in "Superman" (1978) and Royal Tenenbaum in "The Royal Tenenbaums" (2001), he was one of those rare actors who could illuminate any screen he graced with his presence.

Even so, a career that included roles in no less than 101 projects -- the overwhelming majority of them movies -- and spanned decades is bound to feature at least some disappointing projects ... for the actor himself, if not the audience. In Hackman's case,...

Gene Hackman, a two-time Oscar winner for “The French Connection” and “Unforgiven,” and his wife, classical pianist Betsy Arakawa, were found dead Wednesday afternoon in their Santa Fe, N.M. home. The office of Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza confirmed their deaths to Variety after midnight Thursday. There is no immediate indication of foul play, per authorities, though the Sheriff’s office did not immediately provide a cause of death. Hackman was 95. Arakawa was 63.

On Wednesday, Sheriff’s deputies visited the home of Hackman and Arakawa, who married in 1991. The couple was found dead, alongside their dog.

“All I can say is that we’re in the middle of a preliminary death investigation, waiting on approval of a search warrant,” the sheriff told the Santa Fe New Mexican. The statement came before authorities had positively identified the pair, per the publication. “I want to assure the community and neighborhood...

DVD Release Date: June 17, 2014

Price: DVD $19.95

Studio: Hen’s Tooth

Gene Hackman is a Major in the French Foreign Legion in March or Die.

In the tradition of Beau Gest, the 1977 action-adventure film March or Die stars Gene Hackman (The Conversation) and Ian Holm (Brazil).

It’s 1918 and a war-weary American Major (Hackman) in the French Foreign Legion, with a ragtag squadron of young legionnaires, is assigned to a remote Moroccan outpost. Their mission is to secure a French government archaeological dig that is looting an ancient tomb of its Arab treasure. The troops’ presence is not at all welcome by the Arab chieftain El Krim (Holm), who vows to expel the French intruders at any cost. But the French steadfastly refuse to leave. After a series of skirmishes, the film concludes with an epic battle between the two forces.

Directed by Dick Richards, produced by a young Jerry Bruckheimer,...

Above: Us poster for Le Sauvage (Jean-Paul Rappeneau, France/Italy, 1975).

Since my column last week on the lesser-known posters of Jean-Luc Godard got so much attention, and since this week the great Catherine Deneuve turned 70 years old, I thought I’d do the same for the grand diva of French cinema. Deneuve—“the most beautiful woman in the world”—has graced well-known posters for numerous masterpieces, whether for Bunuel’s Tristana or Belle de Jour, Demy’s Umbrellas of Cherbourg or Donkey Skin, Truffaut’s Mississippi Mermaid or Polanski’s Repulsion, and when I was searching for a poster to mark her birthday last Tuesday, these were the films that kept popping up. But Deneuve has been making films for over 50 years and has appeared in over 110 of them so there should be a lot more to choose from. So that is what I want to focus on here to celebrate Ms.

Keeping up with his career plan of paying homage to every film genre going, Quentin Tarantino has moved onto the spaghetti western with Django Unchained (2012). It’s not a remake of the pasta classic Django (1966), or indeed a spaghetti western, but it has clearly taken its inspiration from those violent Italian productions that swamped the late sixties.

Hollywood may have dominated the field since the beginning of motion pictures but European westerns are not exactly new; the earliest known one was filmed in 1910. Sixties German cinema made good use of Kay May’s western heroes Shatterhand and Winnetou, and the British produced The Savage Guns (1961), Hannie Caulder (1971), A Town Called Bastard (1971), Catlow (1971), Chato’s Land (1972) and Eagle’s Wing (1979). When the genre showed signs of flagging in the mid-sixties, a clever Italian director named Sergio Leone took it upon himself to reinvent the western – spaghetti style!

What made the spaghettis...

Philippe Caron/Sygma/Corbis Winners: 1998 Finalists: 2006 Excerpted from The Espn World Cup Companion, by David Hirshey and Roger Bennett. In 1863, the French Foreign Legion cemented its romantic legend during the Battle of Camaron, when 62 legionnaires and three officers held 2,000 Mexican soldiers at bay until they ran out of ammunition. With three men remaining and not a bullet among them, the legionnaires swore to fight to the death, fixed bayonets, and attempted a futile charge. The wooden prosthetic hand of the deceased leader Capitain Jean Danjou was recovered, and every year it is solemnly sent out on parade, a reminder of his death, the nobility of defeat, and the Legion’s motto, “March or Die.” This is French glory. Understand it and you will appreciate the essence of French soccer, which is a product of a culture in which it is better to lose with honor than to win without style,...

I have alot of respect for Gene Hackman and for the roles he portrays in the movies. I just spent some time watch two of his better and earlier movies (from the 70's) that depict Hackman at his best."March Or Die" is the story about a man who works as a general in the French Foreign Legion after having been dismissed from West Point. The group of ferocious and feirce fighters go on a mission in Morocco; their mission is to protect the leader of an archaelogical expedition somewhere in the desert lead by a professor (played by Max Van Sydow). When this movie first came out in 1977, it was con...