The Mustache Club
9 Episodes
Get a load of that ’stache! Whether you’re swearing off shaving for Movember, rock a bushy upper lip year round, or are just an appreciator of fine facial hair, you’re invited to bask in the glory of some of the biggest, glossiest, and most impressive mustaches ever to grace the screen. From the scene-stealing walrus whiskers sported by Roger Livesey in Powell and Pressburger’s Technicolor masterpiece THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP to the drawn-on curlicue worn by honorary club member Jeanne Moreau in François Truffaut’s New Wave classic JULES AND JIM to the broom-sweeper adorning the face of Bruno Ganz in Wim Wenders’ thriller THE AMERICAN FRIEND, these hirsute appendages are true follicles de grandeur.
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01:10Episode 1
Introducing the Mustache Club
Episode 1
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1:46:26Episode 2
Jules and Jim
Episode 2
Directed by François Truffaut • 1962 • France
Starring Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri SerreHailed as one of the finest films ever made, JULES AND JIM charts, over twenty-five years, the relationship between two friends and the object of their mutual obsession. The legendary François Truffau...
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2:05:33Episode 3
The Great Dictator
Episode 3
Directed by Charles Chaplin • 1940 • United States
Starring Charles Chaplin, Jack Oakie, Paulette GoddardIn his controversial masterpiece THE GREAT DICTATOR, Charlie Chaplin offers both a cutting caricature of Adolf Hitler and a sly tweaking of his own comic persona. Chaplin, in his first pure ...
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1:16:46Episode 4
Capricious Summer
Episode 4
Directed by Jiří Menzel • 1968 • Czechoslovakia
Two years after his worldwide hit CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS, Jiří Menzel directed this amusing idyll about three middle-aged men whose mellow summer is interrupted by the arrival of a circus performer and his beautiful assistant. A meditation on agi...
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2:07:38Episode 5
The American Friend
Episode 5
Directed by Wim Wenders • 1977 • Germany
Starring Dennis Hopper, Bruno GanzWim Wenders pays loving homage to rough-and-tumble Hollywood film noir with THE AMERICAN FRIEND, a loose adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel “Ripley’s Game.” Dennis Hopper oozes quirky menace as an amoral American a...
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2:44:20Episode 6
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Episode 6
Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger • 1943 • United Kingdom
Starring Roger Livesey, Anton Walbrook, Deborah KerrConsidered by many to be the finest British film ever made, THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP, by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, is a stirring masterpiece like...
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2:02:09Episode 7
49th Parallel
Episode 7
Directed by Michael Powell • 1941 • United Kingdom
Starring Laurence Olivier, Raymond Massey, Anton WalbrookAt once a compelling piece of anti-isolationist propaganda and a quick-witted wartime thriller, 49TH PARALLEL is a classic early work from the inimitable British filmmaking team of Michae...
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2:23:39Episode 8
High and Low
Episode 8
Directed by Akira Kurosawa • 1963 • Japan
Starring Toshiro Mifune, Kyoko Kagawa, Tatsuya MihashiToshiro Mifune is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in HIGH AND LOW (TENGOKU TO JIGOKU), the highly influential domesti...
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1:46:34Episode 9
The Thief of Bagdad
Episode 9
Directed by Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, and Tim Whelan • 1940 • United Kingdom
Starring John Justin, Sabu, June DuprezLegendary producer Alexander Korda’s marvel THE THIEF OF BAGDAD, inspired by “The Arabian Nights,” is one of the most spectacular fantasy films ever made, an eye-popping effe...