October Arrivals: Still Going Strong

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

There's no shortage of new titles on Prime this month, with yet another boatload of old, obscure, and public domain flicks (Nabonga, anyone?) arriving to complement a number of genuine classics, some Halloween horror, and a smattering of new releases and returns. Oh, and if you've been yearning to watch (or rewatch) the Back to the Future trilogy, all three are streaming now till the end of the month, to celebrate the first film's (gulp) 30th anniversary.

Making more than welcome appearances in October are Roman Polanski's darkly funny Bitter Moon (1994), Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven (1978), Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman's brilliant Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Stanley Tucci's old-school farce The Impostors (1998), Woody Allen's Play It Again, Sam (1972), and Otto Preminger's classic noir, Laura (1944).

Also worth a look is the first season of the Amazon original series Red Oaks, a 1980s-set coming-of-age comedy whose pilot last year showed a lot of promise. And then there's season 1 of Schitt's Creek, a new Canadian comedy I haven't seen but which stars SCTV greats Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara and is co-created by Levy—which alone should put it on any comedy fan's radar.

All notable titles listed below. Once again there were too many for me to link them all, so I've given preference to those I thought especially worth a look.

NEW RELEASES
3 Hearts (2014)
The Creep Behind the Camera (2015)
The Natural: The Best There Ever Was (2015)
Red Oaks: Season 1 (2015)
Schitt's Creek: Season 1 (2015)

MODERN ERA
Affliction (1998)
American Gigolo (1980)
American Psycho (2000)
Astro Boy (2009)
Baby Boom (1987)
Back to the Future  (1985) - expires 10/30
Back to the Future II (1989) - expires 10/30
Back to the Future III (1990) - expires 10/30
Bad Boys (1983)
Bartleby (2003)
Bitter Moon (1994) - Returned (Review)
Blue Chips (1994)
The Casserole Club (2011)
Crank (2006)
The Cruise (1998)
Days of Heaven (1978)
Death at a Funeral (2007)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Fly Me to the Moon (2008)
Grizzly Man (2005) - Returned
Hannibal Rising (2007)
The Impostors (1998)
The Man in the Moon (1991)
March of the Penguins (2005)
Margarine Wars (2012)
Max Dugan Returns (1983)
Nick of Time (1995)
Panic (2000)
Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)
Penelope (2008)
Permanent Midnight (1998) - Returned
Personal Effects (2009)
Play It Again, Sam (1972) - Review
Primal Fear (1996)
Pumping Iron (1977)
The Secret Garden (1993)
Someone Like You (2001)
Something Ventured (2011)
Suicide Kings (1998) - Returned - expires 10/30
Teen Wolf Too (1987)
Uncommon Valor (1983)

CLASSICS
Bird of Paradise (1932) - dir. King Vidor, w/Dolores del Rio, Joel McCrea
Broken Blossoms (1919)
A Farewell to Arms (1932)
The Front Page (1931)
Laura (1944)
Let There Be Light (1946) - dir. John Huston
Made for Each Other (1939) - Carole Lombard, Jimmy Stewart
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
Of Human Bondage (1934) - Bette Davis
Oliver Twist (1933)
Our Daily Bread (1934)
Prelude to War (1942) - dir. Frank Capra
The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) - Charles Laughton
Reefer Madness (1936)
Sex Madness (1938)
The Son of Monte Cristo (1940) - George Sanders

HORROR
Count Yorga, Vampire (1970)
El Monstro del Mar! (2010)
The Ghoul (1933) - Boris Karloff
Gremlins (1984)
I Kissed a Vampire (2012)
The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant (1971)
John Carpenter's Vampires (1998)
The Mad Monster (1942)
Mesa of Lost Women (1953)
Messiah of Evil (1973)
Motel Hell (1980)
White Zombie (1932) - Bela Lugosi

OLDIES / PUBLIC DOMAIN
The Amazing Adventure (1937) - Cary Grant
Angel on My Shoulders (1946) - Paul Muni
Behind Office Doors (1931) - Mary Astor
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953)
The Big Cat (1933)
Blood on the Sun (1945)
Blue Steel (1934) - John Wayne
Cause for Alarm! (1951)
Dancing Pirate (1936)
Daniel Boone (1936)
Dawn Express (1942)
The Devil's Party (1938)
Dick Tracy vs. Cueball (1946)
Dishonored Lady (1947) - Hedy Lamarr
Dollface (1945)
Doomed to Die (1940) - Boris Karloff
Ella Cinders (1926)
The Fatal Hour (1940) - Boris Karloff
Fiesta (1941)
Fugitive of the Plains (1943) - Buster Crabbe
Girls in Chains (1943)
Guilty of Treason (1950)
Hearts of the World (1918) - Lillian Gish
Hell Town (a.k.a. Born to the West) (1937) - John Wayne
Hong Kong Nights (1935)
I Cover the Waterfront (1933) - Claudette Colbert
I Dream of Jeanie (1952)
Invisible Ghost (1941) - Bela Lugosi
Jigsaw (1949)
The Joe Louis Story (1953)
Kansas Pacific (1953)
Lady Behave! (1937)
Last Woman on Earth (1960)
Lawless Land (1937)
Little Men (1940) - Kay Francis
The Love Flower (1920) - dir. D.W. Griffith
M'Liss (1918) - Mary Pickford
The Magnificent Rogue (1946)
Midnight (a.k.a. Call It Murder) (1934)
The Milky Way (1936) - Harold Lloyd
Mohawk (1956)
Mr. Robinson Crusoe (1932) - Douglas Fairbanks
Mutiny (1952)
Nabonga (a.k.a. Gorilla) (1944) - Buster Crabbe
The Naked Hills (1956)
The New Adventures of Tarzan (1935)
The Painted Desert (1931)
The Perils of Pauline (1947) - Betty Hutton
Pilot X (a.k.a. Death in the Air) (1936)
Submarine Alert (1943)
Tarzan the Fearless (1933)
Tarzan's Revenge (1938)
That Brennan Girl (1946)
The Trail Beyond (1934) - John Wayne
Trapped (1949) - Lloyd Bridges
Who Killed Doc Robbin (1948)
The Wild Women of Wongo (1958)