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Gian Carlo Menotti – The Medium (1951)
This is the 1951 film of Menotti’s opera about a fake medium who starts to feel real supernatural presences. Beautifully filmed and sung (in English)...
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Teo Hernandez – Salomé (1976)
“Ce film n’est pas l’illustration d’un récit historique ou d’une pièce de théâtre mais il est structuré par sa dynamique propre et trois éléments basiques: la lumière, la couleur et la vitesse de...
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Rufus Norris – London Road (2015)
London Road documents the events of 2006, when the quiet rural town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women. The residents of London Road had struggled for years with...
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François Girard – Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993)
Synopsis: As the title suggests, this dramatised documentary about the eccentric Canadian pianist Glenn Gould is broken up into thirty-two short films (mirroring the thirty-two part structure of...
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George Hoellering – Murder in the Cathedral (1951)
Do you like rare things? Low-budget but striking film version of TS Eliot’s revolutionary work. How much we would like to have the film!, 1 March 2007 Author: Dr Jacques COULARDEAU from Olliergues,...
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Shûji Terayama – Isoppu Monogatari AKA Aesop’s Fables (1973)
Oh man, this is a gem. Highly recommended if you dig Tenjosajiki/Terayama’s musical numbers. For starters, take a peek at this lineup: Lyrics composed by Terayama Shuji Music composed by J.A. Seazer,...
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Youssef Chahine – Awdat al ibn al dal AKA The Return of the Prodigal Son (1976)
In this Andre Gide adaptation, an activist (Ali Mahrez) is released after many years in prison and returns home, shaking up established relationships among his family members at the farm governed by...
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Ritwik Ghatak – Meghe Dhaka Tara AKA The Cloud-Caped Star (1960)
Quote: In an impoverished refugee village in Calcutta, an attractive and industrious young woman, Nita (Supriya Choudhury), breaks a sandal while passing through the market square, and without...
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Étienne Faure – Bizarre (2015)
Quote: If there was one feature that lived up to its title in Berlin this year, it’s Bizarre, French director Etienne Faure’s squiggle of a film about a directionless and taciturn French teenager —...
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Werner Schroeter – Goldflocken (1976)
Werner Schroeter’s rhapsody of excess leaps from 1949 Cuba to contemporary France to points in between, while its feverishly shifting visual style evokes and parodies everything from kitschy Mexican...
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Julian Benedikt & Andreas Morell – Blue Note – A Story of Modern Jazz (1997)
The artists list on this DVD reads like a Who’s Who of the best international jazz musicians of all times. It features Art Blakey, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins —...
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Hans-Jürgen Syberberg – Parsifal (1982)
Synopsis: Richard Wagner’s last opera has remained controversial since its first performance for its unique, and, for some, unsavory blending of religious and erotic themes and imagery. Based on one...
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Agnieszka Smoczynska – Córki dancingu AKA The Lure (2015)
Quote: One dark night, at water’s edge, a family of musicians encounter aquatic sirens Silver and Golden. After assuring the family that they won’t eat them up, the winsome sirens are recruited to...
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Paul Sloane – Down to Their Last Yacht aka Hawaiian Nights (1934)
Review by mark.waltz at IMDb: Quote: A campy shipboard musical A family of bluebloods made destitute by the depression are scammed into leasing out their yacht and posing as crew to tacky “new money”,...
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Charles Walters – Lili (1953)
Plot: Members of a circus troupe “adopt” Lili Daurier when she finds herself stranded in a strange town. The magician who first comes to her rescue already has romantic entanglements and thinks of her...
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Frank Tashlin – Artists and Models (1955)
Rick Todd uses the dreams of his roommate Eugene as the basis for a successful comic book. Ignatiy Vishnevetsky wrote: There’s a meaty essay to be written about the lengths to which modern-day...
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Vera Stroyeva – Boris Godunov (1954)
quote from Amazon user: A complement I say, as this not being complete (well, I’d better say severely truncated) it cannot be your sole Boris in a collection; necessary I add, because it preserved a...
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Sara Fishko – The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith (2016)
About the Jazz Loft Project In January 1955 W. Eugene Smith, a celebrated photographer at Life magazine whose quarrels with his editors were legendary, quit his longtime well-paying job at the...
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Jean Epstein – Les berceaux (1931)
Here is the text for the poem by Sully Prudhomme that the song is based on: Le long du Quai, les grands vaisseaux, Que la houle incline en silence, Ne prennent pas garde aux berceaux, Que la main des...
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Andrei Tarkovsky – Boris Godunov (1990)
This is the Andrei Tarkovsky production of the famous Pushkin/Mussorgsky opera, performed in 1990 at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia, conducted by Valery Gergiev. [To avoid some...
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