D.A. Pennebaker – Original Cast Album: Company (1970)
Synopsis Stephen Sondheim’s musical “Company” opened on Broadway in the Spring of 1970, and tradition dictates that the cast recording is done on the first Sunday after opening night. D.A. Pennebaker,...
View ArticleHenry King – Carousel (1956)
Billy Bigelow has been dead for fifteen years, and now outside the pearly gates, he long waived his right to go back to Earth for a day. But he has heard that there is a problem with his family,...
View ArticleKajirô Yamamoto – Enoken no seishun suikoden AKA Romantic and Crazy (1934)
Quote: This, the first Enoken film, was made in 1934. Production was proposed to Pierre Brillante (PB), Enoken’s theatrical troupe based at the Shochikuza Theater in Asakusa, by Iwao Mori, a producer...
View ArticleAntoni Padrós – Shirley Temple Story (1976)
Quote: A humorously distorted version of the life of Shirley Temple, and described by its director as a terrorist musical. Shirley Temple sets off for the Emerald City to tell the Wizard that she is...
View ArticleMarc Allégret – Zou Zou (1934)
Zou Zou tries to help her childhood friend prove his innocence after he’s accused of murder. Zouzou.1934.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkvGeneralContainer: MatroskaRuntime: 1 h 32 minSize: 1.74 GiBVideoCodec:...
View ArticleFrederic Mitterrand – Madame Butterfly (1995)
Amazon.co.uk Review Like the finest of film scores with its fluid beauty and succession of intensely romantic tunes, Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly has a surprisingly cinematic feel. In 1995...
View ArticleMasahisa Sunohara – Jazz musume tanjô aka Birth of a Jazz Child (1957)
Quote: In this musical Cinderella story, Chiemi Eri plays Midori, a sales girl for Camelia oil from the island of Oshima, with a talent for singing. Her talent is discovered and her career takes off,...
View ArticleJohn H. Auer – Pan-Americana (1945)
Plot Synopsis by Sandra Brennan A journalist for a popular travel magazine goes looking for interesting stories in Latin America and finds love instead in this colorful musical. The love angle comes...
View ArticleNobuhiko Ôbayashi – Nagoriyuki AKA The Last Snow (2002)
A story of two men, one recently bereaved, the other with a wife in a coma. From the popular song. Nagoriyuki.mkvGeneralContainer: MatroskaRuntime: 1h 53mnSize: 835 MiBVideoCodec: x264Resolution:...
View ArticleDick Powell – You Can’t Run Away from It (1956)
You Can’t Run Away From It is a musical remake of Frank Capra’s Oscar-winning classic It Happened One Night, complete with same-named characters and word-for-word scene reconstructions. It all begins...
View ArticleCarlo Ludovico Bragaglia – Fuga a due voci AKA Music on the Run (1943)
A famous baritone tells about the adventure he had taken the day before, when he lost his train and found himself wandering the countryside with a girl who had left the jealous boyfriend on the train....
View ArticleYuli Gusman – Ne boysya, ya s toboy AKA Don’t Worry, I’m Here (1981)
“This is a beautiful musical movie. Here is a successful combination of Azerbaijani modern and folklore music. Azerbaijani composer Polad Byul-Byul-ogly plays and sings his own songs in this movie....
View ArticleJacques Audiard – Emilia Pérez (2024)
Overqualified and undervalued, Rita is a lawyer at a large firm that is more interested in getting criminals off the hook than bringing them to justice. One day, she is given an unexpected way out,...
View ArticleRichard Marquand – Hearts of Fire (1987)
A reclusive musician, once a huge rock star, takes a young female protegee. While on a tour she meets a younger, more popular rocker and switches her loyalties. Hearts of Fire (1987) Rich...
View ArticleGiannis Dalianidis – Ela na… gymnothoume, darling (1984)
During the summer of 1984, on a sun-kissed Greek island somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea, Stathis and his army of Greek lovers do their best to keep the lonely female tourists happy....
View ArticleWalter Lang – State Fair (1945)
Farm family Frake, with discontented daughter Margy, head for the Iowa State Fair. On the first day, both Margy and brother Wayne meet attractive new flames; so does father’s prize hog, Blue Boy. As...
View ArticleBruno Monsaingeon – David Oïstrakh: artiste du peuple? aka David Oistrakh:...
David Fyodorovich Oistrakh (September 30, 1908 – October 24, 1974) was a renowned Soviet classical violinist. Oistrakh collaborated with major orchestras and musicians from many parts of the world,...
View ArticleBrett Morgen – Moonage Daydream (2022)
A cinematic odyssey exploring David Bowie’s creative and musical journey. From visionary filmmaker Brett Morgen, and sanctioned by the Bowie estate....
View ArticleRichard Stanley – Brave (1994)
A runaway girl is interviewed by a psychiatrist after a suicide attempt and her story is shown in subsequent flashbacks, accompanied by the music of Marillion’s concept album ‘Brave’....
View ArticleGuru Dutt – Pyaasa (1957)
Vijay writes unpopular poems about the destitute and poor. Ridiculed by his brothers and scorned by publishers, Vijay finds encouragement in a woman, Gulabo, who helps him to try and get his poems...
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