Can – Rockpalast From The Archives (1970)
The First Filmed Live Performance Of Can Rockpalast From The Archives: Can Live from the “Karussell Der Jugend” club in the German city of Soest. The first filmed live performance of the German...
View ArticleChantal Akerman – Golden Eighties AKA Window Shopping (1986)
Synopsis: Three young women at a hair salon all like the son of the clothing store proprietors across the mall. Although Robby is selfish and shallow, he’s appealing to Lili, the salon’s manager,...
View ArticleMike De Leon – Kakabakaba ka ba? AKA Will Your Heart Beat Faster? (1980)
Kakabakaba Ka Ba? (lit. Does Your Heart Beat Faster?) is a 1980 musical-romantic comedy film produced by LVN Pictures (in its last offering) in 1980, with Mike De Leon as director. The film revolves...
View ArticleMartin Scorsese – No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005)
IMDB: Portrait of an artist as a young man. Roughly chronological, using archival footage intercut with recent interviews, a story takes shape of Bob Dylan’s (b. 1941) coming of age from 1961 to 1966...
View ArticleBavo Defurne – Souvenir (2016)
Quote: Because of the stupid life in a pâté-factory, former singer Laura falls in love with a colleague, a much younger boy and boxer, and after a small performance, a reenactment of her singing...
View ArticleCharles Vidor – A Song to Remember (1945)
Quote: A Song to Remember is a 1945 Columbia Pictures biographical film which tells a ficitonalised life story of pianist and composer Frédéric Chopin. The film starred Paul Muni, Merle Oberon, Cornel...
View ArticleElisabeta Bostan – Ma-ma AKA Rock’n Roll Wolf (1976)
IMDB: An enchanting film combining beautiful costumes, fun music and excellent ballet performance 5 March 2005 | by (natalivogue@yahoo.com) (United Kingdom) I saw this film as a child in a small town...
View ArticleAlan Parker – The Commitments (1991)
Quote: Foul-mouthed, fast-talking and very funny, this is Parker’s best to date. It’s an intentionally ‘small’ movie that treats a familiar subject (kids forming a rock band) with a deft intimacy. But...
View ArticleDanièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub – Moses und Aron (1975)
In expressive, melodic tones, the fraternal pair debate God’s true message and intent for His creations, a conflict that leads their followers – in extravagantly choreographed song and dance – towards...
View ArticleJean-Luc Godard – Une Femme Est Une Femme AKA A Woman Is a Woman (1961)
“Director Jean-Luc Godard’s deceptively blithe tribute to the musical comedy features Anna Karina as an exotic dancer who decides that it is time for her to have a child. When her lover refuses to...
View ArticleJúlio Bressane – Miramar (1997)
qUOTE: Story with some autobiographical touches taken from director’s life. Miramar is a teenager raised by his parents to be an artist. But a tragedy occurs in his life: both his parents commit...
View ArticleRobert Z. Leonard – Dancing Lady (1933)
Plot: Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get a job in a real Broadway musical being...
View ArticleHeinz Emigholz – 2+2=22 [The Alphabet] AKA Streetscapes – Chapter 1 (2017)
Celebrated for his rigorous films about the experience of architecture (Schindler’s Houses, Loos Ornamental), Heinz Emigholz launches a new chapter of his “Photography and Beyond” project with an...
View ArticleOtto Preminger – Porgy and Bess (1959)
A stellar line-up of African-American actors and musical stars helped to bring DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin’s classic operetta to this screen in this lavishly-produced adaptation. Porgy (Sidney...
View ArticleMichael Wadleigh – Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music (director’s cut) (1970)
from rottentomatoes: Michael Wadleigh’s WOODSTOCK: THREE DAYS OF PEACE & MUSIC finds the best rock stars of the 1960s performing at the historic Woodstock Music and Art Fair, the most celebrated...
View ArticleIngmar Bergman – Höstsonaten AKA Autumn Sonata (1978) (HD)
After having neglected her children for many years, world famous pianist Charlotte visits her daughter Eva in her home. To her surprise she finds her other daughter, Helena, there as well. Helena is...
View ArticleAllan Dwan – Sweethearts on Parade (1953)
Plot: Ray Middleton and Bill Shirley, Republic Pictures’ answer to Hope and Crosby, star in Sweethearts on Parade. Middleton and Shirley play Cam Ellerby and Bill Gamble, the featured singers in a...
View ArticleRobert Z. Leonard – Grounds for Marriage (1951)
In the film, Grayson plays Ina Massine, an opera diva, and Johnson is her ex-husband, Dr. Lincoln Bartlett, who is now engaged to Agnes Young (Paula Raymond), the daughter of a doctor. Ina wants...
View ArticleStanley Donen & Gene Kelly – Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
Summary: In 1927, Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont are a famous on-screen romantic pair. Lina, however, mistakes the on-screen romance for real love. Don has worked hard to get where he is today, with his...
View ArticleNicholas Ray – Party Girl (1958)
Synopsis: Lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career defending crooks in trials. He has never realized that there is a downside to his success, until he meets the dancer Vicki Gayle. She makes him decide...
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