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Tony Palmer – All My Loving (1968)
Film Threat: Tony Palmer’s landmark 1968 BBC documentary on the icons of the era’s rock orbit is finally receiving its DVD premiere. Nearly four decades after its first broadcast, “All My Loving”...
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Lloyd Bacon – Footlight Parade (1933)
Plot Synopsis [AMG] The last—and to some aficionados, the best—of choreographer Busby Berkeley’s three Warner Bros. efforts of 1933, Footlight Parade stars James Cagney as a Broadway musical comedy...
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Ken Hughes – Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
Plot Synopsis by Paul Brenner One of the stars of Walt Disney’s Mary Poppins, Dick Van Dyke, is re-united with that film’s composer and lyricist, Richard M.Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, in this big...
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Garin Nugroho – Opera Jawa AKA Requiem from Java [+Extras] (2006)
Synopsis: Siti (Artika Sari Devi) and Setio (Martinus Miroto) are a married couple living in a small village. They were once dancers in plays depicting the Ramayana, but have since retired from the...
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Charles Reisner – Chasing Rainbows (1930)
Plot: The road-show troupe of a top Broadway show go cross-country while taking the audience along on the on-stage scenes as well as what happens and is happening back stage of the production. The...
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Ana Lily Amirpour – Yo! My Saint (2018)
A musical exploring the complex relationship between an artist and his muse. http://nitroflare.com/view/9CC86FA022FC428/YO%21_MY_SAINT__2018.mkv Language(s):English Subtitles:None
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Antonio Carlos da Fontoura – Somos Tão Jovens AKA We are So Young (2013)
Quote: We are So Young (Portuguese: Somos tão Jovens) is a 2013 Brazilian biographical drama film about Brazilian singer Renato Russo. The film does not follow the life of Renato Russo. The focus is...
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Norman Jewison – Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)
Quote: The second Biblical epic to be turned into a musical by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice, this box-office disappointment recounts the last week in the life of Jesus Christ in...
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Bob Dylan – Renaldo & Clara (1978)
Chock full of wondrous musical segments (not all of them on the concert stage) and some choice bits of post-Beat tomfoolery, rendered by a cast of musicians, actors and veteran exhibitionists rapidly...
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Roberto Rossellini – Giovanna d’Arco al rogo AKA Joan at the Stake (1954)
It was once said of Ingrid Bergman that she’d played Joan of Arc so often that she wouldn’t be satisfied until she was burned at the stake. Actually, nobody ever said that, but someone should have....
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Mohsen Makhmalbaf – Sokout AKA The Silence (1998)
Quote: The Silence (Sokhout), a startlingly fresh and elegant work, is about a ten-year-old boy, Khorshid, who is blind. Khorshid’s father, in Russia, has abandoned him and his mother, who in order to...
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Tony Gatlif – Canta, gitano (1982)
One of the unknown Gatlif movies, a short one. Best Short Film – Fiction (Meilleur court métrage de fiction)- Cesar 1983 Gatlif plays himself in this one…pretty nice to see the guy that made Vengo...
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Ahmed El Maanouni – Trances (1981)
Quote: It was in 1981 while I was editing a film, The King of Comedy. We worked at night so no one would call us on the telephone and I would have television on, and one channel in New York at the...
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Alan Parker – Bugsy Malone (1976)
At first the notion seems alarming: a gangster movie cast entirely with kids. Especially when we learn that “Bugsy Malone” isn’t intended as a kid’s movie so much as a cheerful comment on the...
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Aki Kaurismäki – Total Balalaika Show [+ Extras] (1994)
Description: On June 12, 1993, Audience of 70.000 people witnessed a historical event on the Senate Square in Helsinki. Leningrad Cowboys performed for the first time together with the 100 singers, 40...
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Otto Preminger – Carmen Jones (1954)
Love, passion, betrayal and tragedy. Carmen Jones is an adaptation of Bizet’s legendary opera, Carmen. It tells the story of a young, free spirited woman called Carmen Jones whose great beauty is the...
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David Markey – 1991: The Year Punk Broke (1992)
In August of 1991 New York’s Sonic Youth invited Los Angeles filmmaker David Markey along on a two week summer festival tour of Europe. Along the way they would cross paths with Dinosaur Jr., Babes In...
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Nadezhda Kosheverova & Mikhail Shapiro – Zolushka AKA Cinderella (1947)
Based on the traditional story about the hard working Cinderella, her wicked step-mother and lazy sisters. The film was restored at ”Mosfilm” in 1967. imdb user comment 8 out of 8 people found the...
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Ken Russell – il mefistofele (1989)
Arrigo Boito’s Il Mefestefele was first performed in 1868 and his most known work. In Ken Russell’s modern interpretation presented by the Genoese Opera, it has Faust as an ageing hippy. He smokes...
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Sergei Parajanov – Pervyy paren aka The First Lad (1959)
A gem from Paradjanov’s early oeuvre is a musical agitation film or a romantic comedy, made by the young director under the guidance of Alexander Dovzhenko and set in the immense fields of the...
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