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Phil Karlson – Ladies of the Chorus (1949)
Andrea Passafiume wrote:Ladies of the ChorusMarilyn Monroe makes an early big screen appearance in director Phil Karlson’s 1949 entertaining B musical Ladies of the Chorus. In her first starring role,...
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Mark Rappaport – Mozart in Love (1975)
Quote:Mark Rappaport’s second feature film (amongst a remarkable string of off-beat, experimental narratives that runs from CASUAL RELATIONS to CHAIN LETTERS) takes off from the deliberate anachronism...
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Fernando E. Solanas – El Exilio de Gardel: Tangos AKA Tangos, the Exile of...
The dictatorship forced thousands of Argentines to leave their country and settle in different corners of Europe. This film follows the daily routine of a community of Argentine exiles in Paris. While...
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Richard Rush – Psych-Out (1968)
Quote:Jennie (Susan Strasberg) travels to San Francisco to locate her hippie brother Steve (Bruce Dern). She meets Stoney (Jack Nicholson) in a coffeehouse and he helps her look for Steve, who Stoney...
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Alan G. Parker – Who Killed Nancy? (2009)
ON October 12th 1978 Nancy Spungen, an ex-prostitute, sometimes stripper and heroin addict, was found dead in a bathroom at the Chelsea Hotel in New York. She also happened to be the girlfriend of the...
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Nobuhiro Yamashita – Linda Linda Linda (2005)
Story: A music group of girls need to learn to play a song before the school festival. Quote:What distinguishes Nobuhiro Yamashita’s Linda Linda Linda from the crowd is a refreshing modesty. Rather...
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Mika Kaurismäki – Moro No Brasil AKA Sound of Brazil (2002)
Quote:This one is documentary about Brasil music scene.Expecialy about live music from the streets and from diverse region of Brasil.For me best music is somwhere on one hour of duration.So if there...
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Kwon-taek Im – Chun nyun hack AKA Across The Years AKA Beyond the Years (2007)
Synopsis:Adopted by a nomadic pansori singer, Dong Ho (Cho Jae Hyun) and Song Hwa (Oh Jung Hae) grow up as brother and sister, bounded by a deep unspoken affection. Their father trains them strictly,...
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Evans Chan – Sorceress of the New Piano – The Artistry of Margaret Leng Tan...
Strumming the strings of a grand piano like a harp and performing Beethoven on toy piano are among the surprising scenes in Evans Chan’s documentary, Sorceress of the New Piano (2004). The film...
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Nadezhda Kosheverova & Mikhail Shapiro – Zolushka AKA Cinderella (1947)
It is one of those happy memories of our childhood, which sometimes is better to leave untouched in order to preserve the first naive impressions. The fabulous atmosphere and unusual interpretation of...
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Albert Pyun – Road to Hell (2008)
Albert Pyun’s unofficial sequel to the 1984 rock & roll fable Streets of Fire called Road to Hell. Shot entirely on green screen. This rare film is a strange thing. Really good and really bad,...
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Joe May – Music in the Air (1934)
Synopsis:Constantly quarreling couple decide to try the jealousy angle when a naive young couple comes along. Review:The screen edition of the Kern-Hammerstein musical play is a skillfully...
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Georg Wilhelm Pabst – Die 3 Groschen-Oper AKA The Threepenny Opera...
In London at the turn of the century, the bandit Mack the Knife marries Polly without the knowledge of her father, Peachum, the ‘king of the beggars’.Quote:Brecht’s opera, as we have seen, is not as...
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Victor Saville – First a Girl (1935)
British musical star Jessie Matthews tops the bill in this song-studded comedy. Elizabeth (Matthews) is a delivery girl for a seamstress who is dispatched to drop off some costumes at a theatre where...
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Joseph Losey – Don Giovanni (1979)
From IMDB:Screen adapatation of Mozart’s greatest opera. Don Giovanni, the infamous womanizer, makes one conquest after another until the ghost of Donna Anna’s father, the Commendatore, (whom Giovanni...
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Emil Loteanu – Tabor ukhodit v nebo AKA Gypsies Are Found Near Heaven (1976)
Rada, a beautiful and very proud gipsy girl is used to steal men’s hearts and monk them. Zobar is a horse thief who’s heart is stolen by Rada and his mind is bewitched. He is ready to give up his...
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A. Edward Sutherland – Palmy Days (1931)
Review of the film from the IMDb by “AlsExGal” (posted 31 January, 2010):At a time when musicals had fallen completely out of favor with the movie-going public, Eddie Cantor and Busby Berkeley were...
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Ahmed Badrakhan – Ahebbak inta AKA I Love You (1949)
Samia and Farid bump into each other by chance. Farid ends up renting a room in the house where Samia with her troop of dancers live. Their opposite characters clash while there’s also chemistry...
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Frank Tuttle – Roman Scandals (1933)
Review by TV GuideOf the six films Eddie Cantor made for Samuel Goldwyn, Roman Scandals was his fourth and second only to The Kid From Spain in popularity. When Goldwyn’s idea to adapt George Bernard...
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Jean-Luc Godard – Sympathy for the Devil (1968)
Jean-Luc Godard’s documentary Sympathy for the Devil combines footage of the Rolling Stones in a recording studio creating one of their masterpieces (the song gave the film its name) with the sort of...
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