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Eizô Sugawa – Kimi mo shusse ga dekiru AKA You Can Succeed, Too (1964)
Japan Society wrote:The closest Japanese cinema ever came to the full-blown Broadway style musical, with singing and dancing on the streets of Tokyo, music by avant-garde composer and jazzman Toshiro...
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Leonardo Favio – Aniceto (2008)
Leonardo Favio´s long awaited return to the movies was a triumph. On August 3rd, the Argentinean Film Journalists Association gave the Condor Awards to the 2008 local film production, and Aniceto,...
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John Baxter – Dreaming (1944)
The British music hall team of Flanagan and Allen tackle the dark jungle, the racetrack and the fog of war… ReviewsLike most of their films together,the film merely serves as a device for Flanagan...
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Vincente Minnelli – An American in Paris (1951)
Synopsis:Jerry Mulligan, a struggling American painter in Paris, is “discovered” by an influential heiress with an interest in more than Jerry’s art. Jerry in turn falls for Lise, a young French girl...
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Jean Renoir – French Cancan (1955)
Synopsis:Henri Danglard, proprietor of the fashionable (but bankrupt) cafe ‘Le Paravent Chinois’ featuring his mistress, belly dancer Lola, goes slumming in Montmarte (circa 1890) where the...
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George Abbott – Damn Yankees! (1958)
From IMDB:Film adaptation of the George Abbott Broadway musical about a Washington Senators fan who makes a pact with the Devil to help his baseball team win the league pennant. 997MB | 1:50:18 |...
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David Butler – Calamity Jane (1953)
Synopsis:Deadwood, Dakota Territory, is largely the abode of men, where Indian scout Calamity Jane is as hard-riding, boastful, and handy with a gun as any; quite an overpowering personality. But the...
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Jonathan Demme – Storefront Hitchcock (1998)
Jonathan Demme’s fantastic concert film of cult music favorite Robyn Hitchcock. The 1998 Variety review: The eccentric appeal of Brit singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock gets a nice permanent showcase...
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz – Guys and Dolls (1955)
Synopsis:All the hot gamblers are in town, and they’re all depending on Nathan Detroit to set up this week’s incarnation of “The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York”; the only...
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Mark Sandrich – Top Hat (1935)
Synopsis:Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace’s hotel, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale...
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Stuart Heisler & Mark Sandrich – Blue Skies (1946)
Jed Potter looks back on a love triangle conducted over the course of years and between musical numbers. Dancer Jed loves showgirl Mary, who loves compulsive nightclub-opener Johnny, who can’t stay...
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Krzysztof Gradowski – Akademia pana Kleksa AKA Mr Blot’s Academy (1984)
Story:A young boy is sent to a boarding school run by an eccentric scientist/magician. He befriends a talking bird named Matt and is told how it lost its human form, Matt was once a boy prince....
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Denis Héroux – Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris [American...
PlotThe film opens in a puppet theater, where three audience members—a military officer, a taxi driver, and a woman on a shopping trip—discover they are being depicted as marionette caricatures...
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Vincente Minnelli – Gigi (1958)
Synopsis:Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long. Gaston, the scion of a...
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Jodie Mack – Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project (2013)
Quote:Interweaving the forms of personal filmmaking, abstract animation, and the rock opera, this animated musical documentary examines the rise and fall of a nearly-defunct poster and postcard...
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Hrishikesh Mukherjee – Gol Maal AKA Hanky Panky (1979)
Ramprasad is a recent college graduate who finds a job with a finicky man, Bhavani Shankar, who believes that a man without a mustache is a man without a character. Bhavani Shankar is also against any...
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Wayne Price – Heartworn Highways Revisited (2015)
SynopsisThis year marks the 38th anniversary of the seminal music documentary, HEARTWORN HIGHWAYS, a film that explored and captured the nascent roots of the Outlaw Country movement in the mid-70s....
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Karl Freund – Moonlight and Pretzels (1933)
IMDB:A song plugger is stranded in a small town. There he meets a girl who later helps him to put on a show on Broadway. 799MB | 1 h 23 min | 608×480 | avi...
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Umetsugu Inoue – Arashi o yobu otoko aka The Man Who Causes A Storm (1957)
IMDB:Shoichi is a violent young man just released from jail who aspires to be a drummer. He works his way up by playing gigs in a hip Ginza club, an eventually wins a drumming contest. But what he...
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Adolf Born & Jaroslav Doubrava & Milos Macourek – O vodovodu ktery zpival v...
Story about a hard way to the stage. Our hero gives up his job in a restaurant to find fame on fortune at the opera. will he succeed? 69.7MB | 7 min 19 s | 768×576 | avi...
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