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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A visit to the Spoleto Festival in Umbria on the occasion of its 10th anniversary. Highlights of the film: Don Giovanni: - director Gian Carlo Menotti, conductor Thomas Schippers, set designer Henry Moore; The Stuttgart Ballet: - choreographer John Cranko; Jerzy Grotowski's staging of El Principe Constante by Calderón presented by the Warsaw Lab Theatre, Charles Wadsworth, originator of Chamber Music Concerts at Noon - featuring brilliant young...
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In the muddy market square of Momostenango, Guatemala, where shamans burn offerings in the shadow of the Catholic church, prehispanic gods dance beside horror movie monsters and dictators from the dark days of the Cold War. Unlike the folkloric performances long studied by anthropologists, this new dance won't show up on any postcard. In some villages, it's even been banned for frightening tourists. So how did these fiberglass masks of Xena: Warrior...
4) Monterey pop
Series
Criterion collection volume 168
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Monterey Pop is the first filmed document of a rock festival. The Monterey Pop Festival, held on California's Monterey Peninsula in 1967. It would help launch the careers of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Otis Redding. Captured on film that became immortalized, Pete Townshend destroying his guitar and Jimi Hendrix burning his.
5) Fiddlin'
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Sister filmmakers, Julie Simone and Vicki Vlasic return to their Appalachian roots to film at the world's oldest Fiddler's Convention. With multi-generations jamming together, witness some off-the-charts pickin and fiddlin keeping old-time and bluegrass alive in the Appalachian mountains.
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
A first and thorough look at the Mexican celebration of the dead, the sacred days when the souls of the departed return to visit the living. Tracing the Days of the Dead tradition from its roots in Indian culture to its manifestations in contemporary Chicano communities, this unconventional and visually arresting documentary contemplates the loving and sometimes humorous Mexican cultural attitudes toward "that constant companion," death.
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Legendary dancers and choreographers Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, Suzanne Farrell, Mark Morris, Judith Jamison, and Bill Irwin appear alongside new innovators to reveal the passion, discipline, and daring of the world of dance. Featured are amazing performances by world-renowned dancers interwoven with intimate interviews, behind-the-scenes insights, and rare archival footage.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell, aka 'Jazz Fest,' is the signature annual music and cultural event of the city and has been called America's greatest festival. Celebrating the music, food, and arts and crafts of all of Louisiana since 1970, Jazz Fest is an essential showcase of the rich heritage of the region, and hundreds of thousands attend the event each year. Local music heroes are joined on fourteen stages by some...
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Even now -- maybe especially now -- Woodstock has deep, lasting meaning. Its mix of music, culture and idealism resonates across the years. It gave youth a voice. It changed the music business. It energized activists. From stadium shows to social-justice movements, its legacy is strong: half a century later. Follow the inside story of the event and the history that continues! Woodstock: 3 Days That Changed Everything gets inside this familiar story...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
For three days in the summer of 1969, a rock concert was held on an upstate New York farm, and 400,000 people attended -- far more than were anticipated, far more than paid, far more than could be fed or sheltered or cared for after injuries or drug overdoses. It rained, there was mud, all traffic in and out was gridlocked, and the music continued, night and day. "Woodstock Nation" existed for three days and was absorbed into American myth. As depicted...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The location has brought over seven million fans, and the world's biggest musicians, to a patch of rural Washington farmland 150 miles from nowhere. Despite overwhelming odds, a small family winery, with a makeshift plywood stage, eventually became a Pollstar, Billboard, and ACM-winning music venue. It follows the stories of Dave Matthews, Jason Mraz, and Pearl Jam (among many other artists), all of whom have legendary pasts at the venue.
15) Wacken: der film
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Lets viewers experience what it's like to walk on stage with Deep Purple, see the curtain rise, and during the first few bars of 'Smoke on the Water,' float above an endless sea of people while the sun sets. Crowd-surf and mud dive, in this party frenzy festival documentary that puts viewer's center stage with Anthrax, Motorhead, Rammstein, Annihilator, Alice Cooper, Henry Rollins and many more.
16) Monterey Pop
Series
Criterion collection volume 168
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
On a June weekend in 1967, at the beginning of the Summer of Love, the Monterey International Pop Festival captured a decade's spirit and ushered in a new era of rock and roll. Monterey featured career-making performances by Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Otis Redding, but they were just a few of the performers in a diverse lineup that included Simon and Garfunkel, the Mamas and the Papas, the Who, the Byrds, Hugh Masekela, and Ravi Shankar. With...
Series
Criterion collection volume 167
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Concert films documenting the Monterey Pop Festival of 1967, with live performances, interviews, photos, and more.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
For three days in August 1969, nearly a half-million young people descended upon Max Yasgur's farm in upstate New York for the rock 'n' roll event that defined a generation. Mythologized for 50 years, the filmmakers set the record straight with the most comprehensive examination of how the festival came to be using original interviews with key figures, rare archival footage and unearthed photographs.
19) Soul power
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In 1974 the most celebrated American R&B acts of the time came together with the most renowned musical groups in Southern Africa for a 12-hour, three-night concert held in Kinshasa, Zaire. The music festival became a reality when Hugh Masekela and Stewart Levine convinced boxing promoter Don King to combine the event with the 'Rumble in the Jungle,' the epic fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Brown County's wooded, rugged, and beautiful landscape draws millions of visitors every year and has inspired generations of artists and musicians. Home to the world's oldest, continually running bluegrass festival and the state's largest and most visited state park, Brown County's rustic charm and pioneering spirit are both enchanting and elusive. In this hour-long documentary, producer Jim Krause explores the history, art, culture and beauty of...
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