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Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Based on the first part of the Beatles' career, the period in which they toured and captured the world's acclaim. Explore how John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr came together to become this extraordinary phenomenon. It explores their inner workings - how they made decisions, created their music, and built their collective career together - all while exploring the Beatles' extraordinary and unique musical gifts and their...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the first part of The Beatles' career the period in which they toured and captured the worlds acclaim. Explores how John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr came together to become this extraordinary phenomenon. It explores their inner workings how they made decisions, created their music and built their collective career together all the while, exploring The Beatles' extraordinary and unique musical gifts and their remarkable,...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In the early 1970s, Sixto Rodriguez was a Detroit folksinger who had a short-lived recording career. Unknown to him, his musical story continued in South Africa where he became a pop music icon. Long rumored there to be dead, two fans, record store owner Stephen Segerman and journalist Craig Bartholomew-Strydom, decided to seek out the truth of his fate.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Documents the day three generations of electric guitar players met to share their own stories on how they developed their own unique sound and playing style. Viewers will hear fresh music from each artist and witness intimate moments as they discuss what influences how they write and play. Includes Toronto Film Festival press conference.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A feature-length documentary about the making of the original "Jesus Christ Superstar" theatrical movie. This 93-minute documentary features making-of footage and original "on set" interviews with cast members and Norman Jewison. In 1972, director Jewison took a group of young actors, singers, and dancers to war-torn Israel to shoot the film adaptation of the hit rock opera "Jesus Christ Superstar." This is their story - in their own words. The production...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Linda Ronstadt has been an icon for more than 50 years. Her extraordinary vocal range and ambition created unforgettable songs across rock, pop, country, folk ballads, American standards, classic Mexican music, and soul. As the most popular female recording artist of the 1970s, Ronstadt filled huge arenas as no one had ever done and produced an astounding eleven platinum albums. Ronstadt was the first artist to top the Pop, Country, and R&B charts...
8) 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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1164
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Emerging from the primordial soup of glamour, gutter sleaze, and feverish creativity that was New York₂s 1960s underground culture, the Velvet Underground redefined music with its at once raw and exalted blend of experimentation and art-damaged rock and roll. In his kaleidoscopic documentary The Velvet Underground, Todd Haynes vividly evokes the band's incandescent world: the creative origins of the twin visionaries Lou Reed and John Cale, Andy...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
An in-depth look at the relationship between the late musician Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen. Nick Broomfield's most personal and romantic film of his storied career starts on the Greek island of Hydra in 1960, where Leonard Cohen, then a struggling and unknown fiction writer, and Marianne Ihlen, a single mother with a young son, became part of community of expat artists, writers, and musicians. Never-before-seen footage shot...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Examines the history of Hollywood musical films. This program covers the 1950s, exploring how the post-war years were alive with bold experimentation. Later in the decade, rock & roll became the musical of choice for the younger generation and movie musicals followed suit. Highlights include films based on Broadway musicals like "The king and I," "Oklahoma!," "Carousel," and "South Pacific," and stars including Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, Esther...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Examines the history of Hollywood musical films. This program covers the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, including Gypsy with Bette Midler, Annie and director Rob Marshall, Moulin Rouge, Chicago, Dreamgirls, Hairspray, The Blues Brothers, Dirty Dancing, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Evita with Madonna, and more.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Examines the history of Hollywood musical films. This program covers the 1940s, when more than 550 movie musicals were produced. Highlighted stars include Frank Sinatra, Betty Grable, Rita Hayworth, Betty Hutton, June Haver, the Andrews Sisters, the Jivin' Jacks and Jills, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Lena Horne.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Examines the history of Hollywood musical films. This program covers the 1930s, including the magic of director/choreographer Busby Berkeley; the screen partnership of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers; musical child stars such as Jane Withers, Deanna Durbin, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, and Shirley Temple; the musical ladies of 20th-Century Fox including Sonja Henie, Betty Grable, and Alice Faye; dancers such as Eleanor Powell, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson,...
16) Hired gun
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A documentary film about session and touring musicians that are hired by well established and famous bands and artists like Metallica, KISS, and Billy Joel. These hired guns may not be household names, but are still masters of their craft.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
That's entertainment!, That's Entertainment! Part II, That's Entertainment! III: A history of Hollywood films and musicals produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, featuring excerpts from many beloved classics.
That's dancing! Presents over fifty of the most famous dancers from the world of film, ballet, and Broadway in a series of dazzling music sequences. Featuring dance sequences by: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Michael Jackson, Gene Kelly, Shirley MacLaine,...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Explores the demise of the once powerful Hollywood studio system and the rise of independent filmmakers, which brought a different kind of realism to the movies of the '60s. As the 1960's progressed, Hollywood musicals reflected the changing tide and embraced rock and roll music. Includes West Side Story, My Fair Lady, Oliver, and Sweet Charity.
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