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1) Grace notes
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Rare musical performances: Django Reinhardt with Stéphane Grapelli and the Quintet of the Hot Club of France in Jazz hot (1939), Duke Ellington and the Cotton Club Orchestra featured in Black and tan (1929), Louis Armstrong in Copenhagen, 1934, and a 1929 performance from the Utica Jubilee Singers.
3) Persuade me
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Eleven films designed to influence, including a vintage promotional film of a French-dubbed Laurel & Hardy, theatrical advertisements featuring Michel Simon and Jacques Tati, a 1938 George Pal puppet animation, three WW-II era musical shorts, two political campaign films, and the National Film registry selection Master Hands, a paean to the 1936 Chevrolet automobile.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
One of Hollywood's earliest -- and most peculiar -- musicals, The Great Gabbo stars von Stroheim as an egotistical ventriloquist who casts a Svengali-like spell upon an ingenue (Betty Compson), against a backdrop of singularly strange numbers (including "Icky" and the spider-and-fly-themed "Caught in a Web"). Director James Cruze (The Covered Wagon) allowed von Stroheim to endow the character with his signature flourishes, resulting in a wicked cocktail...
5) La France
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
An intoxicating blend of wartime romance and brightly colored musical, the film depicts an original world "where Bresson meets the Beatles" (Variety).
7) Frank
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Michael Fassbender stars as Frank, a genius rock musician who performs wearing a giant fake head that he never removes. Things get rocky between his protective bandmate Clara (Maggie Gyllenhaal) and newcomer Jon (Domhnall Gleeson), who is convinced they’re meant for stardom. The band lands their biggest gig, but are they ready? And is the world? Audience Award Nominated at the **SXSW Film Festival**. Winner of Best Screenplay at the **British...
Author
Publisher
Running Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Spanning nine decades and showcasing the most memorable songs, dazzling dancing, and brightest stars ever to grace the silver screen, Must-See Musicals is the guide to the greatest musicals of all time from the most trusted authority on film: Turner Classic Movies."--Publisher's description.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Leading film historian Jeanine Basinger reveals, with her trademark wit and zest, the whole story of the Hollywood musical in the most telling, most incisive, most detailed, most gorgeously illustrated book of her long and remarkable career"--Jacket.
10) La Habanera
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Legendary director Douglas Sirk's (Written on the wind, Imitation of life) La Habanera is a lushly poetic and boldly modern musical drama decades ahead of its time. Working at Germany's famed UFA Studios (Metropolis), under the very noses of the Nazi authorities that would later force him into Hollywood exile and eminence, Sirk transformed a glossy musical vehicle for UFA's "new Garbo" Zarah Leander into a dark and intimate anti-colonial melodrama....
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A new look at artist Oscar Hammerstein II as a pivotal and underestimated force in the creation of modern American culture. You know his work--Show Boat, Oklahoma!, Carousel, The King and I. But you don't really know Oscar Hammerstein II, the man who, more than anyone else, invented the American musical. Among the most commercially successful artists of his time, he was a fighter for social justice who constantly prodded his audiences to be better...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The 1930s was a magical age in Hollywood, with Shirley Temple and Mickey Rooney, Bette Davis and Clark Gable lighting up the silver screen. But Deanna Durbin's fame surpassed them all. Born in Canada, Deanna was 'discovered' by starmaker Eddie Cantor, producer Joe Pasternak and director Henry Koster, and she quickly became the world's most celebrated star. She saved Universal Studios from ruin, she was a favourite of Winston Churchill and Anne Frank,...
13) Rocketman
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The incredible human story of Elton John's breakthrough years.
15) It's love again
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
Peter is a gossip columnist on a paper, and is attracted to Elaine, a young actress. He decides to invent a character to write about, an English beauty from India, who instantly becomes a celebrity. Since no one has ever seen this person, Elaine impersonates this fictitious woman to gain attention, and Peter is mystified that his creation is 'real.'
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Emma and Lachy are delighted to share with you their brand new musical feature. Join them as they dress up, dance with their friends, and sing new songs and nursery rhymes of yesteryear. Try an Irish Jig with Lachy as he meets Phil the Fluter and attends a traditional Irish dancing ball. Dance ballet with Emma and the fairies as they learn some new moves to teach to their dollies.
Publisher
Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Troy, Gabriella, Chad and Sharpay are getting ready to graduate from high school. Troy is the school basketball champ who secretly wants to sing and dance. His girlfriend is Gabriella, but is going to a college that is far away from Troy. Troy's bestfriend is Chad. He doesn't want high school to end. The evil Sharpay wants Gabriella's part in the school play. As college approaches, the senior are struggling with the idea of being separated from one...
18) Don Giovanni
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Italiano
Description
Filmed on location in Vincenza, Italy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's operatic masterpiece, Don Giovanni, is translated to film by director Joseph Losey. Set in Seville in the 1600s, a young nobleman Don Giovanni is a well-known philanderer with a long list of conquests. After he attempts to seduce the beautiful Donna Anna, her father's battle to protect her honor ends in tragedy. Anna and her fiance Don Octavio pledge to seek revenge, while Giovanni continues...
19) The identical
Publisher
The Identical
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A redemptive movie about a young man, the son of a preacher, who rejects his father's desire for him to join the ministry and instead embarks on a career as a rock singer. As he struggles to pursue his dream and rise to stardom, he finds love, pain, success and failure, and ultimately uncovers a hidden family secret that reveals who he really is. It's a captivating story about a family restored, and a life discovered.
20) Quadrophenia
Series
Criterion collection volume 624
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
London, 1965: Like many other youths, Jimmy hates the Philistine life, especially his parents and his job in a company's mailing division.
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