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Publisher
Les Blank Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
This creative educational film by Pieter Van Deusen features a variety of percussion instruments performed by noted musicians Bruno Hoffmann, Eric Remsen, and Taranath Rao. The film crew included Les Blank and Skip Gerson. This film was part of a music film series for Churchill Films: Wind Sounds, Percussion Sounds, and an offshoot film by Pieter with Les Blank entitled Christopher Tree.
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
1973.
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 1973 we had an opportunity to visit Jean Dubuffet in his studio while he was at work on a detail for his musical theater piece Coucou Bazar. The production, which Dubuffet saw as an animated painting, featured performers in costumes resembling figures in his paintings and sculptures. The piece had a successful premiere at New York’s Guggenheim earlier that year, alongside a retrospective of Dubuffet’s previous works, and later would...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
Maxine Sullivan: Love to Be In Love is a lyrical film portrait of the once famous, and now, largely forgotten jazz vocalist Maxine Sullivan. Sullivan won fame in the 1930s with swing renditions of traditional songs like "Loch Lomond" and "Annie Laurie." By the late 1930s she became one of the foremost women in jazz. A black, female vocalist in America, she inspired young musicians like Ella Fitzgerald. Film footage, vintage photographs, reminiscences...
Publisher
Dekanalog
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Berlin-based Mosotho filmmaker Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s devastating and hypnotic THIS IS NOT A BURIAL, IT'S A RESRRECTION is already one of the most esteemed African films ever to hit the international festival circuit, earning the Special Jury Prize for Visionary Filmmaking at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, before taking home Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Cinematography at Africa’s Academy Awards. Deserving comparison with the work...
Publisher
Hope Runs High
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, this non-fiction musical follows composer John Wallowitch, a star of New York cabaret and partner Bertram Ross, Martha Graham's lead dancer for 20 years and co-director of the Graham Company. Together they formed the beloved musical duo "Wallowitch and Ross,” as well as an unshakable partnership, both onstage and off.
86) Give Me Liberty
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Medical transport driver Vic is late, but it’s not his fault. Roads are closed for a protest, and no one else can shuttle his Russian grandfather and émigré friends to a funeral. The new route uproots his scheduled clients, particularly Tracy (Lauren “Lolo” Spencer in a breakout performance), a vibrant young woman with ALS. As the day goes from hectic to off-the-rails, their collective ride becomes a hilarious, compassionate, and intersectional...
87) Nightmare city
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
Umberto Lenzi's zombie shocker Nightmare city stars actor Hugo Stiglitz as a reporter caught in a living, breathing zombie hell. When an airplane comes into contact with radiation from a nuclear disaster, it causes the passengers to mutate into scabby-faced humanoids with a compulsion to kill and drink the blood of their victims. As the zombies move into the city and beyond, will anyone or anything be able to stop the wave of bloody death and disease...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In The Deep Blue Sea, Master chronicler of post-War England, Terence Davies directs Rachel Weisz as a woman whose overpowering love threatens her well-being and alienates the men in her life. In a deeply vulnerable performance, Rachel Weisz plays Hester Collyer, the wife of an upper-class judge (Simon Russell Beale) and a free spirit trapped in a passionless marriage. Her encounter with Freddie Page (Tom Hiddleston), a troubled former Royal Air Force...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
In the sandstone country southwest of Katherine in the Northern Territory lies a spectacular concentration of Aboriginal rock art. Ancestral beings, the Lightning Brothers, feature in this art. For the Wardaman people, the Lightning Brothers are an important part of their living culture. The Wardaman perform traditional songs and ceremonies associated with special Dreamtime places where their art is found. Like many rock art sites, the Wardaman's...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The piano has inspired many of the greatest compositional works in the Western concert repertoire: extraordinary pieces celebrated for their compositional mastery, emotional impact, and their creative use of the instrument. In addition to learning about these masterworks, watch as three dynamic concert pianists perform live in our studio. This course is one you'll want to hear again and again.
91) A Chairy Tale
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada
Pub. Date
1957.
Language
English
Description
In this Oscar-nominated short film, a chair, animated by Evelyn Lambart, refuses to be sat upon, forcing a young man to perform a sort of dance with the chair. The musical accompaniment is by Ravi Shankar and Chatur Lal. This virtuoso film is the result of a collaboration between Norman McLaren and Claude Jutra.
Publisher
Giant Interactive
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Featuring a cast of prominent musicians and artists, and some virtuoso performances, the film captures five days in the life of one shop in the heart of Greenwich Village that remains resilient to an all-too-quickly vanishing way of life.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
This program will teach you all the skills needed to master the acoustic style. This 3rd lesson, geared toward the intermediate player, will show how to successfully put together an arrangement of a well-known piece. Classic traditional tunes are used to demonstrate the different styles and executions used by great guitarists like Tommy Emmanuel, Merle Travis, and Chet Atkins. This program will help you become a red hot picker.
94) Ronnie’s
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A chronicle of the life of saxophonist Ronnie Scott, from poor, Jewish kid in the East End of London to owner of the legendary night club, Ronnie’s. Featuring glorious performances by jazz greats, including Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald, Jimi Hendrix, Nina Simone, Van Morrison, Chet Baker, and others.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
The acoustic guitar is able to produce a sound that is very different than its electric brother. Its use of natural vibrations, rather than electronic assistance, generates more soothing, calmer tones. In this, the first release of the series, 'Acoustic Fingerstyle - Folk and Americana', our host Max Milligan shows how to get the most out of the acoustic guitar, teaching ways and techniques used by the professionals such as Joan Baez, Paul Simon and...
96) Say My Name
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In a hip hop and R&B world dominated by men and noted for misogyny, the unstoppable female lyricists of SAY MY NAME speak candidly about class, race, and gender in pursuing their passions as female MCs. This worldwide documentary takes viewers on a vibrant tour of urban culture and musical movement, from hip hop’s birthplace in the Bronx, to grime on London’s Eastside, to Philly, Detroit, Chicago, Atlanta, and L.A., and points in between. Featuring...
97) The Joy of Life
Publisher
Frameline
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Multitalented performance artist Harriet "Harry" Dodge (By Hook or By Crook, Cecil B. Demented) brings to life this innovative story of a butch dyke in San Francisco searching for love and self-discovery. Against a backdrop of stunning landscape cinematography, this bold, lyrical voiceover film evolves from lesbian lust story to inventive documentary; delving into explicit descriptions of lesbian sexuality and offering up a quick look at Frank Capra's...
98) The Italian
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
It is the story of Beppo, a gondolier who comes to America and settles in lower Manhattan, where he operates a shoeshine business and eventually saves enough money to import his fiancee. Crime and poverty soon impact their lives – and there is no artificial, happy ending. Conflated from three sources, this tinted edition is mostly copied from an original nitrate print, and has an optional scene-specific audio essay by Prof. Giorgio Bertellini. A...
99) Family Jams
Publisher
Factory 25
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
An evocative portrait of youthful possibility, THE FAMILY JAMS follows Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom and Vetiver as they tour the USA in 2004 playing their unique music for a newly growing audience. The film is an intimate portrait of life on the road for these young musicians early in their careers, playing tiny, obscure clubs and art galleries, but on the verge of larger success before their small, intimate vans are replaced by large, impersonal...
100) 20 Feet from Stardom
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
They are the voices behind the greatest Rock, Pop and R&B hits of all time, but no one knows their names. Now in this award-winning documentary, director Morgan Neville shines the spotlight on the untold stories of such legendary background singers as Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer, Claudia Lennear, Judith Hill and more. These are the triumphs and heartbreaks of music’s greatest unsung talents, featuring rare behind-the-scenes footage,...
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