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A Musical Journey - Germany, Bavaria: A Musical Tour of Bavaria, its Palaces and Castles (1990) - DVD in Movies: Musical & Performing Arts
Castles, palaces, and other architectural marvels of Bavaria provide the backdrop to this classical music release featuring compositions by Max Bruch and Carl Maria von Weber.
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Tosca: The Movie - Angela Gheorghiu, Benoit Jacquot, Roberto Alagna - Standard Screen - DVD - English - 32031401099 - D4010
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Based on a true story, John Cromwell's ANNA AND THE KING OF SIAM stars Irene Dunne as Anna Owens, a recently widowed young mother who accepts employment as the governess for King Mongkut of Siam (Rex Harrison). In Siam, she finds that her highly intelligent employer is also a backward tyrant with a childlike temperament. Using her strength of will and getting help from the king's first wife, Lady Thiang (Gale Sondergaaard), Anna tries to transform the king and educate his children while also preserving...
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One and Only Genuine, Original Family Band (1968) - DVD in Movies: Musical & Performing Arts
Set in 1880s Dakota Territory, this film provides a family musical with tunes provided by the Academy Award winning Sherman Brothers of Mary Poppins fame. The Bower family have a band, and they're getting ready to give a show at the Presidential Convention for Grover Cleveland. Plans go awry, however, when Alice Bower (Lesley Ann Warren) falls in love with a rival Republican!
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Bride and Prejudice (2004) - DVD in Movies: Musical & Performing Arts
Spinning a Bollywood tale from Jane Austen's classic novel, director Gurinder Chadha, writer Paul Madeya Berges, and producer Deepak Nayar (the BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM team) present this musical full of romance, intrigue, and cross-cultural celebration.
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Tom Dowd and the Language of Music (2004) - DVD in Movies: Musical & Performing Arts
In the annals of pop music, there's probably no one other than legendary impresario John Hammond whose ubiquitousness compares with that of engineer/producer Tom Dowd. From the 1950s on, Dowd was both a tireless technological innovator and a uniquely musical engineer and producer. A key figure at the Atlantic and Stax labels, among others, Dowd was intimately involved with the recording of the giants of jazz (Dizzy Gillespie, Ornette Coleman), soul (Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin), and rock (Cream...
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HOLLYWOOD CANTEEN: This musical is set in the USO nightclub where the biggest names in show business entertained the troops during World War II. HOLLYWOOD CANTEEN boasts an all-star cast including Jack Benny, Bette Davis, Ida Lupino, Jane Wyman, and Peter Lorre. Corporal Ed Slim (Robert Hutton) develops a crush on one of the show's stars, Joan Leslie (as herself). Knowing he is merely an enlistee, he thinks it is unlikely he could ever successfully woo her. However, he is lucky enough to win a night...
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History repeats itself, as this documentary shows with biting detail. Using an assortment of stock footage, WAR MADE EASY draws startling parallels between Iraq and Vietnam, showing how political spin and presidential lies have helped draw America into war after war. Adapted from the book by Norman Solomon, and narrated by Sean Penn, the film crafts an intriguing analysis of the crossroads of politics and propaganda.
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A Notebook on Cities and Clothes (1989) - DVD in Movies: Musical & Performing Arts
NOTEBOOK ON CITIES AND CLOTHES is a fascinating documentary by Wim Wenders that explores the work of noted Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto. The filmmaker follows Yamamoto from Tokyo to France as the designer arranges his Paris showing. Through a dialogue between the director and his subject, the film offers an original take on the meaning of fashion and style in the art world as well as in contemporary life.
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Guys and Dolls (1955) - DVD in Movies: Musical & Performing Arts
Based on the Broadway show from the Damon Runyon short story and filled to the brim with Frank Loesser tunes such as "Luck Be a Lady" and "Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat," this outrageously comic film featuring Marlon Brando's bold musical debut is a colorful tale about gamblers, a feisty Salvation Army lass, and a dance-hall girl with a pining heart. Veteran gambler Sky Masterson (Brando) takes a bet from Nathan Detroit (Frank Sinatra) that he can win the affection of a "soldier" (Jean Simmons...
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IN THEATERS APRIL 11, 2007 (LIMITED) Jack Smith was a legendary figure on the New York avant garde art scene, and his FLAMING CREATURES is rightly hailed as a masterpiece in its field. This documentary gives an overview of Smith's incredible career.
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This Jazzy 1965 black and white film portrait catches the imaginative energies, lyrical and comic, of a young Leonard Cohen, the quicksilver Canadian poet, novelist, and songwriter as he was on the verge of pop stardom.
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Metallica - A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica (1992) - DVD in Movies: Musical & Performing Arts
After surviving through the death of a band member, a major image change, and quick succession of lawsuits, Metallica remains one of the most successful heavy metal bands in rock history. On this two video box set, James Hetfield and the boys invite their fans to join them for a year and a half. This candid video diary joins the rockers in the studio and on the WHEREVER I MAY ROAM tour and features extensive interviews, backstage jams, and other rarities. Highlights are the videos for "Enter Sandman...
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Set in Jamaica and drawing on that country's comic traditions, this morality play from writer Patrick Brown follows friends Ras Noah (Glen Campbell) and Butcher (Oliver Samuels). In this funny, deft contemporary twist on the famous Bible story, Ras Noah and his friend try to carry out God's orders following Hurricane Gilbert.
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Robin and the Seven Hoods (1964) - DVD in Movies: Musical & Performing Arts
Mob-ruled 1928 Chicago's not big enough for the rat-a-tat comedy and songs of this popular favorite about the do-gooder gangsters who fleece the rich and give to the poor as a front for their "not-so-legal" activities. Academy Award Nominations: 2, including Best Song ("My Kind of Town"), Best (Adapted) Score.
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Stan Lee's Mutants, Monsters and Marvels (2002) - DVD in Movies: Musical & Performing Arts
Stan Lee created one of the most popular comic book characters ever when in AMAZING FANTASY #15, an inventive scientist's radioactive experiment turned him into SPIDER MAN. This study of Lee's life and work has the renown comic book artist conversing with filmmaker Kevin Smith (DOGMA), who was once in negotiations to be helming a big budget version of SPIDER MAN. Their chat includes talk about this motion picture (eventually directed by Sam Raimi) as well as Lee's many other creations from THE MIGHTY...
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The Boys and Girl from County Clare (2005) - DVD in Movies: Musical & Performing Arts
In the tradition of WAKING NED DEVINE and THE MATCHMAKER comes John Irvin's THE BOYS AND GIRL FROM COUNTY CLARE, a charming Irish musical comedy. Set in the late 1960s, the film tells the story of two estranged brothers who reunite in County Clare to face off against each other in the country's biggest Ceili competition (a fiddle-based, traditional style of Irish music). When John Joe (Bernard Hill) discovers that Jimmy (Colm Meaney) has returned to Ireland from Liverpool to participate in the competition...
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Features: DVD Features: 2-Disc Set Full Frame - 1.33 Widescreen - 2.55 Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - English Mono - Spanish, French Stereo - English Subtitles - Spanish - Optional Disc 1: THE KING AND I - Widescreen Additional Release Material: Additional Audio Tracks - Isolated Score Audio Commentary: Richard Barrios, Michael Portantiere - Theater Historians Disc 2: THE KING AND I - Supplemental Materials Additional Release Material: Behind the Scenes: "Restoring Cinescope 55"...
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An animated re-telling of the musical classic. English schoolteacher Anna and her son, Louis, travel to Siam in 1862 at His Majesty's request. She teaches the King's children about Western ideas while teaching the King some lessons about loyalty and friendship. Featuring songs from Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1956 version.
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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939) - DVD in Movies: Musical & Performing Arts
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers star in this musical tribute to a famous real life dance team. 20 years before Astaire and Rogers, there were the elegant Castles, so it was no surprise that the most famous dance pair of the silver screen ultimately played their illustrious predecessors. In the 1910s, Irene and Vernon Castle took the dances of the Americas, the tango of Argentina, the maxixe of Brazil, and the foxtrot of the United States to France and became the talk of Paris. With the Castles' success...
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The winner of the 2 most prestigious prizes that a playwright can be awarded, the Pulitzer and the Tony, Wendy Wasserstein is one of America's most resounding female voices. UNCOMMON WOMEN AND OTHERS is the first play of a career which gives life to the experience of educated, intelligent women in the years during and after the Women's Movement. This production stars Meryl Streep, Swoozie Kurtz, and Jill Eikenberry as former college friends. Seven years after graduation from a prestigious women's...
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A Musical Journey - Brittany and Normandy (2001) - DVD in Movies: Musical & Performing Arts
Enjoy the variably rousing and soothing sounds of composer Claude Debussy while accompanied by stirring visuals of the landscapes of Brittany, Normandy, and Paris, France. The Debussy musical selections include "Pr�lude a l'apr�s-midi d'un Faune," "Trois Nocturnes," and "La Mer" ("The Sea").
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This addition to the NAXOS MUSICAL JOURNEY series features such composers as Ravel, Faure, Chabrier, Debussy, Offenbach, Godard, and Saint-Saens along with beautiful scenes of France. Join in and celebrate the F�te des gardians; relax at the seaside resort of Port de Poussai; visit Cannes or explore the ancient remains of Roman culture in Frejus. Ondrej Len�rd and Keith Clark conduct while the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra (Bratislava) performs.
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A Musical Journey - Southern Tyrol and Ticino (1990) - DVD in Movies: Musical & Performing Arts
The natural splendor of Northern Italy and Switzerland is accompanied by the soaring notes of Beethoven in this soothing classical music release.
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Features: DVD Features: Region 0 Keep Case Full Frame - 1.33 Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - Natural sound/Music DTS 5.1 - Natural sound/Music
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