LOOKMOVIE

Tag: piano

  • D.A.R.Y.L.

    Daryl is a normal 10-year-old boy in many ways. However, unbeknown to his foster parents and friends, Daryl is actually a government-created robot with superhuman reflexes and mental abilities. Even his name has a hidden meaning — it’s actually an acronym for Data Analyzing Robot Youth Life-form. When the organization that created him deems the “super soldier” experiment a failure and schedules Daryl to be disassembled, it is up to a few rogue scientists to help him escape.

  • Ragtime

    A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.

  • Horowitz in London

    Vladimir Horowitz’s piano recital in 1982 at Royal Festival Hall in London.

  • Horowitz in Moscow

    A recording of Horowitz’s historic 1986 recital in Moscow, the program also includes highlights of his return to his native Soviet Union–his first visit in 61 years.

  • Horowitz in Vienna

    Vladimir Horowitz’s piano recital in 1987 at the Musikvereinssaal in Vienna.

  • The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

    A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident of her rundown boarding house, who imagines she has the money to bankroll the business he hopes to open.

  • The Piano

    When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.

  • Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

    A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door.

  • The Piano Lesson

    1930’s Pittsburgh, a brother comes home to claim “my half of the piano”, a family heirloom; but his sister is not wanting to part with it. This is a glimpse of the conditions for African-Americans as well as some of the attitudes and influences on their lives. But whether he is able to sell the piano so that he can get enough money to buy some property and “no longer have to work for someone else” involves the story (or lesson) that the piano has to show him.

  • Shine

    Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.