Category: Music

  • Bugs Bunny’s 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales

    If Bugs Bunny were to direct his signature inquiry–“What’s up, doc?”–toward the modern-day Warner Bros. creative team, he wouldn’t be far off. For 1001 Rabbit Tales, they’ve doctored up a batch of classic cartoons featuring the carrot muncher and his bumbling comrades and bundled them, near seamlessly, into a feature-length film. Here’s the premise: Bugs…

  • Grease 2

    It’s 1961, two years after the original Grease gang graduated, and there’s a new crop of seniors and new members of the coolest cliques on campus, the Pink Ladies and T-Birds. Michael Carrington is the new kid in school – but he’s been branded a brainiac. Can he fix up an old motorcycle, don a…

  • ¡Qué linda es mi familia!

    A rebel son decides not to follow in his father’s footsteps in order to follow his own dreams of fame and popularity.

  • Baryshnikov on Broadway

    Mikhail Baryshnikov and his guests perform numbers from over a dozen renowned Broadway musicals including Oklahoma!, Fiddler on the Roof, Can-Can, The King and I, Cabaret, Where’s Charley, Hello Dolly, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Guys and Dolls, The Boyfriend, Kiss Me Kate and A Chorus Line.

  • Blues pro EFB

    An image and music collage – a cinema concert – guided by a young sound engineer David, for whom the exhibition on E. F. Burian is an incentive to take more interest in this avant-garde artist. The film interweaves two strands – documentary and factual, drawing on contemporary material and archival images – and fictional…

  • Honeysuckle Rose

    Buck Bonham is a country singer on the road caught in a romantic triangle with Dyan Cannon and Amy Irving, the daughter of one of his longtime musical sidekick.

  • A Night When the Moon Cried

    Famous singer Hanan’s car breaks down, and she meets Ahmed who drives her with his car. Because Ahmed dreams of having a theater, he decides to take advantage of Hanan’s growing feelings towards him and marries her to help him with his dream. But a surprise changes everything, messing up his plans.

  • Granddaughter of Ice

    The granddaughter of Santa Claus becomes an ordinary girl because of her love for the potter. An unusual version of the fairy tale about the Snow Maiden.

  • Rock Goes to College: The Specials

    The student-taunting Specials perform at the Colchester Institute in 1979, playing hits such as Rat Race, Too Much Too Young and Gangsters, throwing tambourines at the bouncers and indulging in a little moon-stomping during a stage invasion.

  • The Competition

    The movie centers on a piano competition whose winner is assured of success. It is Paul’s last chance to compete, but newcomer Heidi may be a better pianist. Can romance be far away? Will she take a dive despite the pressure to win from her teacher, Greta, or will she condemn Paul to obscurity?

  • Linda in Wonderland

    “Linda In Wonderland” is Linda Lavin’s variety television special that aired on Thanksgiving Day, 1980. Special guests include; Lynn Redgrave, Anthony Newley and Ron Leibman. Her characters of “Alice Hyatt” and “Sam Butler” from her television show “Alice” also make appearances as Ms. Lavin plays dual roles for both. Ms. Lavin and her guests perform…

  • Playing for Time

    When a Jewish songstress is plucked from the stage and sent to Auschwitz, she and other musicians find themselves assigned to a terrible task—using their talents to soothe fellow prisoners who are sentenced to die in the gas chambers.

  • Mickey Mouse Disco

    A clip-show music video for the album of the same name and vintage. Includes 5 songs from the album (“Mousetrap”, “Disco Mickey Mouse”, “Watch Out For Goofy”, “Macho Duck”, “Welcome To Rio”).

  • Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria

    Live performance, part of Monteverdi cycle staged by Oper Zürich with Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting the Zürich Opera House Monteverdi Ensemble. Staged and directed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle

  • The Highway of Life

    The rise of real life country singers Milionário e José Rico from their humble beginnings until musical success.

  • Punk and Its Aftershocks

    Documentary about the pedigrees of punk featuring The Boomtown Rats, Sex Pistols, Pretenders, The Clash, The Jam, Madness, Ian Dury & The Blockheads, The Specials, Secret Affair, and many …

  • Un Ballo in Maschera

    Live from the Metropolitan Opera, 14 February 1980. This version takes place in Boston rather than Sweden.

  • Sweeney Todd: Scenes from the Making of a Musical

    Opening with the first day of rehearsals of the London production of “Sweeney Todd”, this ninety-minute documentary focuses on the rehearsal process with the musical’s director, composer and actors.

  • Strauss: Die Fledermaus

    Theodor Guschlbauer conducts the Chorus and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera in this lavish staging of Johann Strauss’s operetta. Recorded in 1980, the production features some of the leading performers of their day, including Lucia Popp, Edita Gruberova, Bernd Weikl, Walter Berry and Brigitte Fassbaender.

  • Hank Williams: The Show He Never Gave

    This is a lonely New Year’s Eve for Hank Williams as he spends it en route to a huge New Years Day concert in Ohio. Hank Williams died that night on the road. A fictional biography is shown in flashback.

  • The Blues Brothers

    Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised.