Category: Music
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The Decline of Western Civilization
The Los Angeles punk music scene circa 1980 is the focus of this film. With Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Catholic Discipline, Circle Jerks, Fear, Germs, and X.
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Bluebeard’s Castle
The great Georg Solti conducts a spectacular studio production of this masterpiece of 20th century opera. Two internationally celebrated Hungarian opera stars perform Bartók’s darkly psychological parable with searing dramatic intensity.
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Les Contes d’Hoffmann
Seeking to exorcise the failure of his current love affair, the poet Hoffmann tells the tales of his three past loves – the doll-like Olympia, the high-class courtesan Giulietta, and the ambitious but delicate Antonia – and recalls how each was thwarted by the evil influence of his rival. In this production by the distinguished…
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Hüsker Dü: Live in Minneapolis
Husker Du captured live at 7th Street Entry in 1981.
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Bolero
The film follows four families, with different nationalities (French, German, Russian and American) but with the same passion for music, from the 1930s to the 1960s. The various story lines cross each other time and again in different places and times, with their own theme scores that evolve as time passes. The main event in…
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Van Halen: Largo Oct 11, 1982
Capital Centre, Landover, MD, USA 11th October 1982 PRO-SHOT 1. Intro 2. Romeo Delight 3. Unchained 4. Drum Solo 5. The Full Bug 6. Runnin’ With The Devil 7. Jamie’s Cryin’ 8. Little Guitars 9. Where Have All the Good Times Gone! 10. Bass Solo 11. Hang ‘Em High 12. Cathedral 13. Secrets 14. Everybody…
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Las locuras de Parchís
When the Parcheesi kids return from Disneyland, they learn that Vicky, Don Atilio’s daughter, will be their new group mate. But Don Atilio opposes Vicky’s relationship with Gemma, Yolanda, David, Tino, Frank and Carlitos, so he sends her to a nuns’ school run by Don Atilio’s sister.
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Idomeneo
Opera royalty Luciano Pavarotti brings dignity and power to the title role in this 1982 production. During a squall at sea, Idomeneo — the king of Crete — swears to Neptune that if the monarch survives, he’ll sacrifice the first person he encounters onshore. Tragically, that person ends up being his son, Idamante (Frederica Von…
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The Weavers: Wasn’t That a Time
Documentary about the blacklisted folk group The Weavers, and the events leading up to their triumphant return to Carnegie Hall.
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The Catherine Wheel
Seamlessly blending elements of movement and music, Twyla Tharp choreographs a rock ‘n’ roll dance spectacular, set to a score by former Talking Heads front man David Byrne. Adapted for television by Tharp from the original Broadway production, this memorable performance showcases the talents of dancers Sara Rudner, Jennifer Way, Tom Rawe, Katie Glasner, Raymond…
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Burst City
Set in a barren, futuristic Tokyo of highways and wastelands, a rowdy group of punk bands and their fans gather to protest slow, boring, Japanese living.
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Honkytonk Man
During the Great Depression, a young boy leaves his family’s Oklahoma farm to travel with his country musician uncle who is trying out for the Grand Ole Opry.
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The Metropolitan Opera – Wagner: Tannhäuser
As renowned for its harmonious overture as for its romantic storybook characters, this three-act masterwork features some of the composer’s most groundbreaking and unforgettable music, as well as a theme the young Wagner would revisit again and again later in his career—the redemptive and transcendent power of a woman’s love. The enchanting plot harks back…
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Trances
A portrait of the groundbreaking Moroccan band Nass El Ghiwane, documenting a series of electrifying live performances in Tunisia, Morocco, and France; on the streets of Casablanca; and in intimate conversations. Storytellers through song and traditional instruments, and with connections to political theatre, the band became a local phenomenon and an international sensation, thanks to…
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Raya and Sakina
Two sisters (Riya) and (Skina), start a gang to kidnap rich women with the help of Riya’s husband. Skina, in an effort to avoid suspicion, try to marry a policeman who is not aware of the sisters’ criminal activity.