Category: Music
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Perikola
The action takes place in the 18th century in Lima. The wandering artists Pericola and Piquillo perform in the town square. They love each other, but cannot get married – the poor artists do not have the means for this. Meanwhile, the Viceroy of Peru, Don Andreas-Ribeira, likening to Harun Al-Rashid, dresses up as a…
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Purple Rain
A victim of his own anger, the Kid is a Minneapolis musician on the rise with his band, the Revolution, escaping a tumultuous home life through music. While trying to avoid making the same mistakes as his truculent father, the Kid navigates the club scene and a rocky relationship with a captivating singer, Apollonia. But…
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Prelude to Fate
A case brings together Donetsk Polytechnic Institute student Ivan Krasko, owner of a beautiful strong voice, with former singer Korobeichenko. Contrary to the will of his father, a hereditary miner, the hero refuses graduate school in Moscow and, under the guidance of a new friend, begins to seriously prepare for his first solo performance.
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Kenny & Dolly: A Christmas to Remember
A holiday musical special with Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers based around their best-selling album “Once Upon a Christmas.”
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Herbie Hancock Trio: Hurricane!
Three masters explore their roots and capture the full spectrum of the art of Jazz…a display of lyrical sensuality and sizzling pyrotechnics. Features Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Billy Cobham performing 7 tracks plus 2 bonus concert performances: “Speak Like a Child” and “Little Waltz.” Three masters explore their roots and capture the full spectrum…
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Beat Street
An aspiring DJ, from the South Bronx, and his best friend, a promoter, try to get into show business by exposing people to hip-hop music and culture.
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Neil Young: Solo Trans
Solo Trans is a concert film by Neil Young, released in 1984. It was recorded at the Hara Arena in Dayton, Ohio on September 18, 1983 during Young’s Solo Trans tour.
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Sheena Ringo and the Others Go: Night Parade of One Hundred Demons 2015
A concert film documenting Sheena Ringo’s performance at the Kanagawa Prefectural Hall.
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Roy Orbison Forever
This music documentary celebrates the five-time Grammy-winning Rock & Roll Hall of Famer. The program charts Orbison’s career and relationships with other musicians through interviews and archive performances, some never before seen in America. From the sell-out international tour with The Beatles through his collaboration with George Harrison and The Traveling Wilburys, Orbison’s legacy endures.
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HACHIKO↑DANCE
An animated music video by Sawako Kabuki for Yanakiku’s song Hachiko↑Dance.
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Don Carlo
A 1985 performance of Luchino Visconti’s 1958 staging for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Bernard Haitink memorably directs a superb cast that includes Ileana Cotrubas at the height of her powers and Luis Lima, unequalled in his tortured introspection, in the title role. (5-act version, sung in Italian)
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Maritza
A young and wealthy widow, Maritsa, is a tempting prize for fortune hunters in search of a rich bride. To scare off all the suitors once and for all, Maritsa randomly invents a fiancé’s name. But it turns out that a man with that exact name actually exists—and now he’s happily rushing to meet his…
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John Lennon: A Journey in the Life
To commemorate the fifth anniversary of John Lennon’s murder. Journey in the Life chronicles the life of the musician, making use of dramatizations, fantasy-like images, and commentary. The material for the special is drawn from Lennon’s writings and songs, along with stills, interviews, and documentary footage of the famous Beatle and dramatic recreations of his…
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Cool Jazz and Coconuts
The actress is to produce a play with the local amateur group and old romantic flames are rekindled. At the same time an American army unit is making experiments with a new and powerful energy source in the vicinity, promising the community a prosperous future.
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The Making of Sun City
Documentary Chronicling the making of Artists United Against Apartheid “Sun City”
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Four Clowns Under One Roof
A simple story about the creative crisis of a group of circus clowns who, after great success, are forgotten and recall the past, living in an old attic.
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Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
Cocky cockney snooker player Billy Kid accepts the challenge of a grudge match from Maxwell Randall (the Green Baize Vampire), six times world champion; the loser will never play professional snooker again.