Musical

Film of Simon Fisher Turner’s new album, Instability of The Signal, directed by Japanese filmmaker Isao Yamada.Read More »

Plot: Follow the story of the first American singer/songwriter to sign to the Asylum label, Judith Lynne Sill released two albums and nearly completed the third before dying of an overdose in 1979.Read More »

Vincente Minnelli’s debut film, featuring a host of black talent of the time (Eddie Anderson, Lena Horne, Rex Ingram, Ethel Waters, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and others). Marred slightly by the cut of the “Ain’t It the Truth” number (originally performed by Lena Horne in a bubble bath and reprised by Louis Armstrong later in the film), but the spirited performances of “Taking a Chance on Love” and “Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe” more than make up for this.Read More »

After Suman’s father leaves her in the care of another family while he travels abroad, she falls in love with Prem. However, in order to for them to marry, Prem has to prove to Suman’s father that he is not the same as his own dad.Read More »

Following the phenomenal worldwide success of The Threepenny Opera in 1928 in Berlin, cinema is trying to win over the author of the piece. But Bertolt Brecht is not willing to play by the film industry’s rules. His vision for the Threepenny Film is radical, uncompromising, political and pointed. He wants to make a completely new kind of film and knows that the production company will never agree to it. It is only interested in cashing in. While the London gangster Macheath’s fight with the head of the beggar’s mob Mr. Peachum begins to take shape in the film version in front of the author’s eyes, Brecht seeks the public dispute. He takes the production company to court in order to prove that their monetary interests are taking precedence over his right as author… a poet directs reality – that was unprecedented!Read More »

Synopsis
One of the most popular Mexican films ever made, the cult sensation AVENTURERA is a famous example of a cabaretera, a curious film noir and Carmen Miranda-styled musical hybrid wildly popular in Mexico in the ‘40s and ‘50s. Shades of MILDRED PIERCE in this melodramatic rise and fall of a beautiful, popular nightclub star with a dark past. Delirious, delicious, and dangerous. Don’t miss!Read More »

Richard Strauss’ opera is featured in a landmark collaboration by conductor Karl Boehm and director Goetz Friedrich. Boehm died shortly after the film was completed. Featured soloists include Astrid Varnay, Leonie Rysanek, Catarina Ligendza, Hans Beirer ad Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, among others. There is also a full-length documentary included in this program.
Filmed on location on the outskirts of Vienna, director Gotz Friedrich vividly creates the staggering impact of the tragedy of vengeance. Karl Boehm conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.Read More »

Here we have a fascinating documentary on the Communist musicals that strove to be ideologically correct and entertaining at the same time. The focus is on musicals from East-Germany and the Soviet Union but there are also references to musicals from Czechoslovakia and Romania.

Interviewees: Erich Gusko, Karin Schröder, Brigitte Ulbrich, Helmut Hanke, Hans-Joachim Wallstein, Maya Turovskaya, Chris Doerk, Frank Schöbel & Margarita Andrushkevitch.Read More »

Sissy St. Claire graces the small screen for her first ever television special, an evening full of music and laughter, glamour and entertainment. But Sissy’s live event quickly begins to curdle into a psychedelic nightmare.Read More »