Performance

David Bowie performs in Vancouver on September 12th 1983, during his Serious Moonlight Tour.Read More »

Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall, The Zone of Interest, Toni Erdmann) won Theater Heute magazine’s actress of the year award in 2020 for her turn as Hamlet in this staging by Dutch director Johan Simons.

“As the melancholy Dane, Hüller … digs deep into the character’s grief and isolation in this spare yet faithful production, which originated at the Schauspielhaus Bochum.” —AJ Goldman, The New York TimesRead More »

Janet Maslin wrote:
Gilda Radner: A Revue of Repertory

Nothing in “Gilda Live” is funnier than, or a substantial departure from, the material Gilda Radner does on “Saturday Night Live.” But the film ought to satisfy her fans. As directed by Mike Nichols, this is a straightforward record of Miss Radner’s Broadway show at the Winter Garden last year, a show that had its decided ups and downs. The best of her material presents Miss Radner as an agile, versatile comedian, but the lesser skits tend to ramble.Read More »

Synopsis:
Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman makes his second fictional feature with La Dernière Lettre (The Last Letter). Anna Semyonova (Catherine Samie) is locked up in an occupied Ukrainian ghetto in 1941. Adapted from Vasily Grossman’s novel Life and Fate, the film consists of the woman reciting a monologue of the final letter she wrote to her son before the Nazis came for her. Shot in black-and-white, the only other characters in this film are the shadows on the wall.Read More »

A play that premiered 24 February 1965 on China stage, Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm and was performed 19 times. It was shown in four parts on TV in November that same year.

The parts are between 29 & 37 minutes each. Every part begins with approximately 10 minutes from “behind the stage”. First part is from the repetitions about the directing and character developements, second part is about the stage, set- & costume design, in the third part the actors explain the prepatations and makeup, and finally in the fourh part there is bit more makeup, a short description of how it was when the plays were put up in Molieres time and a scene from when the cast are having coffee break.Read More »

An experimental compilation of live performances and video art by Ranko Shinohara and Hijokaidan.Read More »

In this show designed and choreographed by Bartabas and Ko Murobushi, the two artists share the stage with four horses and with the imaginary bestiary of French poet Comte de Lautréamont.Read More »

A short film set in the mountainous province of Svaneti, documents the performance of polyphonic men’s funerary laments common to the region.Read More »

Filmed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island and directed by world-renowned photographer Bert Stern, Jazz on a Summer’s Day features intimate performances by an all-star line-up of musical legends including Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Anita O’Day, Chuck Berry, Dinah Washington, and closes with a beautiful rendition of The Lord’s Prayer by Mahalia Jackson at midnight to usher in Sunday morning. The film has been beautifully and extensively restored in 4K from the best surviving vault elements by IndieCollect.Read More »