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1) Grace notes
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Rare musical performances: Django Reinhardt with Stéphane Grapelli and the Quintet of the Hot Club of France in Jazz hot (1939), Duke Ellington and the Cotton Club Orchestra featured in Black and tan (1929), Louis Armstrong in Copenhagen, 1934, and a 1929 performance from the Utica Jubilee Singers.
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
One of Hollywood's earliest -- and most peculiar -- musicals, The Great Gabbo stars von Stroheim as an egotistical ventriloquist who casts a Svengali-like spell upon an ingenue (Betty Compson), against a backdrop of singularly strange numbers (including "Icky" and the spider-and-fly-themed "Caught in a Web"). Director James Cruze (The Covered Wagon) allowed von Stroheim to endow the character with his signature flourishes, resulting in a wicked cocktail...
4) Persuade me
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Eleven films designed to influence, including a vintage promotional film of a French-dubbed Laurel & Hardy, theatrical advertisements featuring Michel Simon and Jacques Tati, a 1938 George Pal puppet animation, three WW-II era musical shorts, two political campaign films, and the National Film registry selection Master Hands, a paean to the 1936 Chevrolet automobile.
5) La France
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
An intoxicating blend of wartime romance and brightly colored musical, the film depicts an original world "where Bresson meets the Beatles" (Variety).
7) La Habanera
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Legendary director Douglas Sirk's (Written on the wind, Imitation of life) La Habanera is a lushly poetic and boldly modern musical drama decades ahead of its time. Working at Germany's famed UFA Studios (Metropolis), under the very noses of the Nazi authorities that would later force him into Hollywood exile and eminence, Sirk transformed a glossy musical vehicle for UFA's "new Garbo" Zarah Leander into a dark and intimate anti-colonial melodrama....
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
An Irving Berlin musical tribute intended to boost morale during World War II. It honors the patriotic efforts of American soldiers during World Wars I and II. Berlin appears as himself, as does singer Kate Smit,h who sings God bless America, for which she received the Congressional Gold Medal. Ronald Reagan stars as Johnny Jones, a son who follows in his father's show business footsteps. During World War I his father staged an all-soldier show on...
10) Mary Poppins
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a banker's children lose their nanny due to her frustration with them, a change in the wind blows in a magical nanny who matches the chilren's qualifications, but not those of their very proper father. As Mary Poppins helps the children magically explore the world around them, their father grows increasingly disapproving of her methods, and he must eventually deal with his own distance from his children.
11) Son of Paleface
Series
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Language
English
Description
A man heads out west to claim his fathers inheritance, and teams up with a cowboy and his horse to get to the bottom of a gold shipment robbery. An attractive female outlaw must save the hapless hero along the way.
13) Dirty dancing
Language
English
Description
Naive 17 year old vacationing with her parents in the Catskills meets and becomes romantically involved with the resort's dance instructor.
14) Fantasia
Pub. Date
1940.
Language
English
Description
An extraordinary blend of magnificent music and classic Disney animation, featuring a host of unforgettable images, including Mickey Mouse as The Sorcerer's apprentice.
15) Coqueta
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
Español
Description
Rocio sufre un desmayo el dia de su cumpleaños y el doctor que la examina descubre un serio problema cardiaco. Pable llora desconsolado ante su inpotencia para luchar con el destino y le lleva una serenata a Rocio, quiza la ultima que ella escuche.
At her birthday party, Rocio faints and the doctor diagnoses a serious heart problem. Pablo cries at the painful destiny of his love Rocio. With tears in his eyes, he goes and serenades her because it...
Language
English
Description
A mixture of fantastical rock opera and horror movie spoof. A couple of ordinary kids have car trouble one dark and rainy night and knock on the door of a looming gothic mansion. They are stunned to learn that they have stumbled into the abode of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a mad scientist from the planet Transsexual.
20) Sleeping Beauty
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an enchanted kingdom and the most fair princess in the land falls prey to the ultimate mistress of evil, the fate of the empire rests in the hands of three small fairies and a courageous prince's magic kiss. Their quest is fraught with peril as the spirited group must battle the evil witch and a fire-breathing dragon if they are to set Beauty free.
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