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2) Grace notes
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
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.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
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...
5) Persuade me
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
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.
6) La France
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
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).
8) La Habanera
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
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....
Author
Publisher
Applause Theatre & Cinema Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
If you ever dreamed of marching round the fountains singing 'Do Re Mi', or dressing in a playsuit made from drapes, you will love this enchanting story of how seven boys and girls became a family and how they have kept that closeness for over 45 years.
13) The merry widow
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A live production of Lehar's tale of political and amorous intrigue that takes place in turn-of-the-century Paris
20) Shine a light
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A career-spanning documentary on the Rolling Stones, with concert footage from their "A Bigger Bang" tour with special guests Christina Aguilera, Jack White, and Buddy Guy
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