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1) Party Dream
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
The story of Gil Mantera's Party Dream - the craziest live band you've never seen. Footage from their insane live show provides a vicarious thrill, fueled by electronic rock, ridiculous fashion and no small amount of booze.
2) Black Sun
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Blinded in a New York City mugging, artist Hugues de Montalembert defied expectations by continuing his work- a poetic meditation on life without vision.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
One of the world's most elusive and admired choreographers, Paul Taylor was on the cutting edge of modern dance for over 60 years and helped shape the artform unti his death in 2018. Beginning in 2010 he allowed the camera to delve into his creative process. Centered on Taylor's guiding voice, audiences can see how a new dance gets hammered out to perfection, through sweat and inspiration. PAUL TAYLOR: CREATIVE DOMAIN is an inside look at a genius...
Publisher
Stadium Media
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Several of the interviews in this documentary were filmed at a symposium about the career and biography of Michael Chekhov, which was held in the US in the 1990s. The participants in the symposium shared their memories about being taught by, or working with, the late, great actor, director, and drama coach, Russian-born Chekhov (1891-1955), who was the nephew of the Russian writer Anton Chekhov (1860-1904). Many film clips, plus some rare stills of...
Publisher
Seventh Art Productions
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Marking the 500th anniversary of Raphael’s death, the greatest exhibition ever held of his works took place in Rome, Exhibition on Screen was granted exclusive access to this once-in-a-lifetime show. With over two hundred masterpieces, including paintings and drawings – over a hundred of which have been brought together for the first time – this major exhibition celebrates the life and work of Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino. With unprecedented loans...
Publisher
Seventh Art Productions
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
For many years no-one was interested in the art of the Impressionists. Artists like Monet, Degas and Renoir were vilified, attacked, and left penniless as a result. Then, something remarkable happened. A new breed of collectors emerged and, before long, they were battling to acquire any work by these new, radical artists that they could find. Amongst them was the visionary Danish businessman Wilhelm Hansen. It was an extraordinary moment in art history,...
Publisher
Seventh Art Productions
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Born in the West Indies, Pissarro found his passion in paint as a young man in Paris, and by the age of 43 had corralled a group of enthusiastic artists into a new collective. Their first show was scorned by the critics, but the group had acquired a new name: the Impressionists. For the next 40 years Pissarro was the driving force behind what has today become the world’s favourite artistic movement. The Ashmolean Museum has a long tradition of excellence....
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
One man's wild, lifelong adventure of testing society's boundaries through his subversive art, FAR OUT ISN'T FAR ENOUGH combines traditional documentary storytelling with original animation culled from seven decades worth of art from the renegade children's book author and illustrator. Using a palette of 20th century events to paint an artist's epic yet controversial life story, the film offers a retrospective of Ungerer's life and art, and ponders...
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
The Korean cinema has a tendency to describe both the society, the past and the modern. The world of west cinema knows these directors through the journey of some of their movies, their thoughts, their life, their culture, and their storytelling style.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Carmen de Lavallade and Geoffrey Holder, two living legends in the world of American dance, are the subjects of this intimate and revealing documentary. Carmen achieved notoriety in the early 1950s, as a lead dancer of incomparable beauty and grace with Alvin Ailey’s American Dance Theater. Geoffrey, large in life and an elemental force on stage, found fame not only as a dancer but also as an actor, soda spokesman and theater director. He and Carmen...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Depicts the remarkable story of 93-year-old jazz legend Clark Terry. A living monument to the Golden Era of Jazz, having played in both the Duke Ellington and Count Basie bands. He broke racial barriers on American television and mentored the likes of Miles Davis and Quincy Jones, but his most unlikely friendship is with Justin Kauflin, a 23-year old blind piano prodigy. Justin, fighting a debilitating case of stage fright, is invited to compete in...
15) Dig!
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
A documentary on the once-promising American rock bands The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols, and the friendship/rivalry between their respective founders, Anton Newcombe and Courtney Taylor.
Publisher
Juno Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
“The most powerful, loved, and hated film critic of her time.” – Roger Ebert on Pauline Kael (1919-2001). In a field that has historically embraced few women film critics, Kael was charismatic, controversial, witty, and discerning. Her decades-long berth at The New Yorker energized her fans (“Paulettes”) and infuriated her detractors on a weekly basis. Her turbo-charged prose famously championed the New Hollywood Cinema of the late 1960s...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
They are the voices behind the greatest Rock, Pop and R&B hits of all time, but no one knows their names. Now in this award-winning documentary, director Morgan Neville shines the spotlight on the untold stories of such legendary background singers as Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer, Claudia Lennear, Judith Hill and more. These are the triumphs and heartbreaks of music’s greatest unsung talents, featuring rare behind-the-scenes footage,...
19) Chaakapesh
Publisher
h264
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
L'Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and its famous conductor go on tour in the great northern tundra of Quebec to visit the Cree, Innu and Inuit communities and share with them an Aboriginal chamber opera where white people are taught to laugh, and by the same token to love more. Chaakapesh, The Rogue's Journey - written by Tomson Highway, composed by Matthew Ricketts and performed by l'Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal under the direction of Kent...
20) Solo
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
The acclaimed documentary "Solo" presents six unique stories of individuals who use the art of dancing as their own tool in fighting back difficulties, dealing with pain, incomprehension, and obstacles standing in their way to happiness through creative self-expression.
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