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1) Grace notes
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.
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
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
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) Rocketman
Language
English
Description
The incredible human story of Elton John's breakthrough years.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Leading film historian Jeanine Basinger reveals, with her trademark wit and zest, the whole story of the Hollywood musical in the most telling, most incisive, most detailed, most gorgeously illustrated book of her long and remarkable career"--Jacket.
From Fred Astaire to La La Land, Basinger examines a dazzling array of stars, strategies, talents, and innovations in the history of musical cinema. Whether analyzing a classic Gene Kelly routine, relishing...
11) Sarafina!
Language
English
Description
In a world where truth is forbidden, an inspiring teacher dares to instill in her students lessons not found in schoolbooks. In doing so, she challenges their freedom and hers.
15) The magic flute
Language
English
Description
Aspiring singer Tim has been dreaming his whole life about attending Mozart All Boys Boarding School. He is ecstatic when he is finally admitted, but his first days at the prestigious school do not turn out as expected. Facing a hostile headmaster, the stresses of first love, and struggling with the authenticity of his singing voice, Tim is intrigued to discover a wondrous secret in the old school building a gateway to a parallel world. He finds himself...
16) Love me tender
Language
English
Description
A young Texas farmer marries his brother's sweetheart when he thinks the brother is killed at war, however the brother returns.
Language
English
Description
Ariel is a beautiful mermaid princess with an even more beautiful voice, who just happens to be enthralled with the human world so much that she disobeys her father to visit the surface. When she rescues a handsome prince from drowning, the sea-witch Ursula recognizes an opportunity to tempt the naive girl and overthrow the kingdom at the same time.
18) Guys and dolls
Language
English
Description
A loveable bunch of underworld sinners are always looking for a crap game, but find salvation instead. Songs and dances include: Luck be a Lady Tonight; Guys and Dolls; and If I were a Bell.
19) La Habanera
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....
20) Annie
Language
English
Description
The story of a plucky red-haired orphan girl who dreams of a life outside her dingey orphanage.
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