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1) 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
Bel Canto Society
Pub. Date
1935
Language
English
Description
A musical romance in which the great Italian tenor, Beniamino Gigli, plays a singer whose wife falls in love with another man. He sings the title song and other Neapolitan songs, and arias from Trovatore, Rigoletto, Africana, Mignon, Favorita, Marta, and Elisir.
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...
7) 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.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Going behind the scenes, Richard Barrios uncovers the rocky relationship between Broadway and Hollywood, the unpublicized off-camera struggles of directors, stars, and producers, and all the various ways by which some films became our most indelible cultural touchstones -- and others ended up as train wrecks.
11) 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).
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Returning to his childhood home in Queensbridge, Nas shares stories of his upbringing, his influences - from the music of his jazz musician father Olu Dara to the burgeoning hip hop scene in New York City - and the obstacles he faced before his major label signing at age twenty. Features interviews with his Illmatic producers, Large Professor, Pete Rock, Q-Tip, L.E.S., and DJ Premier, and musical peers, including Pharrell Williams and Alicia Keys....
15) Rossini
Series
Publisher
Bel Canto Society
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
The famous composer's life and his career. His love story with Isabella Colbran, the soprano who was to become his wife and the singer in all his operas up to the unfortunate day she lost her voice.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Published to coincide with the film's 50th anniversary, an ultimate fan book shares behind-the-scenes facts about The Sound of Music's filming in Austria and Hollywood and incorporates new interviews with production insiders, including Johannes von Trapp.
17) Show boat
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
p2000
Language
English
Description
Musical extravaganza which celebrates the loves and heartbreaks of a Mississippi riverboat troupe, starting with a young girl whose heart is stolen by a dashing gambler.
18) Lòng mẹ
Publisher
Đông Đô Productions
Pub. Date
[200-]
Language
Vietnamese
Description
A feature film with southern Vietnamese music "cải lương".
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Five electrical appliances find that their young owner has disappeared. The toaster takes charge, rounding up the vacuum cleaner, the electric blanket, bedside lamp and radio. Together they take off for the big city in search of their master.
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