music
HD 80
Director: David Mackenzie
Stars: Luke Treadaway, Natalia Tena, Rebecca Benson
Two feuding rock stars get handcuffed together for 24 hours at a music festival where they are both due to...
HD 98
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Stars: Juliette Binoche, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy
The first part of Kieslowskis trilogy on Frances national motto: Liberty Equality and Fraternity. Blue is the story of Julie who loses her husband an acclaimed composer and her young daughter in a car accident. The films theme of liberty is manifested in Julies attempt to start life anew free of personal commitments belongings grief or love. She intends to numb herself by withdrawing...
HD 111
Director: Kenny Ortega
Stars: Michael Jackson, Alex Al, Alexandra Apjarova
In the weeks before his death Michael Jackson August 29 1958 - June 25 2009 was rehearsing a show This Is It that was to open in July. This film begins with a few of the auditioning dancers speaking to the camera about why theyre trying out and what Jackson means to them. Then we plunge into rehearsals at Staples Center in Los Angeles. The film is arranged by musical number with...
HD 98
Director: François Girard
Stars: Colm Feore, Derek Keurvorst, Katya Ladan
As the title suggests this dramatised documentary about the eccentric Canadian pianist Glenn Gould is broken up into thirty-two short films mirroring the thirty-two part structure of Bachs Goldberg Variations the recording that Gould made famous each giving us an insight into some aspect of Goulds life and career. Out of respect for the music lead actor Colm Feore is never seen playing...
HD 83
Director: Steven M. Martin
Stars: Leon Theremin, Robert Moog, Clara Rockmore
A documentary about the amazing life of Leon Theremin inventor of the theremin the electronic musical instrument so beloved of 50s sci-fi movie music. Theremin amazed America with his instrument until his kidnapping by Soviet agents in the mid-30s. Upon his release from a labor camp he worked on surveillance devices for the KGB. Almost 60 years later he is brought back to America for a...
HD 90
Director: Charlotte Zwerin
Stars: Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Jimmy Cleveland
A documentary film about the life of pianist and jazz great Thelonious Monk. Features live performances by Monk and his band and interviews with friends and family about the offbeat...
HD 71
Director: Norman Ferguson, Clyde Geronimi, 3 more credits
Stars: Aurora Miranda, Carmen Molina, Dora Luz
A large box arrives for Donald on his birthday three gifts inside. He unwraps one at a time and each takes him on an adventure. The first is a movie projector with a film about the birds of South America; Donald watches two cartoons one tells of a penguin who longs to live on a tropical isle and the other about a gaucho boy who hunts the wild ostrich. The second gift is a pop-up book about...
HD 91
Director: Joseph Kane
Stars: John Wayne, Ann Dvorak, Joseph Schildkraut
Duke falls for Flaxen in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Tito goes home and PL: learns to gamble and returns. After he makes a fortune he opens his own place with Flaxen as the entertainer. The 1906 quake destroys his...
HD 91
Director: Nick August-Perna, Chris Dapkins
Stars: Catherine Hansard, Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová
The world fell in love with Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová when their songwriting collaboration in the film Once culminated in a jubilant Oscar win. But behind the scenes where Glen and Mars on-screen romance became reality a grueling two-year world tour threatens to fracture their fated bond. Filmed in black and white this music-filled documentary is an intimate look at the...
HD 85
Director: László Kardos
Stars: Mickey Rooney, Sally Forrest, William Demarest
Drummer Stanley Maxton moves to Los Angeles with dreams of opening his own club but falls in with a gangster and a nightclub dancer and ends up accused of...
HD 90
Director: James Melkonian
Stars: Michael Kopelow, Bradford Tatum, China Kantner
Determined to avoid another night of driving aimlessly around Torrance in the Blue Torpedo Joe and Hubbs set out on a quest for fine chicks. Their paths soon cross with Tack from whom they learn about a pair of foreign radical chicks hanging out near the Frankie Avalon place. Over Joes objections Hubbs worms Tack out of the deal and the pair take a slow ride toward their...
HD 98
Director: Maria Demopoulos, Jodi Wille
Stars: Ahom Aquarian, Isis Aquarian, Father Yod
A feature documentary film set in Hollywood examining a radical experiment in 70s utopian living. The Source Family were the darlings of the Sunset Strip until their communal living outsider ideals and spiritual leader Father Yods 13 wives became an issue with local authorities. They fled to Hawaii leading to their dramatic...
HD 76
Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Stars: Tahmineh Normatova, Nadereh Abdelahyeva, Goibibi Ziadolahyeva
Because of his special gift in identifying objects by the sounds they make a blind young boy is employed as a string instrument tuner in a small village in Tajikistan. He may be blind but that does not mean he cannot see. On his way to work he could tell the quality of the bread the young girls along the streets are peddling by simply touching their ware. His world is made more colorful and...
HD 90
Director: Jamie Kastner
Stars: Vince Aletti, Eric Anzalone, Robert Kool Bell
A cheeky sexy documentary hybrid THE SECRET DISCO REVOLUTION wraps revealing celebrity interviews classic kitsch footage and music in a hilarious new package that never lets you stop dancing long enough to decide whats real and whats...
HD 154
Director: Peter Medak
Stars: Peter O'Toole, Alastair Sim, Arthur Lowe
A member of the House of Lords dies in a shockingly silly way leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately his son is insane: he thinks he is Jesus Christ. The other somewhat-more respectable members of their family plot to steal the estate from him. Murder and mayhem...
HD 47
Director: Mark Murray
Stars: Philip Glenister, Jennie Bond, Nicki Chapman
A look at pop musics relationship with the royal family past and...
HD 65
Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Stars: Ian Anderson, Glenn Cornick, Clive Bunker
Originally filmed in December 1968 The Rock and Roll Circus was originally intended to be released as a television special. The special was filmed over two nights and featured not only the Rolling Stones but The Who Jethro Tull with future Black Sabbath guitarist Tommy Iommi filling in for the recently departed Mick Abrahams Marianne Faithful and an all-star jam featuring John Lennon Eric...
HD 133
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Stars: Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer
Under the authoritarian rule of charismatic ballet impressario Boris Lermontov his proteges realize the full promise of their talents but at a price: utter devotion to their art and complete loyalty to Lermontov himself. Under his near-obsessive guidance young ballerina Victoria Page is poised for superstardom but earns Lermontovs scorn when she falls in love with Julian Craster composer of...
HD 85
Director: Jukka Kärkkäinen, Jani-Petteri Passi
Stars: Pertti Kurikka, Kari Aalto, Sami Helle
A Finnish punk-rock band formed by four mentally disabled...
HD 137
Director: Nick Morris, Laurence Connor
Stars: Ramin Karimloo, Sierra Boggess, Hadley Fraser
In 1986 Andrew Lloyd Webbers The Phantom of the Opera arrived on the West End stage at Her Majestys Theatre. Fast forward 25 years and Phantom has achieved global success millions of viewers a film adaptation in 2004 and a musical sequel. Now viewers have the chance to experience this phenomenal show right from their own screens. Filmed at the Royal Albert Hall this stunning performance...
HD 93
Director: Dwight H. Little
Stars: Robert Englund, Jill Schoelen, Alex Hyde-White
A newer and gorier version of the horror film classic of Gaston Lerouxs classic tale. Christine Day is a young Broadway singer in New York City. She is auditioning for a show and comes across a piece of music written by an unknown music composer named Erik Destler nearly 100 years before. Erik had made a pack with the devil so the world would love his music but the devil had one condition: that...
HD 85
Director: George Abbott
Stars: Lucille Ball, Richard Carlson, Ann Miller
Mr Caseys daughter Connie wants to go to Pottawatomie College and without her knowledge he sends four football players as her bodyguards. The college is in financial trouble and her bodyguards use their salary to help the college. The football players join the college team and the team becomes one of the best. One of the football players Clint falls in love with Connie but when she...
HD 90
Director: Alvin Moore Jr.
Stars: Ruben Studdard, Golden Brooks, Buddy Lewis
Hard times and holiday tensions teach a father Michael Harris Ruben Studdard American Idol what Christmas is all about. When both Michael and his wife Sandras Golden Brooks Girlfriends parents come for an unannounced visit what should be a joyous and festive holiday turns into chaos. Michael learns that of all the many gifts he gives to his family the gift of giving oneself is the...
HD 98
Director: Andrea Blaugrund Nevins
Stars: Tony Adolescent, Art Alexakis, Rob Chaos
What happens when a generations ultimate anti-authoritarians -- punk rockers-- become societys ultimate authorities -- dads? With a large chorus of Punk Rocks leading men - Blink-182s Mark Hoppus Red Hot Chili Peppers Flea Rise Againsts Tim McIlrath - The Other F Word follow Jim Lindberg 20-year veteran of skate punk band Pennywise on his hysterical and moving journey from belting his...
HD 88
Director: Hal Sutherland
Stars: Liza Minnelli, Milton Berle, Margaret Hamilton
During a twister Dorothy is hit on the head by a gate and once again whisked away to the land of Oz. But this time on her way to the Emerald City she discovers a terrible plot by the witch Mombi to conquer Oz with an army of monster green elephants thats shes brewing up. She escapes with the help of Mombis slave Pumpkinhead and together they try to warn King Scarecrow and her other...
HD 97
Director: Paul Goldman
Stars: Dennis Hopper, Melanie Griffith, Portia de Rossi
Based on the true events surrounding Frank Sinatras tour of Australia. When Sinatra calls a local reporter a two-bit hooker every union in the country black-bans the star until he issues an...
HD 75
Director: Rob LaDuca, Robert C. Ramirez
Stars: Ben Affleck, Mark Hamill, Richard Herd
When Joseph receives a beautiful coat from his parents his eleven brothers hate him even more and are driven to sell him to desert merchants who take him to Egypt! There he is made the servant of a wealthy Egyptian who misunderstands him and has him thrown into prison! He shows his God-given gift by interpreting the dreams of two other prisoners. Eventually the Pharaoh begins to be plagued by...
HD 100
Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Chhabi Biswas, Sardar Akhtar, Gangapada Basu
Biswambhar Roy is a zamindar landlord and the last of his kind. With the title he has none of the perquisites inheriting diminishing lands that are being eroded by the neighbouring river. But he must maintain the lifestyle of his heritage. This ostentation is most apparent in the grandest room of his mansion the music room. Here he inports the finest musicians and dancers to perform and...
HD 60
Director: Peter Harris
Stars: Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Dave Goelz
Filmed right after the merger between Disney and Jim Henson productions the Muppets are featured heading to the greatest place on earth Walt Disney World. Kermit and Robin take the gang to the swamp for a vacation in Califorina. It is the annual Bug Fry and its a journey to the roots again for Kermit and Robin. However the rest of the cast is less than excited about being in a stinking bog....
HD 104
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Stars: Vincent Price, John Carradine, Donald Pleasence
A writer of horror stories is invited to a monster club by a mysterious old gentleman. There three gruesome stories are told to him; between each story some musicians play their songs. In the end its recognized hes the greatest monster of...
