music
Director: Albert Pyun
Stars: John Stockwell, Michael Dudikoff, Michele Little
After an atomic war Phillip Hammer and Marlowe Chandler have spent 15 years on their own in an bunker stuffed with junk from the 40s and old detective novels. Now 19 years old they leave their shelter to find a world full of mutants freaks and cannibals. They become famous detectives in the struggle for the two keys that could fire the last nuclear...
Director: Franc Roddam
Stars: Phil Daniels, Leslie Ash, Philip Davis
London 1965: Like many other youths Jimmy hates the philistine life especially his parents and his job in a companys mailing division. Only when hes together with his friends a Mod clique cruises London on his motor-scooter and hears music such as that of The Who and The High Numbers he feels free and accepted. However its a flight into an illusionary...
Director: Mike Lerner, Maxim Pozdorovkin
Stars: Mariya Alyokhina, Ekaterina Samutsevich, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
Three young women face seven years in a Russian prison for a satirical performance in a Moscow cathedral. But who is really on trial in a case that has gripped the nation and the world beyond three young artists or the society they live in?...
Director: Keith Jones, Deon Maas
Stars: Paulo Chibanga, Michael Fleck, Ivan Kadey
Three chords three countries one revolution...PUNK IN AFRICA is the story of the multiracial punk movement within the recent political and social upheavals experienced in three Southern African countries: South Africa Mozambique and...
Director: Daniel Mann, Joseph Sargent
Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Alexander, Maud Adams
In World War II the Jewish French musician and cabaret singer Fania Fenelon Goldstein is sent by the Nazis from Paris to the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. The guards take her clothing and luggage and they cut her hair very short. One day when she is very weak she hears someone asking whether any prisoner could sing Giacomo Puccinis Madama Butterfly and she joins the group of musicians that...
Director: John Edginton
Stars: Joe Boyd, Venetta Fields, Jill Furmanovsky
...
Director: Matthew Longfellow
Stars: Roger Waters, Storm Thorgerson, Nigel Williamson
...
Director: Arthur Lubin
Stars: Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster, Claude Rains
Pit violinist Claudin hopelessly loves rising operatic soprano Christine Dubois as do baritone Anatole and police inspector Raoul and secretly aids her career. But Claudin loses both his touch and his job murders a rascally music publisher in a fit of madness and has his face etched with acid. Soon mysterious crimes plague the Paris Opera House blamed on a legendary phantom whom none can...
Director: Suzie Templeton
Stars:
An animated retelling set to Prokofievs suite. Peter is a slight lad solitary locked out of the woods by his protective grandfather his only friend a duck. In town hes bullied. When a wolf menaces the duck - as well as grandfathers fat cat and an ill-flying bird that Peter has befriended - Peter bravely tries to tree the wolf. Grandfather the townspeople and the hunters who have...
Director: Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg
Stars: James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg
Chas a violent and psychotic East London gangster needs a place to lie low after a hit that should never have been carried out. He finds the perfect cover in the form of guest house run by the mysterious Mr. Turner a one-time rock superstar who is looking for the right spark to rekindle his faded...
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Stars: Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage, Barry Miller
A 43-year-old mother and housewife whos facing divorce is thrust back in time when she attends her high-school reunion. Given the chance to change the course of her life she finds herself making many of the same...
Director: Ian Darling
Stars: Paul Kelly, Michael Barclay, Kasey Chambers
An intimate portrait of Paul Kelly Australias foremost singer-songwriter. In a career spanning more than thirty years he has documented the history of our country described its landscapes and cities and captured the lives and loves of its citizens. Kelly has written over 350 songs penned lyrics for many other singers co-authored songs and written for film. But like all great artists Paul...
Director: Martin Ritt
Stars: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Sidney Poitier
Ram Bowen and Eddie Cook are two expatriate jazz musicians living in Paris where unlike America at the time Jazz musicians are celebrated and racism is a non-issue. When they meet and fall in love with two young American girls Lillian and Connie who are vacationing in France Ram and Eddie must decide whether they should move back to America with them or stay in Paris for the freedom it...
Director: Archie Mayo
Stars: George Montgomery, Ann Rutherford, Glenn Miller
Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrisons band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him she joins the bands tour and learns about life as an orchestra wife weathering the catty attacks of the other band...
Director: John Duigan
Stars: Tyler Coppin, Cassandra Delaney, Jay Hackett
In Australia four teenagers in the Sydney Opera House are horrified to hear the news that nuclear war has broken out in Eastern Europe. They try to figure out the best way they can survive the coming conflagration. At the films end it is left uncertain whether Sydney will be hit by nuclear weapons although the US spy facility at Pine Gap has been...
Director: Mark Andrews, Andrew Jimenez
Stars:
With one coin to make a wish at the piazza fountain One Man Band tells the humorously captivating tale of a peasant girl who encounters two competing street performers whod prefer the coin find its way into their tip jars. As the two one-man bands rivalry crescendos the two overly eager musicians vie to win the little girls...
Director: Julien Temple
Stars: Lee Brilleaux, Wilko Johnson, John Martin
The story of Dr Feelgood four men in cheap suits who crashed out of Canvey Island in the early 70s sandpapered the face of rocknroll leaving all that came before a burnt-out ruin - four estuarine John-the-Baptists to Johnny Rottens anti-Christ. Taking London by storm they sped through Europe and conquered the UK with No 1 chart success before imploding just as punk was born and America...
Director: Don Oriolo
Stars: Dave Coulier, Tom Bosley, Don Oriolo
When the Professor and Rock Bottom plot to create the worlds biggest blizzard in order to ruin Christmas Felix the Cat and Poindexter must travel to the North Pole to help Santa Claus and save...
Director: Tibor Hernádi
Stars: Chris Phillips, Maureen O'Connell, Peter Newman
In another dimension the villainous scientist Duke of Zill with the help of his mechanical geometric army ultimately takes over the golden kingdom of Oriana where Duke has just escaped exile! But Felix the Cat must bravely save Princess Oriana and restore order once again from her terrible Uncle Zill and his smoke-belching mechanical troops before he can put his sinister plot into action!...
Director: Carroll Ballard
Stars: Hugh Bigney, Vanessa Sharp, Patricia Barker
The colorful holiday classic is finally brought to the big screen designed by famed childrens story author and artist Maurice Sendak and written for the first time to be as close as possible to the original story. A lavish exciting and heart-warming celebration of dance of music and of life. Based upon the Pacific Northwest Ballets original...
Director: Vincent Sherman
Stars: Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith, Bruce Bennett
Quiet organised Dr Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a street accident. Despite her misgivings they become heavily involved and Talbot finds he is faced with the choice of leaving Nora or divorcing his wife. When a patient expires in his office a third option seems to present...
Director: Francesca Araiza Andrade, Julia Ostertag
Stars:
This documentary pictures a globally interconnected and political music scene built on autonomy and solidarity which has declared war on capitalism and the mainstream culture. Whether it s squatters in Barcelona antifascists in Moscow inhabitants of self-governed trailer parks or activists of the CRASS collective - they can all be brought down to one common denominator: their protest and...
Director: Jerry Schatzberg
Stars: Jon Cryer, Demi Moore, George Wendt
The 16 years old amateur photographer Charles accidentally takes a photo of Laura - and falls in love with her when he develops the picture. He finds out that she works as singer in a bar but is about to be thrown out. Although rejected at first by the 23 years old he wants to help her and starts an ad campaign behind her back... with unexpected...
Director: John De Bello
Stars: David Miller, George Wilson, Sharon Taylor
After a wave of reports of mysterious attacks involving people and pets being eaten by the traditionally docile fruit a special government task force is set up to investigate the violent veggies and put a stop to their murderous spree. Included in this crack team are a lieutenant who never goes anywhere without his parachute an underwater expert whos never out of his scuba gear and a master...
Director: Mark Racco
Stars: Kurt Cobain, David Grohl, Krist Novoselic
...
Director: Frank Lords
Stars: Nina Simone, Edney Whiteside, John Waymon
In this up-close and personal portrait of vocalist and musician Nina Simone the singer herself and a number of friends relatives and connaisseurs tell excerpts of her path in music and life. Remarkably the documentary was able to follow Simone on a visit back to her childhood home and her mother and siblings are interviewed. Simone also discusses her participation in the civil rights movement...
Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Liza Minnelli, Robert De Niro, Lionel Stander
The day WWII ends Jimmy a selfish and smooth-talking musician meets Francine a lounge singer. From that moment on their relationship grows into love as they struggle with their careers and aim for the...
Director: Jonathan Demme
Stars: Neil Young
This past May Neil Young brought his solo tour to Torontos Massey Hall an iconic venue in the city of his birth. Jonathan Demme was on hand to capture the two nights which highlighted new songs from the album Le Noise produced by Daniel Lanois mixed with classics like Ohio and I Believe in You. At sixty-five Young retains a youthful vitality and musical curiosity that balances his...
Director: Robert Altman
Stars: Keith Carradine, Karen Black, Ronee Blakley
This movie tells the intersecting stories of various people connected to the music business in Nashville. Barbara Jean is the reigning queen of Nashville but is near collapse. Linnea and Delbert Reese have a shaky marriage and 2 deaf children. Opal is a British journalist touring the area. These and other stories come together in a dramatic...
Director: Godfrey Reggio
Stars: Marlon Brando, Bella Donna, Elton John
In this cinematic concert mesmerizing images are plucked from everyday reality then visually altered with state-of-the-art digital techniques. The result is a chronicle of the shift from a world organized by the principles of nature to one dominated by technology the synthetic and the virtual. Extremes of intimacy and spectacle tragedy and hope fuse in a tidal wave of visuals and music...