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21) Anna Karenina
Publisher
Stage Russia
Language
Russian
Description
A spectacular, breathtaking, high-tech musical production based on the masterpiece by Leo Tolstoy. The dramatic and tumultuous love story between the married ANNA KARENINA and a dashing military officer, Alexey Vronsky, takes place amidst the glitter and luxury of the Russian nobility in the second half of the 19th century. The musical’s characters struggle with overwhelming of love and betrayal, passion and duty, hope and desperation. Although...
Publisher
Stadium Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Classic performances from America’s top comics….before any of us knew who they were. With nothing more than a punch line and a dream, these (then) struggling young artists transformed themselves into comedy legends. Here is a rare opportunity to see some of the world’s greatest African American stars perform the routines that would someday make them Kings of Comedy.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A feature-length documentary, exploring the growing musical and social phenomenon of chanting, MANTRA: SOUNDS INTO SILENCE shares the stories of people who are finding healing and a sense of inner peace by singing mantras together. It’s a film about spirituality not religion, about people reconnecting with their true selves and with others. The film shows that chanting can have beneficial effects on the brain and in turn, on practitioners’ well-being....
Publisher
Les Blank Films
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A reflexive, first-person narrative by Captain Don Leslie, a sideshow sword-swallower, human blockhead, tattooed man, and fire eater. Recounting everything from childhood feelings of being an “oddball” to his injuries as a sword-swallower, Captain Don spews flames, lights his tongue on fire, and sings about the circus and tattooing.
Publisher
Unity Productions Foundation
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
ALLAH MADE ME FUNNY features live stand-up performances by Azhar Usman, Preacher Moss and Mohammed Amer as well as behind the scenes sequences highlighting the individual comedians. The trio poke fun at Muslims and non-Muslims alike and their comedic material plays with stereotypes to invite people to think outside of their fixed cultural perceptions.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Before his name became synonymous with a new style of comedy; before he had written, directed, or produced his first movie or TV show; before he and his roommate Adam Sandler were performing stand up at dive bars in LA; before all that, Judd Apatow was a kid in Syosett, Long Island who was utterly obsessed with comedy. At 16, he started hosting a radio show for his local high school station, and he would call up the biggest comics of the day - comics...
Publisher
Stadium Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Just two months after the release of his seminal After the Gold Rush, Neil Young sat down for a performance at The Shakespeare Theater on January 22, 1971. The Stratford, CT show captures the artist stripped down to the bare essentials—acoustic guitar, piano, and harmonica.
28) Gallant Indies
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
Based on Jean-Philippe Rameau’s opera-ballet that was directed by Clément Cogitore for the Opéra National de Paris. This is a premiere for 30 dancers of hip-hop, krump, break, voguing… A first for the Director Clément Cogitore and for the choreographer Bintou Dembélé. And a first for the Paris’ Opera Bastille. By bringing together urban dance and opera singing, they reinvent Jean-Philippe Rameau’s baroque masterpiece, Les Indes Galantes....
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Latino rock greats Los Lobos, the salsa-rap-reggae-funk Ozomatli and the all-female mariachi band Flor de Toloache lead this musical celebration of this fiesta celebrated by people of Mexican heritage everywhere. Taped before a live audience in the “underworld” of The Caverns subterranean amphitheater, DIA DE LOS MUERTOS! is a high-energy offering to celebrate a wonderful, ancient tradition.
Publisher
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Sugar plums and snowflakes, dreams and spells – Peter Wright’s The Nutcracker is one of the world’s most enchanting productions, and The Australian Ballet shines in this charming classic. Sumptuously staged and set to Tchaikovsky’s celebrated score, this ballet is a truly magical experience for the whole family.
Publisher
Stadium Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The award winning singer songwriter Michael David Rosenberg, better known by his stage name Passenger, invites fans to an intimate evening at the Royal Albert Hall for an exclusive performance film celebrating the release of his 13th album.
Publisher
Stage Russia
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A remarkable tale of love and betrayal based on one of the most dramatic episodes in the history of the Russian Empire. Brilliantly told by renowned playwright and poet July Kim with music composed by Roman Ignatyev (the same team behind Anna Karenina Musical and The Count of Monte Cristo), Filmed before a live audience from the Moscow Operetta Theatre.
Publisher
Illuminations
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
After causing an immediate sensation when it premiered at Sadler’s Wells in 1995, MATTHEW BOURNE’S SWAN LAKE returns with a fresh look for the 21st century. Still retaining the iconic elements of the original production loved by millions around the world, award-winning designers, Lez Brotherston and Paule Constable, alongside Bourne, have created an exciting re-imagining of the classic production. Thrilling, audacious, witty and emotive, this...
Publisher
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Filmed at Sydney's Carriageworks, the Australian Chamber Orchestra take us on an exquisitely beautiful and moving journey. Vox amoris, written for Richard Tognetti in 2009 by Latvian composer Peteris Vasks, the violin sings a song to the glory of love through emotional highs and lows. Such balancing of melancholy and light also underpins the moral complexity in Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht, but the resolution finds love as a redeemer. Even Bach’s...
Publisher
Planet Group Entertainment
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
A festive tribute to legendary Black American jazz and blues artists. The tony award winning Broadway show recreates the sizzle of the cotton club reviews that galvanized Harlem audiences in the 20s, 30s and 40s. A cultural legacy.
Publisher
Stadium Media
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Featuring over 40 minutes of vintage performances by the world’s greatest gospel singer, this is Mahalia at her most powerful, singing the beloved songs of the holiday season. Originally intended as musical vignettes for CBS’s 1960-61 television season, this beautiful footage has been digitally remastered for optimum sound and picture quality form the original 16mm Kinescopes.
40) Standing Up
Publisher
Gravitas
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Three unlikely aspiring stand-up comedians – an ultra-Orthodox Jew, a couchsurfing custodian, and a personal injury lawyer – risk everything to find their voices on the cutthroat New York comedy scene. Official Selection at **DOC NYC**.
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