In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it's just a small obstacle on the road to his true calling: writing a historic opus. As the decades roll by with the composition unwritten but generations of students inspired through his teaching, Holland must redefine his life's purpose.
Documentary about the 1965 Motown Revue UK tour and the Ready Steady Go! TV special.
Utilizing potent TV interviews and many forgotten performances from his 30-year career, we are immersed into Frank Zappa’s world while experiencing two distinct facets of his complex character. At once Zappa was both a charismatic composer who reveled in the joy of performing and, in the next moment, a fiercely intelligent and brutally honest interviewee whose convictions only got stronger as his career ascended.
Francesco Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur was inspired by the real-life story of a celebrated actress at the Comédie-Française who was much admired by Voltaire. Hailed as a masterpiece, the opera was triumphantly staged in cities around the world after its premiere in 1902. The dramatically effective narrative is a passionate love triangle filled with intrigue and complicated plot twists set in the gallant 18th century. Its subtle ironies and gorgeous cantabile style of music provide a perfect vehicle for the star cast in this stunning production from the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.
Moi, Magyd Cherfi : portrait intimiste d'un chanteur devenu écrivain
29 Live Performances from SMTown in Tokyo 2011 by WOWOW
Follows a wedding singer and a flagging pop star who come together to write a song to comedic consequences.
Rolling Stones – Hearts for Prague
Documents the true story of the final weeks of rehearsal for the Young at Heart Chorus in Northampton, MA, and many of whom must overcome health adversities to participate. Their music goes against the stereotype of their age group. Although they have toured Europe and sang for royalty, this account focuses on preparing new songs for a concert in their hometown.
Persona Music Box 2014 was a concert held on October 10, 2014. It featured songs from Persona 3, Persona 3 FES, Persona 3 The Movie, Persona 4, Persona 4 Golden, Persona 4 The Animation, Persona 4 The Golden Animation, Persona 4 Arena, Persona 4 Arena Ultimax and Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth.
Persona Livehouse Tour 2015 was a concert tour that were held on three different cities: Osaka, Nagoya and Tokyo. The Tokyo concert was chosen to be live broadcasted simultaneously at 28 movie theatres accross Japan. It featured songs from Shin Megami Tensei: Persona, Persona 3, Persona 3 The Movie, Persona 4, Persona 4 Golden, Persona 4 The Animation, Persona 4 The Golden Animation, Persona 4 Arena, Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth and Persona 4: Dancing All Night.
A group of musicians who have never met get together for a week to live in a mansion to write an album, record it in a studio, and perform it at a Masquerade Ball.
A serious docu-comedy about the commercialization of Christmas. What Would Jesus Buy? follows Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir as they go on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse: the end of mankind from consumerism, over-consumption and the fires of eternal debt!
A group of young punk rockers get swept up into the surge of third wave emo. Spiraling through the fame, fun, & ultimately extreme fallout as the scene gives way to changing times when larger genres taint the shine of a well loved scene.
Tom Gaebel & His Big Band – Live In Concert
A film crew crisscrosses England trying to unravel the mystery surrounding a record released 30 years earlier, 'Spirit of Eden', that defined the passage from light to shadow of its makers, the band Talk Talk and its lead singer Mark Hollis. From overwhelming obstacles to unpredictable encounters, their journey soon turns into an organic quest. With silence as a horizon line. And punk as a philosophy, thinking that music is accessible to all and that the human spirit is above the technique.
Interview with the italian composer Claudio Gizzi about his lifetime and work as part or the extras of the Blu-Ray edition from What? (Che?) (1972) from Roman Polanski
May J.'s stand alone concert at Nippon Budokan on January 18, 2015.
Attila Baukó, aka Azahriah is one of Hungary's most famous singer, who filled the biggest sport arena of the country with three consecutive concerts. But this film is not a concert film. It is not a music documentary. Nor is it a traditional portrait film. We are Azahriah is the story of a real and an imaginary journey inspired by Azahriah's life and songs.
The Bonzo Dog Band freak out at the farm and strange sounds abound.