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1) Grace notes
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 43 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 62 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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...
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1951.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (94 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Fred Astaire and Jane Powell star as a brother and sister dance team that is invited to England to perform at the same time as the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth.
4) Persuade me
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 80 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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.
5) La France
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 102 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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).
6) La Habanera
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 93 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
Description
Legendary director Douglas Sirk's (Written on the wind, Imitation of life) La Habanera is a lushly poetic and boldly modern musical drama decades ahead of its time. Working at Germany's famed UFA Studios (Metropolis), under the very noses of the Nazi authorities that would later force him into Hollywood exile and eminence, Sirk transformed a glossy musical vehicle for UFA's "new Garbo" Zarah Leander into a dark and intimate anti-colonial melodrama....
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
Spike Lee's adaptation of the Broadway show "Passing Strange" presents the portrait of a musician as a young man. In 1970s Los Angeles, a talented but rebellious middle-class African-American discovers punk rock. Through the intervention of a sincere choir director, the young man travels to Europe, where his talents blossom, but at the expense of those who care for him. The film is based on the life of musician Stew, who appears as narrator and commentator...
Language
English
Formats
Description
The year was 1962. Teens twist at the Peppermint Lounge. John Glenn orbits Earth. Wilt Chamberlain scores 100 points in a single game. And Elvis digs the possibilities of GIRLS! GIRLS! GIRLS! This Time he's a charter-boat skipper who helps tourists land the big ones. Of course, plenty of beautiful girls (including Stella Stevens) want to land Elvis. But there's something Elvis likes almost as much as romance - a boat! He yearns for a sleek sailboat...
11) Cinderella
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (77 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The beautiful and young Cinderella finds her life of drudgery at the hands of her stepmother and two wicked stepsisters changed forever in one evening, thanks to a fairy godmother and a handsome prince.
12) Rocketman
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An epic musical fantasy about the uncensored human story of Sir Elton John's breakthrough years.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ariel is a fun-loving and mischievous mermaid who is enchanted with all things human. Disregarding her father's order to stay away from the world above the sea, she swims to the surface and, in a raging storm, rescues Prince Eric, the man of her dreams. Determined to be human, she strikes a bargain with the devious sea witch, Ursula, and trades her fins and beautiful voice for legs. With her best friend Flounder, and her reluctant chaperon Sebastian...
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005], c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on Jane Austen's classic novel, Pride and Prejudice, with a Bollywood twist. In Ammritsar, the determined Mrs. Bakshi sets out to find matches for her four daughters. Second sister, Lalita, meets American Will Darcy - is it love?
15) Yesterday
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack Malik is a struggling singer-songwriter in a tiny English seaside town whose dreams of fame are rapidly fading, despite the fierce devotion and support of his childhood best friend, Ellie. Then, after a freak bus accident during a mysterious global blackout, Jack wakes up to discover that the Beatles have never existed. And he finds himself with a very complicated problem, indeed.
17) Topsy-Turvy
Publisher
USA Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (161 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tensions abound and the music swells in the story about the famous musical team of Gilbert and Sullivan. The two men who were extremely different in size and stature were even more different in temperament and style. Yet, they still managed to create memorable theater. This is the story of the making of one of their most famous collaborations, The Mikado.
18) Burlesque
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ali, is a small-town girl with a big voice who escapes hardship to follow her dreams to LA. After stumbling upon The Burlesque Lounge, a majestic but ailing theater that is home to an inspired musical revue, Ali lands a job as a cocktail waitress from Tess, the club's proprietor and headliner. After Ali finally makes her way from the bar to the stage, things take a dramatic turn when her larger than life voice causes a charismatic entrepreneur to...
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Join the celebration, sing and dance, and discover how it all began. Ten years later, come back to the magical island of Kalokairi in this sequel based on the songs of ABBA. Sophie is now pregnant, and like her mother Donna, she'll need to take risks.
"The rare sequel so unexpectedly enchanting that it plays less like a rehash than a reclamation."--Los Angeles Times
"That old ABBA magic can make even a middling movie that much better."--USA Today
"Swede...
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
All-new Director's Cut celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the iconic film that catapulted John Travolta to superstardom, garnered him an Oscar nomination, and captivated audiences the world over. Travolta commands the screen as Tony Manero, a restless Brooklyn rebel who escapes problems at home and an uncertain future every Saturday night when he shines as king of the disco dance floor. Includes theatrical and director's cut.
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