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Blues Greats (2003)
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Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, and Memphis Slim are among the great veteran bluesmen featured in this documentary that explores the impact of blues music on rock & roll bands of the 1960s and '70s, including the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
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Something Within Me (1999)
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WINNER! Sundance Film Festival: Audience Awards, Filmmakers Trophy, Special Jury Prize. St. Augustine's school is located in the poorest section of the South Bronx. The teachers & principal decided to commit to an arts curriculum, one where the arts
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U-Carmen (U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha) (2005)
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Brilliantly acted and sung by the internationally acclaimed South African theater company Dimpho Di Kopane (DDK), U-Carmen is a stunning adaptation of perhaps the world's best-loved opera, Carmen. Re-imagined in the modern world of South African pool hall
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Fela In Concert (2006)
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Nigerian superstar Fela, who sings, plays tenor sax, and fuses funk and jazz with traditional African music, was inspired by Bird, Marley and Miles. The New York Times critic Jon Pareles described his 1981 Paris concert video, featuring exotic
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Bobby Short at the Cafe Carlyle (2006)
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The reigning King of Cafe Society performs a thrilling 25 song set, including classics from Cole Porter, Gershwin and Sondheim, with the style and verve that's been packing them in at the New York Cafe Carlyle for over 20 years.
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Vampires in Havana (Vampiros en Habana) (1985)
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This hilarious spoof of horror and gangster movies, presented in an outrageously caricatured, bawdy style reminiscent if Fritz the Cat features Professor Von Dracula, a vampire scientist who leaves Transylvania for Cuba, who he invents "Vampisol"
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Cuba Mia: Portrait of an All-Woman Orchestra (2002)
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This powerful documentary introduces the Camerata Romeu, a rare group of ten extraordinarily talented musicians and a woman conductor who are among the most popular musical groups in Cuba, and with them a cross-section of stunning Cuban and Latin American
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Rigoletto (2006)
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Rigoletto, Giuseppe Verdi's first opera of the trilogy that includes Il Trovatore and La Traviata, is without a doubt one of the most popular operas of all time. The lavish costumes and settings for this romantic and melodramatic feature film version
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Antonio Carlos Jobim: An All-Star Tribute (2006)
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Direct from Brazil in his last recorded performance, Bossa Nova originator Antoinio Carlos Jobim (1927-1994) is joined by an international delegation of Jazz giants to recreate his classic melodies in a beautiful, concert-length "Thank You."
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About Musical MoviesMusical Movies belong to a film genre that features songs, sung by the actors, interwoven into the narrative. The songs are usually used to advance the plot or develop the film's characters. A sub-genre of the musical is the musical comedy, which includes a strong element of humor as well as the usual music, dancing and storyline. Of course, musical comedy movies are also a sub-type of comedy movies. The musical is the genre associated with the transition from silent film to sound film in the development of the motion picture. The popularity of movies grew rapidly during the golden days of the silent film era, but the concept of "talking pictures" was considered a risky investment by the major Hollywood studios, until the Warner Brothers studio took the leap and produced "The Jazz Singer", starring Al Jolson. Jolson's song "Mammy" in the picture forever changed the medium of film, and it jolted Hollywood into the era of sound. As Hollywood adapted to sound films, musicals were an important part of Hollywood's movie output, ranking alongside action movies, western movies (or "westerns"), dramas, and comedy movies. During the 1930s, director Busby Berkeley began to enhance the traditional dance number with inspiration he drew from the drill precision he had experienced as a soldier during the first world war. Meanwhile, musical stars such as Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were among the most popular and highly-respected personalities in Hollywood during the thirties. Their coupling was tremendously successful in a number of films. Many dramatic actors gladly participated in musicals as a way to break away from their typical typecast roles. James Cagney, for example, had originally risen to fame as a singer and dancer, and he was highly talented; but his repeated casting in "tough guy" roles and gangster movies gave him few chances to display these talents. Cagney's Oscar-winning role in Yankee Doodle Dandy allowed him to sing and dance, and he considered it to be one of his finest moments. - The preceding paragraph was derived from a full article available from Wikipedia and its use is governed by the GNU Free Documentation License 1.2. |
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