Music movies

Sympathy for the Devil (1968)

Saturday, March 6th, 2010
Genres: Documentary | Music
Countries: UK
Actors: Sean Lynch | Mick Jagger | Brian Jones | Keith Richards | Charlie Watts | Bill Wyman | Anne Wiazemsky | Iain Quarrier | Frankie Dymon | Danny Daniels | Illario Pedro | Roy Stewart | Linbert Spencer | Tommy Ansah | Michael McKay
Directors: Jean-Luc Godard
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In the 60’s, having as the background the rehearsal and recording of “Sympathy for the Devil” in the classic album “Beggar’s Banquet” by the revolutionary bad boy Rolling Stones - Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman and Brian Jones - plus Marianne Faithful, Godard discloses other contemporary revolutionary and ideological movements - the Black Power through the Black Panthers, the feminism, the communism, the fascism - entwined with the reading of a cheap pulp political novel divided in the chapters: “The Stones Rolling; “Outside Black Novel”; “Sight and Sound”; “All About Eve”; “The Heart of Occident”; “Inside Black Syntax”; and, “Under the Stones the Beach”.

Madea’s Family Reunion (2002)

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Music | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Blair Underwood | Lynn Whitfield | Boris Kodjoe | Lisa Arrindell Anderson | Maya Angelou | Rochelle Aytes | Jenifer Lewis | Tangi Miller | Henry Simmons | Keke Palmer | Cicely Tyson | China Anderson
Directors: Tyler Perry
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Just as Madea buries her sister, she must get ready for her granddaughter, Lisa, coming to get married at the house. It’s a bundle of laughs and drama and great music and lessons of forgiveness as Madea must endure the craziness of her neighbor, Leroy Brown, and the dysfunctional relatives staying under her own roof for the weekend.

Leprechaun in the Hood (2000)

Saturday, February 27th, 2010
Genres: Action | Comedy | Horror | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Warwick Davis | Ice-T | Coolio | Anthony Montgomery | Rashaan Nall | Red Grant | Lobo Sebastian | Ivory Ocean | Jack Ong | Bebe Drake | Donna M. Perkins | Daya Vaidya | Chloe Hunter | Lori J. Jones | Eric Mansker
Directors: Rob Spera
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He’s been in the country side, he’s been downtown, he’s been to Las Vegas, he’s even been in space, now that evil Leprechaun is in DA HOOD! Three young rap artists are looking for a break. They need money to buy some music equipment so they can go to Las Vegas and enter a contest. They meet up with a local pimp named Mack Daddy who agrees to “hook them up”, but later declines. The rappers want to get even with him so one night they break into Mack’s place and steal alot of his jewelry, gold, and even the medallion off an ugly looking statue. Shouldn’t have done that! Because without the medallion, the state transforms into the Leprechaun, who goes on a killing spree once again looking for his missing gold, once again! And the song says it all, “there’s nothin’ scarier than a Lep’ in the hood!”

The AristoCats (1970)

Friday, February 26th, 2010
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Phil Harris | Eva Gabor | Sterling Holloway | Scatman Crothers | Dean Clark | Paul Winchell | Thurl Ravenscroft | Liz English | Gary Dubin | Vito Scotti | Lord Tim Hudson | Nancy Kulp | Pat Buttram | George Lindsey | Monica Evans
Directors: Wolfgang Reitherman
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The beloved, pampered housecat of a retired opera star in 1910 Paris finds herself stranded in the countryside with her three children, the victims of a plot by their owner’s butler to cheat them out of a huge inheritance. They must find their way back to their home and owner, with the help of an independent-minded tomcat and other animal accomplices, while evading the butler and foiling his plan.

Classic Albums: Bob Marley & the Wailers - Catch a Fire (1999)

Friday, February 26th, 2010
Genres: Documentary | Music
Countries: Netherlands | UK | USA
Actors: Chris Blackwell | John Bundrick | Bob Marley | Peter Tosh | Bunny Wailer | Rita Marley
Directors: Jeremy Marre
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In the late ’60s, the notion that reggae would become more than just a novelty act would have been laughed at. To break into the mainstream, the movement needed a powerful voice of prophetic proportions. This voice emerged from the collective work of three pioneering friends from Jamaica, Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer, and Robert Nesta Marley, who sought to bring about an ideological revolution through deeply meditative, hypnotic, and spiritual music. Catch a Fire was the Wailers’ and reggae’s introduction to the world and turned Bob Marley into a mega-icon of enormous proportions. It was the first album to remain true to the traditions of reggae music while having enough elements that were accessible to popular culture.

This documentary, Bob Marley and the Wailers: Catch a Fire, returns to Dynamic Studios in Kingston, Jamaica, shedding light on the development of the album, the thought process of Bob, Peter, and Bunny, and the importance of the music on a song-by-song basis. The story of Catch a Fire is presented through interviews with the band members, studio musicians, and former head of Island Records Chris Blackwell. Throughout are raw studio rehearsal footage, BBC TV footage, and home movies that include performances of “Concrete Jungle,” “Slave Driver,” “Stir It Up,” and “Stop That Train.” The documentary wraps up with rare black-and-white footage of the Wailers’ tour in Edmonton, London, in 1973 with an electrifying performance of the Burnin’ song “Get Up, Stand Up.”

Feet of Flames (1998)

Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Genres: Documentary | Music
Countries: UK
Actors: Bernadette Flynn | Daire Nolan | Leigh Anne McKenna | Gillian Norris | Helen Egan | Anne Buckley | Kelly Hendry | Máiréad Nesbitt | Cora Smyth
Directors: Michael Flatley
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This release captures a 1998 concert from Irish dancer Michael Flatley, the man who broke from the troupe Riverdance to have his own solo career. Hinting that it may be his last live performance, Flatley is cheered on by an enthusiastic London crowd.

Earth Girls Are Easy (1988)

Monday, February 15th, 2010
Genres: Comedy | Music | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Geena Davis | Jeff Goldblum | Jim Carrey | Damon Wayans | Julie Brown | Michael McKean | Charles Rocket | Larry Linville | Rick Overton | Diane Stilwell | June C. Ellis | Felix Montano | Rick Hurst | Leslie Morris | Lisa Fuller
Directors: Julien Temple
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Trio of fuzzy (and funny) aliens crash land in Valerie’s pool— putting a decided damper on her future wedding plans to cheating Dr. Ted Gallagher. Action interrupted by musical numbers—an MTV musical comedy.

9 Songs (2004)

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
Genres: Drama | Music | Romance
Countries: UK
Actors: Kieran O'Brien | Margo Stilley | Huw Bunford | Cian Ciaran | The Dandy Warhols | Elbow | Franz Ferdinand | Bobby Gillespie | Bob Hardy | Dafydd Ieuan | Alex Kapranos | Mani | Nick McCarthy | Michael Nyman | Guto Pryce
Directors: Michael Winterbottom
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Matt, a young glaciologist, soars across the vast, silent, icebound immensities of the South Pole as he recalls his love affair with Lisa. They meet at a mobbed rock concert in a vast music hall—London’s Brixton Academy. They are in bed at night’s end. Together, over a period of several months, they pursue a mutual sexual passion whose inevitable stages unfold in counterpoint to nine live-concert songs.

The Man Who Cried (2000)

Friday, January 22nd, 2010
Genres: Drama | Music | Romance | War
Countries: France | UK
Actors: Christina Ricci | Oleg Yankovskiy | Claudia Lander-Duke | Danny Scheinmann | Anna Tzelniker | Barry Davis | Thom Osborn | Frank Chersky | Daniel Hart | Peter Majer | Hana Maria Pravda | Ayala Meir | Abraham Hassan | Lloyd Martin | Uri Meir
Directors: Sally Potter
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A young girl and her loving father are separated when he goes to America, intending to send for her. Shortly after his departure, their village goes up in flames, and the girl is forced to go to England, where she takes on the name Suzie, and finds that although she is misunderstood, tormented, and teased, she has one gift: she can sing. The movie follows Suzie through the events of her early life, from when she moves to Paris and joins a dancing troupe, to when she meets flirt and showgirl Lola, to when she falls in love with the gypsy Cesar. In the chaos and mayhem of the beginning of a World War, we witness Suzie’s struggle as she is forced to decide between the love of her past to the new love that she has only just discovered.

Adventures of Power (2008)

Monday, January 18th, 2010
Genres: Comedy | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Michael McKean | Jane Lynch | Shoshannah Stern | Chi Ling Chiu | Adrian Grenier | Luis Accinelli | John Bianco | Richard Fancy | Garry Goodrow | Jeff Holman | Albert Huerta | Tod Huntington | Jimmy Jean-Louis | Reggie Jernigan
Directors: Ari Gold
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ADVENTURES OF POWER is an epic comedy about a mine-worker named Power whose love of drums and lack of musical skill has turned him into the ridiculed “air drummer” of his small town. But when Power’s union-leader father calls a strike at the mine, Power discovers an underground subculture of air-drummers who just might hold the key to changing the world. Power’s journey across America brings him face-to-face with his town’s greatest enemy, and allows him to discover the beat within his own heart.