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The Cotton Club was a famous Harlem nightclub. This is the story of the people who visited this club as well as the people who ran it, and the film is generously peppered with the jazz music that made the Cotton Club so renowned in the 1920s and 1930s.Read More »
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Francis Ford Coppola – The Cotton Club (1984)
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Euthana Mukdasanit – Thepthida Bar 21 (1978)
Euthana Mukdasanit1971-1980DramaMusicalThailandAfter witnessing a murder committed by her boyfriend’s brother, a young woman must choose between the love and the law.Read More »
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Jonathan Demme – Stop Making Sense (1984)
Jonathan Demme1981-1990DocumentaryMusicalUSAQuote:
An innovative concert movie for the rock group The Talking Heads. David Byrne walks onto the stage and does a solo “Psycho Killer.” Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz join him for two more songs. The crew is busy, still setting up. Then, three more musicians and two back-up singers join the band. Everybody sings, plays, harmonizes, dances, and runs. They change instruments and clothes. Bryne appears in the Big Suit. The backdrop is often black, but sometimes it displays words, images, or children’s drawings. The band cooks for 18 songs, the lyrics are clear, the house rocks. In this concert film, the Talking Heads hardly talk, don’t stop, and always make sense.
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Herbert Ross – Pennies from Heaven (1981)
Herbert Ross1981-1990DramaMusicalUSASynopsis:
During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent school teacher.Read More » -
Peter Bogdanovich – At Long Last Love (1975)
1971-1980ComedyMusicalPeter BogdanovichUSAFour socialite old friends unexpectedly clash, and switch partners during a party and attempt to make each other jealous.
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Peter Bogdanovich’s stylish take on the classic musicals of the 1930s offers an abundance of pleasures, from wall-to-wall Cole Porter tunes and art-deco sets. Nevertheless, At Long Last Love became the critical punching bag of 1975, due largely to the director’s decision to have his stars perform their songs live on set, a daring experiment that can now be appreciated as part and parcel to the film’s relaxed charm.Read More » -
Takashi Miike – Katakuri-ke no kôfuku AKA The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)
2001-2010CultJapanMusicalTakashi MiikeQuote:
The Katakuri family has just opened their guesthouse in the mountains. Unfortunately their first guest commits suicide and in order to avoid trouble they decide to bury him in the backyard. Things get way more complicated when their second guest, a famous sumo wrestler, dies while having sex with his underage girlfriend and the grave behind the house starts to fill up more and more.Read More » -
Christine Laurent – Vertiges (1985)
1981-1990Christine LaurentDramaFranceMusicalThe Female GazeLife and loves of a theatre inside and outside the stage. The troup is playing Les noces de Figaro.Read More »
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Sally Potter – The Tango Lesson (1997)
Drama1991-2000MusicalSally PotterUnited KingdomThe Tango Lesson (Spanish: ‘La lección de tango’) is a 1997 drama film by British director Sally Potter. It is a semi-autobiographical film starring Potter and Pablo Verón, about Argentinian Tango.Read More »
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Francisco Elías – María de la O (1939)
1931-1940Francisco ElíasMexicoMusicalRomancePlot: A famous painter returns to Spain under a false name as he once had to run away, to meet his half gypsy daughter, who has become a flamenco dancer. He offers her his house, making popular rumors take flight.Read More »