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The breath-taking, generation-defining Broadway phenomenon becomes a soaring cinematic event as Tony, Grammy and Emmy Award winner Ben Platt reprises his role as an anxious, isolated high schooler aching for understanding and belonging amid the chaos and cruelty of the social-media age.
Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actress. From director Steven Spielberg comes this reimagining of the beloved musical West Side Story, which tells the classic tale of fierce rivalries and young love in 1957 New York City.
Academy Award nominations for:
A remake of the 1937 classic, this time as a musical about a Hollywood couple going through bad times. Would-be singer Esther Blodgett (Judy Garland) finds herself taken under the wing of fading star Norman Maine (James Mason) when she saves him from making a drunken fool of himself on stage. Changing her name to Vicki Lester, Esther becomes a star, and is soon married to Norman. However, as Vicki's star rises, so Norman's falls. Harold Arlen/Ira Gershwin songs include 'The Man That Got Away'.
The creator of “Hamilton” and the director of “Crazy Rich Asians” invite you to a cinematic event, where the streets are made of music and little dreams become big. Lights up on Washington Heights. The scent of a cafecito caliente hangs in the air just outside of the 181st Street subway stop, where a kaleidoscope of dreams rallies this vibrant and tightknit community. At the intersection of it all is the likeable, magnetic bodega owner Usnavi (Anthony Ramos), who saves every penny from his daily grind as he hopes, imagines and sings about a better life. “In the Heights” fuses Lin‐Manuel Miranda’s kinetic music and lyrics with director Jon M. Chu’s lively and authentic eye for storytelling to capture a world very much of its place, but universal in its experience.
Musical drama in which a pair of aspiring musicians with unglamorous day jobs team up in a bid to find success. Nate (Alec Newman) works in the financial services industry during the day, identifying struggling companies in order to bet against them on the stock market and bring home profit. Aware of the job's inherent unpleasantness, he seeks refuge at night playing the piano and in his dreams of life as a professional musician. One night, while playing his music, he hears someone singing along on the street outside. It turns out to be Chloe (Amy Adams), a cloakroom worker from the nearby jazz club who also dreams of a better life. Recognising the beauty of Chloe's voice, Nate suggests that the pair marry their talents and become a musical duo. Will their musical relationship develop into something more?
Classic musical adaptation of the L. Frank Baum novel starring Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr and Jack Haley. A tornado whisks Dorothy (Garland) and her house from Kansas to Munchkin City, squashing the Wicked Witch of the East upon landing. The Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton) vows revenge, while Dorothy sets off on the yellow brick road to see the Wizard of Oz (Frank Morgan), hoping he can tell her how to get home. On the way she makes friends with a scarecrow (Bolger), a tin man (Haley) and a cowardly lion (Lahr) - all of whom have specific reasons for wanting to meet the magical Wizard. With the Wicked Witch out to get her, will Dorothy ever get home again?
Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actress. From director Steven Spielberg comes this reimagining of the beloved musical West Side Story, which tells the classic tale of fierce rivalries and young love in 1957 New York City.
Academy Award nominations for:
Tim Curry and Susan Sarandon star in this musical comedy horror
directed by Jim Sharman. When naive young engaged couple Brad Majors
(Barry Bostwick) and Janet Weiss (Sarandon) suffer a flat tyre during a
storm, they seek assistance from the residents of a nearby castle.
There they meet Dr.
Michael Jackson inserts chunks of good-versus-evil fantasy narrative into a series of his own musical numbers, culminating in a sequence in which he stops a gangster turning children into junkies. Joe Pesci and Sean Lennon make cameo appearances.
Two icons of the American south--the outlaw country legend Willie Nelson and the trumpet virtuoso Wynton Marsalis--bring their own brand of the blues to bear in this powerful Lincoln Center concert. Each musician offers his unique style and perspective to the songs at hand, resulting in a moving blend of jazz and country that reinvigorates standards such as "Georgia On My Mind," "Stardust," and "Don't Get Around Much Anymore."
Experience the extraordinary sisterhood of three women who share one unbreakable bond in The Color Purple. This bold new take on the beloved classic is directed by Blitz Bazawule and produced by Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Scott Sanders and Quincy Jones.
Kenny Ortega directs this fantasy adventure sequel following the
children of some of Disney's most notorious villains. When the
celebrity lifestyle becomes too much for Mal (Dove Cameron), she
reverts back to her old ways and returns to the Isle of the Lost.
However, her sudden return doesn't go down well with her old enemy Uma
(China Anne McClain), who is still bitter that Mal was chosen to become
a citizen of Auradon over her.
Though they began their career practicing an artier, more theatrical variant on the Led Zeppelin hard-rock sound, Queen's 1975 album A NIGHT AT THE OPERA is where they begin to show their own unique brand of eclecticism and compositional facility--not least on the quintessential classic-rock radio staple "Bohemian Rhapsody." This program offers a critical review of the landmark album through archival footage, live performance clips, and interviews with critics, musicologists, and surviving band members.System Requirements:Running Time 99 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE
The American multi-instrumentalist performs live at the Royal Albert Hall in 2004.
The Mr. Bongo label has celebrated Brazilian music with their Brazilian Beats series--albums containing some of the best music the country has ever produced. Now they bring the format into the visual realm with this selection of music videos, live performances, and a documentary on many of the artists who have been featured on the albums.
50 years after a terrible accident turned half the population of Seabrook into zombies, zombie students start going to the human high school and mixing with the general population. Despite a difficult first meeting, zombie Zed (Milo Manheim) gets to know human cheerleader Addison (Meg Donnelly) and the pair soon fall in love. With the rest of the students unhappy with their relationship, Zed and Addison do their best to prove zombies and humans can get along.
Winner of six Oscars® including Best Picture, this sparkling musical showcases the incomparable Gene Kelly with the lovely Leslie Caron amid the glorious melodies of Gershwin.
Two army buddies (Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye) team up after the war and become a successful song-and-dance act. While on a skiing holiday the pair stage a benefit to save an inn run by their old commander, who is beset by financial difficulties resulting from a lack of snow. The title song, `White Christmas', was actually written 12 years earlier for the film `Holiday Inn' and was already a Christmas standard in 1954.
Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the San Francisco Symphony for this performance of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, which was originally broadcast by the American television channel PBS in 2009 as part of the 'Keeping Score' classical music series.
Jim Hardy (Bing Crosby) and Ted Hanover (Fred Astaire) are a successful song and dance double act until Jim decides to retire and become a gentleman farmer following Ted's seduction of his girlfriend. Jim fails as a farmer, but decides to convert his property to an inn that is only open on public holidays. He also finds happiness with the lovely Linda Mason (Marjorie Reynolds) - that is, until Ted shows up! Packed with Irving Berlin songs, including 'Let's Say It With Firecrackers' and 'Easter Parade'. This is also the film which introduced 'White Christmas', a song that won an Oscar and spawned the movie with the same title in 1954.
Renee Zellweger and Catherine Zeta Jones star in this Oscar-winning big screen adaptation of the popular Broadway show. In 1920s Chicago nightclub singer Velma Kelly (Zeta Jones) and aspiring starlet Roxie Hart (Zellweger) are both arrested on the same night for committing two different murders. Placed in jail together, both women accept the advice of lawyer Billy Flynn (Richard Gere) and soon begin using their present circumstances to further their quest for wealth and fame.
Alan Parker's musical spoof of gangster films features an all-child cast with guns that fire cream. When gang warfare erupts between Fat Sam and Dandy Dan, hustler Bugsy Malone (Scott Baio), singer Tallulah (Jodie Foster) and newly arrived showgirl Blousey Brown (Florrie Dugger) find themselves caught up in the middle of it.
An innocent young couple is stranded at the home of a mad scientist who is building the perfect man. The castle is filled with a most bizarre group of characters who worship their master, Dr.Frank-N-Furter, played magnificently by the fabulously sexy Tim Curry, in leather jacket, pearls, fishnet stockings, and heavy makeup. Brad and Janet are forced to examine their own sexuality as the voluptuous doctor releases the hidden desires in each of them.
Modern update of 'The Wizard of Oz' with Diana Ross as Dorothy leading her gang of no-gooders to the disco chic city of New York. Plenty of Motown music and dance routines are provided by an all black cast.
The music, the dancing, the romance, the leg warmers... Oh, what a feeling! Get ready to re-experience all the drama as Alex bravely fights her way out of the welding gear, off the stripper pole and onto the dance-school floor. Flashdance, the pop-culture phenomenon of the'80s, is back and flashier than ever with brand-new featurettes exploring the history, the look, the music and much more! Academy Award-winner for Best Song, "Flashdance-What A Feeling," it's the hit film that inspired a generation. |
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