Posts Tagged ‘Musical’

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Jun18

Ihre Hoheit befiehlt / Her Grace Commands (1931) DVD5

by movieworld on June 18th, 2018 at 13:43
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Musical, Romance

Her Grace Commands 1931
In an imaginary kingdom, Princess Marie-Christine goes incognito to a servants' ball where she meets Lieutenant von Conradi and falls in love with him. But both don't tell their real identity. So it's a surprise for the princess when on the next day she sees the supposed delicatessen seller as a dashing lieutenant, but she decides to play the game a little longer. Meanwhile the state minister (Schunzel in one of his very best roles) sets a rather inept detective (Horbiger) on the heels of the couple, because the Princess is actually to be married off to another aristocrat. The real problems, however, begin when von Conradi finds out who Marie-Christine actually is...

DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 01:24:58 | 2.95 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Deutsch
Subtitles: English
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance

Director: Hanns Schwarz
Cast: Kathe von Nagy, Willy Fritsch, Reinhold Schunzel
Country: Germany
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Jun14

La Boheme (2008) DVD9

by movieworld on June 14th, 2018 at 12:41
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, Musical, Romance

La Boheme 2008
The story is set in Paris, around 1830. Four young artists are freezing and starving in a garret. Rodolfo, one of the artists, meets his neighbour Mimi, a seamstress, and the two fall in love. But Mimi falls ill...

Giacomo Puccini's immortal opera in a high budget feature-film version directed by Academy Award nominee Robert Dornhelm, stars opera's 'Golden Couple', Rolando Villazon and Anna Netrebko as the protagonists, Rodolfo and Mimi. The chemistry between them is electric, unrivalled in the theatre today. Russian soprano Anna Netrebko is not only beautiful but has a marvelous voice and technique; Mexican tenor Rolando Villazon, has a wonderful voice and an incredible charisma.

DVD9 | NTSC 16:9 | 01:49:05 | 7.93 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Italiano
Subtitles: English, Chinese
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance

Director: Robert Dornhelm
Cast: Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazon, Nicole Cabell
Country: Austria, Germany
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May23

Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors / Tini zabutykh predkiv / Тени забытых предков (1964) DVD9, Blu-Ray

by movieworld on May 23rd, 2018 at 16:01
Posted In: .Russian movies, Drama, Musical, Romance

Tini zabutykh predkiv 1964Ethnically Armenian and born in Georgia director Sergei Paradjanov only made four films in a span of nearly 30 years, yet remains one of the most acclaimed Soviet directors of all time. Based on Ukranian folklore, Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors — Paradjanov’s feature debut — is a rare film which demands repeat viewing in order to appreciate its relentless stream of colorful imagery; scene after scene is dazzling in its cinematic innovation. Known as the “Carpathian ‘Romeo and Juliet’,” Shadows transcends cultural boundaries with its universal trope of tragic romantic loss, yet simultaneously remains firmly grounded within the fascinating minutiae of Eastern European village life.

Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors is set in Western Ukraine (Carpathian mountains) circa the 1860's. It spins a seemingly straightforward tale of two lovers, Ivan and Marichka, who develop a magical, passionate bond in childhood, but who are kept apart tragically in life, only to be reunited spiritually in death.

The film also features a detailed portrayal of Ukrainian Hutsul culture, showing not only the harsh Carpathian environment and brutal family rivalries, but also the beauty of Hutsul traditions, music, costumes, and dialect. Fifty years later, Shadows remains both one of the most beautiful and revolutionary films ever made.
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May23

Sayat Nova / The Color of Pomegranates / The Colour of Pomegranates / Цвет граната (1968) 2 x Blu-Ray Second Sight Limited Edition, 2 x DVD and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on May 23rd, 2018 at 11:30
Posted In: .Russian movies, Biography, Drama, History, Musical

Sayat Nova 1968
Probably, besides the cinematic language suggested by Griffith and Eisenstein, the world cinema hasn’t discovered anything revolutionary new until Parajanov’s The Color of Pomegranates. Paradjanov's films also show the influence of Andrei Tarkowsky, a director he greatly admired.

The Colour of Pomegranates is a biography of the great Armenian poet, singer and musician Sayat-Nova. The ‘King of Songs’ wrote is several languages, making him a legend across several countries. Writing and performing at a time of great religious piety (18th century) and a priest himself, he created great romantic and secular works. Parajanov doesn’t attempt to tell the story in a traditional way. Instead, he mixes Sayat-Nova’s writings and his own symbolic (often religious) imagery.
From boyhood discovery of literature, through courtship and monastic life, to eventual death, the film explores not the biographical details of his life, but the spirit of his work through the themes, metaphors, and symbols of which it was crafted.

Director: Sergei Parajanov
Cast: Sofiko Chiaureli, Melkon Alekyan, Spartak Bagashvili
Country: Soviet Union
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
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May21

Public Nuisance No. 1 (1936) DVD5

by movieworld on May 21st, 2018 at 10:53
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Musical

Public Nuisance No. 1 1936
Irresponsible playboy Arthur Rawlings is sent by his uncle to work as a waiter at a hotel in the South of France. Arthur arranges for shop assistant Frances Travers, with whom he has fallen in love, to win a fairground lottery and stay in the hotel as a prize. Complications arise!

DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 01:15:56 | 3.51 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Comedy, Musical

Director: Marcel Varnel
Cast: Frances Day, Arthur Riscoe, Muriel Aked
Country: UK
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May17

Grease Collection: Grease (1978), Grease 2 (1982), Grease Live! (2016) 3 x Blu-Ray 40th Anniversary Edition

by movieworld on May 17th, 2018 at 16:27
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance

Grease Collection
Double bill of musical romantic comedies plus the 2016 live stage adaptation.

Grease is back like never before in this vibrantly remastered edition!

Grease was previously released to Blu-ray in 2009 to decent, if not unspectacular, result. For the film's 40th anniversary, Paramount has returned to the film and released a "fully restored" Blu-ray from the original negative which was "scanned and received extensive clean up and color correction."

This SteelBook edition also includes the inferior sequel 'Grease 2' and 2016's TV event 'Grease Live!'.
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May10

Miles! The Definitive Miles Davis at Montreux DVD Collection (1973–1991) 10 x DVD

by movieworld on May 10th, 2018 at 15:30
Posted In: .Other movies, Documentary, Musical

The Definitive Miles Davis at Montreux Collection
This historically important 10-DVD set captures all of Miles Davis’ performances at the renowned Montreux Jazz Festival between 1973 and 1991, the last being less than three months before his death. Although many tracks are repeated across the years, the concerts are strikingly individual with extensive improvisation and frequent rearrangements. The final concert from 1991 sees Miles Davis paying tribute to his collaborator and close friend Gil Evans who had died in 1988.

With Miles philosophy of never look back it was extraordinary that he would agree to perform such a show and it was a truly unique occasion captured here for posterity. Miles Davis is undeniably one of the most important and successful jazz figures of the 20th century. This unrivalled DVD box set of his live performances at Montreux is a release to be truly cherished.

"These live recordings, spanning nearly 30 years, not only show Miles' creativity but also the major influence he had and still has on today's music. I am very proud that by keeping all these recordings through the years and using only direct mixes, the magic of Montreux can be yours now."
Claude Nobs, director and founder of the Montreux Jazz Festival
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Apr15

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! (1978) DVD9 and Blu-Ray

by movieworld on April 15th, 2018 at 12:48
Posted In: .Other movies, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Horror, Musical

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! 1978
A housewife prepares dinner one evening in the kitchen when suddenly a large tomato emerges from the plughole of the sink and leaps for her. When the police arrive to find her dead, they think that she has blood on her, but the detective in charge discovers differently - it's really tomato juice. From all over America reports are coming in of tomatoes attacking innocent people, but the government want to keep it quiet and deliberately sit on the stories. The Press Secretary Jim Richardson (George Wilson) attends a meeting of the military top brass to decide what to do, but with more and more attacks taking place, the situation is getting quickly out of control...

BD25 + DVD9 | 1080p AVC, NTSC | 01:23:13 | 21.9 Gb + 7.65 Gb
Language: English
Subtitles: none

Director: John De Bello
Cast: David Miller, George Wilson, Sharon Taylor
Country: USA
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Musical, Sci-Fi
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Apr12

Vitaphone Varieties Volume Three: 16 Short Subjects (1928-1929) DVD9

by movieworld on April 12th, 2018 at 16:42
Posted In: .Other movies, Musical

Vitaphone Varieties Volume Three
It's time to once again take your front-row seats to the best variety show of the Jazz Age, as the vaunted and venerable Vitaphone presents a third collection of vintage Vaudeville and more sound shorts! Stars and almost-stars of song, stage and screen from the East Coast to the West Coast can all be seen - and most importantly heard - in this scintillating collection of 16 shorts that present a passport to the vanished entertainments of 1928 and 1929.

Most of these one-reel shorts feature performers that were recruited from the vaudeville circuits. (One performer didn't even bother to change the patter in his act, and discusses how everyone came out to see a vaudeville show.) At the time these were surely just a quick and easy way to fill out the bill, but it's wonderful that these acts have been preserved since it gives modern viewers a chance to see what type of entertainment could be viewed at a vaudeville show. While none of the people appearing here really made it to the big time, and it's not unfair to say that they've all been forgotten (though some do rank a footnote in the cinematic history books) they're all worth watching.
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Apr04

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967) DVD5 MGM, Blu-Ray Twilight Time

by movieworld on April 4th, 2018 at 17:59
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Musical

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying 1967
Based on the successful book by Shepherd Mead, and the even more successful musical of the same name, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying hit the big screen in 1967 in an attempt to make some more cash on the brand, bringing along some of the Broadway cast to make the transition.

J. Pierpont Finch (Robert Morse) is a lowly window cleaner with dreams of making it big in the business world. After finding a copy of the book "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," Finch decides to apply the tactics in the book to his own life. Soon, he's working as a mail-room clerk at the World Wide Wicket Company and quickly fighting his way up the corporate ladder with relative ease in this quirky musical based on the hit Broadway production.

Director: David Swift
Cast: Robert Morse, Michele Lee, Rudy Vallee, Anthony 'Scooter' Teague
Country: USA
Genre: Comedy, Musical
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