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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
This intimate portrait of modern jazz pianist, Barry Harris, becomes a historic walk with some of the best-known jazz musicians of the 1950's and 60's. Memorable scenes span from archival footage of Harris playing at his piano to more recent reminiscing about his circle of friends and influences, such as Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, and Miles Davis. Dubbed the "key conservator" of bebop music by Gary Giddins, Jazz Critic for The...
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Everyone is all masked up. We are all strangers to each other. Would we recognize each other without our masks? Not likely. We are hiding from a virulent disease, but at the same time, we are hiding from each other. Or are we? Who knows? Maybe, since we’re all masked up anyway, it’s a perfect opportunity to rob a bank.
65) Don't Be Nice
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
The upstart Bowery Slam Poetry Team, made up of five young African-American, Afro-Hispanic and queer poets, prepares for the national championships. Mentored by a demanding coach who pushes them past their personal boundaries to write from a painfully honest place, the poets break down, break through, and compose their best work ever. Will their soul-searching pieces about police violence and the whitewashing of Black culture be able to compete against...
67) Everybody Dance
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
This extremely touching film reveals the everyday challenges of kids with different disabilities, and how ballet has changed their lives. The film explores the lives of five kids, and their incredible dance teacher, as they prepare for an emotional end of year dance recital.
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
This documentary detail and analyze the intimate psychological journey of Norma Jeane Baker, calling on never-before-interviewed relatives and experts in the field of psychology. The result of 10 years of extensive research, we are now able to unravel the myth of Marilyn and correct the wild inaccuracies found within so many documentaries and biographies. So many people have been taken in by the pre-approved, media friendly story, which was in fact...
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
On May 1st, 2009, Amy Jordan, a New York City-based former professional dancer crossed the street and was hit and ran over by a 15 ton NYC Express. Her immediate thought was, “Am I ever going to dance again?” Her second thought was, “ If I survive the night, there will be a Victory Dance!”
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Rolling Stones bassist Darryl Jones reflects on growing up on the South Side of Chicago, playing alongside Miles Davis, Madonna, and Sting, and replacing Bill Wyman in the World's Greatest Rock and Roll Band. Featuring interviews with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood, Charlie Watts and more.
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Vija Celimns’ intricate works of ocean waves, desert floors, and celestial skies pare art down to its essence, reminding us of the complexity found in the natural world and the human attempt to represent it. Born in Latvia in 1938, Celmins immigrated to Indiana with her family in 1948, fleeing Soviet occupation. She attended graduate school at UCLA in the 1960s, and remained in Los Angeles, one of the few female artists of her generation recognized...
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Movies about movies—they always seem to have scenes set in screening rooms. And we, the audiences, are invited in, to see how the film business works. The screening rooms seem to be sacrosanct chapels where one can worship but it’s also a place where the people behind the movie screens can let their hair down and reveal their most inner thoughts about each other. It’s a private place in a very public arena. It’s a microcosm of the world but...
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Join Scott Yoo, renowned violinist and conductor of the Mexico City Philharmonic, in NOW HEAR THIS, a new four-part documentary miniseries presented by Great Performances that merges music, storytelling, and travel, as he chases the secret histories of some of the greatest music ever written.
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
A primetime PBS miniseries that brings the greatest music ever written to millions of viewers, with modern storytelling that captivates. NOW HEAR THIS opens the world of classical music to new audiences, while giving existing fans new ways to love their music. Now Hear This is presented by Great Performances, celebrating its 50th season on PBS, and this year begins international distribution.
76) A Life in Waves
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Explores the life and innovations of composer and electronic music pioneer, Suzanne Ciani. This documentary is a nostalgic look at one woman's journey, and the trials she overcame to succeed in a traditionally male-dominated art form.
78) Hand Gestures
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Historic Italian sculptor Giacomo Manzù used to say that the sculpture is a hand gesture, a gesture of love. This documentary follows the process of creating one of Velasco Vitali’s famous dog sculptures, from wax to glazed bronze, at Fonderia Artistica Battaglia (Battaglia Artistic Foundry) in Milan. The film observes the work of a group of skilled artisans in this 100-year-old foundry and reveals the ancient traditions of bronze sculpture making,...
Pub. Date
1994.
Description
Visionary, radical, spiritual seeker, renowned poet, founding member of a major literary movement, champion of human rights, Buddhist, political activist and teacher – Allen Ginsberg’s remarkable life shaped the very soul of American counterculture. For 25 years, Academy Award®-nominated director Jerry Aronson accumulated more than 60 hours of film on Allen Ginsberg, resulting in this comprehensive portrait of one of America’s greatest poets,...
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