In 1927 Kansas City Pete Kelly and his jazz band play nightly at a speakeasy. Read More »
Musical
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1953) Roy Rowland, Peter Lind Hayes, Mary Healy, Hans Conried
The bane of adolescent Bart Collins’ existence is the piano lessons he is forced to take under the tutelage of Dr. Terwilliker Read More »
Two Hearts in Waltz Time (1930) Géza von Bolváry, Walter Janssen, Oskar Karlweis, Willi Forst
Toni Hofer and brothers Vicki and Nicki Mahler are working on a new operetta. Read More »
Quay of the Goldsmiths (1947) Henri-Georges Clouzot, Louis Jouvet, Simone Renant, Bernard Blier
Jenny Lamour wants to succeed in music hall. Her husband and accompanist is Maurice Martineau, a nice but jealous guy. Read More »
Starstruck (1982) Gillian Armstrong, Joey Kennedy, Ross O’Donovan, Margo Lee
Young woman wants to become the next big singer with the help of her friends and despite the wishes of her working class family. Read More »
Carnival in Moscow (1956) Eldar Ryazanov, Igor Ilyinsky, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Yuri Belov
This Russian musical manages to satirize Soviet life without ever offending the Politburo. Read More »
I’ll Get By (1950) Richard Sale, June Haver, William Lundigan, Gloria DeHaven
Updated version of “Tin Pan Alley” concerns two songwriters Read More »
Donkey Skin (1970) Jacques Demy, Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, Jacques Perrin
The education of a princess wrapped in a love story. Read More »
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) Jacques Demy, Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon
The lives of Geneviève Emery and Guy Foucher of Cherbourg, France are presented in four acts. Read More »
Ornette: Made in America (1985) Shirley Clarke, Ornette Coleman, John Giordano
Ornette: Made In America captures Ornette’s evolution over three decades. Read More »
Renegades of the West (1932) Casey Robinson, Tom Keene, Roscoe Ates, Betty Furness
Tom Bagby has gone to prison to learn of his father’s killer. Read More »
Smithereens (1982) Susan Seidelman, Susan Berman, Brad Rijn, Richard Hell
An restless and abrasive young woman eschews the affections of a sensitive young portrait artist Read More »
Beautiful But Broke (1944) Charles Barton, Joan Davis, John Hubbard, Jane Frazee
Theatrical agent Waldo Main (John Eldredge) is inducted into the army Read More »
Year of the Horse (1997) Neil Young, Jim Jarmusch, Ralph Molina
This film documents Neil Young and Crazy Horse’s 1996 concert tour. Read More »
That’ll Be the Day (1973) Claude Whatham, David Essex, Ringo Starr, Rosemary Leach
Abandoned by his father at an early age, Jim MacLaine seems to have inherited the old man’s restlessness. Read More »