“It must ‘schwing!'” was the motto of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, two German Jewish immigrants who in 1939 set up Blue Note Records Read More »
Musical
The Continental Twist (1961) Allan David, William J. Hole Jr., Louis Prima, June Wilkinson, Sam Butera
Counterpoint (1967) Ralph Nelson, Charlton Heston, Maximilian Schell, Kathryn Hays
In December of 1944, Lionel Evans, an internationally renowned American conductor Read More »
Pardon My Sarong (1942) Erle C. Kenton, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Virginia Bruce
A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest Read More »
Amazing Grace (2018) Alan Elliott, Sydney Pollack, Aretha Franklin, James Cleveland
A documentary presenting Aretha Franklin with choir at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles in January 1972. Read More »
Endless Waltz (1995) Kôji Wakamatsu, Leona Hirota, Kou Machida, Haruko Sagara
Koji Wakamatsu’s biopic about a Japanese free jazz/improvisation saxophonist named Kaoru Abe. Read More »
Monster Dog (1984) Claudio Fragasso, Alice Cooper, Victoria Vera, Carlos Santurio
Alice Cooper plays a pop star who takes his band to his hometown to shoot his latest video. Read More »
Her Kind of Man (1946) Frederick De Cordova
A nightclub singer is caught between a big-time gangster and a tough Broadway columnist. Read More »
Ride ‘Em Cowboy (1942) Arthur Lubin, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Dick Foran
Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. Read More »
Fairy Tales (1978) Harry Hurwitz, Don Sparks, Sy Richardson, Irwin Corey
On his twenty-first birthday, the Prince goes on a quest that takes him across the land searching Read More »