
Ram Bowen and Eddie Cook are two expatriate jazz musicians living in Paris where, unlike the US at the time, Jazz musicians are celebrated and racism is a non-issue. Read More »
Musical
A Damsel in Distress (1937) George Stevens, Fred Astaire, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Comedy, Musical, Romance

Lady Alyce Marshmorton has to marry soon, along with the team of Tottney Castle have set bets on who she will select, with youthful Albert wagering on”Mr. X.” Read More »
Just Imagine (1930) David Butler, El Brendel, Maureen O’Sullivan, John Garrick, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance, Sci-Fi

New York, 1980: planes have substituted automobiles, numbers have substituted titles, tablets have replaced meals Read More »
Vitaphone Cavalcade of Musical Comedy – Disc Six (1935-38) Vitaphone in TECHNICOLOR!, Comedy, Musical, Short

In 1926, Warner Bros.’ Vitaphone branch made movie history with its “sound-on-disc” recording process, and the studio-within-a-studio would go on to make a variety of short subjects Read More »
Marat/Sade (1967) Peter Brook, Patrick Magee, Clifford Rose, Glenda Jackson, Drama, History, Music

July 13, 1808 in the Charenton Insane Asylum just outside Paris. Read More »
The Cannibals (1988) Manoel de Oliveira, Luís Miguel Cintra, Leonor Silveira, Diogo Dória, Musical, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

This odd film is a major representative of an even odder film genre: direct-to-celluloid opera. Read More »
Joan at the Stake (1954) Roberto Rossellini, Ingrid Bergman, Tullio Carminati, Giacinto Prandelli, Biography, Drama, History, Musical

The film takes place mostly in a surrealistic fantasy around the time of the execution of Joan of Arc. Joan of Arc, played by Ingrid Bergman, is being burned alive for heresy. Read More »
The Lemon Drop Kid (1951) Sidney Lanfield, Frank Tashlin, Bob Hope, Marilyn Maxwell, Lloyd Nolan, Comedy, Crime, Musical, Romance

When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally steers Moose Moran’s girl away from a winning bet, he is forced to come up with $10,000 to repay the angry gangster. Read More »
Wattstax (1973) Mel Stuart, The Dramatics, The Staple Singers, Kim Weston, Documentary, Comedy, Music

Documentary with a selection from a non-stop 7-hour musical event at Watts, the Los Angeles Coliseum, August 20, 1972. Read More »
High, Wide and Handsome (1937) Rouben Mamoulian, Irene Dunne, Randolph Scott, Dorothy Lamour, Musical, Western

The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in town with their traveling medicine show Read More »