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La verdadera historia de amor con una heredera británica de jazz Thelonious Monk.
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"Jazz Seen" is an exploration of the life of William Claxton, whose photographs turned the world of jazz on its keen and perceptive ear. Various jazz artists, photographers, and actors recount memories they had with Claxton and explore his work, while parts of his life are re-enacted by actors.
An American film-critic flies to Berlin to investigate about the life of German film-maker Murnau. After meeting his former girlfriend and finding a statue near Murnau´s tomb, begins a strange mystic journey through time and space: a romantic unification of ancient and modern world, suspicions and memories, art and life. And the critic is about to learn something new of himself...
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An American film-critic flies to Berlin to investigate about the life of German film-maker Murnau. After meeting his former girlfriend and finding a statue near Murnau´s tomb, begins a strange mystic journey through time and space: a romantic unification of ancient and modern world, suspicions and memories, art and life. And the critic is about to learn something new of himself...
Mr. Jazz
Felix is a down-and-out young drummer who obtains a pair of magic drumsticks from a street vendor. He soon finds out the sticks are able to make native New Yorkers dance uncontrollably.
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Sátira de la situación multiracial de América. Se entremezclan secuencias con actores y de animación, siguiendo la historia del Hermano Conejo, Hermano Oso y Preacher Fox, que deben escalar puestos en el organigrama criminal de Harlen, enfrentándose por el camino con un policía racista e incluso la mafia.
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Un abogado de San Francisco es contratado para defender a un militante negro acusado de asesinato. (FILMAFFINITY)
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Hippies, peace-niks, students, beautiful girls, civil righters, old ladies and more, protest the war. Who dares to say that they don't influence the mainstream? Beautiful color and exciting montage capture the feeling and motion of the march on the United Nations.
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Carol Ledoux es una bella y reprimida joven belga que vive con su hermana Helen en un apartamento de Londres. Carol experimenta sentimientos simultáneos y contradictorios de atracción y repulsión hacia los hombres; por eso para ella resulta tan incómoda la relación que mantiene su hermana con un hombre casado. Cuando la pareja se marcha de vacaciones, Carol comienza a tener alucinaciones y su mente se desquicia.
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This newly rediscovered short was created in Jim's home studio in Bethesda, MD around 1961. It is one of several experimental shorts inspired by the music of jazz great Chico Hamilton. At the end, in footage probably shot by Jerry Juhl, Jim demonstrates his working method.
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An abstract animated film inspired by the work of jazz musician Chico Hamilton.
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Set at the Newport jazz festival in 1958, this documentary mixes images of water and the town with performers and audience. The film progresses from day to night and from improvisational music to Gospel. It's a concert film that suggests peace and leisure, jazz at a particular time and place.
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CAT AND MOUSE is Jim Henson’s second and more ambitious interpretation of a composition from jazz drummer Chico Hamilton whom Jim met and collaborated with in 1961. This short, imbued with sly humor, portrays a brief narrative of the dance performed when predator meets prey. Working in his home studio in Maryland, Jim used collage and drawings to animate a story, displaying his unique visual shorthand used to create distinctive characters.
Chico Hamilton Quintet Drummer & Leader (uncredited)
Burt Lancaster y Tony Curtis se adentran en el misterioso mundo de la fauna nocturna que puebla el centro de Manhattan, en un juego siniestro de poder y en un universo de supervivencia. Con uno de los diálogos más corrosivos del cine de todos los tiempos esta película es uno de los títulos más grandes que Hollywood ha creado. Burt Lancaster, encarna a un poderoso, famoso y ambicioso columnista que domina toda una ciudad a través de la información que habitualmente consumen sus más de 60 millones de lectores. Pero como todo el mundo tiene un punto débil: su hermana pequeña. Todo cambiará cuando ésta se enamora apasionadamente de un guitarrista de jazz y los instintos más básicos del periodista salgan a relucir.
