The Queers Are Here (2007)
Gênero : Música
Runtime : 1H 4M
Sinopse
Formed in 1981, The Queers have played everywhere with everyone. And now, they are here. Live performances, interviews, and music videos spanning from 1993 to 2005 are all included.
Animator Ryan Larkin does a visual improvisation to music performed by a popular group presented as sidewalk entertainers. His take-off point is the music, but his own beat is more boisterous than that of the musicians. The illustrations range from convoluted abstractions to caricatures of familiar rituals. Without words.
In December 2006 a 22 year old Amy Winehouse traveled to Dingle to record a performance and interview for seminal Irish music TV series Other Voices. This is the story of that day. When Amy Came to Dingle is a gentle and fascinating portrait of one of musics most extraordinary talents, who passed away in July of this year. The programe steps back to a time and a place when vitality, promise and potential were Amys calling cards, before her personal troubles overtook her enormous musical achievements and tabloid headlines defined her life. Just before 9pm on December 3rd, 2006, Amy Winehouse took to the stage at St. James Church and in an emotional and personal performance she claimed the hearts of the tiny audience that packed the church to its rafters.
The mice are on the loose after hours in a doctor's office, playing with the various pieces of medical apparatus. Susie Mouse is caged for research until her lover Johnnie frees her. A mouse orchestra plays a swinging wedding song. But throughout, a cat is stalking...
In the film "You Don't Need Feet to Dance," African immigrant Sidiki Conde, having lost the use of his legs to polio at fourteen, balances his career as a performing artist with the almost insurmountable obstacles of life in New York City, from his fifth-floor walk up apartment in the East village, down the stairs with his hands and navigating in his wheelchair through Manhattan onto buses and into the subway. Sidiki struggles to cope with his disability and to earn a decent living, but he still manages to teach workshops for disabled kids, busk on the street, rehearse with his musical group, bicycle with his hands, and prepare for a baby naming ceremony, where he plays djembe drums, sings, and dances on his hands.
Documentary about the 1965 Motown Revue UK tour and the Ready Steady Go! TV special.
A group of bored teenagers rebel against authority in the community of New Granada.
Barbra Streisand grew up in working class Brooklyn, dreaming of escape from her tough childhood. A stellar student, she resisted the pressure to go to college as her sights were firmly set on Broadway. She was determined to become an actress and landed her first role aged 16, but it was two years later, when she started to sing, that her career took off. Subverting stereotypes and breaking glass ceilings, this programme looks at her rise to stardom and the remarkable achievements of her early career.
SOUND OF THE SOUL is a compelling portrait of an Arab country where Muslims, Christians, and Jews have lived together in relative peace for centuries. Beautifully photographed during the Fez Festival of World Sacred Music, the film presents unforgettable performances from groups from Morocco, Ireland, Russia, Afghanistan, Mauritania, the USA, Portugal and France, which carry viewers into what the film's Moroccan sufi guide calls "the hearing of the heart": the essential Oneness at the core of all religions and faiths.
Armin Only é um evento de música eletrônica performado por Armin van Buuren. O evento consiste em vários generos da música eletrônica (porém o mais predominante é o Trance), luz, laser e um show de fogos de artifícios e com a interpretação de cantores/vocalistas como Raccon (edição 2005), Ilse de Lange (edição 2006) e Audrey Gallagher interpretando 'Big Sky' de John O'Callaghan.
A teenage boy and his mother are on the run. The father is violent and has a history of beating up his wife. They manage to get away from him and drive far away, until they arrive in a small town where they settle down. They rent a house from a nice man and soon they forget everything that has happened in the past, until the boy begins to have bad dreams of his father.
The film is about the difficult situation in which the Pakistanis in particular and the Muslims in general are caught up since 9/11. There is a war going on between the Fundamentalists and the Liberal Muslims. This situation is creating a drift not only between the Western world and the Muslims, but also within the Muslims. The educated and modern Muslims are in a difficult situation because of their approach towards life and their western attire. They are criticized and harassed by the fundamentalists and on the other hand the Western world sees them as potential suspects of terrorism just because of their Muslim names.
Xiang Lun , jovem e talentoso pianista, é transferido para uma prestigiada escola de arte e música. Logo no seu primeiro dia de aula, caminhando pelo campus junto a uma de suas colegas de classe, ele ouve uma misteriosa melodia ecoar de um dos salões de música mais próximos. Intrigado, ao seguir aquela estranha e distante música, ele chega a uma antiga sala e se depara com uma garota que, por sua vez, admite ser a pessoa que estava a tocar o velho piano. Mais tarde, após a aula, Xiang Lun segue a estudante e lhe pergunta qual seria o nome daquela música que ela havia tocado, e, em resposta à sua pergunta, a jovem sussurra em seu ouvido: “Esse é o meu segredo”.
Absolutely Irish brings together the brightest stars of traditional Irish music for a once-in-a-lifetime concert that will leave folk music fans stunned by the virtuoso performances. Filmed live at the intimate Irish Arts Center in New York City's famed Hell's Kitchen neighborhood, Irish music impresario Mick Moloney presents three generation of brilliant musicians. They display their mastery on favorite songs and traditional tunes, and rock the hall with their passionate performances. With special guest appearances by two living legends – flute player Mike Rafferty and Irish dancer Jo McNamara – and an inspiring rendition of Leaving Liverpool performed by the entire ensemble, Absolutely Irish shocases the best talent on the Irish music scene today.
When a Hong Kong teenager from a poor family wins a trip to Japan, he unleashes a chain of events that will soon bring him from his secluded fishing village to Tokyo. On the way, he connects with a barely competent tour guide and a gender-fluid pickpocket. Upon returning home with this merry band of schemers, he and his family of counterfeiters discover that a multinational conglomerate led by a ruthless Japanese developer has found the village, and is determined to raze it to build the new center of world trade.
Harry Styles apresenta novas faixas de seu primeiro álbum de estreia como artista solo, junto com covers de canções clássicas. Ele está acompanhado por sua banda e se apresenta para uma plateia ao vivo no estúdio.
An offbeat, irreverent musical documentary that tells the story of a group of Jewish songwriters, including Irving Berlin, Mel Tormé, Jay Livingston, Ray Evans, Gloria Shayne Baker and Johnny Marks, who wrote the soundtrack to Christianity’s most musical holiday. It’s an amazing tale of immigrant outsiders who became irreplaceable players in pop culture’s mainstream – a generation of songwriters who found in Christmas the perfect holiday in which to imagine a better world, and for at least one day a year, make us believe.
A Life in Waves explores the life and innovations of composer and electronic music pioneer, Suzanne Ciani.
Bruce Springsteen, amplamente aclamado como um dos maiores cantores/compositores de todos os tempos, olha para trás e reflete sobre sua vida como um músico de sucesso. Sua reflexão é combinada com trechos de performance ao vivo e as suas próprias palavras.
In 1936, two female artists (a singer and a pianist) visit the city of Lushnja, which was very conservative.
A mockumentary about a fictional Finnish boy band The Joyboys.