John Cale: Fragments of a Rainy Season (2004)
Gênero : Música
Runtime : 1H 1M
Director : Jacquemin Piel
Sinopse
Solo live concert recorded in Brussels, April 12, 1992. Tracks: 1) On A Wedding Anniversary 2) Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed 3) Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night 4) The Soul of Carmen Miranda 5) Cordoba 6) Ship Of Fools 7) Leaving It Up To You 8) The Ballad Of Cable Hogue 9) Chinese Envoy 10) Fear Is A Man's Best Friend 11) Dying On The Vine 12) Heartbreak Hotel 13) Paris 1919 14) (I Keep A) Close Watch 15) Hallelujah
Após terminarem seu show, uma banda de rock acaba testemunhando um terrível ato de violência e um brutal assassinato. Como eles são as únicas testemunhas do crime, eles logos se tornam o principal alvo de uma gangue de skinheads. A banda, então, terá que se refugiar na "sala verde" se quiser sobreviver a "queima de arquivos" promovida pelos brutais assassinos.
Instrument is a documentary film directed by Jem Cohen about the band Fugazi. Cohen's relationship with band member Ian MacKaye extends back to the 1970s when the two met in high school in Washington, D.C.. The film takes its title from the Fugazi song of the same name, from their 1993 album, In on the Kill Taker. Editing of the film was done by both Cohen and the members of the band over the course of five years. It was shot from 1987 through 1998 on super 8, 16mm and video and is composed mainly of footage of concerts, interviews with the band members, practices, tours and time spent in the studio recording their 1995 album, Red Medicine. The film also includes portraits of fans as well as interviews with them at various Fugazi shows around the United States throughout the years.
An archive celebration of studio performances from the British bands that broke through courtesy of punk between 1975 and 1982. Starting with Dr Feelgood and Eddie and the Hot Rods and culminating in Gang of Four, with performances from Top of the Pops, The Old Grey Whistle Test, Something Else and other shows by The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Buzzcocks, The Damned, Joy Division, Siouxsie and the Banshees and many more. Hey ho, let's go!
Um documentário sobre uma banda norte-americana que tocava punk ou proto-punk. Em virtude de estigmas da sociedade dos anos 70, a banda nunca conseguiu vingar. Até que há uns anos atrás o único registo discográfico da banda foi descoberto.
Documentário sobre a banda The Stooges, liderada pelo ícone do rock Iggy Pop. Através de entrevistas e imagens de arquivos, o doc apresenta um olhar aprofundado sobre a carreira, a obra, a trajetória.
What happens when a generation's ultimate anti-authoritarians — punk rockers — become society's ultimate authorities — dad's? With a large chorus of Punk Rock's leading men — Blink-182's Mark Hoppus, Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea, Rise Against's Tim McIlrath — The Other F Word follows Jim Lindberg, 20-year veteran of skate punk band, Pennywise, on his hysterical and moving journey from belting his band's anthem, 'Fuck Authority', to embracing his ultimately pivotal authoritarian role in mid-life, fatherhood.
Bodi é um cão tibetano que vive em uma aldeia cheia de ovelhas indefesas e se prepara para substituir seu pai como vigia do lugar. Mas tudo muda no dia em que um rádio cai literalmente do céu e a música abre o seu coração.
La Bamba descreve a ascenção meteórica de um rapaz de 17 anos, de descendência mexicana, desde seu trabalho no campo até ser um astro do rock nos Estados Unidos, mostrando seus grandes sucessos e o seu encontro com o destino. Impulsionado pelos hits de Richie Valens, nas interpretações ganhadoras de um Grammy pela banda Los Lobos, bem como de clássicas dos anos 1950, La Bamba recria os emocionantes primeiros dias do rock e presta uma homenagem ao legado de um inesquecível talento, cuja música ultrapassou todas as fronteiras.
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Lá vive Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker, um bad boy que é líder de um grupo. Ele é conhecido como "Cry-Baby" em virtude de chorar apenas por um olho, mas agora está apaixonado por Allison Vernon-Williams, uma jovem rica que é criada pela avó, Mrs. Vernon-Williams, que considera "Cry-Baby" um delinquente juvenil e não quer vê-lo junto da neta. Além disto, Baldwin, o namorado de Allison que é líder dos "quadrados", está totalmente contra "Cry-Baby" e o resto dos delinquentes juvenis, assim lidera uma guerra santa contra eles. Isto gera pancadaria e vandalismo e os jovens delinquentes são considerados culpados pelo caos, mas são liberados pelo juiz, com exceção de "Cry-Baby", que é mandado para um reformatório.
Dewey Finn (Jack Black) é um músico que acaba de ser demitido de sua banda. Cheio de dívidas para pagar e sem ter o que fazer, ele aceita dar aulas como professor substituto em uma escola particular de discilipla rígida. Logo Dewey se torna um exemplo para seus alunos, sendo que alguns deles se juntam ao professor para montar uma banda local, sem o conhecimento de seus pais.
Rob Gordon é o dono de uma loja de música beira da falência, pois apenas vende discos em vinil. Azarado no amor e ao mesmo tempo uma enciclopédia ambulante sobre música pop, os caminhos da vida terminam por levá-lo a analisar suas escolhas e prioridades, fazendo com que se torne uma pessoa mais madura.
O amor pela música uniu Liam (Josh Whitehouse), um artista batalhador e colecionador de vinis, e Natalie (Freya Mavor), que abandonou seu sonho de criar capas de álbuns e se tornou uma publicitária bem sucedida. Com os acontecimentos da vida afastando cada vez mais o casal, a trilha sonora do seu relacionamento continua os mantendo juntos.
Londres, verão de 2003. Matt (Kieran O'Brien) conhece Lisa (Margo Stilley), uma jovem estudante americana, em meio a um show. Eles logo se apaixonam, vivendo um intenso relacionamento sexual entremeado por vários shows que acompanham.
Hilly Kristal queria abrir uma casa de shows de country em Nova York, mas passa a acolher shows de rock com a condição de que todas as músicas sejam autorais, apadrinhando várias bandas como Ramones, Talking Heads e Blondie.
No início dos anos 80, Stevo e Heroin Bob são os dois únicos punks na conservadora Salt Lake City.
Dois empregados de um armazém de medicamentos encontram no subsolo do estabelecimento barris do exército, lacrados e acidentalmente liberam um gás mortal no ar. Esse gás acaba re-animando os Mortos de um cemitério próximo, que vão querer apenas uma coisa dos vivos: seus miolos.
A ardente chefe criminosa Lucy Diamond (Jordana Brewster de Velozes e Furiosos) está novamente na ativa e as D.E.B.S. - uma equipe de elite de super espiãs colegiais paramilitares - estão à sua procura. Mas quando sua melhor agente, a estonteante Amy Bradshaw (Sara Foster de O Golpe), desaparece misteriosamente depois de ficar frente a frente com a atraente vilã, as D.E.B.S. começam uma procura incansável pelo esconderijo secreto de Lucy e nem suspeitam que Amy talvez não queira ser resgatada nesta paródia sobre espiãs sensuais e seus encontros amorosos com armas.
Um jornalista investigativo e uma hacker de computador são contratados para desvendar o desaparecimento de uma jovem há 36 anos. À medida que avançam na investigação crescem os riscos, pois a família da jovem não quer ter seus segredos revelados.
Na Califórnia dos anos 70, uma mãe (Annette Bening) tenta cuidar de sua família da melhor forma possível enquanto também procura respostas para as vidas de suas duas jovens amigas - uma fotógrafa aficionada pela cultura punk (Greta Gerwig), e uma amiga de seu filho (Elle Fanning).
A comedy based on NBC's "People Are Funny" radio (and later television) program with Art Linkletter with a fictional story of how the program came to be on a national network from its humble beginning at a Nevada radio station. Jack Haley is a producer with only half-rights to the program while Ozzie Nelson and Helen Walker are the radio writers and supply the romance. Rudy Vallee, always able to burlesque himself intentional and, quite often, unintentional, is the owner of the sought-after sponsoring company. Frances Langford, as herself, sings "I'm in the Mood for Love" while the Vagabonds quartet (billed 12th and last) chimes in on "Angeline" and "The Old Square Dance is Back Again."
At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of several of his fellow leading French revolutionaries including Georges Danton.
Produced in 1943 under the guidance of Army Air Force Lieutenant Clark Gable, this film follows a single 8th Air Force B-17 crew from training through a series of missions over Europe.
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A girl has to decide who to marry: a poor country boy or a rich nightclub owner.
Moody, atmospheric ghost story starring Mason as a retired tradesman who purchases an old mansion that has been vacant for 40 years because it is believed to be haunted by the spirit of a young woman who had died there. Unaware of the mansion's reputation, Mason and his wife Mullen move in and hire a young woman, Lockwood, to keep house. Soon after Lockwood's arrival, strange things begin to happen in the household, and it becomes apparent that she is possessed by the spirit of the dead girl, though Mason scoffs at the idea. On death's door and bedridden, Lockwood asks for the same doctor who treated the woman who died 40 years ago. He arrives and treats her. The next morning Lockwood is cured, and it is revealed by the police that the doctor's dead body was found in his carriage hours before the time Mason claims he arrived to see Lockwood. Convinced that not only the ghost of the girl but that of the doctor as well entered his home, Mason finally believes in the supernatural.
A loving couple struggle to fend for themselves in modern day Los Angeles, One a loner and down and out, the other a lonely but hardworking secretary. Eventually, as cracks form in their passionate relationship, they resort to robbing an aging actress for money.
A filmmaker returns to Normandy thirty years after a working on a movie based on a local homicide and tries to find the actors who worked on the project.
This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journey of discovery through over a century of German film history. Ten people working in film today remember their favourite films of yesteryear.
The story of the Dassau family, a family of artists: Frau Dassau is a composer, her husband is a writer, and their children are equally gifted as painters, poets and musicians. But unfortunately, no one wants to invest money in their art. The family is about to starve when Nicole comes up with a marvelous idea: She is going to write the "most scandalous book", the sex memoirs of a teenager. For this, she hides under the pseudonym of Eva. The book becomes an enormous success indeed, but Nicole's parents are decent people, and the public interest in their sluttish daughter begins to bother them. Things begin to get even more unpleasant when Nicole falls in love with an American publisher who'd prefer a virgin…
Four nights in Caracas. A documentary essay about chaos and civilization.
On Christmas Eve, Léa and Juliette, a couple, want to rob a supermarket that Juliette knows is empty of surveillance on this festive evening. But, as much for each of them as for Eric, the vigil who is there after all, nothing will happen as planned. Besides, shortly before leaving him alone, the store manager gave Eric a gun, just in case.
While Douglas Coupland works on a grand art project about Canada, the writer recounts his life and his musings about the various aspects of Canadian identity.
I love Vienna is a social comedy that explores the clash of cultures and values.
Based on a story by Vietnam veteran Paul Staples, the film concerns six American Green Berets, held for 17 years in a Vietnamese POW camp. They are finally released in secret, during a delicate trade-talk session between Vietnam and the United States. Captain Tom Watkins, the ex-prisoners' CO, begins to suspect that government-man Adam Roth, who is in charge of the debriefing, may be pursuing a hidden agenda that will result in the early deaths of Watkins and the five men under his command.
A humorous and satirical comedy, which places a man from the year 2222 one day in the (then) present day life in GDR, East Germany under Communist regime. Using a crystal for mind reading he uncovers some improprieties and moral weaknesses in the "Beautiful future" professed by VEB ("Volkseigener Betrieb" – "State Owned Holdings").
The subject of this historical drama is a splintering Berlin in the years of 1948 and 1949. Played against the backdrop of social upheaval, the characters in the drama come to epitomize the best and worst of each pole of the political sphere. A 17-year-old hoodlum by the name of Gladow works hand-in-glove with a local white-collar criminal to rob and pillage every day and night, defying capture. While he and his gang of thugs are terrorizing the people of Berlin, the Soviets are trying to make the blockade of their region of control impermeable. The future casts long shadows over the drama, as Berlin's problems take the shape of times to come.
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