Antonio VivaldiFilmography

4

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Actors: Sayaka Shoji, Niki Vasilakis, Lin Cho-liang, Pekka Kuusisto

Synopsis: As directed by Aussie helmer Tim Slade, the documentary 4 constitutes a protracted cinematic meditation on the four seasons. Slade divides his film into four sections: spring, summer, fall and winter. Each section features a soundtrack performance of one of Vivaldi's Four Seasons by a different Read More

To Love Someone

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Actors: Sofia Ledarp, Rolf Lassgård, Jonas Karlsson, Camilla Larsson, Gustaf Hammarsten

Synopsis: Prolific Danish screenwriter Kim Fupz Aakeson teams with veteran director Ake Sandgren to explore a most unconventional love triangle. Grieving fisherman Alf (Rolf Lassgård) is mourning the loss of his younger girlfriend Lena (Sofia Ledarp). Though the pair had spent but a few months together Read More

The Four Seasons

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Synopsis: From Vox Music Group comes this installment in the DVD Impressions series that blends together breathtaking visuals with some of the best-loved music in history. The Four Seasons features a dozen pieces from composer Antonio Vivaldi as performed by violinist Susanne Lautenbacher and the Read More

H6: Diary of a Serial Killer

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Actors: Fernando Acaso, Maria Jose Bausa, Martin Garrido, Raquel Arenas, Sonia Moreno

Synopsis: A friendly face masks the mind of a twisted serial killer in Spanish painter-turned-filmmaker Martin Garrido Barón's disturbing tale of a man who has finally succumbed to his most violent and murderous impulses. Antonio Frau (Fernando Acaso) has just been released from prison after serving 25 Read More

Secret Things

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Actors: Coralie Revel, Sabrina Seyvecou, Roger Mirmont, Fabrice Deville, Blandine Bury

Synopsis: Two young women try to climb the corporate ladder using their feminine wiles in this erotic melodrama from French director Jean-Claude Brisseau. At the beginning of the film, Nathalie (Coralie Revel) and Sandrine (Sabrina Seyvecou) work in a strip club, where Nathalie wows the customers with her Read More

Why Vivaldi?

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Actors: Mickey White, Michael Talbot, Federico Maria Sardelli, Antonio Fauna, Karl Geck

Fireplace: Visions of Tranquility

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Synopsis: From DVD International, the people behind Digital Video Essentials, comes Fireplace, a special DVD designed for viewers who want the experience of looking at a fireplace without the high costs and backbreaking maintenance. The images of a burning wood fireplace can be accompanied by three Read More

Der Sandmann

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Actors: Lorenzo Flaherty, Stella Vordemann, Sabrina Paravicini, Erik Schumann

Synopsis: This German fantasy follows a young man's quest to understand his bizarre childhood. Much of the film was shot on location in Italy. Daniel has returned to his hometown in Italy with Clara, his lover, for a romantic vacation. Clara is disturbed by Daniel's recently strange behavior which includes Read More

Christmas in Rome

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Actors: Pifferari, Livio di Fiori, Giuliano Penta, Dino Ricci, Gabrieli Consort & Players

Synopsis: The holiday-themed performance release Christmas in Rome finds two choral-instrumental ensembles - The Gabrieli Concert & Players under the baton of Paul McCreesh, and The English Concert & Choir under the baton of Peter Hanson, with accompaniment by soloist Trevor Pinnock - performing a series of Read More

Merci La Vie

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Actors: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anouk Grinberg, Gérard Depardieu, Michel Blanc, Jean Carmet

Synopsis: In this frequently surrealistic romp, a satire on sex, politics, and the business of filmmaking, two young women get together after discovering sufficient provocations in their lives to deliberately set out to wreak havoc in the world around them. Joelle (Anouk Grinberg) has just been thrown out Read More

Pacific Heights

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Actors: Michael Keaton, Melanie Griffith, Matthew Modine, Mako, Nobu McCarthy, Dorian Harewood

Synopsis: John Schlesinger directed this upscale horror film about a landlord with the ultimate problem tenant. Patty Palmer (Melanie Griffith) and Drake Goodman (Matthew Modine) are a middle class couple who lie on their financial statement in order to buy an old Victorian house in San Francisco, planning Read More

Pretty Woman

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Actors: Richard Gere, Julia Roberts, Ralph Bellamy, Jason Alexander, Laura San Giacomo

Synopsis: Self-involved corporate raider Edward Lewis (Richard Gere) has recently split up with his girlfriend. Seeking directions to the Beverly Hills Hotel, he makes the acquaintance of free-spirited hooker Vivian Ward (Julia Roberts) and decides to put her on a 3,000-dollar retainer as his "date." He Read More

Orlando Furioso

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Synopsis: A stellar cast led by Marilyn Horne brings Antonio Vivaldi's classic opera to life. Alcina is an all-powerful sorceress who needs to win control of Arontes, the guard of the Temple of Infernal Hecate, in order to gain immortality. Using her powers to bewitch all who cross her path, Alcina twists Read More

Electric V: Four Seasons Variations

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Synopsis: In this music video, Thomas Wildbrandt applies computers and electronics to Vivaldi's "Four Seasons." ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Recordaçoes da casa amarela

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Actors: João César Monteiro, Manuela de Freitas, Sabina Sacchi, Ruy Furtado

Synopsis: This quirky Portuguese comedy won a silver lion at the 1989 Venice Film Festival. The story concerns the irrepressible Joao de Deus (played by the director, Joao Cesar Monteiro), an ill-kempt, lusty and none-too-honest resident of Violeta's boarding house, which happens to have yellow walls. Joao Read More

Travelling North

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Actors: Leo McKern, Julia Blake, Graham Kennedy, Henri Szeps, Michelle Fawdon

Synopsis: Director Carl Schultz and screenwriter David Williamson's character study of an aging Australian man's second marriage boasts a robust performance by Leo McKern. McKern plays Frank, a man in his seventies, who used to be something of a firecracker, but who now, his best days behind him, prefers to Read More

Howling IV: The Original Nightmare

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Actors: Romy Windsor, Michael T. Weiss, Anthony Hamilton, Susanne Severeid, Lamya Derval

Synopsis: Shot in South Africa, this direct-to-video installment of the werewolf series continues that franchise's tradition of generating sequels light-years distant from the quality of Joe Dante's witty and frightening original. The fourth chapter even attempts to rewrite the original film's premise Read More

Un Ragazzo di Calabria

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Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Gian Maria Volontè, Therese Liotard

Synopsis: Like many uninsightful fathers, Nicola is very ambitious and hardworking and perceives himself to be a failure. He has persuaded himself that the only good thing his thirteen-year-old son can possibly do is to work harder and smarter than he himself did, so that he, at least, can fulfill his Read More

Siekierezada

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Actors: Edward Zentara, Daniel Olbrychski

Synopsis: In this depressing but insightful drama, Pradera (Edward Zantara) is a young poet who decides to turn his back on society. Moving to a small village, he takes a job as a lumberjack and rents a modest room from an elderly landlady. Pradera soon realizes his new life is far less satisfying than the Read More

Vincent: The Life & Death of Vincent Van Gogh

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Actors: John Hurt

Synopsis: As can easily be ascertained by the title, this Australian documentary focuses upon that most tortured of artistic geniuses, Vincent Van Gogh. Filmmaker Paul Cox utilizes Vincent's "Dear Theo" letters to his brother as the dramatic spine of this visual feast. Van Gogh's fiercely impressionistic Read More

Una Donna Senza Nome

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Konzert Für Alice

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Actors: Beate Jensen, Towje Kleiner, Anne Marie Blanc, Erwin Parker, Angelica Arndts

Synopsis: Even with good acting, pleasant music, and artistic photography, this "love-boat" story of romance is more like Alice in Wonderland rather than Alice on the streets of Zurich. The Zurich Alice is a flautist who plays for the passersby like many another street or Metro musician. While so engaged Read More

The Four Seasons: Kyoto Vivaldi

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Synopsis: A video performance of Vivaldi's Four Seasons on koto--a large, long stringed instrument. A Japanese koto ensemble performs to scenes of the old city of Kyoto. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Huberman Festival, Vol. 3: Tchaikovsky and Vivaldi - Violin Concertos

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Synopsis: Violin virtuoso Henryk Szeryng is the featured soloist in this recording of highlights from the 1983 Huberman Festival, featuring the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Zubin Mehta. The Huberman Festival, Vol. 3: Tchaikovsky and Vivaldi features performances of Tchaikovsky's Read More

The Huberman Festival, Vol. 1: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons

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Synopsis: A video performance of Vivaldi's Four Seasons by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. The movements are performed by different violin soloists: Stern, Zukerman, Mintz, Perlman. Mehta directs. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Huberman Festival, Vol. 5: Bach and Vivaldi

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Lumina Palida A Durerii

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Actors: Violetta Andrei

Synopsis: The effects of war and impoverishment are portrayed in this story of a village just before and during WWI. The German occupation of Rumania began with the war, and made life everywhere more difficult. Caught in the vise of poverty while ironically employed in oil-drilling, the villagers have Read More

The Four Seasons

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Actors: Alan Alda, Carol Burnett, Len Cariou, Sandy Dennis, Rita Moreno

Synopsis: The Four Seasons follows the trials and tribulations of a group of middle-aged friends during a 12-month period. Alan Alda (who also directed) and Carol Burnett play a married couple who consider themselves paragons of sensitivity and sensibility. Alda and Burnett are the instigators of a series Read More

Kramer vs. Kramer

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Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Justin Henry, Jane Alexander, Howard Duff, JoBeth Williams

Synopsis: Robert Benton's Oscar-winning adaptation of Avery Corman's bestseller takes on contemporary problems of divorce and shifting gender roles, as a jilted husband learns how to be a nurturing father. Manhattan housewife Joanna Kramer (Meryl Streep) walks out on her workaholic ad man husband Ted (Dustin Hoffman Read More

Obyasneniye v Lyubvi

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Actors: Yuri Bogatyrev, Ewa Szykulska, A. Stepanova, Bruno Freyndlikh, Kirill Lavrov

Synopsis: Ilya Averbakh was considered to have been one of the better directors of film romances in the former Soviet Union. This story of a writer's love spans many decades. An elderly writer (Yuri Bogatyryov) is visiting his wife (Ewa Szykulska) at a medical establishment to give her a copy of his latest Read More

The Long Shot

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Charles Gormley, Neville Smith, Ann Zelda, David Stone, Suzanne Danielle

Synopsis: During the 1977 Ediburgh Film Festival, independent filmmaker Maurice Hatton made this feature story, using real-life actors, film directors, producers, etc., to enact improvisational roles in a film about filmmaking. In the story, Charlie (played by the film's real-life producer Charles Gormley) Read More

Ljubica

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Actors: Bozidarka Frajt, Relja Basic, Miodrag Krivokapic

Synopsis: Ljubica (Bozidarka Frait) is an attractive early-middle-aged woman. Her husband works outside the country, and their son is staying with her husband's parents. Only her job, working with deaf children, offers her much solace. When she briefly has a love affair with a younger man, it boosts her Read More

Allegro Non Troppo

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Synopsis: Something of a Fantasia for adults, Allegro Non Troppo intercuts slapstick live-action sequences -- which relay the story of a beleaguered animator's (Maurizio Nichetti) ongoing battle with an Oliver Hardy-like orchestra conductor -- and animated sequences, set to classical music, which visually Read More

Podranki

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Actors: Juozas Budraitis, Alyosha Cherstvov, Alexander Kalyagin, Zhanna Bolotova, Rolan Bykov, Bukhuti Zakariadze

Synopsis: The original Russian title Podranki can be translated as War Orphans. The protagonist is an adult writer who undergoes a flashback at the drop of a hat. He recalls how he was orphaned when his father was killed in World War II and his mother committed suicide. He remembers the appalling Read More

Das Netz

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Actors: Mel Ferrer, Klaus Kinski, Heinz Bennent, Elke Sommer, Andrea Rau

Synopsis: In this crime thriller, Morelli (Mel Ferrer) is a writer whose books no longer sell well, at least in part because of his slavish worship of "the classics." His response to this insult to his pride is to kill young women in a horrific manner; he calls it "revolutionary disgust." Bossi (Klaus Kinski Read More

Pallieter

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Actors: Eddy Brugman, Idwig Stephane

Synopsis: After Pallieter's mistress commits suicide, he wakes up and looks around him. What he discovers is that his beloved countryside is being chewed up by developers and machines. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

Les Maudits Sauvages

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Synopsis: In this meditative French-language film, a fur trapper and a young Native American woman appear in a variety of scenes and situations from 1670 to 1970. These scenes highlight philosophical issues regarding humanity's perspective on mankind and how this affects attitudes to those who differ from Read More

The Wild Child

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Actors: Jean-Pierre Cargol, François Truffaut, Jean Dasté, Françoise Seigner, Paul Ville

Synopsis: Based on a real-life case study, recorded in Jean-Marc Gaspard Itard's 1806 volume Memoire et Rapport sur Victor de L'Aveyron, The Wild Child is spiritually in line with François Truffaut's other films about the pains of adolescence. Truffaut himself plays Dr. Jean Itard, a doctor working at Read More

Elvira Madigan

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Actors: Cleo Jensen, Nina Widerberg, Pia Degermark, Tommy Berggren, Lennart Malmer

Synopsis: Inspired by the famous Johan Lindstrom Saxon ballad, this Swedish film involves circus performer Elvira Madigan (Pia Degermark) and army officer Sixten Sparre (Thommy Berggren). Sparre breaks loose of the oppressive atmosphere of both the military and his tradition-bound family to conduct a Read More

Pierrot Le Fou

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Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Dirk Sanders, Raymond Devos, Graziella Galvani

Synopsis: Pierrot le fou (1965) is Jean-Luc Godard's sixth film staring Anna Karina, his first wife. It is the story of Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and Marianne (Karina). They meet when Ferdinand's wife hires Marianne as a baby-sitter. As he drives Marianne home, Ferdinand decides to run away with her. Read More

Le Chat Dans Le Sac

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Actors: Barbara Ulrich, Claude Godbout

Synopsis: This is only the third feature produced by the National Film Board of Canada in its commendable attempt to foster the development of a distinctively Canadian media "voice." To that end, the projects chosen initially were "uncommercial" and highly personal visions by new directors. In this film Read More

Eaux d'Artifice

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Actors: Camilla Salvatorelli

Synopsis: Set to the "Winter" concerto in Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, Eaux d'Artifice focuses on columns of water jets from the Tivoli Fountains and features a mysterious, masked woman, "the Water Witch," darting in and out of the scenes. Although the film was shot in black-and-white, it was printed Read More

The Golden Coach

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Actors: Anna Magnani, Duncan Lamont, Riccardo Rioli, Odoardo Spadaro, Paul Campbell

Synopsis: Set in 18th-century South America, The Golden Coach (Le Carrosse D'Or) stars Anna Magnani as an earthy Commedia Del Arte performer. Magnani is lusted after by diplomat Duncan Lamont, who leaves both his job and his mistress to pursue the sexy actress. Also vying for Magnani's favors are a Read More

Les Enfants Terribles

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Actors: Nicole Stephane, Edouard Dermit, Renée Cosima, Jacques Bernard, Roger Gaillard, Melvyn Martin

Synopsis: Adapted by Jean Cocteau from his own novel and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, Les Enfants Terribles is set in motion when a sensitive youth, Paul (Edouard Dermit), is injured by a snowball flung by school bully Dargelos (Renée Cosima, an actress in male drag). The bully later reappears in the Read More

A Musical Journey: Tuscany

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