Johann Sebastian BachFilmography

Born:: March 21, 1685 in Eisenach, Germany
Occupation:: Featured Music
Biography:: Approximately 207 feature films have quoted from the works of this innovative genius of the Baroque era who refined previous musical forms and techniques, synthesized contemporary styles from other European countries, and created many advanced concepts. The famous opening of the Toccata and Fugue...Read More

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Misha Dacic: In Recital

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Misha Dacic

Synopsis: Famed classical concert pianist Misha Dacic headlines this concert film, interpreting compositions by Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Scarlatti, Chopin and Bach. Some of the many pieces on display include Chopin's Introduction et Rondeau in E-Flat Major, Op. 16, Liszt's Fantasie und Fuge über den Choral 'Ad Read More

2009
How to Be Dead

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ignacio Rogers, Inés Efron, Nahuel Viale, Julian Tello

Synopsis: Three kids go on a spree that takes an unusual turn in this exuberant comedy-drama. Ignacio (Ignacio Rogers) is a smart but restless guy in his late teens who will soon graduate from high school if he can bring himself to go to class. Ignacio is dating aspiring actress Ines (Ines Efron), and when Read More

2008
The Grand Organ of Liverpool Cathedral

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Ian Tracey

2007
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin: Bach - Die Kunst der Fuge

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Stephan Mai, Xenia Löffler, Raphael Alpermann

2007
Battle in Heaven

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Marco Hernandez, Anapola Mushkadiz, Berta Ruiz, David Bornstein, Rosalinda Ramirez

Synopsis:

In Battle in Heaven (AKA Batalla en el Cielo), director Carlos Reygadas' searing look at the inherent hypocrisies of Mexico's social structure, Marcos Hernandez is Marcos, an overweight, poverty-stricken chauffeur who longs for a better life for his wife and young son. Desperate, the Read More

2/17/06
Boris Giltburg: In Recital

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Boris Giltburg

2006
Bergman Complete

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Ingmar Bergman, Erland Josephson, Marie Nyreröd

Synopsis: After achieving international recognition in the 1950's with such films as Det Sjunde Inseglet (aka The Seventh Seal), Smultronstället (aka Wild Strawberries) and Sommarnattens Leende (aka Smiles of a Summer Night), Ingmar Berman became one of the world's best known filmmakers for his emotionally Read More

2006
Chernobyl: The Invisible Thief

Crew: Featured Music

Synopsis: In 1986, many people's greatest fears about atomic energy became a reality when an explosion occurred at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukraine. When a blaze broke out in the wake of the explosion, firefighters were brought in to contain it, and all of them succumbed to radiation poisoning Read More

2006
Rachel Cheung: Keyboard Prodigy - Live in Recital

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Rachel Cheung

2005
Ghosts

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Julia Hummer, Sabine Timoteo, Marianne Basler, Aurélien Recoing, Benno Fürmann

2005
Arvo Pärt: 24 Preludes for a Fugue

Crew: Featured Music

2005
Stupeur et Tremblements

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Sylvie Testud, Kaori Tsuji, Taro Suwa, Bison Katayama, Yasunari Kondo

Synopsis: French director Alain Corneau delves into the painfully irrational world of office politics, which are further complicated by a severe case of culture clash in his 2003 comedy, Stupeur et Tremblements (Fear and Trembling). Based on the similarly titled memoirs of author Amélie Nothomb and her Read More

11/19/04
When Will I Be Loved

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Neve Campbell, Dominic Chianese, Frederick Weller, Karen Allen, Barry Primus

Synopsis: Directed by James Toback, the erotic drama When Will I Be Loved? revolves around Vera, the debutante girlfriend (Neve Campbell) of a fast-talking hustler (Frederick Weller) who is on the verge of making millions through a big-money gambling venture. Feeling undervalued, Vera explores her sexuality Read More

9/10/04
Twentynine Palms

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Yekaterina Golubeva, David Wissack

Synopsis: A couple drives their Humvee into the California desert. David (David Wissak) is ostensibly working, scouting locations near Twentynine Palms for a photo or film shoot. His girlfriend, Katia (Katia Golubeva from Leos Carax's Pola X), is along for the ride. David is American; Katia is French and Read More

4/9/04
McDull, Prince de la Bun

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Andy Lau, Anthony Wong, Sandra Ng, Jan Lamb, Tse Yut-mei

2004
Pilgrimage

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Mohammed Barani, Ayatollah Montazeri, Ayatollah Zarandi, Seyed Reza Borghei, Javad Salari

Synopsis: Iran has been ruled by an Islamic fundamentalist government since 1979, but there is one area where they've been unwilling to allow Shiite citizens to express their faith. Imam Hussein was a Shiite Muslim holy man who became a martyr to his faith, and a sacred shrine to his life's work has been Read More

2004
Martin's Passion

Crew: Featured Music

2003
Secret Things

Crew: Featured Music

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

10/16/02
Bach: Mass in B Minor - Georg Christoph Biller

Crew: Featured Music

Synopsis: Recorded at the historic Church of Saint Thomas, this concert film captures a performance of Bach's Mass in B Minor conducted by Georg Christoph Biller. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

2000
Children of the Night

Crew: Featured Music

2000
Jose Carreras: The Sacred Concert

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: José Carreras

Synopsis: This program features the beloved tenor offering a variety of sacred songs during an Easter concert in 1998. Recorded live at the Basilica di Santa Maria degli Angeli in Rome, selections include compositions by Bach, Handel, Schubert, and Mozart. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

1998
Bach's Mass in B Minor

Crew: Featured Music

Synopsis: The beauty of both vocal and sacred music combines as Bach's "Mass in B Minor" comes alive at the Wieskirche, Bavaria in a performance that features conductor Enoch zu Guttenburg leading the National Choral Society and the Orchester der Klangverwaltung. Soloists Anna Korondo, Deon van der Walt Read More

1998
In and Out of Fashion

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Delphine Seyrig, Sami Frey, Anémone, André Dussollier, Zouc

Synopsis: The Paris-based photographer-painter-actor-filmmaker William Klein looks back on five decades of his life and multi-careers in this French documentary. Born in 1926, Klein is a native New Yorker who began living in Paris in 1948, studied painting with Fernand Leger, photographed for Vogue from Read More

1998
Tukrozodesek

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Teo Fabricius, Agens, Laszlo Hasko, Gabor Altorjay, Melinda Farago

Synopsis: Avant-garde filmmakers Gyorgyi Szalai and Istvan Darday made this 143-minute excursion into fringe borderlands of the mind, depicting the death in Venice of a hospitalized astrologer, while a famous female vocalist loses her child in an automobile accident. Shot in video with a transfer to film Read More

1998
Enskilda Samtal

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Pernilla August, Samuel Fröler, Max von Sydow, Thomas Hanzon

Synopsis: Originally made for television and directed by distinguished Swedish actress-turned-director Liv Ullman, this provocative drama is a sequel to director-turned-screenwriter Ingmar Bergman's autobiographical Bille August-directed drama Best Intentions (1992). Returning to their roles of Bergman's Read More

1997
Witman Fiuk

Crew: Featured Music

Synopsis: Outwardly Janos and Erno Witman seem like typical middle class teens, but beneath their facades of normalcy, the two are deeply disturbed and obsessed with the nature of sex and death. Leaving much to the viewer's imagination, this horrific and highly atmospheric tale begins in a small Hungarian Read More

1997
Yo-Yo Ma Inspired by Bach: Six Gestures

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Yo-Yo Ma, Jayne Torvill, Christopher Dean, Tom McCamus, Mark Kinney

Synopsis: This 53-minute documentary, one episode in the six-part Canadian TV series, Yo-Yo Ma: Inspired by Bach, attempts to link Johann Sebastian Bach's personal and professional life with the modern world. It is structured by director Patricia Rozema (I've Heard the Mermaids Singing) around the six Read More

1997
Yo-Yo Ma Inspired by Bach: Sarabande

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Yo-Yo Ma, Lori Singer, Don McKellar, Arsinée Khanjian, George Sperdakos, Jan Rubes

Synopsis: Quirky Canadian director Atom Egoyan helmed this, the only fictional entry in a series of six films, titled "Yo-Yo Ma Inspired Bach." The story centers on the world-renowned cellist and is a free-form series of unrelated connections between people. As the story begins, Ma is flying to Toronto via Read More

1997
History of the Organ, Vol. 2: From Sweelinck to Bach

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Gustav Leonhardt, Bernard Foccroulle, Hans Heintze

Synopsis: As the title implies, this nonfiction program surveys the history of the organ as a musical instrument over the course of the 17th and 18th centuries, as it passed through the hands of such earthshaking composers as Jan Pieterszoon Swielinck, Dietrich Buxtehude, and, ultimately, Johann Sebastian Read More

1997
History of the Organ, Vol. 3: The Golden Age

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Gustav Leonhardt, André Isior, Xavier Darasse, Daniel Birouste, Gilles Cantagrel

Synopsis: This program actually represents one installment in an extended documentary series about the history of the organ as a musical instrument. Volume Three covers the first half of the Eighteenth Century, known as the "Golden Age of Organ Music"; it highlights such subtopics as the French versus Read More

1997
Les Agneaux

Crew: Featured Music

Synopsis: Based on a short novel by Ania Carmel, this dark drama follows the survival developed by a brother and sister forced to grow up under the tyrannical rule of a father who brutally attempts to instill a sense of self-reliance and preparedness into them by acts of cruelty. They cannot turn to their Read More

1996
Esti Kornel Csodalatos Utazasa

Crew: Featured Music

Synopsis: This Hungarian fantasy moves easily from one time to the next as it almost simultaneously presents two train rides in the lifetime of a famous writer; the film is adapted from two short stories by Hungarian writer Dezso Kosztolanyi. The film opens with a scene following young aspiring writer Read More

1995
Solti: Orchestra!

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Dudley Moore, Sir Georg Solti

1991
Evgeny Kissin: Plays Schubert/Brahms/Bach/Liszt

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Evgeny Kissin

Synopsis: In this classical performance film, acclaimed concert pianist Evgeny Kissin interprets a series of works by Schubert, Gluck, Liszt, Bach and Brahms. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide Read More

1991
Gremlins 2: The New Batch

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, John Glover, Robert Prosky, Robert Picardo

Synopsis: Where the original Gremlins was a horror film spiked with comedy, Gremlins 2: The New Batch is essentially a black comedy, with a couple of horrifying touches. As the film starts, the fantastical trinket shop in Chinatown, which sold the Mogwai in the first film, is demolished by a crazed Read More

6/15/90
La Messe En Si Mineur

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Pierre Amoyal, Margaux Hemingway

Synopsis: Friends Philippe and Laurent (Pierre Amoyal and Denis Charvet), a violinist and a cello player, frequently team up to play special gigs. Laurent is usually strapped for cash. While performing for a wedding, the two of them meet the high-class Sophie (Margaux Hemingway). They have also been Read More

1990
Paul Tortelier: Testament to Bach - The Complete Cello Suites

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Paul Tortelier

Synopsis: This classical music release finds acclaimed cellist Paul Tortellier interpreting all of Bach's cello suites. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide Read More

1990
Organs, Toccatas & Fantasias: A Musical Journey Throughout Bach's Baroque Europe

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Marie-Claire Alain

Synopsis: Follow one of the most acclaimed composers in the history of classical music on a memorable journey across Baroque Europe in this release featuring acclaimed organist Marie-Claire Alain. While savvy fans of Johann Sebastian Bach may note that the composer seldom traveled during his own lifetime Read More

1990
La Noche Oscura

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Juan Diego, Julie Delpy, Fernando Guillén, Manuel de Blas

Synopsis: Pantheon filmmaker Carlos Saura bounced back from a handful of failures with 1989's La Noche Oscura (The Dark Night). Juan Diego stars as San Juan de la Cruz (St. John of the Cross), the legendary 16th-century poet-prophet. Galvanized into action by the spirit of Santa Teresa de Jesus, San Juan Read More

1989
The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra: Four Bach Suites

Crew: Featured Music

Synopsis: The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra has gained renown for performing classical pieces using vintage instruments. This film documents the group performing a quartet of Bach suites. The group performs at the historic Palace Het Loo. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

1989
Himmel Og Helvede

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Karina Skands, Ole Lemmeke, Lise Ringheim, Harriet Andersson, Erik Mork

Synopsis: Maria (Karina Skands) is an 18-year-old, late-blooming woman who has for years been a gifted violinist. She live in the slums of Copenhagen and has led a sheltered life often marked by poverty and cruelty. Due to her consuming musical passions -- fueled by the expectations of her overprotective Read More

1989
Eden Miseria

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Danuta Zarazik, Philippe Clevenot, Abdallah Badis, Inês de Medeiros, Stephane Jobert

Synopsis: Danuta Zarasik plays Isabelle Eberhardt in this biographical drama. At the turn of the 20th century, Isabelle fell in love with the African desert, donning men's clothing to travel and record her adventures in writing while her Moslem husband patiently waited at home. This visually stunning Read More

1989
Bagdad Cafe

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Marianne Sägebrecht, CCH Pounder, Jack Palance, Christine Kaufmann, Monica Calhoun

Synopsis: This West German film is set in the California Desert. A husband-and-wife pair of Bavarian tourists become stranded when their car breaks down; after a quarrel, the wife, Marianne Sagebrecht, gathers her luggage and stalks off. She stops at the Bagdad Cafe, a fleapit truckstop run by outspoken Read More

4/22/88
Mélo

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Sabine Azéma, Fanny Ardant, Pierre Arditi, André Dussollier, Jacques Dacqmine

Synopsis: Director Alain Resnais faithfully adapted his script for Melo from a 1929 play by Henry Bernstein--the first time that Resnais handled his own screenplay. Violinists and lifelong friends Pierre Arditi and Andre Dussolier have each found happiness in adulthood, but only Dussolier has become famous. Read More

1/31/88
Envoyez Les Violons

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Richard Anconina, Anémone, Michel Galabru, Martin Lamotte, Fabienne Perineau

Synopsis: Fred Segal (Richard Anconina) is a commercial director whose marriage is headed for disaster in this light romantic comedy drama. He decides he wants to play music and takes flute lessons from the beautiful Isabelle (Anemone). The experience wakens feelings of romance in Fred he thought were Read More

1988
Gaby: A True Story

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Liv Ullmann, Norma Aleandro, Rachel Levin, Robert Loggia, Lawrence Monoson

Synopsis: Gaby: A True Story is about a young woman -- the child of rich European refugees living in Mexico -- who was stricken with cerebral palsy at birth. Though her body is completely paralyzed, her mind is unaffected, and she is able to become a college graduate and an acclaimed author. Rachel Levin Read More

10/30/87
Une Flamme Dans Mon Coeur

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Myriam Mezieres, Azize Kabouche, Benoit Regent, Biana, André Marcon

Synopsis: The terrifyingly destructive power of a woman's sexual obsession provides the compelling subject for this psychological study of a woman's descent into madness from French filmmaker Alain Tanner. It is the tale of Parisian actress Mercedes who is first seen attempting to break up with the Read More

1987
Epidemic

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Lars von Trier, Niels Vørsel, Udo Kier

Synopsis: Director Lars von Trier stars in a double role in this experimental horror fantasy. He pretentiously portrays a director who spends a year and a half preparing to make a horror film with help from a government grant. In the second part, he plays a young physician who unknowingly has a plague virus Read More

1987
Something Wild

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith, Ray Liotta, Margaret Colin

Synopsis: A wildly inventive and entertaining comic nightmare from former Roger Corman prodigy Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs), this screwball odyssey is a ride to remember. Jeff Daniels plays clean-cut New York bond trader Charlie Driggs, who accepts a ride home from a strange but attractive Read More

11/7/86
The Sacrifice

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Allan Edwall, Gudrún Gísladóttir, Valérie Mairesse

Synopsis: The Sacrifice, director Andrei Tarkovsky's final film, begins in Bergmanesque fashion on a small, remote island, where friends and family gather for drama critic Alexander's (Erland Josephson) birthday celebration. The revelry is interrupted by a radio announcement: World War III has begun, and Read More

11/7/86
A Flor Do Mar

Crew: Featured Music

1986
Flight North

Crew: Featured Music

1986
Die Nacht

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Edith Clever

Synopsis: Die Nacht would make a long night indeed for most filmgoers, there is no story to speak of, just six hours of a monologue related to European history by Edith Clever, enhanced by excellent music by Richard Wagner, Johann Sebastian Bach, and other composers, quotes from philosophers like Nietzsche Read More

1985
Pohlad Kocce USI

Crew: Featured Music

1985
La Moitie De L'Amour

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Margit Carstensen, Christophe Donnay, Patrick Bauchau, Alexandre Von Sivers

Synopsis: In this surreal psychological thriller, Yvi (Margit Carstensen) is experiencing a selective amnesia after she suffers a bullet wound to the head and is now in the care of doctors in the very same Institute where she was working as a doctor. After a new friend named Adrian (Christopher Donnay) Read More

1985
Le Meilleur De La Vie

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacques Bonnaffé, Marie-Christine Barrault, Jean-Marc Bory

Synopsis: Two quarreling lovers from opposite sides of the economic scale take central stage in this well-executed drama about Veronique (Sandrine Bonnaire) and Adrien (Jacques Bonnafe). Veronique is wealthy and from the provinces, Adrien is impoverished and his ancestors come from Brittany. In spite of Read More

1985
Le Temps D'un Instant

Crew: Featured Music

1985
Hail Mary

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Myriem Roussel, Thierry Rode, Philippe Lacoste, Juliette Binoche, Manon Anderson

Synopsis: Je vous salue Marie is Jean-Luc Godard's first sustained examination of modern spiritual life. This complex episodic film parallels the story of a contemporary Joseph (Theirry Rode) and Mary (Myriem Roussel) with that of a science class studying the origins of life on earth. Joseph is a cab driver Read More

1985
Der Bar

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Hans-Peter Hallwachs

Synopsis: Popova (Elisabeth Rath) is a widow who lives in a crumbling mansion and manages as best she can with the help of a loyal and quirky butler/handyman named Luka (Hans Mandin). One day a former officer comes by to demand payment of an old debt that sets her along a collision course with her neighbor Read More

1984
The Huberman Festival, Vol. 4: Mendelssohn and Bach

Crew: Featured Music

1983
The Huberman Festival, Vol. 5: Bach and Vivaldi

Crew: Featured Music

1983
L'Argent

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Christian Patey, Sylvie van den Elsen, Michel Briguet, Caroline Lang, Vincent Risterucci

Synopsis: The last film by veteran writer/director Robert Bresson, the French crime drama L'Argent (Money) was based on a short story by Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy. Looking for some quick cash, young man Norbert (Marc Ernest Fourneau) gets a phony 500 franc note from his friend Matrial (Bruno Lapeyre). Read More

1983
Beau-Père

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Patrick Dewaere, Ariel Besse, Maurice Ronet, Nicole Garcia, Nathalie Baye

Synopsis: In French filmmaker Bertrand Blier's seriocomic Beau Pere, Ariel Besse plays a 14-year-old girl who is perversely attracted to her 30-year-old stepfather (Patrick Dewaere). Daddy fends off these unnatural attentions, but eventually gives in and allows himself to be seduced. ~ Hal Erickson, All Read More

1981
Dvoynikat

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Todor Kolev

1980
The Tree of the Wooden Clogs

Crew: Featured Music

Synopsis: Italian filmmaker Ermanno Olmi's Tree of the Wooden Clogs covers a period of twelve months, dividing its time between three peasant families, all of whom work on the estate of an all-but-absentee landlord. Special emphasis is given the interrelationships between the various family members and Read More

9/21/78
Obyasneniye v Lyubvi

Crew: Featured Music

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

1978
Skazany

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Wojciech Pszoniak, Zdzislaw Kozien

Synopsis: In this Polish film, a man is on trial for failing to prevent his critically ill brother from committing suicide. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

1976
Rollerball

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: James Caan, John Houseman, Maud Adams, John Beck, Moses Gunn

Synopsis: In the year 2018 violence has been outlawed and corporations have replaced government as the ruling party following the demise of politics. With the absence of war or conflict, a forcibly passive population's bloodlust is satisfied by a brutal new sport known as Rollerball. A high-octane melding Read More

1975
The Terminal Man

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: George Segal

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Michael Crichton, Terminal Man is a sci-fi thriller about a scientist who decides to be the lab rat in an experimental surgery to control his violent tendencies. During the surgical procedure, a miniature computer is implanted in his head. Unfortunately, the mechanism Read More

1974
Le Retour d'Afrique

Crew: Featured Music

Synopsis: Françoise and Vincent have grown tired of the stuffy, constrained and overly commercial quality of life in Geneva. With the help of a friend, they hope to move to Algeria and do something really different in a different place. They sell practically everything they own in preparation for the Read More

1973
Tales from the Crypt

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, Patrick Magee, Ralph Richardson

Synopsis: The phenomenon of Tales from the Crypt seems to have no endings, only changes. This successful pun-filled style of presenting ironic horror tales had its beginnings in William Gaine's E.C. comic series. At one time, outlandish E.C. Comics were at the heart of a national furor over the "evils" of Read More

1972
Slaughterhouse-Five

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans, Valerie Perrine

Synopsis: "Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time." These opening words of Kurt Vonnegut's famous novel make an effective and short summary of a haunting, funny film. For the screen, director George Roy Hill faithfully renders Vonnegut's black anti-war comedy about Pilgrim (well played in a low key by Michael Sacks Read More

1972
Cries and Whispers

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Harriet Andersson, Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin, Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson

Synopsis: Cries and Whispers stars Liv Ullman and Ingrid Thulin as the sisters of dying cancer patient Harriet Andersson. Both sisters have already had brushes with death: Ullman has had an affair which prompted her husband's suicide, while Thulin has long wanted to do away with herself, at one point Read More

1972
The Visitors

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Patrick McVey, James Woods

Synopsis: This melodramatic thriller is not one of Elia Kazan's directorial shining moments. Kazan, who is better-known for such great films as On the Waterfront, made this film, with his friends, on a very low budget. It is probably most notable for featuring James Woods in an early role. Bill Schmidt (Woods Read More

1972
Five Easy Pieces

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Lois Smith, Susan Anspach, Billy Green Bush, Helena Kallianiotes, Sally Struthers, Richard Stahl

Synopsis: A disaffected man seeks a sense of identity in one of the key films of Hollywood's 1970s New Wave. Once a promising pianist from a family of classical musicians, Bobby Eroica Dupea (Jack Nicholson, in his first major starring role) leads a blue-collar life as an oil rigger, living with needy Read More

1970
Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Liza Minnelli, Ken Howard, Robert Moore, James Coco, Kay Thompson

Synopsis: Upon completing Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon, a tearful Liza Minnelli declared publicly that she would never, ever work with tyrannical director Otto Preminger again. Worse luck for her: Junie Moon contains what may well be Minnelli's best non-musical performance. Based on the novel by Marjorie Kellogg Read More

1970
A Vida Provisoria

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Paulo José, Dina Sfat, Joana Fomm, Marcia Rodrigues

Synopsis: Estevao (Paulo Jose) is the newspaper reporter sent to the capitol to cover the appointment of a government minister. Carrying some important papers for another government official, he is shadowed by two mysterious strangers. The men grab the reporter and beat him until he feels he will die. His Read More

1969
Des Christs Par Milliers

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Danièle Delorme, Jean Vilar, Pierre Tabard, Nadine Basile

Synopsis: When a museum depicting the violence man inflicts on himself opens, a doctor, a woman and a museum official go through the building before the grand opening. Discussing the subject matter, their attention quickly turns to the May Day riots that plagued Paris. This symbolic film tries to portray Read More

1969
Hour of the Wolf

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, Erland Josephson, Gertrud Fridh, Bertil Anderberg

Synopsis: The Hour of the Wolf (original Swedish title: Vargtimmen) is Ingmar Bergman's spin on the demons that plague his fellow creative artists. Max von Sydow plays a painter who, while spending a summer in seclusion with his pregnant wife Liv Ullmann, is visited by bizarre and disturbing visions. Before Read More

1968
Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach

Crew: Featured Music

Synopsis: The widow of Bach reminisces in this biography. Her life with the great composer was not easy. He seldom spoke to her. When he did, it was only to read letters of complaint. Included are performances of Bach's works including the Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, Prelude 6 from the "Little Clavier Book Read More

1968
Nicht Versohnt oder "Es Hilft Nur Gewalt, Wo Gewalt Herrscht"

Crew: Featured Music

Synopsis: Husband-and-wife filmmakers Straub and Huillet are best known for their avant-garde films, but they did make a few dramas, though the complexity of this one may turn off some viewers. It is the chronicle of the difficult lives of three generations of relatives from a German family who hold a Read More

1965
Deus e O Diabo Na Terra Do Sol

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Othon Bastos

Synopsis: Just twenty five years old, Brazilian cinema novo force Glauber Rocha wrote and directed this impressive feature addressing socio-political problems within his country--and indeed, anywhere it may apply. It is the 1940s, during another drought in the Brazilian sertao, when ranch hand Manuel is fed Read More

1964
The Silence

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, Jörgen Lindström, Hakan Jahnberb, Birger Malmsten

Synopsis: The third entry in Ingmar Bergman's trilogy about faith and redemption (with Through A Glass Darkly and Winter Light) is a stark and enigmatic allegory fueled by subtle performances from Ingrid Thulin and Gunnel Lindblom. Thulin plays Ester, a translator and intellectual, who is traveling back to Read More

1963
Phaedra

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Melina Mercouri, Anthony Perkins, Raf Vallone, Elizabeth Ercy, Olympia Papadouka

Synopsis: Inspired by Euripedes' tragedy Hippolytus and set in modern times, this allegorical tale centers on the love triangle between a fabulously wealthy Greek shipping magnate, his lonely second wife, and his first-born son. The affair between the wife and her stepson begins soon after she arrives in Read More

1962
Accattone

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Franco Citti, Silvana Corsini, Franca Pasut, Paolo Guidi, Adele Cambria

Synopsis: Accattone , Pier Paolo Pasolini's first feature, is also his first semidocumentary study of "the little homelands": the small, often squalid cultural pockets in the remotest provinces of Italy. Using nonprofessional actors for his leading characters, Pasolini concentrates on Franco Citti, a rural Read More

11/22/61
Lola

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Anouk Aimée, Marc Michel, Jacques Harden, Elina Labourdette, Alan Scott, Annie Duperoux

Synopsis: Jacques Demy's auspicious debut -- "a musical without music" set in the port city of Nantes -- stars Anouk Aimée as the title character, a cabaret singer awaiting the return of Michel (Jacques Hardin), her long-absent lover and the father of her child. Michel went to America seven years ago and Read More

3/3/61
Through a Glass Darkly

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow, Lars Passgård

Synopsis: Ingmar Bergman won his second Best Foreign Film Oscar for the moody family drama Through a Glass Darkly. It is the first of what came to be called his "chamber dramas," which positioned four characters in one place where they could interact like a string quartet. It has also been referred to as Read More

1961
The Testament of Orpheus

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Jean Cocteau, Yul Brynner, Edouard Dermit, Henri Cremieux, Maria Casarés, Luis Miguel Dominguin, François Perier

Synopsis: In his final film, Jean Cocteau brilliantly evokes memories of his past triumphs, Blood of a Poet (1930) and Orpheus (1949). Cocteau casts himself as an aging poet who knows he is dying (as indeed he was); his greatest desire is to be reborn so that he can qualify for celestial immortality. The Read More

1960
Montparnasse 19

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Anouk Aimée, Lilli Palmer, Lea Padovani, Lino Ventura, Gerard Sety

Synopsis: Montparnasse 19 is better known as Modigliani, which is also the name of its protagonist. In broad, melodramatic strokes, screenwriter Max Ophuls and director Jacques Becker offer their spin on the tragic, troubled life of Italian abstract painter Amedeo Modigliani. As played by Gerard Philipe Read More

4/4/58
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas, Peter Lorre, Robert J. Wilke

Synopsis: This 1954 Disney version of Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea represented the studio's costliest and most elaborate American-filmed effort to date. Kirk Douglas plays a trouble-shooting 19th century seaman, trying to discover why so many whaling ships have been disappearing of late. Read More

1954
Les Enfants Terribles

Crew: Featured Music

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

1950
La Passione Secondo San Matteo

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Gino Sinimberghi

Synopsis: Released a few months after the Italian The Passion According to St. Mathew, this Austrian film is, like the earlier effort, based on a theatre piece. But whereas the Italian picture was inspired by Bach's oratorio, St. Mathew's Passion is a filmed record of a newly commissioned State Burgtheatre Read More

1949
I've Always Loved You

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Philip Dorn, Catherine McLeod, William Carter, Maria Ouspenskaya, Felix Bressart

Synopsis: As its fortunes grew in the mid-1940s, Republic Pictures occasionally strayed from its usual manifest of westerns and serials, hoping to produce something of "class." Filmed on a lavish budget in glorious Technicolor, Republic's I've Always Loved You stars Philip Dorn as a tyrannical symphony Read More

1946
Fantasia

Crew: Featured Music

Synopsis: Fantasia, Walt Disney's animated masterpiece of the 1940s, grew from a short-subject cartoon picturization of the Paul Dukas musical piece The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Mickey Mouse was starred in this eight-minute effort, while the orchestra was under the direction of Leopold Stokowski. Disney and Read More

1940
La Marseillaise

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Pierre Renoir, Lise Delamare, Louis Jouvet, Léon Larive, Aimé Clariond, Andrex

Synopsis: Jean Renoir's epic account of the French Revolution juxtaposes the opulent life of King Louis XVI with the poverty of the commoners who rose up to overthrow the monarchy in 1789. The film's title comes from the rallying song which grew out of the peasants' march on the Bastille, the song that Read More

1937
Baby Einstein: Lullaby Time

Crew: Featured Music

Synopsis: Baby Einstein: Lullaby Time offers a number of soothing images and songs designed to help toddlers ease into a restful state that would facilitate napping or a good night's sleep. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More
Classic Archive: Isaac Stern

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Isaac Stern, Orchestre de Chambre de Radio-France, Alexander Schneider, Alexander Zakin

Synopsis: In excess of six decades, Isaac Stern established himself as the world's most formidable classical violinist - a virtuoso with an impeccable stylistic command that incorporated virtually every major composer of his chosen instrument. The EMI Classics compilation Classic Archive: Isaac Stern brings Read More
Hans Van Manen: Six Choreographies 75th Anniversary

Crew: Featured Music

Synopsis: Staged, shot and released to commemorate Dutch choreographer Hans Van Manen's 75th birthday, the performance release Hans Van Manen: Six Choreographies 75th Anniversary presents renditions of six of Van Manen's most famous choreographed works, interpreted by the Het Nationale Ballet and the Read More
Friedrich Gulda: So What - A Portrait

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Ulrich Mühe, Friedrich Gulda

Synopsis: From the late 1940s until his untimely death in January 2000, Austrian-born Friedrich Gulda qualified as one of the world's most unique pianists. Initially one of the leading experts in the compositions of Beethoven, Brahms and Mozart, Gulda toured Europe and South America as a prodigy in his late Read More

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