Samuel Barber Filmography

Born:: March 9, 1910 in West Chester, PA
Occupation:: Featured Music
Biography:: Barber is often called a neo-Romantic American composer, but he created a distinctive style noted for its rich melodiousness, new approach to tonal harmony, and colorful timbres. Without doubt, his most famous work is the Adagio for Strings (1936) from his String Quartet, Op. 11. This piece has a...Read More

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Equilbey: Transcriptions - The Movie

Actors: Laurence Equilbey, Solange Añorga, Hélène Moulin, Samuel Barber, Peter Cornelius

2008
Martha Graham Dance Company: Diverson of Angels, Lamentation, Frontier, Adoration

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Takako Asakawa, Janet Eilber, Yuriko Kimura, Peggy Lyman, Elisa Monte

1998
Spieler

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Peter Lohmeyer, Anica Dobra, Hansa Czypionka, Joachim Kemmer, Claus-Dieter Reents

Synopsis: Jojo (Peter Lohmeyer) was counting on his inheritance from a rich uncle to pay off his gambling debts, but the old man played a dirty trick on him, giving him custody of an oversized dog, and leaving the real cash in the hands of one of his neices. His comfortable fantasy of future solvency has Read More

1990
Platoon

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, Forest Whitaker, Francesco Quinn

Synopsis: Oliver Stone's breakthrough as a director, Platoon is a brutally realistic look at a young soldier's tour of duty in Vietnam. Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) is a college student who quits school to volunteer for the Army in the late '60s. He's shipped off to Vietnam, where he serves with a Read More

12/19/86
El Norte

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Zaide Silvia Gutierrez, David Villalpando, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Alicia del Lago, Eraclio Zepeda

Synopsis: El Norte is a realistic picture of both the Guatemalan government's oppression of the Quiche Indians and the hard life of illegal immigrants in the United States. After the Guatemalan army destroys their village of San Pedro, two teenage Quiche Mayan Indian siblings journey north (hence El Norte) Read More

1983
The Elephant Man

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller

Synopsis: John Hurt stars as John Merrick, the hideously deformed 19th century Londoner known as "The Elephant Man". Treated as a sideshow freak, Merrick is assumed to be retarded as well as misshapen because of his inability to speak coherently. In fact, he is highly intelligent and sensitive, a fact made Read More

1980