The Lark Ascending
The title character is a resourceful young man who knows a whole little about a whole lot of things, and who concentrates by playing his saxophone. Clarence ingratiates himself with the wealthy and eccentric Wheeler family, though daughter Cora can't stand the boy.
Music documentary by director Rafael Marziano Tinoco from Venezuela
Returning to New York on an ocean liner, Lois Whiteman, Harry Barris and Art Jarrett decide to visit composer Burton Lane, who is also aboard, to rehearse a little. Saxophonists Benny Krueger and Rudy Wiedhoeft meet and perform with their instruments.
How do you become Peter Brötzmann? How do you become what you are: a painter, a musician, an absolute artist? Europe was nothing but a ruin and shame possessed the heart of the young Germans. They needed to invent, scream, regain a lost brotherhood. Overcome this silence! That’s how some young German, British, Dutch, Belgian… musicians made Europe exist long before Maastrich and have kept on cherishing, imperturbably, their freedom! They are no longer twenty-year-olds, but others have followed. They set themselves one constraint: reinvent everything every time. A way to take the very instant into account, to let the unexpected in, to match to the world.
Johnny Quinlan is so desperate for a job that he takes a gig as a "bag man" for the mob. Meanwhile, his beleaguered wife has to deal with her bizarre, unemployed, wise-cracking brother and various neighbors while keeping house in their Brooklyn tenement.
In this short film written and directed by Alexis Bisticas, the audience sees through the eyes of a man in the woods, following the distant sound of a saxophone. In a single take, the fluid steadicam shot takes the viewer on a surreal and poetic journey, as the walker comes across everything from family picnics to men in bondage suits.
Per i giovani di una piccola città americana l'avvenire non si presenta molto brillante: o la fonderia locale, o la disoccupazione, salvo andarsene in tempo per cercare fortuna altrove. Il diciassettenne Stef Georgevic che in fonderia ha il padre, immigrato polacco e il fratello, pensa proprio alla terza soluzione, ma vuole uscirsene con una prospettiva concreta.
Biopic about jazz saxophonist Kaoru Abe (Ko Machida) and his wife, noted writer Izumi Suzuki (Reona Hirota).
New York. Non riuscendo a prendere sonno, il giovane Allie decide di uscire e inizia a vagabondare per la città. Le sue peregrinazioni lo porteranno in vari luoghi, dove incontrerà personaggi più o meno bizzarri, fin quando, alle luci dell'alba, Allie si ritroverà addormentato su un tetto. L'incontro con un giramondo, poi, gli farà prendere un'importante decisione.
An unlikely love story between a lonely collections agent and his elderly neighbor.
It is about a music school in Philadelphia, The Paul Green School of Rock Music, run by Paul Green that teaches kids ages 9 to 17 how to play rock music and be rock stars. Paul Green teaches his students how to play music such as Black Sabbath and Frank Zappa better than anyone expects them to by using a unique style of teaching that includes getting very angry and acting childish.
Gatling Pictures' "Cure for Pain: The Mark Sandman Story" examines the life and work of Mark Sandman, deceased frontman of Boston "low rock" band Morphine. From his Newton, Mass., roots to his travels across America and around the globe, Sandman left an indelible imprint as one of the most distinctive musicians of his generation. Along with revisiting the "unique and sultry sound" of his music, the film explores the meaning of family through this critically praised and personally conflicted singer, songwriter and innovative instrumentalist.
Luka Banjanin is an unemployed young man living with his parents in Belgrade. He hangs out with few devoted friends who, like him, are yet to find place in a society that discarded young intellectuals. He plays saxophone and dreams about going to Oktoberfest, the annual beer festival in Munich, but he's being unable to get passport because of a smaller drug incident he had in the past. Totally careless about his long-term girlfriend, he suddenly falls for a mysterious woman who seems to appear in the same places as him, and then vanishes as quickly as possible. Believing that he's at the wrong place at the wrong time, Luka wanders from one misadventure to another, gradually losing the contact with reality and living out his own Oktoberfest in his mind.
Vita della leggenda del jazz Charlie Parker, sassofonista eccezionale, la cui vita privata fu disordinata e segnata dall'uso di droghe.
Joe Pendleton, un pugile, muore prematuramente in un disastro aereo. L'errore è stato commesso da un angelo del Paradiso che ha assunto da poco l'incarico di raccogliere le anime. Mr. Jordan, che accoglie i nuovi arrivi, si accorge dell'errore troppo tardi per rimandare l'anima di Joe all'interno del suo corpo, poichè questo è bruciato. Lo invia così nel corpo del miliardario Bruce Farnsworth, ucciso dalla moglie. Per Joe inizia così una nuova vita.
Ted è un tassista abbandonato dalla fidanzata, hostess sugli aerei di linea. Per riconquistarla si imbarca sul volo in cui lei è in servizio, ma le sorprese non mancano. Il pranzo servito a bordo è infatti avariato, e tra gli intossicati ci sono i piloti. Sollecitato dalla ragazza Ted, pur non avendo mai guidato un aereo, riesce comunque ad atterrare salvando tutti.
In un'avventura che li porterà ben oltre ciò che hanno da sempre conosciuto, Poppy e Branch scoprono che esistono ben sei diverse tribù di troll sparse in sei diverse terre, dedicate ognuna a un genere musicale diverso: funk, country, techno, classica, pop e rock. Barb, regina del regno del Rock, ha però in mente di distruggere tutti gli altri generi. Per tale ragione, i due con l'aiuto di vecchi e nuovi amici tenteranno di portare l'armonia in tutte le terre e trovare una soluzione per evitare che Barb distrugga tutti.
A telegraph postal union worker has no luck when asks a pretty co-worker to marry him. She says he'd have to be a magician to get her to say yes. Things are complicated when, as a favor to a stuttering acquaintance, he takes his overweight girlfriend to the movies to propose to her by proxy. Unfortunately the pretty co-worker spots him with her in the theater, so he begins to learn magic tricks.