Rupert Pupkin, aspirante divo, passa la sua vita a preparare spettacoli che sogna di poter interpretare, prima o poi, alla televisione. Un giorno riesce a salire sulla macchina del suo idolo, Jerry Langford, chiedendogli di poter partecipare al suo show. Langford, per liberarsene, lo invita a telefonargli in ufficio. Da questo momento, per Rupert, è tutto fatto, e comincia così il suo assedio a Langford...
Una bella e ricca ragazza abbandona l'università e si trasferisce a New York, dove incontra un giovane, vulcanico artista, che promette di fare di lei la star che ha sempre sognato di essere. Ma la sua fama improvvisa la porterà ben presto a perdere contatto con la realtà...
Con libero accesso al mitico Studio Ghibli, Mami Sunada segue il lavoro di tre pilastri dello studio: il regista Hayao Miyazaki, il produttore Toshio Suzuki e lo sfuggente regista Isao Takahata, impegnati nel completamento dei lungometraggi "Si alza il vento" e "La principessa splendente".
Il documentario sui Beatles durante le prove e le registrazioni per l'album Let It Be nel Gennaio del 1969. Il film contiene il celebre concerto, non annunciato, sul tetto degli studi di registrazione, la loro ultima esibizione dal vivo.
The special is hosted by Tony Danza and Annie Potts celebrating 50 years of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera's partnership in animation. This is the first animated project to be broadcast in Dolby Surround sound system.
A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies there, and gives viewers a glimpse at how movies are made.
After the death of her father, Anne — a brilliant but emotionally unstable painter/sculptor — returns from Switzerland to her home town in Quebec. Setting up a studio, she becomes obsessed with her work, to the extent that she grows farther and farther from her Swiss lover.
Sad-eyed, uniquely talented child actress Edith Fellows was Columbia's "answer" to Shirley Temple, Jane Withers and Deanna Durbin. In Little Miss Roughneck, Fellows is cast as Foxine LaRue, a tomboyish sort who is being prodded into a show-biz career by her stage mother Gert (Margaret Irving). Young Mr. Partridge (Scott Colton) becomes Foxine's agent, principally because he's sweet on the girl's older sister Mary (Jacqueline Wells). Blackballed from Hollywood because of her mother's pushiness, Foxine tries to help out Partridge and her own family by cooking up a bizarre publicity stunt, enlisting the aid of easy-going Mexican "papacita" Pascual (Leo Carrillo).
In 1977, BBC music presenter Bob Harris was given exclusive and extensive access to the Queen. Conducting insightful interviews with all four band members as well as filming them at work in the studio as they were planning and rehearsing their forthcoming North American Tour, and then following them as they performed across the US, Bob captured a band attempting to replicate their huge domestic success on the global stage. To mark the 40th anniversary of the release of the News of the World album, the footage has now been carefully restored and revisited to compile this hour-long portrait of a group setting out to take the next step on their remarkable journey to becoming one of the biggest bands on the planet.
A none-too-popular (nor good) radio singer, Rita Wilson is murdered while singing on the air in a radio studio. Radio page boy, Frankie Ryan, and his janitor pal, Jeff, solve the mystery for the none-too-sharp police.
An adopted boy named Bruno wants to follow his dream of becoming a famous musician. His best friend, Thomas, has always been very supportive to Bruno and is helping him making major steps into the right direction. However, Bruno has to overcome some of the biggest obstacles in his life in order to reach this dream.
"Le Noise Film" is a 38-minute black and white film of eight live-in-studio performances of the eight songs that appear on legendary rocker Neil Young's current album Le Noise. The performances, shot by filmmaker Adam CK Vollick, feature Young on acoustic and electric guitars at Daniel Lanois' home studio in Silverlake, CA, where Young and Lanois recorded Le Noise. The eight-song Le Noise, which is Young's most critically applauded album in years, is a collaboration between the influential rock icon and musician, songwriter, and multiple Grammy Award-winning producer Lanois, known for his work with U2, Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel, Brian Eno, Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, The Neville Brothers and many others.
Stuck in a depressing and mind numbing routine, Pierre decides to trade the sweaty atmosphere of the factory for the conditioned air of a hotel room. Locked up with three other tenants in a dreary and dim-lighted suite, he is forced into an idle and aimless lifestyle, no more fruitful than the mindless hustle and bustle he left behind — that is, until this oppressive dullness gives birth to an idea…
A wordless portrait of sculptor Jessica Jackson Hutchins shows us the artist in the process of transforming clay into uncanny forms.
Una ballerina viene uccisa nel centro di produzione Rai di via Teulada, ma all'arrivo dei soccorsi il cadavere è già scomparso. Sandro e la telefonista cieca Lia decidono di indagare senza avvertire la polizia.
Live, intimate, and raw, Sessions For Robert J is the essential audio/video companion to Eric Clapton's 2004 gold, Top 10 Me And Mr. Johnson, tribute to blues legend Robert Johnson. Filmed during tour rehearsals in London and Dallas plus a Los Angeles hotel room and the Dallas warehouse where Johnson made some of his final recordings, Sessions for Robert J finds Clapton performing all Robert Johnson songs with his touring band, acoustically with Doyle Bramhall II and solo-as well as discussing Johnson and his influence. A performance/documentary DVD with 14 tracks (from which the 11 CD selections are taken), Sessions for Robert J is blues heaven.
Directed by actor/filmmaker Gary Oldman, this show finds Jack White performing at Webster Hall in New York City.
The film revolves around a veteran photographer who is faced with an unexpected incident in his life. What follows is a series of thrilling investigations that take place while getting to the root of the incident.
a young musician who is hard of hearing goes on a mysterious musical trip.