Over the past forty plus years British film director Tony Palmer has established himself as one of the country's foremost director's of documentary and factual based films. One of Tony Palmers first successes was the film All My Loving which was released in 1968. Some seven years later Tony had the idea encouraged by John Lennon to document the history of popular music. The result was the groundbreaking and award winning series of films made for television under the title All You Need Is Love For this volume we turn our attention the musical genre known as swing. For most of its history popular music has rarely been that which most people like. Jazz for instance has always been a minority interest. But in the era which was dominated by swing the music and its popularity were equally matched. White musicians became bored with the asinine popular music they were expected to play music pumped out by Tin Pan Alley and tried to emulate the style and freedom of their black counterparts. Most of them were too intelligent as musicians to indulge in mere imitation. What they created was the first white music based on black music which was not stolen from black music.
Over the past forty plus years British film director Tony Palmer has established himself as one of the country's foremost director's of documentary and factual based films. One of Tony Palmers first successes was the film All My Loving which was released in 1968. Some seven years later Tony had the idea encouraged by John Lennon to document the history of popular music. The result was the groundbreaking and award winning series of films made for television under the title All You Need Is Love This is a story of how a remarkable and very different number of theatrical elements were welded together into something also remarkable and very different called the musical. From operetta vaudeville variety burlesque revue and most importantly British music hall came the musical. But it did not come about by accident. It was the deliberate and conscious achievement of lyricist Oscar Hammerstein (who wrote among others Showboat and Oklahoma) and the director Rouben Mamoulian. Against considerable opposition both critical and commercial they created a new art form which was unique and yet familiar.
Blood broken bones and scars it's all part of being an illegal underground fighter. But for LG Jeremy and Conrado there is much more. It's a way out a way to support a family and a way to carry on a tradition. Mack and Napoleon who run the fights for their gambling website see the kids as nothing more than a cheap commodity expendable and an easy way to entertain their on-line audience.
Over the past forty plus years British film director Tony Palmer has established himself as one of the countrys foremost directors of documentary and factual based films. One of Tony Palmer's first successes was the film All My Loving which was released in 1968. Some seven years later Tony had the idea encouraged by John Lennon to document the history of popular music. The result was the groundbreaking and award winning series of films made for television under the title All You Need Is Love. Volume Two I Can Hypnotise Dis Nation- Ragtime covers the musical genre that underwent a revival during the mid seventies.
During the seventies ELP were the biggest band in the world playing to colossal crowds and mounting ever more spectacular and flamboyant stage shows. When the band split in 1978 the legacy disappeared almost overnight. Featuring rare archive footage every ELP studio album is reviewed and critically assessed by a leading team of critics working musicians and musicologists to explore the secrets behind the phenomenal rise to success and the equally spectacular fall from grace of this legendary band. The DVD also includes rare archive film from the vaults which features Emerson Lake and Palmer performing the key tracks from their first album. This is the ultimate review of a great band and a must have for every ELP fan. The 72 page book features a track-by-track analysis of every studio album ELP produced. Highlights From: Barbarian Rondo / Bach Improvisations Drum Solo Nut Rocker Take a Pebble Knife Edge and more...
A Karaoke DVD packed full of hits with something for everyone. From today's funksters the Black Eyed Peas and the sassy Pussycat Dolls to classics by Lionel Richie and Extreme. Together with original videos and vocals the extras include vocal coaching and the ability to change the pitch octave to suit all vocal ranges. Tracklist: 1. Barbie Girl - Aqua 2. Shut Up - Black Eyed Peas 3. Linger - The Cranberries 4. Gotta Get Thru This - Daniel Beddingfield 5. Dreams - Gabrielle 6. Original Sin - INXS 7. Hello - Lionel Richie 8. Switch - Will Smith 9. Addicted to Love - Robert Palmer 10. More than Words - Extreme 11. Celebration - Kool and the Gang 12. I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor 13. Don't Cha - Pussycat Dolls 14. Show Me Heaven - Maria McKee 15. No Diggity - Blackstreet 16. Year 3000 - Busted
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to camp: here's even more heart-pounding terror! Five years after the horrible bloodbath at Camp Crystal Lake all that remains is the legend of Jason Voorhees and his demented mother who had murdered seven camp counsellors. At a nearby summer camp the new counsellors are unconcerned about the warnings to stay away from the infamous site. Carefree the young people roam the area not sensing the ominous lurking presence. One by one the
Terry is a beautiful young woman who has grown up in the suburbs of New York City she is now about to fulfil her ambition and head for the bright lights of Broadway to take up her career as a dancer. Nature has endowed Terry with a great vitality and an exuberant figure. With the benefit of her body she finds herself surrounded by many different personalities of the New York nightlife. The young Puertorican guy who makes love to her the way she likes it quickly intensely and above all wildly. Robert her real love. Their relationship is different and maybe he is the one with whom she can spend her future and fulfil her dreams. It is soon apparent that even Robert is cynically taking advantage of her sexuality. From the creator of such classics as '11 Days 11 Nights' D'Almato presents a film that couples all the eroticism of '9 1/2 Weeks' and all the excitement of 'Dirty Dancing'.
The headmaster of St Michael's school Dr Benjamin Twist (Will Hay) finds himself in hot water after a government inspection. He is asked to resign unless he can prove that his educational methods work and so when he comes into possession of the French paper he does not need much coaxing before showing it to his students. The boys pass with honours but a congratulatory trip to Paris goes awry when they and Twist inadvertently help to steal the Mona Lisa.
In this new and raunchy remake of the classic tale of lust and lace set in Edwardian England, a young country girl sets of for London to seek her fortune, but soon finds herself on a slippery slope from prim innocence to total sexual degradation. Dubbed 'The Memoirs of a Women of Pleasure', this lusty costume drama is a genuine bodice-ripper, following Fanny as she's lured into one of London's most outrageous brothels and her search for true love amid a maze of courtesans and corsets, bosoms ...
HACKSAW RIDGE is the epic and inspiring true story of Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield; The Amazing Spider-Man franchise) an army medic and conscientious objector who, during the bloodiest battle of World War II, saved 75 men without firing or carrying a gun. Also starring Sam Worthington (Avatar), Vince Vaughn (True Detective), Hugo Weaving (The Hobbit franchise) and Teresa Palmer (Triple 9). Special Features: Veterans Day Greeting with Mel Gibson Deleted Scenes
With a title like Chopper Chicks in Zombietown, you'd be excused from any great expectations here--but you'd also be missing out on one of trash-cinema's great pleasures: catching one of Hollywoood's A-list in their pre-fame days. In this case, the catch is Billy Bob Thornton, in a brief appearance as one of the Chopper Chicks' ex-husbands. It may be a guilty pleasure, but seeing this good 'ol boy playing dumb-as-a-doorknob long before Sling Blade (or A Simple Plan) and paying his dues is still, however strangely, gratifying. As for the film itself, Chopper Chicks is no Hell Comes to Frogtown, but it comes with all of the Troma hallmarks. The requisite beheadings and low-grade effects are all present and correct, along with the so-bad-it's-really-bad dialogue (except for the occasional so-bad-it's-good one-liner). The acting is wooden, the story negligible (cycle sluts come to town, kill zombies, save a schoolbus full of blind kids), and even the appearances by Thornton and original MTV (US) VJ Martha Quinn provide only occasional relief. The DVD extras include a photo gallery of screen-stills and the original trailer. --Randy Silver
As a little girl, Michelle Payne (Theresa Palmer) dreams of the impossible: winning the Melbourne Cup - horse racing's toughest two-mile race. The youngest of 10 children, Michelle is raised by a single father (Sam Neill). She leaves school at 15 to become a jockey and after early failures she finds her feet, but a family tragedy, followed by her own near fatal horse fall all but ends the dream. But with the love of her dad and brother, Stevie, Michelle will not give up.
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