Magical Maestro

Francine

June 2018 •English

Francine, a brilliant 9-year-old girl who hates her mother's cooking, battles a robot version of herself for her life - and a slice of pizza.

Negative Space

June 2017 •English

Even though Sam's father is hardly ever home because he is often away on business trips, he is able to connect with his son by teaching him how to pack a suitcase.

Mujhse Shaadi Karogi

July 2004 •Hindi

Sameer, fast at losing his temper is re-located to Goa where he falls in love with Rani. But Sameer's new roommate Sunny, has some plans of his own.

Tadaima Omoide no Saga

March 2017 •Japanese

Okaeri: Furusato no Karatsu

March 2017 •Japanese

Barnaby

October 2022 •English

Shannon rescues a dog to get over a breakup.

Smile, Buttercup, Smile

January 1929 •English

The unhappily married couple head to divorce court where Toots tells a series of funny stories about Casper.

Benny, from Panama

May 1934 •English

Jeanette and Eddie get married, but their wedding night is a fiasco. First, their wedding guests follow them, resulting in a police chase, then the guests show up at their apartment, disrupting the building. Then, a rowdy sailor friend of Eddie's shows up, accompanied by a squad of even rowdier buddies and an enormous vengeful mosquito.

Don Giovanni

January 1991 •Italian

Live performance from Cologne Opera. Conlon conducts a skittishly dynamic performance of Don Giovanni. He relies on Thomas Allen’s tough Don to give the work much of its dark menace and on Holle’s terrifying Commendatore to provide the moral outrage – his job is to keep things moving, and he does. The exteriors – blank city spaces reminiscent of the paintings of Giorgio De Chirico – and moodily claustrophobic interiors mirror effectively the anguish of the orphaned Anna and the abandoned Elvira; this is a performance in which the two women victims of the Don function effectively as correctives to his libertine charm. Andrea Rost as Zerlina brings real delicacy to her role, reminding us that “La ci darem la mano” is a duet about her flirtation with Don Giovanni and not just a famous stand-alone moment. This is an admirable presentation of a fine performance.

Blu

April 2019 •Italian

A wind strike, a splash of water and an accomplice look. Will they be enough to change the life of a child?

Drawn Closer

March 2021 •English

The school play is in trouble and these scrappy theatre kids are determined to save it.

One Week

August 1920 •

Newlyweds receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding gift—and the house can, supposedly, be built in "one week". A rejected suitor secretly re-numbers packing crates, and the husband struggles to assemble the house according to this new 'arrangement' of its parts.

Understanding Movies

May 2014 •Korean

Ji-han's set for graduation film. It is not as easy as it feels to devote all the production techniques that he have learned in school for four years. There was a man who appeared like a savior at the time, Louis Giannetti, the author of the movie Understanding! However, he begins to interfere with the filming site by cutting in on Ji-han's production of everything.

Uncle Jake

May 1933 •English

The Slums

May 2019 •Tagalog

The Slums is a 2019 comedy mockumentary film about an urban poor family terrorized by a documentary crew that promised to help them.

Viva Vivaldi

June 2001 •Italian

Viva Vivaldi! is a concert by the Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli interspersing arias from the 20 surviving operas of Vivaldi with two concertos. Given with the early music ensemble Il Giardino Armonico before a very appreciative audience in the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the performance is part of Bartoli's exploration of the Venetian composer's opera music which also includes The Vivaldi Album. There is a startling dynamic energy, which contrasts powerfully with the more restrained interpretations by singers such as Emma Kirkby. Bartoli's natural Italian and the live atmosphere of Maria Grazia d'Alessio's oboe gives her interpretation of the quietly haunting and melodically rich "Non ti Lusinghi la Crudeltade" from Tito Manlio a particular piquancy. The Flautino Concerto is a most attractive interlude, while the more famous Lute/Violin Concerto beguiles with its exquisite lyricism.

Cecilia & Bryn at Glyndebourne

January 1999 •English

The celebrated mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli joins Bryn Terfel for a recital of arias and duets recorded at Glyndebourne Opera House in 1999. The programme features favourite pieces from Mozart, Rossini and Donizetti, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Myung-Whun Chung.

Alceste

December 1999 •English

John Eliot Gardiner conducts Gluck’s 1776 French version of “Alceste” at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. Soprano Anne Sofie von Otter takes the title role of Alceste, Queen of Thessaly, who offers to die at the hands of the gods in place of her husband, Admète (Paul Groves), so that the people will not lose their king. Alceste is then saved from the underworld by Hercule (Dietrich Henschel).

Chad Gets The AxE

October 2019 •English

A self-absorbed social media personality investigates a murder house on his live stream, and gets what he deserves... Or does he?

5 Mentiras

August 2006 •Portuguese