Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (2019), That's Entertainment! III (1994), Score: A Film Music Documentary (2016), Machete Maidens Unleashed! (2010), Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film (2006), Yellow Earth (1984), Friedkin Uncut (2018), The Great Victor Herbert (1939) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Film Music movies.
Storyline: An exploration of the history, artistry, and emotional power of cinema sound, as revealed by legendary sound designers and visionary directors, via interviews, clips from movies, and a look at their actual process of creation and discovery.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: documentary, sound design, film production, film technology, behind the scenes, film history, hollywood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Some of MGM's musical stars review the studio's history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929) to Brigadoon (1954), from the first musical talkies to Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain (1952), are examined.—Kelly
Plot Keywords: musical, classic, song and dance, hollywood, golden age, mgm, documentary ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: For a predominately visual medium like cinema, its musical component plays a vital role as well, especially its score. In that essential musical accompaniment, the soul of the film is expressed whether it be sweepingly majestic fanfares or delicate lyrical pieces. This documentary explores the artistic role of this special musical discipline that completes the cinematic artistic creation process and the artists who have devoted their careers to this contribution. We explore the form's history and examine the masters who defined it with their own distinctive artistic vision. In doing so, the various components of this delicate creative process are revealed as they create a musical compositional work that has inspired a popular appreciation of music in all its forms, which gave some old musical ways their own new lease on life.—Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
Plot Keywords: film music, documentary, soundtrack, hollywood, music composition, filmmaking, orchestra ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Karate-kicking midgets! Paper-mache monsters! Busty babes with blades! Filipino genre films of the '70s and '80s had it all. Boasting cheap labour, exotic scenery and non-existent health and safety regulations, the Philippines was a dreamland for exploitation filmmakers whose renegade productions were soon engulfing drive-in screens around the globe like a tidal schlock-wave! At last, the all-too-often overlooked world of drive-in filler from Manilla gets the Mark Hartley (NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD) treatment in Machete Maidens Unleashed! This is the ultimate insiders' account of a faraway backlot where stunt men came cheap, plot was obsolete and the make-up guy was packing heat! Machete Maidens Unleashed! features interviews with cult movie icons Roger Corman, Joe Dante, John Landis, Sid Haig, Eddie Romero and a large assembly of cast, crew and critics, each with a jaw-dropping story to tell about filmmaking with no budget, no scruples, no boundaries and - more often than not - no clothes. Strap yourselves in - and join us for a non-stop Filipino femme-fest, all the way from the jungles of the Pacific via the trash cans of the critics!—anonymous
Plot Keywords: documentary, b-movie, behind the scenes, film history, independent film, horror, action ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This historical and critical look at slasher films, which includes dozens of clips, begins with "Halloween," "Friday the 13th," and "Prom Night." The films' directors, writers, producers, and special effects creators comment on the films' making and success. During the Reagan years, the films get gorier, budgets get smaller, and their appeal wanes. Then, "Nightmare on Elm Street" revives the genre. Jump to the late 90s, when "Scream" brings humor and TV stars into the mix. Although some criticize the genre as misogynistic (Siskel and Ebert), most of the talking heads celebrate the films: as long as there are teenagers, there will be slasher films, says one.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: horror, documentary, film history, violence, gore, 1980s, film criticism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 'Yellow Earth' focuses on the story of a communist soldier who is sent to the countryside to collect folk songs for the Communist Revolution. There he stays with a peasant family and learns that the happy songs he was sent to collect do not exist; the songs he finds are about hardship and suffering. He returns to the army, but promises to come back for the young girl, Cuiqiao, who has been spell-bound by his talk of the freedom women have under communist rule and who wants to join the Communist Army.—Ronald Aiken <aikenrd@netcom.com>
Plot Keywords: zhang yimou, traditional culture, visual aesthetics, cinematography, symbolism, realism, social criticism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Oscar®-winning, Chicago-born director William Friedkin achieved fame with his 1973 horror blockbuster The Exorcist. But this illuminating documentary shows the director's unwavering commitment to rawness and realism across his career, from The French Connection (1972) to Killer Joe (2011). Featuring interviews with Ellen Burstyn, Willem Dafoe, and Quentin Tarantino, among others, Friedkin Uncut reveals a savvy craftsman who is unapologetic about his no-nonsense approach to moviemaking.—AMBI Distribution
Plot Keywords: documentary, director, filmmaking, hollywood, film history, interviews, behind the scenes ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A fictionalized version of famous opera composer Victor Herbert where he witnesses the romance, stardom, parenthood, and troubled experiences of his star singers.
Plot Keywords: musical, biography, composer, classical music, golden age hollywood, black and white, historical ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists, including a condensed production of his most famous: 'Showboat'.—Stewart M. Clamen <clamen@cs.cmu.edu>
Plot Keywords: musical, biography, song and dance, classic, hollywood, composer, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The Divine Didi, a European actress known more for her bubble bath scenes than for her acting, decides she has had enough with bubble baths and wants to be taken seriously as an actress. So-much-so that during the filming of a bubble bath scene, she runs away and winds up in Oregon. While staying in a hotel, the operator accidentally connects her with a real estate agent named Tom Meade, instead of the kitchen, and asks him to bring her some food. When he does, he suggests she go to his cabin in the woods. She also asks him not to tell anyone where she is because she doesn't want to go back to Hollywood. Now Tom must keep the secret, especially from his wife and from his suspicious housekeeper Millie.—Brian Washington <Sargebri@att.net>
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, farce, misunderstanding, 1960s, american film, black and white film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When an underground cartoonist (Tom Hulce) is framed for killing his girlfriend (Virginia Madsen), not even his wife (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) believes his innocence.
Plot Keywords: independent film, documentary, film festival, american film, short film, experimental film, director ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This lauded documentary by revered director Martin Scorsese explores the history of American cinema by focusing on the work of a number of highly influential filmmakers. In addition to examining pioneering productions by D.W. Griffith and F.W. Murnau, Scorsese looks at a variety of other key directors, including Charlie Chaplin, John Ford, Vincente Minnelli and Orson Welles, while featuring interviews with Francis Ford Coppola, Kathryn Bigelow and other cinema luminaries.
Plot Keywords: documentary, film history, director's perspective, film analysis, hollywood, filmmaking, film criticism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The last major film to be shot at MGM's world famous Hollywood backlot, "That's Entertainment!" is a star-studded traipse down memory lane. The film boasts more than 100 classic segments compiled from dozens of MGM's most popular song-and-dance numbers and features newly recorded footage hosted by a variety of familiar faces, including MGM favorites Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Peter Lawford, Frank Sinatra, Clark Gable and Liza Minnelli.
Plot Keywords: musical, classic, musical film, hollywood, mgm, nostalgia, song and dance ...
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