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Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (146 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
From the mind of award-winning director Julie Taymor (The Lion King on Broadway, Frida, Titus) comes a Shakespeare adaptation like none other, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Rich with Taymor's trademark creativity, this immersive and darkly poetic cinematic experience brings the play's iconic fairies, spells and hallucinatory lovers to life. Filmed at her sold-out stage production with cinematography by Rodrigo Prieto (Argo, Frida) and music by Academy...
Publisher
Illuminations Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (98 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
MATTHEW BOURNE’S THE CAR MAN is one of modern dance’s most thrilling and entertaining shows and a signature production for New Adventures. First seen in 2000, when it won the Evening Standard Award for “Musical Event of the Year”, it has proved to be a smash-hit in the UK and around the world. This recording for Sky Arts was made at Sadler’s Wells during the production’s most recent revival. The show is loosely based on Bizet’s popular...
Publisher
Illuminations
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
MATTHEW BOURNE’S ROMEO + JULIET is a passionate and contemporary re-imagining of Shakespeare’s classic story of love and conflict. Set in the not-too-distant future in ‘The Verona Institute’ and mysteriously confined against their will by a society that seeks to divide and crush their youthful spirits, our two young lovers must follow their hearts as they risk everything to be together. A timeless story about repressed emotions and teenage...
Publisher
Illuminations Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (110 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
MATTHEW BOURNE'S CINDERELLA is a thrilling and evocative love story told in dance. A reinterpretation of the classic fairy tale, it features heart-stopping choreography and vivid, truthful characters. Originally mounted in 1997 but recreated as a completely fresh production for its most recent run, this is one of New Adventures’ most popular and beloved creations. Set in London during the Second World War, the drama features Cinderella and a dashing...
Publisher
Stadium Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (71 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Classic performances from America’s top comics….before any of us knew who they were. With nothing more than a punch line and a dream, these (then) struggling young artists transformed themselves into comedy legends. Here is a rare opportunity to see some of the world’s greatest African American stars perform the routines that would someday make them Kings of Comedy.
Publisher
Unity Productions Foundation
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (83 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
ALLAH MADE ME FUNNY features live stand-up performances by Azhar Usman, Preacher Moss and Mohammed Amer as well as behind the scenes sequences highlighting the individual comedians. The trio poke fun at Muslims and non-Muslims alike and their comedic material plays with stereotypes to invite people to think outside of their fixed cultural perceptions.
Publisher
Illuminations
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (127 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
After causing an immediate sensation when it premiered at Sadler’s Wells in 1995, MATTHEW BOURNE’S SWAN LAKE returns with a fresh look for the 21st century. Still retaining the iconic elements of the original production loved by millions around the world, award-winning designers, Lez Brotherston and Paule Constable, alongside Bourne, have created an exciting re-imagining of the classic production. Thrilling, audacious, witty and emotive, this...
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (109 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Based on Jean-Philippe Rameau’s opera-ballet that was directed by Clément Cogitore for the Opéra National de Paris. This is a premiere for 30 dancers of hip-hop, krump, break, voguing… A first for the Director Clément Cogitore and for the choreographer Bintou Dembélé. And a first for the Paris’ Opera Bastille. By bringing together urban dance and opera singing, they reinvent Jean-Philippe Rameau’s baroque masterpiece, Les Indes Galantes....
Publisher
Foundation Distribution
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (43 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
The magician performs on city streets and travels to the jungles of Haiti and South America mystifying various bystanders, strangers and a few celebrities with his unique brand of street magic.
Publisher
Foundation Distribution
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (44 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Street magician, David Blaine, attempts to freeze himself within a block of ice for 72 hours. The hour includes pre-taped footage of Blaine's preparation for the trick and his entry into the icy hangout, as well as segments of Blaine stumping pedestrians with his hip brand of sleight of hand and trickery.
Publisher
Foundation Distribution
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (44 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
David Blaine does it again. With 'Vertigo', we see some more incredible magic and unusual illusions. Intercut with the Magic is David - standing on a pole in NY for two days. A pole that seemed to be extended 10 stories tall with nothing for him to hang on to - and there was nothing to catch him. This portion of the program was live and at the end of the show - he jumped into a stack of cardboard boxes.
Publisher
Foundation Distribution
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (44 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
For seven days and seven nights, Blaine is submerged in 10,000 gallons of water in front of Manhattan's Lincoln Center. Liver damage, kidney failure, loss of feeling in fingers and toes threaten his attempt to break the world record of 8 minutes 58 seconds for underwater breath-holding in Drowned Alive.
Publisher
Yukon Film Society
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (73 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
THE GRUBSTAKE REMIX reimagines Nell Shipman's 1923 northwoods melodrama as a dramatic comedy where the on-screen characters speak in Shakespearean English and French. A young woman - played on screen by Nell Shipman and in voice by Vancouver's Sarah Moore - goes north to the Klondike to seek her fortune only to be deceived and manipulated in a world dominated by men. Grubstake Remix is a unique cinema hybrid that crosses between the worlds of performance...
Publisher
Questar Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING follows a group of at-risk teenagers as they learn about improv comedy through an after school arts program in Chicago, Illinois. They succeed and struggle during the summer program that culminates in a show.
19) The Bolero
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (26 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
One of the most honored films of its time and winner of an Academy Award, THE BOLERO captures the essence of an orchestra as Zubin Mehta conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a stellar performance of Ravel's classic. Viewers gain insights into the music, the workings of a great orchestra, and leadership style and teamwork, all by observing a world renowned conductor in rehearsal and performance with a world class orchestra.
Publisher
Foundation Distribution
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (43 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Blaine enters the Hurricane stricken Ninth Ward in New Orleans and changes some people's luck. When he returns home to New York City, viewers see him doing magic for some of his friends, including Orlando Bloom, John Mayer and the Super Bowl Champion NY Giants.
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