Documentary portrait of Joy McKean, Australia’s Queen of country music. Follows her performance and songwriting career, decades of touring around Australia, and her marriage of more than 50 years to fellow musician Slim Dusty.
Composed for the Paris Opéra, the romantic but ultimately tragic narrative of Donizetti’s grand opera La Favorite is set amidst the Moorish invasions of Spain and the power struggles between religion and the state in the 14th century. The novice Fernand abandons his monastery having fallen in love with the noble Léonor, not knowing that she is the King’s mistress and favourite. Drawing on traditions established by Rossini and Meyerbeer, La Favorite is noted for Donizetti’s innovative use of the orchestra and for some of his most renowned and enthralling arias. This acclaimed production opened the 2022 Donizetti Opera Festival in Bergamo, and is performed with its original French libretto.
Lexxy wants it all: money, love, kids, a home. She has got the drive, now all she needs is the path. After a stint as a party promoter and criminal, she turns to the music business. Lexxy forms a female hip hop group, with dreams of breaking into the industry. Things look promising until lies and betrayal break up the group, and dissolve all friendships.
Three families struggle to find their true selves and their soulmates in a world full of expectations, pressure and obstacles. Inspired by real events, this film shows how they pursue their dreams and potential without losing themselves.
Amy Winehouse was one of the most iconic and versatile singer-songwriters the industry had ever seen. Her sound was new, refreshing, and recognizable, and helped her win countless awards. But with the success came the fame. In just over 7 years, Amy Winehouse's health plummeted as she was faced with life-threatening addiction and constant lawsuits. Her ongoing battle with the media also led to her being a prisoner in her own home. Witness the tragic rise and fall of the music industry's most infamous icon and the price she paid for fame. This is the story of Amy Winehouse.
When Dr. Alexandra Park's Federal Grant is not renewed to keep her inner city teen activity center from financial distress, she turns to a musical fundraiser and her own in housed teens to cure her problems. Teen Musical - The Movie is different as it features a "musical inside of a musical."
A film crew crisscrosses England trying to unravel the mystery surrounding a record released 30 years earlier, 'Spirit of Eden', that defined the passage from light to shadow of its makers, the band Talk Talk and its lead singer Mark Hollis. From overwhelming obstacles to unpredictable encounters, their journey soon turns into an organic quest. With silence as a horizon line. And punk as a philosophy, thinking that music is accessible to all and that the human spirit is above the technique.
A talented young singer gives up on her dreams to pursue a more stable life, but when that life is blown apart due to excess drinking and toxic relationships, she decides to piece those dreams back together using the one tool she has: her music.
After years of best friendship, teenage Tom and Lucy finally surrender to spending the night together. As their new love blossoms, and Lucy's 'time of the month' is late, the pair are forced to face the music of adulthood head-on.
Method Sampling is explored through the works of a hip-hop orchestra, a disabled choreographer, a self-taught Black mycologist, a tiny house builder and a critical theorist.
Francesco Cavalli, a natural successor to Monteverdi, was the most famous and influential Italian opera composer during the mid-17th century. Cardinal Mazarin, chief minister to the king, commissioned Cavalli to create a Parisian spectacle to celebrate the wedding of the ‘Sun King’ Louis XIV and the Infanta of Spain. Ercole amante (‘Hercules in Love’) was the flattering subject chosen for this regal extravaganza combining larger-than-life characters with mythology, and genuine human emotions with natural and cosmic phenomena. The result is a sumptuous Baroque spectacle, conceived on a vast scale in this lavish production by directors Valerie Lesort and Christian Hecq.
Enter into the vast world of Rüfüs Du Sol in this immersive film experience capturing the band's powerful live energy set against a backdrop of desert terrain. Performing their hits Solace, Underwater, and Innerbloom, the live project also features the new track Valley of the Yuccas. Live from Joshua Tree unearths a meaningful & personal body of work created for their dedicated fans around the globe.
Brothers Eli and Nick are genius cellists, but as they prepare to audition for the opportunity of a lifetime, they inadvertently steal a bag of money from a hitman. They are abruptly thrust into a world of crime, blackmailed to act as performing decoys during the thet of an eight-million-dollar painting. Suddenly, the brothers are no longer just fighting for a place in a prestigious music academy, but for their lives, too.
Narrated by Chuck D, Freestyle 101: Hip-Hop History explores the genre's early days through the lens of freestyle rap, featuring legendary artists discussing the history and intricacies of rapping with musical performances throughout.
The rapturous, sweaty live experience of Philly rock band Low Cut Connie — fronted by charismatic leader Adam Weiner — is celebrated in all its beer-soaked, piano slamming glory in this rousing documentary.