Movies: Musician

The old musicians play in the shaded corner on the side of a stream under a bridge. Their music tells stories of their lives....

INSIDE BOWIE 1969/72: long awaited critical review of the music of David Bowie and the Spiders From Mars during the crucial period from 1969 to 1972 when Bowie rose from obscurity to superstardom. DVD2 INSIDE BOWIE 1972/74: We pick up with the Ziggy ...

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Charlatan Magnifique is a film that brings an entertaining mix of excellent music, spontaneous comical situations as well as comments given by the key people in Magnifico’s life. The film written and directed by Maja Pavlin takes us through Magnifico...

Czeslaw Niemen, who died ten years ago, was an icon for several generations of Poles. In Poland under communism he managed to raise popular music to the rank of true art; he also won renown abroad. He was born in 1939 in Stare Wasiliszki (today's Bel...

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Blind musical prodigy Kyle Woodruff defies prejudice and expectations to become a skilled educator and the first blind male member of the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square....

A Studio B Production – Co-produced by Citizen Film for the San Francisco Symphony...

CMC’s visionary leaders and artists to celebrate one of San Francisco’s most-revered and longest-running community arts programs....

A washed-up musician has to deliver mail at night to make ends meet, all the while pondering about broken dreams and the things that could have been....

The Sounds of This City is a short documentary focusing on three musical performers and the struggles of pursuing a passion while dealing with everyday difficulties. The three subjects are varied by age and status as musicians, each performing at dif...

Fourth in the IMA Portraits series, this short introduces us to the life and work of electronic/contemporary composer Eliane Radigue. Radigue discusses methods of composition, the challenges and difficulties of live electronic music, as well as biogr...

A film about the life & time of ex The Homosexuals bass player Xentos Jones Luke Fowler's The Way Out: A Portrait of Xentos Jones, made in collaboration with Kosten Koper, is a tribute to underground punk musician and film-maker Xentos Jones and his ...

As the sons grow older, will the dreams of the father become their own? Will early encouragement translate into a lifetime of inspiration? Can the love of music fill the void of personal tragedy? A family grows up on and off stage, the story of the D...

The life story of American Leonard Bernstein who began conducting for the New York Philharmonic at the age of 25....

Story of the singer who came out of the Texas dustbowl to become the king of Honky Tonk. With his Fender Telecaster guitar, no-nonsense style, and lush sound, Owens started a revolution in country music that produced such hits as "Act Naturally" and ...

An in depth look at a little known recording artist named Weird Paul. After releasing several homemade cassette albums in the late 80's, Paul finally became noticed and got a record deal with Homestead Records, one of the best indie labels at the tim...