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Rare musical performances: Django Reinhardt with Stéphane Grapelli and the Quintet of the Hot Club of France in Jazz hot (1939), Duke Ellington and the Cotton Club Orchestra featured in Black and tan (1929), Louis Armstrong in Copenhagen, 1934, and a 1929 performance from the Utica Jubilee Singers.
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Eleven films designed to influence, including a vintage promotional film of a French-dubbed Laurel & Hardy, theatrical advertisements featuring Michel Simon and Jacques Tati, a 1938 George Pal puppet animation, three WW-II era musical shorts, two political campaign films, and the National Film registry selection Master Hands, a paean to the 1936 Chevrolet automobile.
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Legendary director Douglas Sirk's (Written on the wind, Imitation of life) La Habanera is a lushly poetic and boldly modern musical drama decades ahead of its time. Working at Germany's famed UFA Studios (Metropolis), under the very noses of the Nazi authorities that would later force him into Hollywood exile and eminence, Sirk transformed a glossy musical vehicle for UFA's "new Garbo" Zarah Leander into a dark and intimate anti-colonial melodrama. Desperate to escape the "cold Swedish minds" of her homeland, beautiful Astree (Leander) falls under the enchanting spell of the Caribbean love serenade "La Habanera" and into the arms of Puerto Rican land baron Don Pedro de Avila (Ferdinand Marian). But ten years later, when Astree's old flame Dr. Sven Nagel (Karl Martell) arrives in Puerto Rico on an errand of mercy, all is far from heavenly. Astree is trapped in a loveless marriage to Don Pedro and the island wind that once conveyed the music of romance now carries death in the form of an outbreak of airborne tropical fever. While racing to find a cure for Astree's fever stricken son, Dr. Nagel must elude both the island authorities that would have him jailed for revealing their fatal cover-up and a psychotically jealous Don Pedro who would rather see Astree dead than reunited with her lost love. Douglas Sirk gilds La Habanera with all the dazzling compositions, swooping camera work, and ravishing but doomed characters that distinguish his revered 1950s Universal melodramas. Coolly precise yet extravagantly emotional, La Habanera is the work of an assured cinematic poet and compelling tragedian already at the peak of his skill.
Author
Temple, Shirley, 1928-2014.
Publication
c2009.
Format
DVD
UPC
024543630104
Author
Temple, Shirley, 1928-2014.
Publication
c2009.
Format
DVD
UPC
024543630104
Author
Barnych, Yaroslav,
Publication
Gagarin Media Film Company, [2020]
Format
DVD
UPC
818506028004
Author
Tornek, Alexandra M.
Publication
BayView Entertainment, 2013.
Format
DVD
UPC
874482004654
Author
Aylesworth, Thomas G.
Publication
Gallery Books, [1985]
Format
Books
ISBN
9780831710064
Author
Lennox, Lisa.
Publication
Lionsgate, [2007]
Format
DVD
ISBN
10160350 LGE21252D
UPC
031398212522
Author
HIT Entertainment.
Publication
Hit Entertainment ; distributed by Lionsgate, [2010]
Format
DVD
ISBN
LGEH181260D
UPC
884487107533
Author
Santopietro, Tom.
Publication
St. Martin's Press, 2015.
Format
Books
ISBN
9781250064462
Author
Field, Paul, 1961-
Publication
NCircle Entertainment, [2012]
Format
DVD
UPC
843501008096
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