Danmarks radio
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c2000
Language
Swedish
Description
One evening a strange series of events takes place. A clerk is degraded, a lost immigrant is violently attacked, a magician makes a terrible mistake. The following day, the signs of chaos takes hold as madness grips a board of directors and the city itself is strangled by a horrendous traffic jam. In the midst of the mayhem, one man stands out-- Karl, who is covered from head to toe in soot from the store he just tried to burn down for the insurance...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Dazzling performances by the Dance Theatre of Harlem, America's first outstanding classical ballet company of black dancers. In this special studio production, members of the Theatre perform a selection of its most popular works. The pieces are introduced by correographer Robert North and the founder of the Theatre, Arthur Mitchell.
5) Symphony no. 5 in E flat major, op. 82 ; Valse triste, op. 44 ; Symphony no. 7 in C major, op. 105
Author
Publisher
Chandos
Pub. Date
p1992
Language
None
Series
Dogme volume 1
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004, 1998
Language
Danish
Description
Helge Klingenfeldt is a respected Danish patriarch whose country estate is the scene of a grand celebration in honor of his sixtieth birthday. His adult children and extended family have gathered together for the occasion, but no one is ready for the bombshell about to be delivered by his oldest son, Christian, in his birthday toast: a dark family secret that contributed to his twin sister's recent suicide.
Publisher
EuroArts Music International
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
"'It must schwing!' was the motto of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, two German Jewish immigrants who in 1939 set up Blue Note Records, the jazz label that was home to such greats as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey, Dexter Gordon and Sonny Rollins. Blue Note, the most successful movie ever made about jazz, is a testimony to the passion and vision of these two men and certainly swings like the propulsive sounds...
9) Swan lake
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2009?], c1988
Language
English
Description
Prince Siegfried sees a swan on the lake who turns into the enchanted princess Odette. She can only be saved by the true love of another. This the Prince promises her, but he is tricked by a wicked magician who disguises his daughter as the swan-maiden. Siegfried and his love leap to their deaths thus destroying the evil power of the magician.
10) Kirov classics
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Language
None
Description
Several ballet dances performed by the Mariinsky Ballet (formerly the Kirov Ballet) in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Publisher
Distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
The English National Opera first mounted David Alden's production of "Ariodante," one of Handel's greatest masterpieces, in 1993. It met with unanimous critical and popular acclaim, and this 1996 revival features many of the leading singers from the original production. "Ariodante" is Handel's 1735 setting of an episode from "Ariosto," in which the King of Scotland's daughter is treacherously accused of infidelity to her promised husband. The range...
14) Coppelía
Publisher
distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
The story explores a young man's passion for a beautiful girl who actually is a mechanical doll.
16) Pelle Erobreren
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Danish
Description
A boat filled with Swedish emigrants comes to the Danish island of Bornholm. Among them are Lasse and his son Pelle who move to Denmark to find work. They find employment at a large farm, but are treated as the lowest form of life. Pelle starts to speak Danish but is still harassed as a foreigner.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Arthur Mitchell introduces this studio recording of Agnes de Mille's "Fall River legend'" based on the story of Lizzie Borden. Accused in 1892 of the brutal killing of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts, Borden experienced a dramatic life of love, sadness, and ultimately murder, rendered here in a dance performance.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The historic production of Hamlet filmed on location at Elsinore, Denmark, the actual location where the play is set. The only production of Shakespeare's masterpiece ever filmed at Elsinore. This truly unique and thrilling production has not been seen in North America since its original premiere in 1964 on NET, the precursor to PBS.
Bonus disc: In conversation with Christopher Plummer: filmed live at the 2011 Sarasota Film Festival, NPR film critic...