A multicultural musical potpourri Barbra's fifth television spectacular is her most adventurous. Performing a startling array of new songs and classic hits with genre-bending arrangements. Barbra Streisand...and Other Musical Instruments is a feast for the eyes and ears. Starring the ultimate ""musical instrument "" Barbra Streisand together with over 150 musicians playing everything from the traditional violins cellos flutes and oboes...to the more exotic kabuki woodblock sitar
The widow of a murdered bank president and a maverick financier must prevent a crisis when Arab nations threaten to pull their funds from U.S. banks thereby causing a worldwide financial collapse.
Sounds from the West of England grew to prominence with trip-hop but towns like Bristol have been manufacturing original oddballs since punk. Diverse styles have been its defining feature - mixing dub techno and drum 'n' bass (as in Part 1 of this collection) along with funk hardcore and smooth movie soundtracks displayed here. This is cutting-edge music - without boundaries free to experiment bred from a rich cultural mix-up and fed on an independence of spirit - that has always stood on its own terms. Sounds of the West 2 continues its history of this music and its influence.
An in-depth documentary on the 2005 tour of drummer Martin Atkins and his band PIGFACE. As their name suggests this cross-country venture literally dismembers what you thought about rock 'n roll. Free For All captures the chaos and intense drama that goes with the daily operations of producing a National independent concert tour. Exclusive backstage footage interviews with members of the band live footage and more. It's like digital Vietnam but nobody's dying. --Curse Mackey Tracklist: 1. Pigface 2. Free For All 3. Headquarters: Invisible Records 4. Preparing for the Road 5. Martin and Family 6. Supersport / Sheep on Drugs 7. Day One of rehearsals 8. Day Two of Rehearsals 9. Rochester NY 10. After the Show / Travel / Hanin 11. Detroit MI 12. Smashed Equipment / The Enigma 13. VooDou 14. Los Angeles CA / Diablo 15. Krystoff / Nocturne 16. San Jose CA 17. Portland OR / San Diego CA 18. Martin with Supersport / RV Fires 19. Dallas TX 20. Phoenix AZ 21. Spine 22. Chicago IL 23. Post Tour 24. Credits
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis star in their first film together directed by Hal Walker a hilarious slapstick comedy about two buddies' mishaps at an army training camp during world war II. After stealing the shows with their supporting roles in 'My Friend Irma' and its sequel 'My Friend Irma Goes West' Paramount decided to build an entire film around their popular contract play comedy duo Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. This 1950 release was a huge hit that would inspire numerous other successful teamings before they split up in 1956. Placing the two of them on an army base and getting them involved in all sorts of crazy situations on and off the front lines adds up to some sheer hilarity and one of their best teamings. Dean Martin is Vic Puccinelli a newly promoted sergeant who finds himself head over heels in love with pretty Polly Bergen. Desperate Martin enlists the aid of his bumbling pal Private Alvin Corwin (Jerry Lewis) to help him win her over.
Two neighbours live opposite each other on a country road somewhere in Northern France. They hate each other and life for them is nothing but a daily painful confrontation. One day in the course of a violent dispute an agricultural trailer knocks them over and sends them both to hospital. They are both released in wheelchairs paralysed from the waist down. Giving up on the idea of suicide they each decide to embark on a personal journey. However before they know it they both end up on the same platform waiting for the same train. Neighbours once again for better or worse. An unpredictable odyssey then starts taking them all the way to Finland where they intend to obtain financial compensation from the manufacturers of the agricultural machinery for their accident...
U.S. reporter Don Stevens has been sent out to cover the fighting in Lebanon. Unexpectedly he is promised an interview with a top PLO leader Yassin. This is the set-up... Tricked and beaten he gradually uncovers a murder plot and most terrifying of all a plan to massacre hundreds of civilians. In a story that takes the lid off events in Lebanon Don Stevens becomes a reluctant hero and in doing so gets the scoop of a lifetime.
Rhythm Is It! is the story about Marie Martin Olayinka and 250 other teenagers who have never danced or listened to classical music faced with their biggest challenge: to perform Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring' with Sir Simon Rattle and the legendary Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra! This documentary follows these diverse youngsters few of whom had prior knowledge of classical music and dance as they make their first efforts at dancing. Through the teenagers' eyes we watch the project's developments its ups and downs doubts and enthusiasms uncertainties and renewals of self-confidence. Marie 15 is desperately trying to pass her secondary school exams; Olayinka 16 has recently arrived as a war-orphan from Nigeria and Martin 19 who is battling to overcome his inhibitions. They have never had a chance so far but as dancers they suddenly discover their real potentials. Rhythm Is It! is a fascinating journey and a beautiful cinematic experience full of passion respect and zest for life.
The Sundance Kid is the fastest gun in the West, his sidekick Butch is a dreamer, always planning that bigger, better bank raid. But things are getting tougher and soon the accident-prone anti-heroes decide it's time to head south and disappear into legend.Winner of 4 Oscars including Best Screenplay for William Goldman and Best Song ('Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head') and Best Score for Burt Bacharach.
The eleventh volume of the popular stand up comedy series.
West Ham United are a club celebrated for their prolific output ofcolourful characters and quality performers throughout the last fifty years in English football. Football however, is ultimately a game about goals, and West Ham are a club who have always been better at scoring goals than keeping them out. Here, then, is a compilation of 250 of the greatest from the last twenty-five years of the East End club's endeavours. Celebrate strikes from the Hammers' best-ever third place finish 1985-8...
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