The film is set in the prelude to the Paris Revolution. Mozart is giving a concert and a man from the crowd asks if he could play Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. Five with him on stage. Mozart accepts, yet when he sees it’s a black man, well dressed though he is (his father supported his son so he would want for nothing), Mozart asks his audience, “Who put you up to this?”
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Spinning Gold Movie Review
Timothy Scott Bogart is the son of the subject of “Spinning Gold,” Neil Bogart, an American record executive, played by Jeremy Jordan. Timothy is this film’s writer, director and producer about the beginning of Casablanca Records and his father, Neil Jordan, the man who made the label, against all odds, come to life.
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TÁR Movie Review
“TÁR” is a treasure and in a year with several incredible female actors showing us the best they have, it’s hard to make this next prediction, but I think Cate Blanchett, here in the role of maestro Lydia Tár, just may be taking home each trophy there is for best actress.
TÁR – New Trailer from Focus Features
Focus Features will release TÁRin in select theaters on October 7th; Opens in PHX on OCTOBER 14 and then nationwide on October 28th
Director/Writer: Todd Field
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Noémie Merlant, Nina Hoss, Sophie Kauer, Julian Glover, Allan Corduner, and Mark Strong
Rated: R
Run Time: 2h 38m
Genres: Drama, Music
Producers: Todd Field, Alexandra Milchan, Scott Lambert
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song Movie Review
“Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song” as a documentary is, in short, a bit too much of a good thing. Toward the film’s end, Cohen suggests with a smile that maybe it’s time people stop singing the song for a while. Then the journey starts…
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ELVIS Movie Review
If you’re hoping for expanded details about the “King of Rock n’ Roll” in this biopic, they’re here. When you hear the name Elvis Presley, outside of the songs he courted us with, you can’t help but think of the loud outfits, big belt buckles, the mismanaged movie career and his fondness for karate. Baz Luhrmann’s usual glitz and flash are all over “Elvis” because that’s who the singer was.
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JAZZ FEST: A New Orleans Story Movie Review
The late great George Wein, the creator of the Newport Jazz Festival in the 1960s, felt that New Orleans had to have a music festival of its own. New Orleans had something no other city in the world could claim. It had the birthright of jazz. In the era of Jim Crow, it couldn’t happen as, at the time, whites and blacks couldn’t be on the same stage together. Wein told his wife Joyce that he hoped time would eventually turn in his favor.
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Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story Official Trailer
Movie Trailer for Sony Picture Classics “Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story.”
Directors: Frank Marshall, Ryan Suffern
Starring: Glen David Andrews, Philip Bailey, Tarriona Ball, Jimmy Buffett, Branford and Wynton Marsalis, B.B. King, Pitbull, Aaron Neville, Katy Perry, Bruce Springsteen, and Gary Clark Jr.
Rated: PG-13
Run Time: 1h 34m
Genres: Documentary, Music
ELVIS Trailer Debut
Baz Luhrman’s ELVIS – starring Austin Butler & Tom Hanks
Directed by: Baz Luhrmann
Screenplay by: Baz Luhrmann, Sam Bromell, Craig Pearce
Starring: Tom Hanks, Austin Butler, Olivia DeJonge, David Wenham, Gary Clark Jr.
Genres: Biography, Drama, Music
Marry Me Movie Review
In time for Valentine’s Day, I advise you to say “Yes” to “Marry Me.” Sadly, I’m more referring to the song performed by Lopez and Latin music star Maluma rather than the movie. No. The movie isn’t that bad for your typical rom com it’s just what it is… your typical rom com. With that said, for a film of this ilk, the songs were quite good all around.
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