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Staged by Gustav Rudolf Sellner, conducted by Lorin Maazel, with costumes by Filippo Sanjust and performed by the six soloists with consummate vocal elegance, Cimarosa's Die heimliche Ehe" offers unalloyed pleasure, triggering a kind of ecstasy with it's

One year before he died Franz Schubert composed the great song cycle "Winterreise" (Winter Journey) after the poems by Wilhelm M?ller. Being already very sick he created a masterpiece that - together with "Die sch?ne M?llerin" - holds the foremost place...

Beethoven, Ludwig van - a composer between genius and madness, tradition and modernism. It is not without good reason that the German composer is considered both consummator of Viennese Classicism as well as pioneer of Romanticism. He created works whose...

The true, decades-spanning tale of the greatest fan film ever made. After Steven Spielberg's classic Raiders of the Lost Ark was released 35 years ago, three 11-year-old boys from Mississippi set out on what would become a 7-year-long labor of love and...

Widely regarded as the screen's first true sex symbol: a leading actress whose charm was built not upon quaint innocence but carnal desire, Theda Bara revolutionized the adolescent art of cinematic sensuality. One of the very few Bara films that exist...

In one of his most experimental and controversial films, scripter/director Jean-Luc Godard adapts Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "?mile" into a two-person drama that breaks the language of cinema down to it's basic elements. In an otherwise empty television...

Alexander Kluge of the New German Cinema returns to the conventions of science fiction for this assault on the German establishment.

The Doll - Produced in Berlin in 1919, Ernest Lubitsch's the Doll (Die Puppe) is a charming romantic fantasy that shows the director already in full command of the now-legendary "Lubitsch touch." Lubitsch in Berlin - Featuring interviews with daughter...

Tired of his troubled marriage, Francesco's life changes dramatically after he learns that an aunt has left him property in Istanbul. He arrives to the Turkish city hoping that he can take care of the matter swiftly and return to Italy. He is surprised...

Around 1956-'57, the United States Armed Services filmed a series of recruitment videos with the top country stars of the day. Unseen for decades, these films capture the all-time greatest Nashville stars of the day singing many of their greatest hits...

Unhappily married research scientist Yvonne Carmichael (Emily Watson) had no regrets about her impulsive fling with a handsome stranger (Ben Chaplin). The passionate physical encounter leads her to seek him out as a lover, a confidant... and, after her...