Contemporary Classical Music Movies
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The Serena Variations
The Serena VariationsMOVIE
A young violin prodigy is manipulated and pushed to her psychological breaking point by the composer she adores.
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To B or to B Flat - the composer Boudewijn Buckinx
To B or to B Flat - the composer Boudewijn BuckinxMOVIE
Who gets the idea to write “Nine unfinished symphonies” - one of them perhaps the shortest Symphony in music history? Or "1001 sonatas’ - each lastin...
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The Muppets: Classical Chicken
The Muppets: Classical ChickenMOVIE
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No Ideas But in Things - the composer Alvin Lucier
No Ideas But in Things - the composer Alvin LucierMOVIE
“Don’t ask me what I mean, ask me what I’ve made” – inspired by this motto, the documentary accompanies the American composer Alvin Lucier (1931 - 202...
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The Conductor
The ConductorMOVIE
Leonard Bernstein’s protégée Marin Alsop reveals how she smashed the glass ceiling to become an internationally renowned conductor.
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Einstein on the Beach
Einstein on the BeachMOVIE
This seminal work of avant-garde opera from composer Philip Glass and director Robert Wilson arrives full-circle, coming to France, the site of its 19...
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A Shape of Time - the composer Jo Kondo
A Shape of Time - the composer Jo KondoMOVIE
Jo Kondo (*1947) is one of the most interesting composers of contemporary music in Japan. His music is composed intuitively and at the same time it i...
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Hail Bop! A Portrait of John Adams
Hail Bop! A Portrait of John AdamsMOVIE
Shot over the course of a year, this intimate portrait of provocative composer John Adams presents scenes of the artist at work and at play against th...
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Choreography for a Camera and Dancers
Choreography for a Camera and DancersMOVIE
The first experimental dance film from Croatia, which pays homage to the pioneer of experimental and dance film Maya Deren and her "Study in Choreogra...
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Tomorrow will be the same
Tomorrow will be the sameMOVIE
Insatiable lust reigned over senseless flesh. Like august flies, trying to escape certain death, people before the apocalypse started to copulate, un...
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Line by Line - a film on the composer Ernstalbrecht Stiebler
Line by Line - a film on the composer Ernstalbrecht StieblerMOVIE
A cello piece A punt ride Thoughts about music and composition The eight lines of Ernstalbrecht Stiebler’s cello piece Sequenz 2 alternating with h...
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The Fire and the Rose
The Fire and the RoseMOVIE
A documentary on the life and work of the composer Sofia Gubaidulina.
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The West is a Land of Infinite Beginnings
The West is a Land of Infinite BeginningsMOVIE
Alone in the woods, a young man is pursued by a horrifying specter and by visions of his deceased sisters. A meditation on the precarious uncertainty...
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John Adams conducts John Adams
John Adams conducts John AdamsMOVIE
Like many of John Adams’ operas, Doctor Atomic is based on recent world historical events—here, the effusive Robert Oppenheimer, “father of the atomic...
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Accept
AcceptMOVIE
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The Lost Paradise
The Lost ParadiseMOVIE
He is the most performed contemporary composer in the world. And yet he rarely ventures out in public, prefers to keep quiet about his music, feels at...
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Soñarse muerto
Soñarse muertoMOVIE
José Manuel Ortiz, 32, has had a great interest and sensitivity towards music since he was very young. He grows up listening to the anecdotes of his g...
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Philip Glass: Looking Glass
Philip Glass: Looking GlassMOVIE
This documentary captures the overflowing energy and activity of one today's greatest composers, Philip Glass, and allows us to follow him from New Yo...
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The Opening of the Wells
The Opening of the WellsMOVIE
The Opening of the Wells with music by the Czech composer, Bohuslav Martinu was supposed to be part of Laterna Magika II.: Tour programme in 1960. How...
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Reich: Three Tales
Reich: Three TalesMOVIE