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August 26, 2023 / Television

ANATOMY OF A SONG (1976) CAMERA THREE

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Composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim whose works include such Broadway hits as “A Little Night Music”, “Company” and “Follies”, talks about the origin of a song from his latest Broadway musical, “Pacific Overtures”. On camera with him are film critic Frank Rich and John Weidman author of “Pacific Overtures” as a straight play who expanded it to the musical book for the show. A highlight of the program is the performance of the song “Someone in a Tree.” with Sondheim at the piano sung by Mako, James Dybas, Geddie Watanbe and Mark Hsu Syers the men who sing it on the Broadway stage.

WATCH HERE<span class="entry-title-primary">ANATOMY OF A SONG (1976)</span> <span class="entry-subtitle">CAMERA THREE</span>
September 27, 2018 / Comedy

ANNA (1967)

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Anna is about Serge, an advertising agency honcho, who falls madly in love with a young woman photographed in a station by chance. Happiness seems to beckon and Serge, helped by a friend, sets to find this elusive girl by employing the agency’s entire workforce. Combining a touch of the Nouvelle Vague with pop culture, the film contains “English” musical compositions by Serge Gainsbourg.

WATCH HEREANNA (1967)
October 19, 2026 / Documentary

ART AND DESIGN: ‘THE JOURNEY’ OR THE MEMOIRS OF A SELF-CONFESSED SURREALIST (1978) FROM BBC SERIES "ARENA"

October 19, 2026 / Horror

STICENIK (1973) AKA WARD

October 19, 2026 / Horror

DEVICANSKA SVIRKA (1973) AKA THE MAIDEN'S TUNE

While travelling through the countryside, a young man named Ivan is drawn to an isolated castle feared by the local villagers. There he encounters Sibila, a mysterious young widow, and becomes captivated by her as well as by the strange music echoing through the castle. But as he grows increasingly entangled in her world, he begins to realize that the place harbors a dark secret.

WATCH HERE<span class="entry-title-primary">DEVICANSKA SVIRKA (1973)</span> <span class="entry-subtitle">AKA THE MAIDEN'S TUNE</span>
October 19, 2026 / Arthouse

SUMMER IN THE CITY (1971)

Prison discharges Hans into the inhospitable freedom of a cold Munich winter. As a stranger, he strays through familiar streets and bars and tries unsuccessfully to contact old friends. Eventually he takes a plane to a friend in Berlin, fleeing from invisible enemies, on the way to an indeterminate destination.

WATCH HERESUMMER IN THE CITY (1971)
October 19, 2026 / Arthouse

LISZTOMANIA (1975)

A send-up of the bawdy life of Romantic composer/piano virtuoso Franz Liszt, with ubiquitous phallic imagery and a good portion of the film devoted to Liszt’s “friendship” with fellow composer Richard Wagner. The film begins during the time when Franz would give piano performance to a crowd of shrieking teenage fans while maintaining affairs with his (multiple!) mistresses. He eventually seeks Princess Carolyne of St. Petersburg (at her invitation), elopes, and, after their marriage is forbidden by the Pope, he embraces the monastic life as an abbé.

WATCH HERELISZTOMANIA (1975)
October 18, 2026 / Sci-Fi

MALEVIL (1981)

In southern France, in a quaint little town, the mayor, who also owns a castle with some cattle, is in the wine cellar with some other people–the pharmacist, the veterinary, and some of his employees. As they are drinking wine, they hear a terrible noise and the heat’s getting higher and higher. They don’t realize what’s happening: when they come out of the cellar, they realize that everything has burned, and all the buildings are destroyed.

WATCH HEREMALEVIL (1981)
October 18, 2026 / Drama

PORNOGRAFIA (2003)

In German-occupied Poland in 1943, a writer and a mysterious new acquaintance travel to a country estate, hoping to escape the hardships of wartime Warsaw. Amid the seemingly peaceful surroundings, the two men become absorbed in a disturbing game of manipulation, attempting to bring two young people together while the violence and moral uncertainties of the war linger just beyond their secluded refuge.

WATCH HEREPORNOGRAFIA (2003)
October 18, 2026 / Comedy

SMOKE ‘EM IF YOU GOT ‘EM (1988)

The world is a blazing atomic hell. Civilisation is dying in agony… What do you do? …THROW A PARTY! The Third World War has happened. Bombs are dropping everywhere, even Elwood, Melbourne, Australia. In the ruins that follow, three survivors find a bomb shelter. Only to find that the survivors in there are having a party.

WATCH HERESMOKE ‘EM IF YOU GOT ‘EM (1988)