He has mastered all styles of music, but Oliver Jones has truly blossomed by performing and composing jazz. Inspired as a child by his neighborhood neighbor, Oscar Peterson, the humble and luminous artist has proven that hard work and patience can lead to a long and successful career.
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He has mastered all styles of music, but Oliver Jones has truly blossomed by performing and composing jazz. Inspired as a child by his neighborhood neighbor, Oscar Peterson, the humble and luminous artist has proven that hard work and patience can lead to a long and successful career.
2017-02-25
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Released on DVD as part of The Criterion Collection's "Martha Graham: Dance on Film" collection.
Elusive narration, read by the filmmaker's maternal grandmother, encounters dreams and wishes.
One of the world’s greatest ancient enigmas, the Nazca lines are a dense network of criss-crossing lines, geometric shapes, and animal figures etched across 200 square miles of Peruvian desert. Who created them and why? Ever since they were discovered in the 1920s, scholars and enthusiasts have raised countless theories about their purpose. Now, archaeologists have discovered hundreds of long-hidden lines and figures as well as evidence of ancient rituals, offering new clues to the origins and motivations behind the giant desert symbols.
Sergey meets girls at the sea that he, allegedly working in a prestigious profession (he is either a pilot, flying abroad, or an employee of Vneshtorg), easily succeeds. He is interested in a woman sitting alone on the beach with a parrot in a cage. She is not particularly inclined to get acquainted, but eagerly talks about her son - a round honors student who was even shown to a professor from the Novosibirsk Academgorodok. Here, Sergei meets a terribly impudent guy who knows who he actually works.
Heinrich George plays Henner who lives with his wife and child on a tugboat, going on the river to Berlin. There he meets the attractive Gescha (Betty Amann), and a story of love, betrayal and sadness ensues.
Meet Jonny Corndawg, the underground country-music legend. A born-and-bred Virginian, Jonny has played on five continents in as many years, and every state in the lower 48. Now Jonny has given himself over, heart and heel, to the world of Running. Jonny let us follow him on a tour down the California coast as he braved injury and isolation on his quest to complete the Surf City USA Marathon in Huntington Beach, CA.
Womanizer Don Mateo helps a girl in a train when attacked by a other woman. This girl, Conchita - a cigarette maker, soon visits the rich Don Mateo at his palace in Sevillia. He falls for her, but she likes to play with him.
When Lauren and Bill’s 14-year-old daughter says she’s going to her first dance with her classmate Ryan, they question their preconceived notions of her sexuality and their openness as parents.
Over the course of a day in a California hospice, three terminally ill patients are observed with their families reflecting on life and death.
A look at how the Troika's austerity programme for Portugal affected the lives of millions.
Edison short about a happy couple about to be married, but the guy's carelessness at their workplace leads to tragedy.
Each year in June, Bavarian housewife Elke Richter visits family in Halle, in the GDR. There she meets family friend Gregor Pohl, a married carpenter, and they begin having an affair. After her family stops the annual visits due to the husband's promotion in the communist regime, the adulterous couple arranges to meet on other holidays. After Gorbachev's Glasnost leads to the fall of the Iron Curtain, everything changes, and Gregor chooses to emigrate to Canada.
A stranger invades the family life of Victor. It seems that he has a hidden secret with Victor's wife, which involves their daughter. He wants to protect his family, and he is ready to face all the consequences to stop the threat.