Movies: Pierre Boulez
- 2020
Zappa (2020)
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With the help of more than 10,000 dedicated Zappa fans, this is the long-awaited definitive documentary project of Alex Winter documenting the life and career of enigmatic groundbreaking rock star Frank Zappa. Alex also utilizes in this picture thous...
- 2016
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words (2016)
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Utilizing potent TV interviews and many forgotten performances from his 30-year career, we are immersed into Frank Zappa’s world while experiencing two distinct facets of his complex character. At once Zappa was both a charismatic composer who revele...
- 1987
The Amazing Mr. Bickford (1987)
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Several pieces of Frank Zappa's music are set against clay animation by Bruce Bickford....
- 1991
Frank Zappa: Peefeeyatko (1991)
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For the past ten years Zappa in composing has turned away from Rock and Roll music - for which he first became famous - and has been working on new, contemporary, orchestral electronic music; in solitude and beyond any commercial conventions or commi...
- 2005
Boulez at 80 (2005)
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Pierre Boulez conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a special concert from the Barbican, as part of the composer's 80th birthday celebrations. The programme contains two compositions by Debussy; Jeux and Trois ballades de Villon, as well...
- 1985
Otto Klemperer's Long Journey Through His Times (1985)
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Relying on a bounty of archival footage and interviews with prominent musicians and intimates, Philo Bregstein's film traces the life and career of the conductor and composer Otto Klemperer, one of the foremost musicians of his time....
- 2014
Maurizio Pollini: De main de maître (2014)
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A unique film portrait of the famous Italian pianist. Maurizio Pollini felt himself that the time had come to submit to the probing of the camera, an exercise made all the more necessary because of his usual avoidance of the public eye....
- 2000
Sur incises: A lesson by Pierre Boulez (2000)
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With warmth, modesty and infectious enthusiasm, Boulez explains the hidden architecture of his most recent work, Sur Incises, to a non-specialized young audience. On a number of occasions, Pierre Boulez has shown that he can come up with the right wo...
- 1993
Eclat (1993)
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Eclat is a fascinating documentary about the work. We witness rehearsals by the Netherlands' Nieuw Ensemble, hear comments about the piece from the composer, conductor Ed Spanjaard and some of the musicians, and we see a full performance of the work....
- 1985
Boulez-Répons (1985)
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In this vivid transposition of contemporary music for television, Cahen "responds" to the complex musical transitions of Répons, a work by French composer Pierre Boulez. Performed by the Ensemble InterContemporain and conducted by Boulez, the intrica...
- 1979
Rituel (1979)
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Music performed by The New York Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted by Pierre Boulez. Schwartz manipulates by computer, in real-time the images of the Maestro to realize a unity between his music and the picture....
- 1996
Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music (1996)
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Shot over a two-year period observing Abbado: a) Rossini, Overture to 'll Barbiere di Siviglia' b) Schubert, Symphony no. 2 B-Major, D. 125 c) Arnold Schonberg, Kammersinfonie no. 1 E-Major op. 9 (Filmed in Venice, Gran Teatro La Fenice, in Febru...
- 1996
Bruckner: Symphony No. 8: Wiener Philharmoniker (1996)
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On the 100-year anniversary of the death of Joseph Anton Bruckner, Pierre Boulez conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker in their interpretation of Bruckner's "Symphony No. 8." A complex masterpiece, the composition is considered one of the last great Rom...
- 2016
Pierre Boulez at the BBC: Master and Maverick (2016)
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Tom Service presents 40 years of great BBC archive featuring the French composer, conductor and musical icon Pierre Boulez, who died on 5th January 2016 at the age of 90...
- 2000
Frank Zappa: The Present-Day Composer Refuses To Die (2000)
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Frank Zappa: The Present-Day Composer Refuses To Die is a 2000 documentary about Frank Zappa....
- 2009
For Art's Sake: The Story of Ballets Russes (2009)
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In the centenary year since the founding of the Ballets Russe, this documentary looks back at Sergei Diaghilev and the company he created, what they did and the influence they had, even a 100 years later....
- 2002
Frank Zappa: Phase II - The Big Note (2002)
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Frank Zappa: Phase Two is a 2002 documentary about Frank Zappa. It features a lot of footage from Scheffer's previous film, but new material from Malcolm McNab's private achive....
- 2013
Best of Bayreuth: Highlights from Three Decades (2013)
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- 2004
A Labyrinth of Time (2004)
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Carefully composed portrait of prominent modern composer Elliott Carter (1908-1912). Scheffer depicts both the person and the development in his music and the musical tradition it grew out of, as well as the time in which the American Carter grew up....
- 1967
A Stravinsky Portrait (1967)
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This documentary follows composer and conductor Igor Stavinsky at his home in California, in London, and in Hamburg where he conducts an orchestra rehearsal. Includes conversations with a variety of friends and musical collaborators. Includes footage...