Philip Glass’ opera “Akhnaten”, premiered in Stuttgart in 1984, forms the third part of the portrait opera trilogy about personalities who have influenced the course of human history. The conclusion of the trilogy deals with the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten, who attempted to establish a kind of monotheistic cult around the god Aton during his reign in the 14th century BC, but failed due to the resistance of the priesthood. The production presented here was undoubtedly one of the very great successes of the 2019/20 season at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, due not only to the outstanding cast of singers (led by countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo) but also to Phelim McDermott’s imaginative staging, which captivates with sometimes breathtaking imagery.
Der Film beginnt mit der Krönungszeremonie von Iwan IV. Der neue Herrscher verkündet in einer Rede, dass er Russland vereinen und gegen fremde Mächte schützen will. Kurz danach heiratet er Anastasia Romanowna, die Feierlichkeiten werden durch Angriffe der aufgebrachten Menschenmenge auf Adelspaläste gestört. Iwan IV. beruhigt die Menge.Nachdem der Herrscher des Khanat Kasans den Zaren mit der Aufforderung zum Selbstmord provoziert, erklärt ihm Iwan den Krieg. Kasan wird von den Truppen des Zaren erobert.Die Zarin wird krank und stirbt. Iwan denkt laut nach, ob der Tod seiner Frau eine Strafe für seine Vergehen sei. Er dankt ab und verlässt Moskau, die Bitten einfacher Menschen bewegen ihn jedoch zur Rückkehr.
A boy walks through an abandoned building and films the interior. Suddenly his camera disappears.
Um sich mit vier übersinnlichen Mächten zu messen, reitet ein schwarz gewandeter Revolvermann namens El Topo durch die Wüste. Zum Beweis seiner titanischen Stellung muß er eine Reihe Aufgaben lösen, die ihn bis an den Rand des Wahnsinns treiben.
Sundar, a waiter, is in love with Radha but does not have the courage to tell her. When he becomes a successful comedian, he confesses his feelings to her, only to find that she loves someone else.
Krzysztof Zanussi's groundbreaking film chronicles a decade in the life of a young physics student whose absolute faith in the primacy of rationality and science is shaken by tragedy and affairs of the heart.
Broadway partners Vicky Lane and Dan Christy have a tiff over Christy's womanizing. Jealous Vicky takes up with her old flame and former dance partner, Victor Price, and Dan's career takes a nosedive. In hopes of rekindling their romance and getting Vicky back on the boards with him, Dan follows her to a ritzy resort in the Canadian Rockies, where she and Victor are about to open their new act. But things get complicated when Dan wakes after a bender to find that he's hired an outlandish Latin secretary, Rosita Murphy, which makes Vicky think he's just up to his old tricks again.
During one of their night stays, three college teens play a silly prank where they randomly call people and tell them that they know who that person is and what they have done. What will happen when things take a dangerous turn?
Charlie Brown is on the run from the Peanuts Gang after the Great Pumpkin puts a bounty on his head in this wild animated student short by Jim Reardon.
It’s summer, a boy and his friends go to the river. On the ride there, a story is told about a man and his pet snake that tried to eat him. The boy falls from a tree trunk and gets hurt. A girl follows him. A couple kiss each other, another boy explores the woods and a third one just lays by a tree eating a peach. In four chapters, the heat and the humidity of the forest unravel desires among them.
Das Ehepaar Isabell und Rafael nimmt die junge Anhalterin Lisa auf dem Weg in den Urlaub mit. Alles scheint idyllisch und geordnet zu laufen und die drei freunden sich schnell miteinander an. Zusammen machen sie einen Motorbootausflug, aber Stück für Stück kippt die heitere Stimmung. Mitten auf dem Meer muss Lisa immer öfter feststellen, dass Rafael getrieben wird von sadistischen und perversen Neigungen. Was als Psychoterror beginnt, wird schon bald zu einem brutalen, tödlichen Spiel ...
The Indian government announces a country-wide lockdown for 21 days due to the pandemic. India Lockdown encapsulates the story of four out of lakhs of individuals whose lives came to a standstill.
A patriotic wartime short showcasing the U.S. Coast Guard Band, led by singer Rudy Vallee, and saluting the Naval branches of the military.
The film follows the story of Jamie, a struggling butch lesbian actress who gets cast as a man in a film. The main plot is a romantic comedy between Jamie's male alter-ego, "Male Jamie," and Jill, a heterosexual woman on set. The film's subplots include Jamie's bisexual roommate Lola and her cat actor Howard, Lola's abrasive butch German girlfriend Andi, and Jamie's gay Asian friend David.
On his vacation, Severino ends up catching a strange sea urchin and, when he returns to the building, something unimaginable happens: everything indicates that the Blue Building has ended up at the bottom of the sea!