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- This is a 4-part documentary that follows four different contemporary composers performing/creating/building their shows. Peter Greenaway leads us, with a great sense of balance between the performances and the interviews, through the creative process of 4 very different composers in style (sound and noise, repetition and discipline, vocal experimentation, poetry and musical freedom) who are all framed under the same musical genre - contemporary music. A Great way to get introduced to this music and to understand how much of it is intellectual or playful.
- Documentary covering the counter-culture in London in 1970, featuring performances from Rod Stewart and the Faces, Linda Lewis and Fairport Convention.
- An inside look at the young Patrick Anson, photographer and fifth Earl of Litchfield. He was one of England's most ambitious and successful photographers. As well as coping with the running of his vast family estate in the north of England, make for an exhilarating, if not exhausting lifestyle. The film follows Litchfield in his day-to-day routine - jet setting around the world on fashion assignments, photographing the down and out of London and entertaining Britt Ekland, David Bailey, Penelope Tree and Joanna Lumley on his estate In between it all we learn what it takes to be a top-notch photographer and something of Litchfield's own idiosyncratic views on his art.
- This film spans a year in the life of Placido Domingo, following him across the world from Spain to New York. Placido sings La Fanciulla del West in Madrid and Tosca in Newcastle, plus those roles he has made his own, like Verdi's Otello and television shows with Carol Burnett in Los Angeles and Charles Aznavour in Paris. This self taught 'child of the theatre' is now at the zenith of his career. The film shows the creation and mastery of some of opera's most demanding roles, his rehearsals and performances at every major opera house in the world. Everywhere he charms and conquers. To spend a year with Placido is to observe a phenomenon of popularity. His schedule of constant travelling, rehearsing, performance, recording sessions and TV appearances, pushes him close to the limits of physical endurance. The greatest Verdi tenor of our time has recorded popular songs with John Denver, played football with Kevin Keegan and conducted Die Fledermaus at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. This film records a year of magnificent performances by this great actor-singer whose life is dedicated to bringing "the joy of music to as large an audience as I can".