Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Music > Performing Arts: 100 Films to Rent
- Catherine Wheel, The (1982)
- Dir. Twyla Tharp
- Complete stage performance of the modern dance extravaganza, The Catherine Wheel, as well as a behind–the–scenes peek at the production…
- Pagliacci (Leoncavallo) (1982)
- Dir. Franco Zeffirelli
Feat. Teresa Stratas, Placido Domingo
- Teatro alla Scala Orchestra/Chorus. Conductor: Georges Pretre.
- Pirates of Penzance (1982)
- Dir. Wilford Leach
Feat. Kevin Kline, Angela Lansbury, Linda Rondstadt…
- Kevin Kline and Angela Lansbury star in this hammy screen version of Gilbert and Sullivan's famous operetta.
- Cats (1981)
- The blockbuster Broadway musical authored by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, based on T S Eliot's 'cat' poems.
- From Mao to Mozart (1980)
- Dir. Murray Lerner
- Deserving winner of the Best Documentary Oscar follows violinist Isaac Stern on his concert and tutorial tour of China in 1979. A film as moving as…
- Pirates of Penzance, The (1980)
- Dir. Wilford Leach, Joshua White
Feat. Kevin Kline, Angela Lansbury, Linda Ronstadt…
- A lively version of the Gilbert and Sullivan show, performed live at Delacorte Theatre in Central Park.
- Don Giovanni (1979)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
- Possibly the most celebrated filmed version of Mozart's greatest opera, about a notorious womaniser who teeters on the edge of a hellish fate.…
- Bolshoi Ballet - Ivan the Terrible (1976)
- The Bolshoi Ballet present their version of Sergei Prokofiev's 'Ivan the Terrible', choreographed by Yuri Grigorovich. Stars Yuri Vladimirov, Natalya…
- Tosca (Puccini) (1976)
- Dir. Gianfranco De Bosio
Feat. Raina Kabaivanska, Placido Domingo
- New Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Bruno Bartoletti.
- American Film Theatre - Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (1975)
- Dir. Denis Héroux
Feat. Elly Stone, Mort Shuman, Jacques Brel
- With no plot or dialogue, this is surely the least theatrical of the American Film Theatre productions of the 1970s, instead comprising a revue of…