Music & Dance

Fados

Fados completes the musical trilogy of award-winning Carlos Saura (Flamenco, 1995; Tango, 1998). Usi...

Finding Fela

Finding Fela tells the story of Fela Anikulapo Kuti's life, his music, his social and political impo...

In Balanchine's Classroom

In Balanchine's Classroom takes us back to the glory years of Balanchine’s New York City Balle...

Karmen Geï

Bizet's celebrated opera Carmen receives a spectacularly bold reworking in Joseph Gaï Ramaka'...

Flex is Kings

Flex Is Kings takes place in the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York, where high crime rates and ...

Fela Kuti: "Music is the Weapon"

Fela Kuti is to African music what Bob Marley is to reggae: its prophet. All contemporary forms of b...

Daddy Long Legs

This classic cinemascope musical directed Jean Negulesco (Road House) received three 1955 Oscar nomi...

Ain't In It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm

Director Jacob Hatley's intimate documentary finds Levon Helm at home in Woodstock, NY, in the midst...

Ballets Russes

Unearthing a treasure trove of archival footage, filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine have fashi...

A Not So Silent Night

Direct from the Knitting Factory stage in downtown Manhattan, A Not So Silent Night features Kate an...

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction is a personal documentary about the iconic actor in his intimate ...

Afghan Star

WINNER - WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY - AUDIENCE AWARDSUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2009WINNER - WORLD CIN...

Gogol Bordello Non-Stop

A vibrant chronicle of one of today’s most notorious and revered live bands, Gogol Bordello No...

Studio 54

For 33 months, from 1977 to 1980, the nightclub Studio 54 was the place to be seen in Manh...

Jazz on a Summer's Day

Filmed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island and directed by world-renowned photographer...

Bolshoi Ballet: Swan Lake

No ballet has such deathless appeal as Swan Lake, a haunting fable of a young man’s nai?vete? ...

A Gesar Bard's Tale

As a boy, Dawa was an illiterate Tibetan nomad whose life revolved around herding yaks. At 13, his l...

Princess Tam Tam

Buoyed by the success of the French musical Zou Zou a year earlier, the same team created in Princes...

Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq

Buirski (The Loving Story) brings to the screen the magnificent and tragic story of Tanaquil Le Cler...

About Tap

Director George Nierenberg's brilliant and blissful follow-up to No Maps on my Taps features stylist...

No Maps on My Taps

The golden age of tap dancing spanned the first half of the twentieth century, but by the 1950s, the...

Sound of the Soul

SOUND OF THE SOUL is a compelling portrait of an Arab country where Muslims, Christians, and Jews ha...

Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam

Taqwacore chronicles the nascent Muslim punk rock movement in America. It was inspired by the work o...

The Severing

The Severing from acclaimed filmmaker Mark Pellington (The Mothman Prophecies) is a visceral and pow...

Bolshoi Ballet: The Nutcracker

The Nutcracker speaks to the child in everyone, with its happy dreams of snow, presents, adventures,...

Kiki & Herb: Live at the Knitting Factory

Justin Bond and Kenny Mellman are KIKI & HERB, worldwide smash punk rebel entertainers, cabaret ...

The Fairy

Dom works as a night clerk at a small hotel in the industrial port city of Le Havre. One night, a st...

The Roe's Room

In this "absolutely singular autobiographical film opera" (Time Out London), multi-talented compo...

The Socalled Movie

Socalled, aka Josh Dolgin, is the most supreme klezmer hip-hop funk artist in the world. A pianist, ...

Black Tights

A wondrous celebration of dance, Terence Young's BLACK TIGHTS is a collection of four lavish musical...

NAS: Time Is Illmatic

Twenty years after the release of Nas's groundbreaking debut album Illmatic, Nas: Time is Illmatic t...

Invitation to Dance

Invitation to Dance is an eye-opening insider's account of disability in 21st century America. Simi ...

Dare to Drum

DARE TO DRUM tells the story of rock star composer Stewart Copeland, drummer for The Police, teaming...

Siren of the Tropics

Available only as a fragment for decades, Siren of the Tropics is Josephine Baker’s feature ...

Elvis: Return to Tupelo

Elvis Presley may have been born with the rock 'n roll in his blood but without poverty, southern cu...

Invitation to Dance - Classroom Version

New presentation-length edition of this highly popular film! (Running time: 55 min.) In 1971, Simi ...

War Requiem

"A stunning visual and serious music treat" (Variety), Derek Jarman's (Sebastiane, Jubilee) 1989 WAR...

Violeta Went to Heaven

VIOLETA WENT TO HEAVEN tells the story of famed Chilean singer and folklorist Violeta Parra, tracing...

Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould

Almost three decades after his death, legendary pianist Glenn Gould continues to captivate audiences...

RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World

Filmmakers Stevie Salas, Catherine Bainbridge and Alfonso Maiorana examine the musical contribution ...

Being in the World

Ten years after graduating with a degree in philosophy from UC Berkeley, filmmaker Tao Ruspoli retur...

Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet

When doctors diagnosed 19-year-old rock star Jason Becker with Lou Gehrig's Disease, they said he wo...

Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters

Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters brings to life the creative process that cul...

Zou Zou

Zou Zou was conceived as a vehicle for Josephine Baker, then among Europe's most popular entertainer...

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