Movies: Igor Stravinsky

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A soldier, returning home from war, chances upon a stranger who offers to buy his violin. The stranger is none other than the devil....

Walt Disney's timeless masterpiece is an extravaganza of sight and sound! See the music come to life, hear the pictures burst into song and experience the excitement that is Fantasia over and over again....

...Dancing to the border of exhaustion. Dressed in little, the black earth sticks to their skin. Yes, to the point where it hurts. A document of early Pina Bausch, an authentic recording of one of the most outstanding choreographies of the 20th centu...

This documentary is an informal portrait of the great modern composer Igor Stravinsky. Proudly American, though still very much an Old World figure with a long and alert memory for people and events in music, literature and art, Stravinsky is depicte...

The film is a parody of Disney's Fantasia, though possibly more of a challenge to Fantasia than parody status would imply. In the context of this film, "Allegro non Troppo" means Not So Fast!, an interjection meaning "slow down" or "think before you ...

Stage director Axel Ranisch interweaves two works, resulting in a coming-of-age fairy tale on family, love, knowledge and self-determination: Mavra and Iolanta are becoming Mavra / Iolanta....

Pulcinella finds himself in New York and not Naples: from stockbroker to semi-naked banker in the midst of Wall Street. Actualization of Igor Stravinsky's ballet composed as a tribute to Italian music....

The Joffrey Ballet's 1987 production of Vaslav Nijinsky and Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring used reconstructions the original sets, costumes, and choreography from the 1913 production....

Blending lively music and brilliant animation, this sequel to the original 'Fantasia' restores 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice' and adds seven new shorts....

Animation adapted from a short story by Anton Chekhov. A government clerk sneezes on a department general. Although the department general immediately dismisses the incident, the clerk cannot let it go....

The film is about the horrors of war. It tells the fate of the tailor John Bottom who during the war against the Germans lost an arm and died, but he was buried with the arm of a carpenter. John's earthly suffering continues after his death ... John'...

For one evening, the Bolshoi takes on a new challenge with audacity in The Cage by Jerome Robbins, Harald Lander’s Études and Alexei Ratmansky’s Russian Seasons....

In December, 1941, using music by Stravinsky, this film provides a reaction to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. An egg is smashed by a hammer; red color with white and then blue dominates the frame. Blue paint runs; small bulbs float. The dark co...

Between Russia and the USA, an enchanting concert in summery tones, led by young Finnish conductor Tarmo Peltokoski and South African soprano Golda Schultz. On the program: works by Dmitri Shostakovich, Igor Stravinsky and Samuel Barber, as well as G...

At a decrepit farm outside a remote American desert community, something takes over the minds of some of the local humans and animals and is able to see through their eyes and control their actions....

This autobiographical film about the most important and influential composer of the 20th century includes documents, photographs and film never seen publicly before. Stravinsky's three surviving children talk about their father and there are contribu...

Black-and-white film projections by Bill Morrison, using archival footage of frigid Arctic scenes....

An innovative short documentary that uses new editing techniques to complement Stravinsky’s violin concerto with some unique choreography from George Balanchine....

STRAVINSKY IN HOLLYWOOD explores the short-lived film career of this legendary composer, it is the story of his trials and tribulations with the Hollywood Studios, the story of an old school European artist knocking heads with the brash New World. Ig...