Composer Movies

His filmmaker son probes the professional and private lives of his remote but fascinating father: bandleader, composer, inventor, and electronic...

Known for his mournful "Adagio for Strings," Samuel Barber was never quite fashionable. This acclaimed film is a probing exploration of his music and...

A profile of composing team John Kander and Fred Ebb, who have written many Broadway musicals. Highlights include interviews with Lauren Bacall, Joel...

In a triumphant career that lasted forty years Erroll Garner pushed the playability of the piano to its limits, developed an international...

Priya, an exceptional yet obsessive pianist at Berklee School of Music, struggles to meet the demands of her professor’s unorthodox senior...

A short documentary on Jerome Kern and the making of Till the Clouds Roll By.

2012 documentary on John Cage celebrating his 100th birthday in the form of a re-edit of partially unused film material shot for the film 'Time is...

Relying on a bounty of archival footage and interviews with prominent musicians and intimates, Philo Bregstein's film traces the life and career of...

Frank Scheffer's (collage like) documentary on the American composer and rock guitarist Frank Zappa, as broadcast by VPRO in the Netherlands April...

An American Dissident: un tributo a Frank Zappa is an Italian documentary that aired on the Videomusic channel on January 7, 1994. It includes...

Music For The Movies: Bernard Herrmann explores the work of a composer who created music for over 50 films, collaborating with such diverse directors...

Ricardo Alfaro is a popular composer and singer who has failed in life because of alcohol. However, things change when he meets Teresa Montes, a...

Idiosyncratic composer, unique musician and ground-breaking film director…..Frank Zappa packed more into his short lifetime than most men would...

Thomas Karatoulpanis (Dinos Iliopoulos) is a naive employee at a car show in the Thessaloniki International Trade Fair. Because of his modest...

A successful songwriter, dazzled by high society, falls for a society girl who is just playing around.

A biopic about the eminent composer Sir Arnold Bax.

Raimonds Pauls is almost 85 years old, rehearses almost every day and performs at least once a week. What drives him? Not only he is the most popular...

Libelle, Nix's mother, possessed exceptional abilities. She not only excelled in the fields of science and engineering, but also gained fame as a...

The film tells the story of two very popular Finnish singer/songwriters: Tapio Rautavaara and Repe Helismaa, who worked together until their...