Jimmy Somerville
Also Known As: The Communards, James William Somerville, Bronski Beat
Biography: James William Somerville is a Scottish pop singer and songwriter. He sang in the 1980s with the pop groups Bronski Beat and The Communards, and has also had a solo career. He is known in particular for his falsetto singing voice. (Wikipedia)
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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Orlando
Overview: England, 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando, a young nobleman obsessed with poetry, that she will grant him land and fortune if he agrees to satisfy a very particular request.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-11
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Days Like These
Overview: Documentary containing interviews and concert footage of the various musicians and bands within the Red Wedge organization on a tour within the UK.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-15
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Hideous
Overview: Musician Oliver Sim is the main guest of a talk-show that soon slides into a surreal journey of love, shame, and blood.
Genres: Music Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-05-22
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The Communards - Live at Full House Rock Show
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Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Jimmy Somerville: The Video Collection 1984/1990 (Featuring Bronski Beat and The Communards)
Overview: Collection of music videos by Jimmy Somerville, both as solo artist as well as with the bands Bronski Beat and The Communards.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-24
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Rhythm Divine - History of Disco Music
Overview: The evolution of disco music through interviews and clips - Acid House, House, Disco, Funk, Italo-Disco, Italodance. Interviewed – Baby Ford, Deee-Lite, Frankie Knuckles, Mark Moore, Mel Cheren Featuring 5000 Volts, Amii Stewart, Anita Ward, Baby Ford, Bananarama, Black Box, Cerrone, Communards, The, Deee-Lite, Donna Summer, Eartha Kitt, Edwin Starr, Evelyn Champagne King, Evelyn Thomas, Farm, The, Giorgio Moroder, Gloria Gaynor, Hot Gossip, Hues Corporation, Isaac Hayes, Kool And The Gang, Kylie Minogue, M, Michael Zager, Miguel Brown, Musique, New Order, Odyssey, S'Express, Shannon, Shirley & Co, Sylvester, Three Degrees, Trammps, Van Mccoy, Village People
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-20
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All Out! Dancing in Dulais
Overview: Dancing in Dulias was made by members of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) and Lesbians Against Pit Closures during and immediate after the 1984/85 minders strike. Like the forthcoming movie, Pride, it documents the interactions between lesbians and gay men and the miners and their families in Dulais in South Wales - only this time it's the real thing. As well as some memorable footage that includes the Blaenant Lodge banner leading the 1985 Lesbian and Gay Pride march and LGSM members struggling with bingo at the local community hall, the film documents the wider political impact of this seemingly unlikely alliance. (cont. http://www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk/films/2014/dancing-in-dulais#sthash.HScQCj7E.dpuf)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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How Gay Sex Changed the World
Overview: Charting the evolution of public and political attitudes to homosexuality over the last four decades, from decriminalisation in 1967 to today's advances in gay sexual freedom, How Gay Sex Changed the World examines how the gay sexual revolution gathered pace in the face of gradually changing legislation, from the first Gay Pride march to groundbreaking dramas such as Queer as Folk.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Looking for Langston
Overview: A black and white, fantasy-like recreation of high-society gay men during the Harlem Renaissance, with archival footage and photographs intercut with a story. A wake is going on, with mourners gathered around a coffin. Downstairs is an elegant bar where tuxedoed men dance and talk. One of them has a dream in which he comes upon Beauty, who seems to reject him, although when he awakes, Beauty is sleeping beside him. His story and his visits to the jazz and dance club are framed by voices reading from the poetry and essays of Hughes and others. The text is rarely explicit, but the freedom of gay Black men in the 1920s in Harlem is suggested and celebrated visually.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-31
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Countertenors
Overview: An LWT South Bank Show, presented by Melvyn Bragg, exploring the phenomenon of countertenor singing. With its unique, soaring beauty, the high male voice is today enjoying a huge resurgence in popularity. Heirs to the celebrated castrati of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, today's countertenors produce their voices by wholly natural means. In this programme international stars Michael Chance, Andreas Scholl and James Bowman, as well as popstar Jimmy Somerville, shed light on the appeal of the male falsetto. Meanwhile, experts such as Michael White place today's countertenors in their historical context. What emerges is a compelling portrayal of an unmistakable vocal style, rooted in church and operatic tradition, yet completely up-to-date, resonating louder today than at any time in the last two hundred years.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-19
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Stars 80, le concert au Stade de France
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Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-05-09
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Framed Youth: The Revenge of the Teenage Perverts
Overview: Gay and lesbian teenagers interview straight people on the streets of London about their views on homosexuality.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-04-11
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Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
Overview: This music special is dedicated to dispelling the prejudices associated with the HIV infection and raising money for AIDS research and relief. Some of today's most celebrated recording artists performing their interpretations of the classic songs of Cole Porter.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-01
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Memorabilia: The Video Singles
Overview: A 14-track video compilation featuring songs by the British singer/songwriter Marc Almond as a solo artist and with his partner Dave Ball as the synthpop duo Soft Cell.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-20
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Bronski Beat - The Age Of Consent (40th year anniversary edition)
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Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-01
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