Van Dyke Parks
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Biography: Van Dyke Parks is an American musician, songwriter, arranger, and record producer who has composed various film and television soundtracks.
Department: Sound
Place of Birth: Hattiesburg - Mississippi - USA
Birthday: January 03, 1943
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Gender: Male
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1974: On the Road With The Beach Boys
Overview: In 1974, The Beach Boys were at a low ebb. Their record sales bottoming out and desperate for income, The Beach Boys hit the road. Family friend and musician Billy Hinsche conned UCLA into letting him film a documentary about the tour on grainy, black-and-white videotape with a cumbersome Camcorder for his master’s thesis. The result is a fascinating time capsule that had been buried for 37 years.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-01
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The Two Jakes
Overview: Real estate developer Jake Berman hires private investigator and war veteran Jake Gittes for some run-of-the-mill matrimonial work. After Berman shoots his wife's lover, who happens to be his business partner, Gittes is drawn into a web of conspiracy and deceit involving the oil reserves beneath Los Angeles. While investigating, Gittes hears a voice from his past that causes him to revisit a traumatic case in Chinatown.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-10
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Peter Case: A Million Miles Away
Overview: Peter Case has lived a life of constant change, soaring highs, and soul-crushing lows. This film walks a million miles in the shoes of one of America’s last great troubadours.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-03-10
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The Swan
Overview: Princess Beatrice's days of enjoying the regal life are numbered unless her only daughter, Princess Alexandra, makes a good impression on a distant cousin when he pays a surprise visit to their palace. Prince Albert has searched all over Europe for a bride and he's bored by the whole courtship routine. He is more interested in the estate's dairy than Alexandra's rose garden. And then he starts playing football with the tutor and Alexandra's brothers. Invite the tutor to the ball that night and watch how gracefully Alexandra dances with him.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-26
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The Beach Boys: An American Band
Overview: A biography of the American rock band The Beach Boys, with interviews, concert footage and clips from movies and television shows they appeared in.
Genres: Documentary History Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-22
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Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him?)
Overview: The life and work of the enigmatic singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-26
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Brian Wilson: Songwriter 1962-1969
Overview: A documentary film in which the rich tapestry of music written and produced by this brilliant 20th century composer is investigated and reviewed.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-01
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Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of Smile
Overview: This film tells (using modern day interviews and archival footage and sound tapes) the story of how in 1967, while his band The Beach Boys triumphantly toured abroad, Brian Wilson was trying to push the boundaries of conventional pop music with a new follow-up to the Beach Boys' cutting-edge mega-hit, Pet Sounds. The new album was to be called "SMiLE". SMiLE pushed the envelope both musically and lyrically, and was supposed to out-do the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper record. But Brian wasn't able to sell the project to his band-mates when they returned. The project was shelved and Wilson's well-documented decline into depression, drug abuse, recluseness, and obesity had begun. Thirty-odd years later, Wilson announced that in 2004, SMiLE would be performed live in its entirety in London. This film tells the story of a damaged but healing artist bringing his greatest work to light.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-05
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Feats First: The Life and Music of Lowell George
Overview: This film, the first ever to chronicle Lowell George's life, music and career, uses archive footage and interviews of and with Lowell and Little Feat, plus contributions from many of those who knew him best, to visually recount the sometimes ecstatic, other times tragic life and times of this maverick genius.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-23
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Vibes
Overview: Medium Sylvia Pickel and psychometrist Nick Deezy meet at a psychic research facility in New York. Not long after, they're contacted by Harry Buscafusco, who offers them $50,000 to find his lost son in South America, in the heart of Incan territory where they discover an ancient mystical secret, and each other.
Genres: Romance Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-05
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The Tale of the Frog Prince
Overview: A spoiled, selfish princess's fate becomes entwined with a zany and witty frog with a secret past.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-11
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Ry Cooder: How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?
Overview: An introduction to the world of Ry Cooder and his debut album on Warner Bros. Records. Cooder talks about old movies, trailers and the lay of the land. And most of all about the inspiration from Blind Alfred Reed's song "How can a poor man stand such times and live?"
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-03
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Loose Shoes
Overview: Broad satire and buffoonery presented as a series of movie trailers. Among the titles and subjects are: "The Howard Huge Story", "Skate-boarders from Hell", "The Invasion of the Penis Snatchers", Woody Allen (pre-Mia), movie trailer come-ons, Charlie Chaplin, war movies, Billy Jack. The source of the title is presented about an hour into the film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-01
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Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces: Let's Have a Ball
Overview: Following a brief statement by Ry Cooder on his thoughts about performing - and improvising - on stage, this concert film depicts Cooder's 1987 live show in Santa Cruz, California, which was part of his "Get Rhythm" world tour.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Popeye
Overview: Popeye is a super-strong, spinach-scarfing sailor man who's searching for his father. During a storm that wrecks his ship, Popeye washes ashore and winds up rooming at the Oyl household, where he meets Olive. Before he can win her heart, he must first contend with Olive's fiancé, Bluto.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-12
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The Beach Boys: It's OK
Overview: A live performance from the Beach Boys, featuring their best known songs, including 'Help Me Rhonda' and 'Good Vibrations'.
Genres: Music Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-22
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No Smoking
Overview: A documentary about Haruomi Hosono, a musician respected around the world and the music composer of Cannes Palme d'Or winner Shoplifters. The footage traces his encounter with music in early childhood to his days in bands Happy End and YMO to his solo activities. It also includes in-depth coverage from recent years of his first overseas performances in London, New York and Los Angeles. In London, he was joined by Yukihiro Takahashi, and when Ryuichi Sakamoto made a surprise appearance onstage, the YMO members were reunited for the first time in five years, a must-see spectacle captured on film. Written by Nikkatsu
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-11-01
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The Beach Boys: Wouldn't It Be Nice
Overview: The inside story of the Beach Boys from their formation in 1961 to the present day (2005).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-09
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The Beach Boys: It's OK
Overview: Originally aired as an television special, this concert film includes interview segments, comedy sketches, and concert footage from Brian Wilson's 1976 return to the concert stage.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-08-05
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The Beach Boys: Endless Harmony
Overview: These archetypal Southern Californians, who transmuted their experiences growing up in suburban Hawthorne into a potent teen iconography orbiting surfing, cars, and girls, tackle the underlying personal and cultural upheavals beneath their discography. Intelligently assembled with over 40 songs dispersed throughout, ENDLESS HARMONY works not just as a rockumentary but as an important historical document of American music.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-14
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Silverchair: Making of Young Modern
Overview: Documentary depicting the recording of Silverchair's 2007 album Young Modern, included as a bonus DVD with the deluxe edition.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-30
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Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme
Overview: Set in the mythical world of Rhymeland, Gordon Goose returns home to discover that his mom has mysteriously vanished. Now the characters of Rhymeland are in danger of disappearing unless Mother Goose returns.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-19
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A World Without Beethoven?
Overview: "What would the world be like without Beethoven?" That’s the provocative question posed by this music documentary from Deutsche Welle. To answer it, the film explores how Ludwig van Beethoven's innovations continue to have an impact far beyond the boundaries of classical music, 250 years after his birth.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-15
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Sayonara America
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-11-12
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