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La vita di Helmut Newton, il ritardatario fotografo pionieristico che ha avuto un impatto determinante sul mondo della moda e dell'arte.

A historical adaptation of John Gay's 18th Century ballad opera, exuberantly performed for BBC television. With its story of a condemned highwayman, it brings to life the greed, lust and corruption of low-life London.

Works, legend and murders of Carlo Gesualdo, a notorious Italian composer and murderer from the 16th century.

When Italian composer Giacomo Puccini is accused of sleeping with his maid, the scandal threatens to destroy his life and career. This biopic intercuts with director Tony Palmer's efforts to stage Puccini's last opera.

A camera crew follows Helmut Newton, the fashion and ad photographer whose images of tall, blond, big-breasted women are part of the iconography of twentieth-century erotic fantasy. He's on the go from L.A., to Paris, to Monte-Carlo, to Berlin, where he was a youth until he escaped from the Nazis in 1936. We see him on shoots, interviewing models, and discussing his work. It's not art and it's not good taste, he tells students. We meet June, his Australian-born wife, whom he married in 1948. Three actresses talk about working with Newton and how posing is different from acting. A heart attack in 1973 helps Newton re-focus, resulting in more personal photographic projects.

After the dead hear their cemetery is going to be sold as a building site, they ask Johnny to stop it.

At death's door, George Frederic Handel reflects, rages, and narrates his life. From his womanizing youthful days, to his rise in fame as a composer, God Rot Tunbridge Wells! pulls no punches in this wild romp of a biopic.

A group of starving artists try to survive in 1830s Paris, including a seamstress and the would-be playwright she loves.

Rodney Greenbergs's portrait of Lalo Schifrin. From his origins in Argentina to Los Angeles today. Lalo the composer, conductor and pianist is best known for award winning film and television scores such as Cool Hand Luke, Bullit, The Fox and Mission Impossible Theme, amongst many others. The documentary includes film clips from these classics and his own relections of over thirty years of work in music. At the featured concert performance in Cannes, France conducting the Orchestre National de Lyon he is joined by the legendary performers Dizzy Gillespie, Grady Tate, Ray Brown and Julia Migenes.

The first major profile of the American Pop Art cult leader after his death in 1987 covers the whole of his life and work through interviews, clips from his films, and conversations with his family and superstar friends. Andy Warhol, the son of poor Czech immigrants, grew up in the industrial slums of Pittsburgh while dreaming of Hollywood stars. He went on to become a star himself.

Swedish production with multi-national cast, shot entirely on location in the Greek islands and on the Greek mainland.

In a small village in England, Peter Grimes is unable to become a part of the community. Because his apprentice drowned at sea, he has incurred the wrath and distrust of the townspeople.

The film is about a very special moment in the famous composer's artistic life. Composing with innovative minimalism for films as memorable as "The Draughtsman's Contract", "The Ogre", "Man on Wire", and most famously for Campion's "The Piano", he has reached an international audience. But now, Michael Nyman is about to become a filmmaker himself. Featuring unprecedented access to the composer and his working life, this film shows one of the great composers of our time in all his diversity and endless energy. From London to Berlin, in Mexico, Poland, the Netherlands and Portugal the film is also a journey through the musical world today. It shows Michael Nyman, the musician, in his concerts with The Michael Nyman Band and live collaborations with other internationally known musicians or orchestras. But throughout his journeys, this film discovers Nyman's increasing passion for filming and photography. Witnessing the development of his visual works from the very first moment of inspiration, it gives a unique insight into Michael Nyman's personal views, his thoughts and emotions; his world.

The first comprehensive study of German artist Otto Dix looks at the life and work of the maligned German artist, blacklisted by the Nazis for his depictions of the horrors of war.

Remixes, mash-ups and collages are art forms which have become a mass phenomenon through the internet. The legal boundaries for the resulting works are unclear at best or it is simply illegal. A survey at and beyond the grey area.

Portrait of the world-renowned French ballerina Sylvie Guillem, who joined the corps de ballet of the Paris Opera when she was just fifteen.

Alsina, the Witch Queen of the Magic Island transforms her lovers into rocks and trees when she tires of them. At the opening of this opera, however, she is experiencing a new emotion: love. But Alcina is too tough to die for love, though her magic powers disappear when she falls in love with a man. Now she is forced to deal with the infections of doubt, jealousy and mortality.