Richard Wagner

The Aria -- Our desire to comply is entangled with our need to resist.

People Will Talk -- A traditional physician's medical practices are questioned by his contemporaries who disagree with his scientific methods.

"Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness." - Werner Herzog. In the wilds of Australia, aboriginal tribes observe their ancient legends and laws evolved over 40,000 years. Their culture is threatened by a giant corporation that wants to mine in one of the aborigine's holiest sites - the place 'where the green ants dream.'

Director Francois Girard explores the life of legendary pianist Glenn Gould in 32 vignettes – each a variation on a theme of the Gould phenomenon, resulting in a biographical mosaic of a film deftly capturing the artist’s uniquely personal journey.

Everything is set for the rehearsal. Nothing can go wrong. Then, in the grandest of entrances, she walks in. She is international star Karin Anderson (Glenn Close). Her arrival adds to conductor Zoltan Szanto's daily damage control within Opera Europa ("where you can be misunderstood in six different languages"). She and the married maestro soon begin a passionate affair. Life may imitate art. But love and the lunacy it inspires have no rehearsals. Karin and frazzled Zoltan (Niels Arestrup) must figure things out as they go. David Puttnam (Chariots of Fire) produces, Istva´n Szabo´ (Mephisto) directs and Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's singing voice adorns this comedy of life, love, art and happiness - pursued not in that order but all at once. Romantic comedy at its finest, Meeting Venus is destined for curtain calls!

Ken Russell's erotic, exotic, electrifying Rock-n-Roll movie about classical composer Franz Liszt, which portrays him as the world's first Rock idol. Starring The Who's Roger Daltrey as Liszt, in his and Russell's follow-up feature to "Tommy." Also starring Rock legend and former Beatle, Ringo Starr, and Yes' visionary keyboardist, Rick Wakeman. This bizarre, sexually obsessed biographical fantasy was the first film recorded with a Dolby Stereo optical soundtrack!

Though he always dreamed of a singing career, first-generation Italian-American Frank Gregorio (Chazz Palminteri) obeyed his parents' wishes and became a psychiatrist. But when a patient introduces Frank to karaoke, a long-buried passion is quickly resurrected. Co-starring Drea de Matteo as Frank's daughter Lana, who's going through a midlife crisis of her own, this big-hearted comedy premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.

Featuring lavish sets and lush period costumes, this 1955 biopic chronicles the life and turbulent times of controversial German composer Richard Wagner (Alan Badel), with Yvonne De Carlo, Rita Gam and Valentina Cortese portraying the women in his orbit. Although the film takes some dramatic license and ignores some of Wagner's whopping character flaws, the orchestrations of his best-known works save the picture.

Dr. Praetorius is a professor at a dull Midwestern college who impresses those around him with his unorthodox ways of teaching. Out of the blue, Praetorius falls in love with an unattached pregnant woman, spiraling him into uncharted territory.

A traditional physician's medical practices are questioned by his contemporaries who disagree with his scientific methods.

A traditional physician's medical practices are questioned by his contemporaries who disagree with his scientific methods.

Director Frank Borzage's romantic melodrama stars Philip Dorn as imperious conductor Leopold Goronoff, who grooms promising young pianist Myra Hassman (Catherine McLeod) for greatness, then proceeds to sabotage her career before it even gets off the ground. The passion between maestro and protégé is masterfully conveyed through the classical music passages they play, compositions actually recorded by legendary pianist Artur Rubinstein.