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The Band was an acclaimed and influential roots rock group. The original group consisted of Rick Danko (bass guitar, double bass, fiddle, trombone, vocals), Levon Helm (drums, mandolin, guitar, vocals), Garth Hudson (keyboard instruments, saxophones, trumpet), Richard Manuel (piano, drums, baritone saxophone, vocals) and Robbie Robertson (guitar, vocals). All five members were notable musicians in their own right.
The members of the Band first came together as they joined rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins's backing group, The Hawks, one by one between 1958 and 1963. Upon leaving Hawkins in 1964, they were briefly known as the Levon Helm Sextet with sax player Jerry Penfound being the sixth member, then Levon and the Hawks after Penfound's departure. In 1965, they released a single on Ware Records under the name Canadian Squires, but returned as Levon and the Hawks for a recording session for Atco later in 1965. At about the same time, Bob Dylan recruited Helm and Robertson for two concerts, then the entire group for his U.S. tour in 1965 and world tour in 1966. Dylan continued to collaborate with The Band over the course of their career, including the informal 1967 recordings that became The Basement Tapes and a joint 1974 tour.
Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, (born 30 March 1945) is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time. Clapton ranked second in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and fourth in Gibson's Top 50 Guitarists of All Time.
In the mid 1960s, Clapton departed from the Yardbirds to play blues with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. In his one-year stay with Mayall, Clapton gained the nickname "Slowhand". Immediately after leaving Mayall, Clapton formed Cream, a power trio with drummer Ginger Baker and bassist Jack Bruce in which Clapton played sustained blues improvisations and "arty, blues-based psychedelic pop." For most of the 1970s, Clapton's output bore the influence of the mellow style of J.J. Cale and the reggae of Bob Marley. His version of Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff" helped reggae reach a mass market. Two of his most popular recordings were "Layla", recorded by Derek and the Dominos, another band he formed and Robert Johnson's "Crossroads", recorded by Cream. A recipient of seventeen Grammy Awards, in 2004 Clapton was awarded a CBE for services to music. In 1998, Clapton, a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, founded the Crossroads Centre on Antigua, a medical facility for recovering substance abusers.
Neil Percival Young,OC,OM (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian singer-songwriter who is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of his generation.
Young began performing as a solo artist in Canada in 1960, before moving to California in 1966, where he co-founded the band Buffalo Springfield along with Stephen Stills and Richie Furay, and later joined Crosby, Stills & Nash as a fourth member in 1969. He forged a successful and acclaimed solo career, releasing his first album in 1968; his career has since spanned over 40 years and 34 studio albums, with a continual and uncompromising exploration of musical styles. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame website describes Young as "one of rock and roll’s greatest songwriters and performers". He has been inducted into the Hall of Fame twice: first as a solo artist in 1995, and second as a member of Buffalo Springfield in 1997.
Young's work is characterized by his distinctive guitar work, deeply personal lyrics and signature alto or high tenor singing voice. Although he accompanies himself on several different instruments, including piano and harmonica, his idiosyncratic electric and clawhammer acoustic guitar playing are the defining characteristics of a varyingly ragged and melodic sound. While Young has experimented with differing music styles, including swing and electronic music throughout a varied career, his best known work usually falls into two primary styles: acoustic (folk and country rock) and electric (amplified hard rock, very often in collaboration with the band Crazy Horse). Young has also adopted elements from newer styles such as alternative rock and grunge. His influence on the latter caused some to dub him the "Godfather of Grunge".
Actors: W. Earl Brown (actor), Michael Rooker (actor), Ray Wise (actor), Tim Ware (actor), Mark S. Thomas (miscellaneous crew), Travis Tritt (actor), Jeff Murphy (editor), Robyn Lively (actress), Tyler Hollinger (actor), Judd Lormand (actor), Mercer Boffey (actor), Josh Mills (producer), Josh Mills (producer), Josh Mills (actor), Ron Prather (actor),
Plot: Identical twins Andy and Pete Goodwynn have always been there for each other. But in a cruel twist of fate-orchestrated by the town's most powerful family-their lives are forever altered. Can the brothers gain vengeance on those who have taken away from them all that matters? While revenge may seem sweet, BROTHER'S KEEPER is a powerful reminder that only forgiveness can truly heal.
Genres: Drama,Actors: James T. Williams (director), James T. Williams (editor), James T. Williams (writer), Anthony Archambault (actor), Anthony Archambault (actor), Thomas Morton (actor), Thomas Morton (actor), Thomas Morton (actor), Anthony Archambault (actor), Anthony Archambault (actor), Anthony Archambault (actor), Anthony Archambault (producer), Thomas Morton (writer), Thomas Morton (composer), Jon Digby (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Michael Kiely (miscellaneous crew), Andy Wickens (miscellaneous crew), Don Schain (producer), J. Peter Robinson (composer), Barrie M. Osborne (producer), Kate Morrison (miscellaneous crew), John J. Kelly (producer), Bruce Greenwood (actor), Diane Ladd (actress), Anthony Hopkins (actor), William Lucking (actor), Paul Rodriguez (actor), Walton Goggins (actor), Roger Donaldson (director), Roger Donaldson (writer),
Plot: For 25 years in Invercargill at the south end of New Zealand, Burt Munro (1899-1978) has been working on increasing the speed of his motorcycle, a 1920 Indian. He dreams of taking it to the Bonneville Salt Flats to see how fast it will go. By the early 1960s, heart disease threatens his life, so he mortgages his house and takes a boat to Los Angeles, buys an old car, builds a makeshift trailer, gets the Indian through customs, and heads for Utah. Along the way, people he meets are charmed by his open, direct friendliness. If he makes it to Bonneville, will they let an old guy on the flats with makeshift tires, no brakes, and no chute? And will the Indian actually respond?
Keywords: agent-orange, ambition, ambulance, american-flag, american-indian, american-soldier, angina, apostrophe-in-title, applause, arterial-sclerosisActors: Naomi Watts (actress), Hugo Weaving (actor), Claudia Karvan (actress), Ken Sallows (editor), Marshall Napier (actor), Phillip Roope (miscellaneous crew), Felix Williamson (actor), Anni Browning (miscellaneous crew), Peter Hicks (miscellaneous crew), Ian Russell (miscellaneous crew), Rebel Penfold-Russell (actress), Tom Long (actor), Sue Milliken (miscellaneous crew), Emily Seresin (costume designer), Kate Beahan (actress),
Plot: This romantic comedy takes place over the course of one year - opening on New Year's Eve of one year and closing exactly one year later. The film focuses on three women living together in a house in Sydney and three male best friends. The men and women at the film's start have not yet met, but it is obvious that all will get together by film's end. The three women are all ending nowhere relationships with married men, older men, or just life's losers. One of the men is just a shy law graduate, one is a sexual conqueror who has just learned one of his conquests is pregnant, and the last is facing a breakup of his marriage. Through various events, each of the two trios end up together at the turn of the year.
Keywords: adultery, animal-sex, argument, astrology, attempted-rape, bar, bare-butt, beach, beach-house, bookActors: Linden Chiles (actor), Steven Williams (actor), Laura Harring (actress), Menahem Golan (writer), Greydon Clark (director), Miranda Garrison (miscellaneous crew), Miranda Garrison (actress), Richard Lynch (actor), Menahem Golan (producer), Sid Haig (actor), Vladimir Horunzhy (composer), Allen Walls (miscellaneous crew), Ami Artzi (producer), Ruben Moreno (actor), Earl Watson (editor),
Plot: Filmed during the Lambada dance craze (if there really ever was one), this film tries to have a social conscience. A princess (Laura Herring) in the Amazon rain forests tries to fight a conglomerate threatening the forests by going to Los Angeles. There she links up with a rich kid (Jeff James) who tells her that she must get on tv to succeed with her mission. Quick as a wink the two come up with the idea of winning a lambada dance contest that is getting tv attention. Sid Haig also co-stars as a witch doctor who accompanies the princess and provides some humor.
Keywords: dance, independent-film, lambada, three-word-titleActors: Eric Allaman (composer), Sean Roche (writer), Roger Eschbacher (writer), Michael Rawlins (actor), Michael Rawlins (actor), David Schwartz (writer), Martha Moran (writer), David Ehrman (writer), Kurt Weldon (actor), Jeremiah Bosgang (writer), Chris Coombs (actor), James Abbott (actor), Vic Davis (writer), Victoria Delany (actress), James Rose (actor),
Plot: From the popular video game, Super Mario Bros. The Super Mario Bros. Super Show features Mario, his brother Luigi, Princess Toadstool, and her advisor going by the name of Toad. They go from land to land try to save that land from the sinister Bowser Koopa and his band of goombas, troopas, and other villians from the video game. The show also features live action parts with the voices of Mario and Luigi, Captain Lou Albano and Danny Wells. Each episode also features a special guest on every show.
Keywords: based-on-video-game, bowser, brother-sister-relationship, character-name-in-title, koopa-troopa, luigi, mario, mouse, mushroom-retainer, princessActors: John Jarratt (actor), Graeme Blundell (actor), Noni Hazlehurst (actress), Brett Swain (actor), Ross Matthews (producer), Jackie McKimmie (director), Jackie McKimmie (producer), Jackie McKimmie (writer), Phil Brock (actor), Sara Bennett (editor), Lee Biolos (actor), Tony Bellette (actor), Mark Albiston (actor), Catherine Bishop (miscellaneous crew), James Ricketson (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Drama,Actors: Elizabeth Daily (actress), John Cusack (actor), Steven Williams (actor), Vincent Schiavelli (actor), Curtis Collins (miscellaneous crew), Michael Jaffe (producer), David Ogden Stiers (actor), Rich Little (actor), Taylor Negron (actor), Yuji Okumoto (actor), Curtis Armstrong (actor), Rick Rosenthal (actor), Amanda Wyss (actress), David E. Van Houten (miscellaneous crew), Shelley Kirkwood (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Lane Meyer is a depressed teen who loses his girlfriend Beth. Her given reason for breaking up is: "Lane, I think it'd be in my best interest if I dated somebody more popular. Better looking. Drives a nicer car." Anyway, poor Lane is left alone and thinks up treacherous ways of killing himself. He finally meets a French beauty called Monique and falls for her. Simultaneously, he must endure his mother's terrible cooking which literally slides off the table and his disgusting next door neighbour Ricky (and his mum) while he prepares for the skiing race of his life - to get his old girlfriend back!
Keywords: absurd-humor, automobile, black-comedy, black-humor, boy-with-glasses, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, cartoon-on-tv, chevrolet-camaro, christmas, clay-animationActors: Barbara Harris (actress), Richard Band (composer), Rachel Talalay (miscellaneous crew), Michael Kuhn (actor), Paul Trejo (editor), Mark Rosman (director), Mark Rosman (writer), Mark Rosman (actor), Mark Rosman (producer), Harley Jane Kozak (actress), Jean-Marc Vasseur (editor), Kate McNeil (actress), Michael Sergio (actor), Ed Heath (actor), Alan Shapiro (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: A group of girls staying at a sorority house clash with the house's owner, who wants them out. They decide to play a prank on her, but it goes awry and she winds up dead. Panicking, the girls try to hide the body, but someone (or something) witnessed the crime and begins to stalk them.
Keywords: accident, accidental-death, argument, assault, attic, b-movie, balcony, bare-chested-male, basement, bathroomActors: Lindsay Freeman (actress), John Wintergate (actor), John Wintergate (writer), John Wintergate (actor), John Wintergate (director), Joel Riordan (actor), Elizabeth Hall (actress), Selma Kora (actress), Kalassu (actress), Kalassu (composer), Elliot Van Koghbe (actor), 33 1/3 (composer), Elliot Van Koghbe (producer), Mary McKinley (actress), 33 1/3 (actor),
Plot: Resembling a cross between "The Amityville Horror" and a Playboy Playmates video, this film tells the terrifying tale of a cheesy video special effect that stalks bikini-clad women. In between scenes of them playfully splashing each other and wrestling with each other's bathing suit tops, they're murdered and/or terrorized by horrific hallucinations. These hallucinations include seeing blood in the shower stalls (while they're trying to lather up), having giant monsters jump out of the hall closet, and seeing their faces temporarily turn into rubber halloween masks.
Keywords: bare-breasts, basement, blood, camp, concealed-nudity, electronic-music-score, fade-to-red, female-nudity, female-rear-nudity, haunted-house