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A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string players – two violin players, a viola player and a cellist – or a piece written to be performed by such a group. The string quartet is one of the most prominent chamber ensembles in classical music, with most major composers, from the mid to late 18th century onwards, writing string quartets.
The string quartet was developed into its current form by the Austrian composer Joseph Haydn, with his works in the 1750s establishing the genre. Ever since Haydn's day the string quartet has been considered a prestigious form and represents one of the true tests of the composer's art. With four parts to play with, a composer working in anything like the classical key system has enough lines to fashion a full argument, but none to spare for padding. The closely related characters of the four instruments, moreover, while they cover in combination an ample compass of pitch, do not lend themselves to indulgence in purely colouristic effects. Thus, where the composer of symphonies commands the means for textural enrichment beyond the call of his harmonic discourse, and where the concerto medium offers the further resource of personal characterization and drama in the individual-pitted-against-the-mass vein, the writer of string quartets must perforce concentrate on the bare bones of musical logic. Thus, in many ways the string quartet is pre-eminently the dialectical form of instrumental music, the one most naturally suited to the activity of logical disputation and philosophical enquiry.
Actors: Selma Egrei (actress), Othon Bastos (actor), Philip Glass (composer), Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues (producer), Ana Rosa (actress), Werner Schünemann (actor), Chica Xavier (actress), Aramis Trindade (actor), Aracy Cardoso (actress), Clemente Viscaíno (actor), Fernando Alves Pinto (actor), Angela Maria (actress), Florence Larsonneur (miscellaneous crew), Marcelo Moraes (editor), Iafa Britz (producer),
Plot: The selfish Dr. André Luiz dies and awakes in a kind of limbo called "Umbral". After a painful and numb period in a gruesome swamp, he is rescued and brought to "Nosso Lar" (meaning "Our Home"), a spiritual city. He finds a place of harmony, where people live in peace, working for the good of humanity, for the self evolution and awaiting for reincarnation. Sooner André Luiz changes his behavior becoming a more self aware and altruist man.
Keywords: afterlife, brazil, futuristic-city, life-after-death, lost-soul, lusophone, medium, purgatory, spiritualistActors: Emilia Ruiz (actress), Saskia Huiskamp (writer), Saskia Huiskamp (director), Daniel Mourenza (director), Daniel Mourenza (writer), Jordi Ruiz Masó (writer), Xavier Planas (miscellaneous crew), Xavier Planas (editor), Marta Pérez i Verge (actress), Albert Elduque (writer), Patricia Zambrano (miscellaneous crew), Andrea Calbet (writer), Patricia Zambrano (miscellaneous crew), Mireia Linkmeyer (actress), Susana Pajerols (actress),
Genres: Short,Actors: Emilia Ruiz (actress), Saskia Huiskamp (writer), Saskia Huiskamp (director), Daniel Mourenza (director), Daniel Mourenza (writer), Jordi Ruiz Masó (writer), Xavier Planas (miscellaneous crew), Xavier Planas (editor), Marta Pérez i Verge (actress), Albert Elduque (writer), Patricia Zambrano (miscellaneous crew), Andrea Calbet (writer), Patricia Zambrano (miscellaneous crew), Mireia Linkmeyer (actress), Susana Pajerols (actress),
Genres: Short,Actors: Emilia Ruiz (actress), Saskia Huiskamp (writer), Saskia Huiskamp (director), Daniel Mourenza (director), Daniel Mourenza (writer), Jordi Ruiz Masó (writer), Xavier Planas (miscellaneous crew), Xavier Planas (editor), Marta Pérez i Verge (actress), Albert Elduque (writer), Patricia Zambrano (miscellaneous crew), Andrea Calbet (writer), Patricia Zambrano (miscellaneous crew), Mireia Linkmeyer (actress), Susana Pajerols (actress),
Genres: Short,Actors: Vera Farmiga (actress), Andrew Cesana (miscellaneous crew), David Magdael (miscellaneous crew), Anne Stulz (miscellaneous crew), Michael Nyman (composer), Danielle Wilson (miscellaneous crew), Andrew Fierberg (producer), Marceline Hugot (actress), Brian Bell (producer), Per Melita (producer), Canella Williams (miscellaneous crew), Tere Duncan (costume designer), Karen S. Neasi (miscellaneous crew), Luke Tomalin Sherman (miscellaneous crew), Michael Fucci (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Sophie Lee has been trying unsuccessfully to get pregnant. Her husband's family, devout Korean Catholics, prays for the couple. His failure to have a child is deeply shameful to him, so when he attempts suicide, Sophie tries something extreme: she follows an undocumented immigrant - a Korean who resembles her husband - from a fertility clinic to his apartment in New York City where she proposes to hire him to sire her child. She offers $300 per session and $30,000 if she gets pregnant. After several sessions, neither is able to keep emotion out of the arrangement. Where can this relationship go, and what about her husband? Will her actions save him and their marriage?
Keywords: abortion, adultery, arrest, asian-man-white-woman-relationship, attempted-suicide, baby-shower, bare-breasts, bare-chested-male, beach, blondeActors: Joe Morton (actor), Callum Keith Rennie (actor), David Lewis (actor), Dee Jay Jackson (actor), Barclay Hope (actor), Ben Affleck (actor), Serge Houde (actor), Paul Giamatti (actor), John Cassini (actor), Craig Hosking (actor), Mark Brandon (actor), Aaron Eckhart (actor), Colm Feore (actor), Fulvio Cecere (actor), Ryan Robbins (actor),
Plot: Jennings is the best reverse-engineer in the business. He is hired by clients to take apart other companies technologies and find out how they work. He is hired to do a special job, against the advice of some of his associates. When the job is completed, all memory of what he has been working on is erased from his mind. That's when his problem really start to begin. He is hunted for something he has no recollection of doing and has only a little time to work it out. He has sent himself 19 seemingly unconnected objects, before his memory was wiped, to allow him to put the puzzle together and discover just what has gone on and what he has done. But the authorities are after him and time is very quickly running out.
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Keywords: 3d, airport, airshaft, amnesia, arrest, attorney-general, baseball, based-on-short-story, basketball, bathroom-mirrorActors: Kel Mitchell (actor), Phyllis Diller (actress), Linda Leifer (miscellaneous crew), Linda Leifer (miscellaneous crew), Ann Cusack (actress), Paul Adelstein (actor), David Drake (actor), M.J. Loheed (actor), The Lady Bunny (actress), Debbie DeLisi (actress), Ted Lyde (actor), Michael Caplan (producer), Charlotte Pai (miscellaneous crew), Bill McGough (actor), Bradley Parker Sparrow (composer),
Plot: Inspired by the passion of an iconoclastic young artist, gallery runners Jon and Candy hit upon a scheme to inject interest into their failing gallery - have the artist desecrate valuable works of art (only he'll be ruining fakes instead). Problems arise when two of the "fakes" turn out to be real. The artist is talented enough to replicate passable fakes to replace and "become" the originals, but these then mysteriously disappear, putting the forgers in trouble. Meanwhile, the gallery owners themselves have both fallen in love, one with the talented but edgy artist, the other with the son of a local gangster who's behind the local film festival of a drag queen running for congress.
Keywords: arrest, art-gallery, artist, auction, bare-chested-male, beatnik, bondage, breaking-and-entering, cigarette-smoking, cowboy-hatActors: George Miller (director), John Williams (composer), Peter Guber (producer), Rob Cohen (producer), Jon Peters (producer), Aggie Guerard Rodgers (costume designer), Susan Sarandon (actress), Harriet Medin (actress), Michelle Pfeiffer (actress), Jack Nicholson (actor), Veronica Cartwright (actress), Richard Jenkins (actor), Cher (actress), Barbara Gregson (miscellaneous crew), Lori A. Balton (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: All three previously married but now single, best friends sculptress Alex Medford, cellist Jane Spofford and writer Sukie Ridgemont are feeling emotionally and sexually repressed, in large part due to the traditional mores overriding their small New England coastal town of Eastwick. After their latest conversation lamenting about the lack of suitable men in Eastwick and describing the qualities they are looking for in a man, mysterious Daryl Van Horne and his equally mysterious butler Fidel arrive in town. Despite being vulgar, crude, brazen and not particularly handsome, Daryl manages to be able to tap into the innermost emotions of the three friends, and as such manages to seduce each. In turn, the three women blossom emotionally and sexually. After an incident involving one of the town's leading citizens, the ultra conservative Felicia Alden, the three women begin to understand how and why Daryl is able to mesmerize them so fully. The three decide to experiment with some powers learned indirectly from Daryl so that they can hopefully regain control of their own lives.
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