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April 14 – Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones, a concert film made during the Rolling Stones' 1972 North American Tour, premieres at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York. April 16 – Queen play their first North American concert, opening for Mott the Hoople in Denver , Colorado.
Mahler is a 1974 British biographical film based on the life of Austro-Bohemian composer Gustav Mahler. It was written and directed by Ken Russell for Goodtimes Enterprises, and starred Robert Powell as Gustav Mahler and Georgina Hale as Alma Mahler. The film was entered into the 1974 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Technical Grand Prize ...
According to Kaiser, the final scene of the film—in which Caul is convinced he is being eavesdropped in his apartment, cannot find the listening device, and consoles himself by playing his saxophone—was inspired by the passive covert listening devices created by Léon Theremin, such as the Great Seal bug. "He couldn't find out where [the ...
Undeterred, Charles Aznavor's Michel Raven sees this as the perfect cue to strike up a song - his signature tune The Old Fashioned Way - providing the funniest moment in the film, as, despite the fact his character is playing just a piano, a drum and bass accompaniment strikes up.
Stiff performances stand in contrast to Mahler's infinitely powerful music in this bizarre mishmash between straight period piece/biopic and psychedelic freakout, and it could not be more endearingly "Ken Russell."
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Nov 21, 2014 · From the Three-Day week to the rise of the disaster movie, we look at the cultural and current events that shaped 1974.
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That's Entertainment!: Directed by Jack Haley Jr.. With Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, Peter Lawford. Various MGM stars from yesteryear present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50-year history.
