The Metropolitan Opera: Madama Butterfly (2009)

Puccini: La bohème

Puccini’s timeless love story, which includes some of its composer’s most beloved music, has moved generations of opera lovers since its 1896 world premiere. It has also proved incredibly popular with the Met’s global HD audiences and has been featured in three live high-definition transmissions since 2008. The most recent, presented during the 2017–18 season, includes a cast of celebrated young artists. Soprano Sonya Yoncheva is the fragile seamstress Mimì, who instantly falls in love with the passionate poet Rodolfo, sung by tenor Michael Fabiano. Soprano Susanna Phillips and baritone Lucas Meachem trade both spars and kisses as the on-again-off-again lovers Musetta and Marcello, with bass Matthew Rose and baritone Alexey Lavrov rounding out the rambunctious gang of bohemian friends. Maestro Marco Armiliato takes the podium to lead Franco Zeffirelli’s picturesque staging.

Moments: Six

A serial killer and the detective who tracked him down find themselves in an unexpected stalemate.

123 Hugs

If hugs are tangible why am I hugging the void

'o Re

Re Francesco II di Borbone (1836-94) e sua moglie in esilio a Roma dopo l'avanzata garibaldina. Lui stanco e sfiduciato, lei ossessionata dal desiderio di un erede e di recuperare il potere.

El Valley Centro

Experimental filmmaker James Benning returns with this abstract documentary about California's Central Valley, part 1 of his "California Trilogy". Consisting of 35 shots, each over two minutes long, the film quietly portrays nature's subjugation to encroaching commercial interests. This film was screened at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.

Un giorno... di prima mattina

Biografia romanzata e musicata della soubrette Gertrude Lawrence. Durante il tirocinio come ballerina di fila, Gertrude ha occasione di sostituire la protagonista di una commedia musicale e riscuote un enorme successo. Dopo il divorzio dal marito si lega ad un nobile e quindi ad un banchiere, al quale si unirà in matrimonio.

La nostra terra

Nella campagna polacca, tra il XIX e il XX secolo, Jagna, una giovanissima contadina, è costretta a sposare Boryba, un ricco contadino molto più vecchio di lei, sebbene sia in realtà innamorata di suo figlio Antek. Con il tempo, Jagna diventa oggetto di invidia e odio da parte degli abitanti del villaggio ritrovandosi a dover combattere per preservare la sua indipendenza.

La via del cuore

Ava, an award-winning chef at a big-city restaurant, has lost her spark. Her boss sends her out to find herself to save her menu and her job. She returns home and finds little to inspire her, but when she reunites with her childhood friend Logan, Ava has to get her head out of the clouds and her foot out of her mouth to rediscover her passion for food.

Farewell to the Planet of the Apes

When the astronauts Burke and Virdon, with their chimp companion Galen, are captured in a fishing village that employs human slave labor, they must prove their worth as fishermen or be sacrificed to the 'gods of the sea,' or what the men call sharks. Escaping from the forced labor camp, the trio become involved in a plot to develop a glider to drop a fragmentation bomb on the gorilla council. [The fifth of five telefilms edited from episodes of the 1974 TV series; this film combines the episodes "Tomorrow's Tide" and "Up Above the World So High"]

Benvenuti a Ever After High: Vera Primavera

Lo scherzo che la mamma di Kitty Cheshire gioca a Alistair Wonderland durante la Fiera della Vera Primavera di Ever After High rischia di rovinare la festa.

Marock

Casablanca, the year of the baccalaureate. The carefree life of Morocco's golden youth and all its excesses: car races, friendships, music, alcohol, but also first loves and the anxiety of transitioning to adulthood... Marock presents a side of Morocco that is often unknown, seen through the eyes of Rita, 17, who is determined to live life on her own terms.

Fire Maidens of Outer Space

An astronaut and crew land on Jupiter's 13th moon and find a monster and women from Atlantis.

Mary Wallops Richard

When Richard, a stuck up solicitor, meets Mary, his life is turned upside down.

The Infernal Rapist

Carlos "El Gato" is a serial rapist who's condemned to the electric chair. Immediately after his electrocution, he makes a deal with Satan and gets resurrected. Carlos begins raping and killing in the name of the devil.

I Dance on Your Grave

Intan, Wiwid, and Depi were mourning. Their best friend, Nisa, was killed. The three girls finally held an alcohol party and dance all night to remember Nisa. But an uninvited guest came messing with their night.

Eat with Science

Children in one class will eat with science.

Rammstein - Live aus Berlin

The Rammstein - Live aus Berlin DVD is a compilation of two live concerts filmed at Berlin's open-air Parkbühne ("park stage") Wuhlheide in August 1998. The DVD offers 17 of the band's songs, most of which are found on the two CD albums "Sehnsucht" and "Herzeleid." The show itself is a very entertaining performance with plenty of the usual stunts, pyrotechnics, and lighting effects you'd expect from an industrial metal band.

Yowis Ben 2

Recently dumped and facing eviction, a musician pins all his hopes on securing new gigs – but getting his band's groove back won't be so easy.

Boycrazy

Love never sounded so good, until Corey must decide between two love interests and whether he wants to give up the joys of the single life.

Hotel Pula

It is 1995. Mahir is a 38-year-old refugee from Bosnia, with unknown history, living in the hotel Pula, modified into a refugee centre. His days are monotonous and empty, and his history is unknown. A spark of life comes when Una, a young girl from Pula, is drawn to him. Until the past catches up with him.

Cossacks in Exile

Director Edgar G. Ulmer executed the low-budget COSSACKS IN EXILE (1939), for Ukrainian-Canadian producer Vasile Avramenko, with a stylish flair; this obscure little operetta contains many pleasant moments. In the Ukraine, 1775, the Zaporogian Cossacks learn that Moscow is sending soldiers to destroy their fort. The Ukrainian villagers appeal to Czarina Catherine, but she insists that they join the Russian army or risk annihilation. Instead, the Cossacks burn their fort and flee on the Danube River to Turkey, where they live in peace, but still yearn for their homeland.

Kathleen Madigan: Madigan Again

Kathleen Madigan drops in on Detroit to deliver material derived from time spent with her Irish Catholic Midwest family, eating random pills out of her mother's purse, touring Afghanistan, and her love of John Denver and the Lunesta butterfly.