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Feels Like Going Home – Martin Scorsese’s Music Documentary
Martin Scorsese’s documentary about the origins of blues music. Feel like going home is the first in a series of 7 documentaries by seven directors in the PBS series The Blues.
Watch Scorsese’s full documentary Feel like going home below!
Directed by Martin Scorsese
Written by Peter Guralnick
Director Martin Scorsese (The Last Waltz, Raging Bull, Gangs of New ……
Yves Saint Laurent: His Life and Times / 5 Avenue Marceau 75116 Paris
Yves Saint Laurent, (August 1, 1936 – June 1, 2008), was one of the greatest names in fashion history. In 1985, Caroline Rennolds Milbank wrote, “The most consistently celebrated and influential designer of the past twenty-five years, Yves Saint Laurent can be credited with both spurring the couture’s rise from its sixties ashes and with finally rendering ready-to-wear reputable.” He is ……
Bill Cunningham New York
Bill Cunningham is the official fashion and society photographer for the New York times. A Harvard drop out who move to New York to work in advertising, he has become over time an icon of New York fashion, producing a tremendous work of art over the years that has showcased the New York society and ……
Documentary on the life of Basquiat “Jean Michel Basquiat, The Radiant Child”
Jean Michel Basquiat was an American artist who started doing graffiti in New York in the 1970′s, and evolved into a Neo-Expressionist in the 1980′s.
Born to multiethnic parents in Brooklyn, his family moved to Puerto Rico when his parents divorced, his father raised him and his two sisters, and his mother was put into a ……
Documentary on the life of Vladimir Horowitz, The Last Romantic
Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz is commonly referred to as one of the greatest pianists of the 20th Century. Born in Kiev in 1903, he received early musical instruction from his mother, a pianist herself, before joining the Kiev Conservatory. He would soon start touring an impoverished Soviet Union, where he would often be paid with bread, ……
Documentary – Jorge Luis Borges, The Mirror!
Jorge Luis Borges (24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986), was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator born in Buenos Aires. His work embraces the “character of unreality in all literature”. His most famous books, Ficciones (1944) and The Aleph(1949), are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes such as dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, animals, fictional writers, religion and God. ……
Documentary – Vincent Van Gogh – The power of art!
Find here the BBC produced documentary on the life of Vincent van Gogh conducted by Simon Schama, as part of the acclaimed “The Power of Art”… Continue reading
Documentary – The Life of Mark Rothko – The Power of Art
A full bodied documentary on the life of Mark Rothko, from his beginning to his impact on american twentieth century art and the world in general.… Continue reading