Birdland

An ex-cop whose marriage is on the rocks hides surveillance cameras in her home and watches her husbands transgressions, becoming a voyeur of her own life.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 23 August 1935.

Script? Plot? Characterization? Who needs 'em? Old hat! Passé! What a film needs today is good music and wild special effects! And, of course, the key ingredient: Great juggling!

Joy and her daughter Skye live on a trailer site on the edge of town. Joy’s liberal upbringing style is tested when Skye takes mimicking her mother to extremes.

Far from relegating its dreamtime visions to a nostalgic prelapsarian past, Indivision fuses its depiction of nature with the new means of communication and creation engendered by the internet. The mute Lina, who writes keywords and questions all over her body, emerges as a paradoxical teenage warrior for our troubled times: she believes herself to be a superheroine, gifted or cursed, who holds the fate of the whole world in her hands.

After his caretaker leaves him for dark and lonely moments at home, elderly Koji remembers his late wife Saki and the time they spent watching snowfall together in a park. Beyond age and even death, the connection between the two is vivid and all-consuming.

José is a boy who is living on the periphery of a true perception of reality after the death of his mother a few months ago. Meanwhile his father reminds him of his duties and obligations to help keeping the household economy and Sofia, a young girl distracts him with her invitations.

In hope to find his lover, a Mainland Chinese A-Fei, comes to Taiwan. He is mistaken by others to be a missing taxi driver. Seeing all those roads named after Chinese provinces, A-Fei believes he can surely do this. At the same time, a gangster movie is about to shoot⋯

In 1955 Count Basie and his Orchestra immortalized Vernon Duke's "April in Paris". In this animated short by Danish animation legend Jannik Hastrup an old lady, a cat and two birds in love experience the wonderful and love inducing spring in Paris set to the tones of Vernon Duke's classic jazz piece.

Pat Phillips & Ettore Stratta launched the first-ever DJANGO REINHARDT FESITVAL in 2000 at Birdland in NYC which has become its home. Now entering its sixth year, the fesitval serves to preserve and cary forward the musical legacy of Django Reinhardt and the myriad possibilities that grow from his prodigious talent and inspiration. The festival presents the world's top players of this 'hot gypsy jazz', and invites America's jazz greats as guests to create new musical friendships in a thrilling expansion of the music.

An animated film using simplified and abstract forms, symbolising nuclear warfare.

Short film by Takagi Masakatsu.

In this second short film in the Birdland series two birds escape and fly away to the rainbow. The story is set to the sound of "Over the Rainbow" played by legendary jazz pianist Art Tatum.

»Dream a Little Dream of Me« - a duet between the fat and dangerous cat, sung by Ella Fitzgerald and the bird, sung by Louis Armstong's characteristic, hoarse voice. This is the third short film in the Jannik Hastrup's Birdland series about jazz.

Dizzy Gillespie's brilliant trumpet is making up to nightly mysteries in the gleam of the half-moon where two courting flamingos are dancing while a grumpy parrot wants peace and quiet for his night's sleep. This is the fourth and last short film in the Birdland series by Danish animator Jannik Hastrup.

Finally, a full length concert on DVD of this jazz piano legend, filmed in 1991 at the Paul Mason Winery in a state of the art digital and audio production. Shearing's artistry is captured forever as he and bass sensation Neil Swainson caress the ballads of Rodgers & Hart and Hoagy Carmicheal, and swing to the Bebop of Charlie Parker. SELECTIONS: -Freedom Jazz Dance -Why Did I Choose You? -Isn't It Romantic -Estate -Donna Lee -Memphis in June -Lullabyes in Birdland -Moose the Mooch

Kitty-tested, vet-approved, a Mewvie provides endless amusement and mental stimulation for your cat, viewing after viewing. You'll enjoy the show, too, as your cat "hunts" Mewvie quarry, pawing, pouncing, peering around the TV cabinet, or perching in front of the set, watching the action with rapt attention and twitching tail.

A film by Masakatsu Takagi.