Pablo Casals

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A Visit with Pablo Casals
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Robert Snyder's acclaimed 26-minute short following Pablo Casals in Prades during his self-imposed exile from Franco's dictatorship in Spain. In this film, Casals performs his only solo recording of the Bach Suite No. 1. The film was recorded in 1955 and beautifully filmed in 35mm black and white within the walls of the town's abbey.
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Casals Conducts: 1964
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Casals Conducts: 1964

Jan 01, 1964
While at his workshop in Puerto Rico, Pablo Casals prepares to conduct a Bach suite for a concert performance. Oscar Winner for the category "Best Short Subject, Live Action Subjects". Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
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Everybody Rides the Carousel
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Everybody Rides The Carousel invites the viewer along on eight "rides" through the different stages of life. Based on the work by Erik Erikson, one of the most influential psychoanalytic theorists of this century, the film explores the inner feelings and conflicted emotions experienced during each stage of personality development. With distinctive and poetic animation, John and Faith Hubley visualize the conflicts, joys, problems and delights we all experience on the carousel of life.
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Public Speaking
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Public Speaking

Nov 22, 2010
A feature-length documentary starring Fran Lebowitz, a writer known for her unique take on modern life. The film weaves together extemporaneous monologues with archival footage and the effect is a portrait of Fran's worldview and experiences.
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Festival in Puerto Rico
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This short documentary features Canadian contralto Maureen Forrester as she sings at the Festival Casals, a musical event founded by the great Spanish cellist and conductor Pablo Casals and sponsored annually by the Puerto Rican government. Part concert film, part tourism film, Festival in Puerto Rico offers viewers candid glimpses of mid-20th century Puerto Rico intercut with performance footage of Forrester and her husband, violinist-conductor Eugene Kash.
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Rostropovich: L'archet Indomptable
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Rostropovich - devenu dès les années cinquante l'une des célébrités de la scène musicale mondiale - dût quitter son pays en 1972. Défenseur de Soljenitsyne avant que ce dernier ne fut expulsé d'URSS pour avoir publié L'Archipel du Goulag, il s'installa à Paris et Washington après avoir été privé de sa citoyenneté par les autorités soviétiques. C’est ainsi que naquit sa légende. Pour évoquer cette histoire hors du commun, nous convoquerons archives rares et témoignages de sa famille, Olga et Elena Rostropovich, et de ses amis Natalia et Ignat Soljenitsyne, Marta Casals-Istomin et Guennadi Rojdestvensky.
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Dix-huit heures d'escale
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Out of love for a beautiful passenger he met on a crossing, journalist Robert Vitrac agrees to deliver a letter to a man named Pablo. A dangerous mission, since the beautiful Manuela has had in her possession the proceeds of a robbery, which she must forward to the fence. In this game, Vitrac would lose his honor and perhaps his life if Inspector Berio's friendship didn't protect him. Manuela, who seemed sincerely in love with the journalist, falls victim to the bandits.
Le Monde de Pablo Casals
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Le grand violoncelliste catalan raconte sa vie et son œuvre, ainsi que son long exil entre l'année de la prise de contrôle de Franco (1939) et la mort de ce dictateur fasciste (1976).
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Children of the Sun
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Children of the Sun

Oct 04, 1960
On the one hand, a healthy child who has enough to eat. On the other hand, a poor, undernourished kid. On the one hand, a quarter of the blue planet's children. On the other hand, the remaining three quarters.
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Un poema en el exilio
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Un poema en el exilio

Dec 06, 2012
The unpublished correspondence between the great musician Pau Casals, and the Catalan poet Joan Alavedra, and the accounts given by experts, will tell the story behind the creation of The Manger, a musical composition born of a poem by the same title, which became a message for world peace.
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The Merv Griffin Show
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The Merv Griffin Show

Dec 29, 1967
The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC, September 20, 1965 to August 15, 1969 in first-run syndication, from August 18, 1969 to February 11, 1972 at 11:30 PM ET weeknights on CBS and again in first-run syndication from February 14, 1972 to September 5, 1986.
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