John Adams Movies
- 2008
Adams: Doctor Atomic
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John Adams’s mesmerizing score, in the powerful production of Penny Woolcock, tells the story of one of the pivotal moments in human...
- 2015
John Adams conducts John Adams
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Like many of John Adams’ operas, Doctor Atomic is based on recent world historical events—here, the effusive Robert Oppenheimer,...
- 2017
Short Rides with John Adams
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The film Short Rides with John Adams by Magdalena Zięba-Schwind and Daniel Finkernagel documents the composer and conductor’s residency:...
- 1970
Remembering Jung #23-1
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One of the most profound writers to follow Jung in the field of Analytical Psychology, Marie-Louise von Franz was born in Munich in 1915 and earned a...
- 1982
Fifth of July
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Ken Talley, a Vietnam vet who lost his legs in combat, lives in a farmhouse in rural Missouri with his lover, Jed. Traumatized and bitter, Ken...
- 2000
The American Tapestry
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Showtime's "In the 20th Century" is a millennium-related strand of feature-length documentaries in which famous directors take on major subjects of...
- 2018
The Unanswered Ives: American Pioneer of Music
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The Unanswered Ives is the first film about Charles Ives (1874-1954), an American modernist composer, one of the first American composers of...
- 2000
John Adams: El Niño
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Headlined by Dawn Upshaw, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson and Willard White and orchestrated by the Berlin German Symphony Orchestra, this Nativity oratorio...
- 1986
Matter of Heart
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Documentary on the famous Swiss psychoanalyst, Carl Gustav Jung, featuring interviews with those who knew him and archive footage of Jung.
- 2019
John Adams: Nixon in China
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Besides the landing on the moon by the Apollo 11 mission in 1969, Richard Nixon’s meeting with China’s leader Mao Zedong in February 1972...
- 2007
John Adams: Doctor Atomic
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The European premiere of the opera by the contemporary American composer John Adams, with libretto by Peter Sellars, in a co-production of the San...
- 1978
Frankenthaler: Toward a New Climate
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A 30-minute film about Helen Frankenthaler, who invented the stained canvas at the age of 24 and influenced a whole generation of "color field"...