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1) I Am Comic
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An ode to the art and occupational hazards of stand-up comedy! Through candid interviews and unprecedented backstage access, this documentary explores the world of the working comedian and reveals a funny psychological profile of its practitioners. Also, we follow a retired comic's attempt to get back on stage after a 13-year absence. Ritch Shydner, at the top of his game in the 1980s, had HBO specials, shot five pilot TV shows, and had numerous high-profile...
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This program provides strategies and ideas for creating comedy for devised and scripted performances. Using interviews, workshops and performance footage from leading international comedy practitioners, this resource will guide students through the entire process, from the initial stages of researching, exploring and testing ideas through to rehearsal and final performance. Specific comedy generating strategies, like games and play, rhythm, timing...
5) Aida: Part I
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Set in the Old Kingdom of Egypt, Verdi's Aida is a tragic tale of forbidden love. Aida is an Ethiopian princess, enslaved in Egypt. The young Egyptian warrior, Radamès has fallen in love with her, and both must choose between love and loyalty to their country.
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This program, directed by Takao Toshioka, features demonstrations of Kyogen acting techniques. Theater director and teacher at Ryukoku University in Kyoto Jonah Salz narrates and explains the stylized codified patterns that characterize Kyogen -- a Japanese comedic form of theater that dates back over 600 years.
7) Godspeed
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A novice drug mule and hapless taxi driver find themselves teamed up and on the run with a large quantity of top notch heroin when a delivery goes shockingly, violently wrong. Winner of Best Chinese Language Film at the **Hong Kong Film Awards**. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**. *"Godspeed demonstrates Chung's cinematographic chops, with a typically dazzling sense of color and provocative off-kilter compositions."...
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Ned, a bullied outsider, and Conor, a star athlete, are forced to room together at their boarding school. The boys take an instant dislike to each other, and seem destined to remain enemies until an English teacher, Mr. Sherry, begins to drill into them the value of finding one's own voice. This lesson, however, isn't appreciated by everyone, particularly rugby coach Pascal, who has his own agenda and harbors some deep suspicions about the boys' teacher....
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This classic comedy of manners tells of the clever schemes and comic ruses that unfold one night at a country house. An ambitious step-mother, impassioned sweethearts, a pragmatic father and a pair of star-crossed suitors are sent spinning through a hilarious comedy of errors by one of the great characters of the stage, Tony Lumpkin. In its day, this eighteenth century masterpiece was considered so 'low' that it might never have reached the stage....
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