Graham Clark Movies
- 2007
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Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky (Pictures at an Exhibition) died in 1881, at the age of 42 - leaving his opera Khovanshchina unfinished and unperformed. In time, Dmitri Shostakovich took up the challenge of polishing off the finished work, which constitutes a musical drama about the transformation of Russian society via Peter the Great. In this stage production of Khovanshchina by the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Stein Winge uses a "modernist" production design to evoke the harsh and uncompromising themes of the original work. Vladimir Ognovenko, Vladimir Galouzine and Robert Brubaker co-star; the Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu (under the leadership of musical director Michael Boder) provide accompaniment. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
- Starring:
- Vladimir Ognovenko, Vladimir Galouzine, (more)
- 2005
This performance of Wagner's opera Siegfried, the third work in his epic Ring Cycle, was filmed at Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceau in 2004 and features the vocal talents of John Treleaven in the title role. ~ Cammila Albertson, Rovi
- Starring:
- John Treleaven, Graham Clark, (more)
- 2003
Based on a novella by Nikolay Leskov, Dmitri Shostakovich's four-act opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk is performed at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in this release from EMI Classics. The production features the vocal talents of Nadine Secunde and Christopher Ventris with music provided by the Symphony Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi
- Starring:
- Nadine Secunde, Christopher Ventris, (more)
- 1992
Opera by John Corigliano about the ghost of Beaumarchais who tries to change history to save Marie Antionette. ~ Rovi
- 1990
In this adventure a treasure hunter sets off to dangerous Mercury Island in search of a fabulous underwater treasure. The explorer is a free-lance surveyor who goes there with his lovely girl friend. Once upon the island they must earn the trust of an enigmatic fellow, deal with an active volcano, Nazis, and a curse. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- 1990
- R
In 2099 America, after Armageddon, the government is being ruled by strict televangelists, and a bunch of freedom fighters are committed to overthrow the bible toters. ~ Rovi
- Starring:
- Zach Galligan, Wayne Crawford, (more)
- 1988
- PG
In this sci-fi adventure a courageous crewman fights to stop a mutiny and save the ship from the deadly Kalgan space pirates. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Reb Brown, John Phillip Law, (more)
- 1988
- R
William Katt plays Steve Shephard, a Vietnam Green Beret who has continued to fight on alone for 15years after the withdrawal of American forces. He's a renegade, seeking to avenge his fallen comrades and wearing spooky, white Kabuki-style makeup (hence the title) as he wages his one man war in a Vietnamese-Cambodian border area. As the film opens, the Pentagon receives a coded signal from Shephard that he's ready to come home. Ex-Green Beret Captain Walker (Wayne Crawford is dispatched with a team of vigilantes to find and return Shephard. The complication is that Walker and Shephard had clashed bitterly years earlier while in the same unit. White Ghost was filmed in Zimbabwe, doubling for the Southeast Asian locations. The film was planned for theatrical release by its original producers, but a merger with another company resulted in a direct-to-video release. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- William Katt, Rosalind Chao, (more)
- 1987
- PG13
Tom Reed (Kenneth Gilman) is a University of Florida ornithologist whose interest in vultures causes him to be mistaken for an international secret agent know as "vulture man." With his former flame and neighbor Kimberly Blake (Brenda Bakke), Tom is tracked by the CIA, the KGB, and African drug runners throughout the dark continent. The duo tries to survive in this low-budget comedy spy thriller. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
- Starring:
- Kenneth David Gilman, Brenda Bakke, (more)
The plot of this of this adaptation of the Daniel Carney's novel, sprinkled throughout a series of extended Sam Peckinpah-inspired action sequences, deals with a collection of mercenary toughguys -- Colonel Allen Faulkner (Richard Burton), Lieutenant Shawn Fynn (Roger Moore), Rafer Janders (Richard Harris), Pieter Coetzee (Hardy Kruger) -- who are hired to parachute into the African bush country and abscond with deposed African president Julius Limbani (Winston Ntshona) and reinstall him as a reigning monarch of an African country, to satisfy British mercantile interests. The action sequences were successful enough to spawn a sequel -- appropriately titled Wild Geese II. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
- Starring:
- Richard Burton, Roger Moore, (more)
