Kevin McKenzie Movies
- 2005
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Kevin McKenzie's spectacular Kennedy Center Opera House production of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake arrives on home video in this release from Image Entertainment. Starring Gillian Murphy and Angel Corella and featuring Ormsby Williams conducting the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, this production will no doubt be a must-see for opera fans. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Gillian Murphy, Angel Corella, (more)
- 1988
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This comprehensive two-part set is a video dictionary of all classical ballet movements, illustrating the complete language of ballet. Included in the production are over 800 variations of movements in the International Russian, French, and Cecchitti styles. Demonstrations of movements are performed by principal dancers of leading ballet companies. The ballet student has an opportunity to see skilled exhibitions of positions and directions, barre, linking steps, center practice, pirouettes, adage, allegro, batterie, pointe, muscle enchainements, and more. A complete numbered index of all ballet movements accompanies this thorough video study of ballet. ~ Rose of Sharon Winter, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Merrill Ashley, Denise Jackson, (more)
- 1987
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Kultur releases this ballet performance video of a mixed bill from the American Ballet Theatre dance company. Performed at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, the featured dances are "Airs," featuring excerpts from Handel's Concerti Grossi, Op. 3; "Balcony Pas de Deux from Act I" of Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet; Jardin aux Lilas from Ernest Chausson; "Great Galloping Gottschalk," which features excerpts from several works by Louis Moreau Gottschalk; and the "The Black Swan" from the "Grand Pas de Deux from Act III" in Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. Performers include Leslie Browne, Fernando Bujones, Susan Jaffe, Robert La Fosse, Cynthia Gregory, Martine Van Hamel, Natalia Makarova, Kevin McKenzie, and Michael Owen. ~ Dana Rowader, All Movie Guide
- 1984
Kiefer Sutherland won the Canadian equivalent of the Academy Award for his performance in Bay Boy. In 1937 Nova Scotia, Donald Campbell (Sutherland) lives with his dirt-poor parents (Liv Ullmann and Peter Donat). His folks hope that Donald will enter the priesthood, but he isn't keen on this. For one thing, he harbors "unnatural" feelings towards a nun; for another, one of the local priests has made sexual advances towards him. Donald prefers to spend his time with pretty sisters Saxon and Dianna (Leah Pinsent and Jane McKinnon) -- but even this becomes untenable when the boy witnesses a homicidal hate crime committed by the girls' father, police constable Tom Coldwell (Alan Scarfe). It is in this intolerable atmosphere that Donald finally comes of age, which is the point to which the film is leading. Weighed down with an unnecessarily complex script, Kiefer Sutherland comes off quite well in Bay Boy; the other performers -- even the estimable Liv Ullmann -- tend to be one-note stereotypes. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Liv Ullmann, Kiefer Sutherland, (more)
Katharine Hepburnplays a spunky old junk dealer who makes the acquaintance of two adventurous young boys. Through Katharine's intervention, the boys are able to take a long and exciting ride in a hot air balloon over California's Napa Valley. The kids are played by Kevin McKenzie and Dennis Dimster. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Katharine Hepburn, Kevin McKenzie, (more)
Though not actually a film addressing the evil lure of cream-filled chocolate cakes, this amusingly cheesy made-for-TV opus from director Curtis Harrington pits a relatively normal suburban family against a slavering, demonically-possessed German shepherd whose hunger for human souls far exceeds that of the normal household pet. Although not above resorting to the usual throat-maulings, the satanic psycho-pup's preferred method of attack is to supernaturally cause the deaths of various friends and neighbors, in a style reminiscent of The Omen. Though the gory potential of this scenario is obviously dulled by the TV-movie format, there are enough implied shocks and chills to keep up the pace -- particularly a grueling scene in which Dad finds himself unable to resist the urge to plunge his hand into a spinning lawnmower blade, while the possessed pooch looks on with tongue-wagging glee. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide
