Movies: Camille Saint-Saëns

A truly remarkable New Year’s Eve in St Petersburg’s fabled Mariinsky Theatre, with Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky (ex-Kirov) Ballet. It was at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg that the ballet The Sleeping Beauty premiered in 1890, with a sc...

Blending lively music and brilliant animation, this sequel to the original 'Fantasia' restores 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice' and adds seven new shorts....

Bugs and Daffy perform and act out their own version of the classic "Carnival of the Animals."...

The Black Death is ravaging Spain. As Camille Saint-Saëns's "Danse Macabre" plays on the soundtrack, a mix of animation and acted scenes tells the story of Youth and Love meeting one night. They dance, embrace, and kiss. As the night wears on, exuber...

When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated Baltic town and a house that she fears is haunted. Starved for companionship, Effi begins a friendship with Major Crampas, a charismatic womanizer....

Men and women, all dressing up, awaiting, tempting, enjoying the bliss or sadly unsuccessful. Delights of the body, yearning, excitement, luxury, decadence, erotic of the common day. The erotic as frivolous, mischievous, frolic, comic and sometimes a...

Nicole Védrès' chronicle of Paris from 1900 to 1914 is brought to life through the use of original material, all authentic, secured from more then 700 films belonging to public and private collections. A few of the celebrities of the time shown are E...

In Lithuania, soprano Asmik Grigorian and tenor Dmytro Popov join forces with the Kaunas Symphony Orchestra for a high-profile opera concert at the city's St. Peter and St. Paul Cathedral. The programme features excerpts from works by Verdi, Bellini ...

This visual symphony celebrates Madison, Wisconsin's beautiful Lake Mendota and the community that brings it to life....

With family connections to some famous French artists, writers, and musicians of the time, Sacha Guitry decided to film the individuals in action, to celebrate the greatness of his culture, threatened by Germany in the ongoing Great War....

Part of the 'Classic Archive series, this programme features full-length, complete musical performances coupled with encore material as well as rare bonus footage....

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Animation with colored salt by Aleksandra Korejwo. Music by composer Camille Saint-Saëns performed by the Polish Radio Orchestra....

A beautifully fluid sand animation inspired by Camille Saint-Saëns' piece, 'Danse Macabre.'...

A collection of restored prints from the Lumière Brothers....

Amin, a young lookout full of gibberish from 93, uses his magnificent voice to warn the dealers of the arrival of the police. Isabelle, a director in Paris, sees in Amin the future soloist of her opera and offers him an artistic future far from his g...

Live from Nantes, a dazzling musical journey between Paris and Vienna. On the program: works by Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Schubert, Johann Strauss II (transcribed by Schoenberg), and Saint-Saëns....

A despondent soul arrives in a strange place where he must confront his (mostly) inner demons....

The film portrays the events on the day King Henri III of France arranged for Duke Henri de Guise to be murdered....

The reunion of a childhood friendship. Lis, a current fashion designer, meets with Caterina, a filmmaker, to jointly create the documentary and a costume for the premiere....