Lotte Lenya

September Songs – The Music of Kurt Weill

Larry Weinstein

William S. Burroughs, Betty Carter

Filmmaker Larry Weinstein stages a wide range of performances in tribute to the compositions of Kurt Weill.

Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder - Eine Chronik aus dem Dreißigjährigen Krieg

Harry Buckwitz

Lotte Lenya, Hans-Joachim Schmiedel

Rocko's Modern Life

Terence Young

Carlos Alazraqui, Sean Connery

Rocko is a wallaby who has emigrated to America from Australia. He lives in O-Town and tries to get through life but, of course, comes across a multitude of dilemmas and misadventures he must get through. Other characters include Rocko's best friend, Heffer, a steer who has been raised by wolves, Filbert, a paranoid hypochondriac turtle, Rocko's faithful (but none-too-bright) dog Spunky, and Ed Bighead who detests Rocko and hates having him for a next door neighbor. On this show, Rocko has such adventures as trying to adapt to a new vacuum cleaner, having Heffer move in temporarily after his parents kick him out, and going to a movie theater.

Lotte Lenya Sings Kurt Weill

Ken Russell

Lotte Lenya

Ken Russell directed a short document of German actress (and widow) of famed composer Kurt Weill performing many of his best known compositions for BBC TV series "Monitor"

George Grosz' Interregnum

Altina Carey, Charles Carey

Lotte Lenya

An indelible portrait of Nazi brutality told through the powerful images of George Grosz' drawings.

From Russia with Love

Terence Young

Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi

Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the Lektor, using the ravishing Tatiana to lure Bond into helping them. Bond willingly travels to meet Tatiana in Istanbul, where he must rely on his wits to escape with his life in a series of deadly encounters with the enemy.

The Exiles

Richard Kaplan

Hans Bethe, Bruno Bettelheim

A chronicle of the rescue of oppressed intellectuals and artists from Europe before the outbreak of World War II. It studies the cultural and intellectual impact of this emigre population on American life.

Die 3 Groschen-Oper

G.W. Pabst

Rudolf Forster, Carola Neher

In London at the turn of the century, underworld kingpin Mack the Knife marries Polly Peachum without the knowledge of her father, the equally enterprising 'king of the beggars'.

No. 18: Mahagonny

Harry Smith

Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg

Harry Smith’s final film; an epic four-screen projection. Smith worked on this cinematic transformation of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (1929) for over ten years and considered it his magnum opus. The film was shot from 1970 to 1972 and edited for the next eight years. The “program” of the film is meticulous, with a complex structure and order. The Weill opera is transformed into a numerological and symbolic system. Images in the film are divided into categories— portraits, animation, symbols and nature— to form the palindrome P.A.S.A.N.A.S.A.P. The film contains invaluable cameos of important avant-garde figures such as Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith, and Jonas Mekas, intercut with installation pieces from Robert Mapplethorpe’s studio, New York City landmarks of the era, and Smith’s visionary animation.

Ten Blocks on the Camino Real

Jack Landau

Tom Aldredge, Michael Baseleon

An adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play.

Best Ever Bond

John Piper, Debbie Geller

Roger Moore, Honor Blackman

Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast members recall their favourite moments.

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone

José Quintero

Vivien Leigh, Warren Beatty

Critics and the public say Karen Stone is too old -- as she approaches 50 -- for her role in a play she is about to take to Broadway. Her businessman husband, 20 years her senior, has been the angel for the play and gives her a way out: They are off to a holiday in Rome for his health. He suffers a fatal heart attack on the plane. Mrs. Stone stays in Rome. She leases a magnificent apartment with a view of the seven hills from the terrace. Then the contessa comes calling to introduce a young man named Paolo to her. The contessa knows many presentable young men and lonely American widows.

Semi-Tough

Michael Ritchie

Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson

A three-way friendship between two free-spirited professional football players and the owner's daughter becomes compromised when two of them become romantically involved.

The Appointment

Sidney Lumet

Omar Sharif, Anouk Aimée

The lawyer Federico Fendi has reasons to believe that his wife Carla in secret is Rome's highest paid prostitute.

Lotte Lenya - Warum bin ich nicht froh?

Katja Duregger, Katja Duregger

Lotte Lenya, Meret Becker

I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Kurt Weill in America

Barrie Gavin

Dennis Marks, Maurice Abravanel

The story of Kurt Weill 's relationship with the American popular theatre. During his years in exile on Broadway, the composer of Mack the Knife and The Alabama Song, who personified decadent Berlin, found a new life in New York, creating such standards as September Song and Speak Low. Director Barrie Gavin describes the film as "the history of an artist ... struggling to write music which could have real meaning for the society he had just joined." Weill is remembered by the conductor Maurice Abravanel and the actor Burgess Meredith and there are extracts from several of his works.