Former frontman for The Police, Sting performs in Italy on this video. In addition to a look behind the scenes, the film contains performances of "Don't Stand So Close to Me," "Every Breath You Take," "Fragile," and over a dozen more favorites from every phase of his lengthy career. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
Fresh off the success of his Gold Certified album When I Fall in Love and its record breaking follow-up To Love Again comes a concert featuring trumpeter Chris Botti at the peak of his musical prowess. Compiled from two triumphant concerts staged over two nights at the Wilshire Theater, this release finds Botti performing a variety of hits from ...
This is an enjoyable and often humorous documentary on the formation of Sting's new band and their first live performance in 1985. Filmed over a nine-day period, the musicians in the band are shown bantering in their usual repartee and quick come-backs as they rehearse for the big opening night. Interviews bring out their thoughts on music and ...
This stop on Sting's Brand New Day Tour tour finds the singer/songwriter/actor not only playing songs made popular from his solo career and days with his previous band The Police, but he also performs the album of the same name in its entirety. Sting's vast musical range is displayed here, as he performs reggae with "Message In A Bottle", gets a ...
This 2003 concert film from Universal Music features a live performance by Sting at The Mayan Theater in Los Angeles, Califonia, highlighted by a duet with R&B songstress Mary J. Blige. Along with backstage footage and interviews with Sting, Sting: Inside - The Songs of Sacred Love includes renditions of "Send Your Love," "Inside," "Dead Man's ...
Director Terry Gilliam adroitly applies his Monty Python sensibilities upon the "career" of famed German prevaricator Baron von Munchausen. Played herein by John Neville, the baron is seen quelling a war that he himself started, flying into the stratosphere on the back of a cannonball, ballooning to the moon, exploring the innards of a volcano, ...
Stormy Monday is a four-person character study in which style is all that matters. This tautly constructed, deftly executed crime thriller is set in economically depressed Newcastle England. Sting plays Finney, a relatively honest Newcastle jazz-club owner who crosses the path of crass American gangster Cosmo (Tommy Lee Jones). Flaunting his ...
Ordinary music soars to extraordinary heights as gifted keyboardist Herbie Hancock joins forces with a variety of well-known music superstars to offer a completely original listening experience. As Hancock collaborates with such artists as Paul Simon, Annie Lennox, Sting, and John Mayer, the cameras are permitted into the studios and behind-the ...
Sergei Profokiev's 1936 composition Peter and the Wolf incorporates orchestral music accompanied by dramatic narration of the classic Russian folk tale. Rocker Sting, of The Police, narrates this particular version, with musical accompaniment by the Chamber Orchestra of Europe under the baton of Claudio Abbado. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
Internationally renowned mountaineer Pete Athans attempts to shatter the world record by becoming the first westerner to scale Mt. Everest for a sixth time in this release showcasing his record breaking feat, as well as his bold attempt to get an exact measurement of the world's tallest mountain peak. Join host Sting as he follows Athans and the ...
A charming portrait of Quentin Crisp, who has (very deliberately) become the closest thing this century has to an Oscar Wilde. Crisp moved to New York City at the age of 73 and has many devoted friends and admirers who sing his praises. Indeed, pop star Sting literally "sings" of Quentin in his hit "Englishman in New York." Other fans who make ...
In the mid-'80s, saxophonist Branford Marsalis emerged as one of the most acclaimed (and most popular) new artists in jazz. A member of a distinguished musical family and a stylistic innovator as comfortable working with pop and rock musicians as fellow jazz artists, Marsalis brought challenging contemporary jazz to a mass audience as the ...
Recorded at Staten Hall in the Netherlands, this live performance from Sting was attended by over 10,000 fans. Some of the featured songs included "All This Time," "Roxanne," "The Soul Cages," and a rendition of Jimi Hendrix's classic "Purple Haze." Proceeds from the concert largely went to provide goods and services for Kurd-Aid. ~ Tracie Cooper, ...
The Grotesque (aka Grave Indiscretion , aka Gentleman Don't Eat Poets ) is a very black, very British comedy that puts an unusual and perversely entertaining spin on the classic tea-cup-and-intrigue mystery. Sir Hugo Coal (Alan Bates) is a grumpy, eccentric English gentleman (and self-styled paleontologist) obsessed with reconstructing a ...
After leaving the Police at the height of their commercial success, Sting went on to even greater heights as a solo artist, and this home video release collects promo clips for 17 of Sting's biggest solo hits, released during his first ten years as a headliner. Songs featured on Sting: Fields of Gold -- The Best of Sting 1984-1994 include "If You ...
This film version of the Who's rock opera Quadrophenia makes a few tentative stabs at "explaining" the alienation of 1960s British working-class youth, but its major selling point is its nonstop rock-and-R&B musical score, including the hit single "Love Reign O'er Me." Phil Daniels (replacing the original opera's Roger Daltrey) plays Jimmy, a ...
In this update of James Whale's classic The Bride of Frankenstein, pop star Sting furthers his burgeoning film career by portraying cinema's signature mad scientist. Disgusted by his dim-witted and ugly original creation (Clancy Brown), Dr. Frankenstein sets out to animate an improved version. Though lovely on the outside, Eva (Jennifer Beals) ...
Plenty boasts a cast of actors ranging from John Gielgud as an ethical and caustic senior diplomat to Meryl Streep as Susan Traherne, a woman looking for solace and a decent life in the aftermath of World War II. After World War II has ended, along with her work in the French Resistance movement and an idealized love affair with a soldier, Susan ...
This evening of TNA wrestling features a headlining title bout between Kurt Angle and Samoa Joe. The undercard includes such famous pro grapplers as Sting, Kevin Nash, and Scott Steiner. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
The 'Very Special Christmas' albums began appearing in the late 1980s. A series of yuletide-themed compilations that featured contemporary rock stars performing beloved Christmas songs (some secular, some not) the albums were recorded and issued to raise money for the Special Olympics. Volume One emerged in 1989, and by the holiday season of 2001 ...
The arrival of a mysterious stranger disrupts the lives of the members of a British family in this dark, psychological thriller. The stranger is one Martin Taylor (Sting), a dangerous charmer who ingratiates himself with the Bateses, a dignified, older couple (Denholm Elliott and Joan Plowright). The couple becomes especially fond of Martin after ...
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