Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, Paco De Lucia - Friday Night in San Francisco
1981 Documentary, Music
Overview
It was a Friday night in 1980, December 5th to be exact: the Warfield stadium in San Francisco filled up lazily. The stage that was being set up was simple: three small wooden chairs, three microphones with the booms set at rather low height.Here comes the first hero of the evening on stage, the living legend Al Di Meola, with an outfit that smacks of a modern cowboy..His trusty acoustic guitar is placed on an easel next to one of the chairs. pick up the mic and.....
Director and cast
More films
Carmencita (1894)
Documentary · Not Rated
The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman to appear in a motion picture within the United States. In the film, Carmencita is recorded going through a routine she had been performing at Koster & Bial's in New York since February 1890.
- Runtime
- 1m
- Director
- William K.L. Dickson, William Heise
- Cast
- Carmencita
Flamenco (1995)
Documentary · Music · N/A
The film presents thirteen rhythms of flamenco, each with song, guitar, and dance: the up-tempo bularías, a brooding farruca, an anguished martinete, and a satiric fandango de huelva. There are tangos, a taranta, alegrías, siguiriyas, soleás, a guajira of patrician women, a petenera about a sentence to death, villancicos, and a final r...
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Director
- Carlos Saura
- Cast
- La Paquera de Jerez, Paco de Lucía, Fernanda de Utrera
El amor brujo (1986)
Drama · Music · PG
In a Gypsy village, the fathers of Candela and José promise their children to each other. Years later, the unfaithful José marries Candela but while defending his lover Lucía in a brawl, he is stabbed to death. Carmelo, who secretly loves Candela since he was a boy, is arrested while helping José and unfairly sent to prison. Four years...
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Director
- Carlos Saura
- Cast
- Antonio Gades, Cristina Hoyos, Laura del Sol
I Come (2000)
Drama · Music · N/A
Caco is a proud, handsome man, head of a family, and very powerful in the local community. Yet he has been torn to pieces by the death of his beloved daughter. He constantly visits her grave, weeps silently at her photo and has transferred all his wildly protective love and attention onto his mentally challenged nephew, Diego. It seems...
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Director
- Tony Gatlif
- Cast
- Antonio Canales, Orestes Villasan Rodríguez, Antonio Dechent
Sevilles (1992)
Music · N/A
Filmed like a documentary, "Sevillanas" consists of eleven short performances by Spain's most famous flamenco dancers, singers and guitarists. Saura, well-known for his flamenco films ("Blood Wedding," "Carmen"), here provides an in-depth look at the Sevillanas form of flamenco and its dancers.
- Runtime
- 53m
- Director
- Carlos Saura
- Cast
- Paco de Lucía, Lola Flores, Camarón de la Isla
Comments
Talk about the film with other members