http://www.PR.com/ Latest news releases from PR.com for Kultur International Films Ltd. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:47:43 -0500 © 2012 PR Worldwide, Inc. 60 en-us http://www.PR.com/images/logo_white.jpg http://www.PR.com/ 68 69 PR.com provides Free Press Release Distribution, & is a unique Directory of Businesses, Products, Services, & Jobs - in all industries. Find Full Company Profiles. http://www.pr.com/press-release/388523 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:00:00 -0500 François-Frédéric Guy in Recital: Beethoven, Bach & Brahms Available on DVD Feb. 28 Kultur is proud to announce the release of François-Frédéric Guy in Recital: Beethoven, Bach & Brahms available on DVD February 28, 2012. Since his induction with the Paris Orchestra under the direction of Wolfgang Sawallisch and followed by a live recording of the Brahms Second Concerto [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/388523 Kultur International Films Ltd http://www.pr.com/press-release/388525 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:00:00 -0500 Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats Available on Blu-ray & DVD Feb. 28 Kultur is proud to announce the release of Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats available on Blu-ray and DVD on February 28, 2012. This is the award-winning biography of the Jack Kerouac, the king of the Beat Generation. Jack Kerouac's writings, including his extraordinary novel On the Road, took American literature to new levels of creativity and in the [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/388525 Kultur International Films Ltd http://www.pr.com/press-release/388526 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:00:00 -0500 Renaissance Voices: Interpreted by Paul Van Nevel Available on DVD Feb. 28 Kultur is proud to announce the release of Renaissance Voices: Interpreted by Paul Van Nevel available on DVD on February 28, 2012. Paul Van Nevel shares the melancholia and earthy tastes of the Renaissance and has been performing the music of the period for many years. He combs libraries for forgotten compositions and insists on reading the [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/388526 Kultur International Films Ltd http://www.pr.com/press-release/388529 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:00:00 -0500 The Salzburg Festival Production of Alban Berg’s Lulu Available on Blu-ray & DVD Feb. 28 Kultur is proud to announce the release of Alban Berg’s operatic masterwork, Lulu, available February 28th on both Blu-ray and DVD. Lulu is the story of a lower-class girl who sleeps her way to fame and fortune before losing everything she has and finding death at the hands of Jack the Ripper. Conductor Marc [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/388529 Kultur International Films Ltd http://www.pr.com/press-release/388530 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:00:00 -0500 The Trouble with Tolstoy Available on DVD Feb. 28 Kultur is proud to announce the release of The Trouble with Tolstoy available on DVD February 28, 2012. Alan Yentob takes an epic train ride through Leo Tolstoy’s Russia, examining how Russia’s great novelist became her great troublemaker. Guided by the writer’s astonishingly honest and confessional diaries, Yentob travels through Tolstoy’s [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/388530 Kultur International Films Ltd http://www.pr.com/press-release/382848 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:00:00 -0500 Charles Dickens’ 200th Birthday Kultur celebrates the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens, one of the greatest English writers of all time on February 7, 2012 with three great programs on DVD available now: Simon Callow in The Mystery of Charles Dickens This remarkable one-man play is a tour de force that brilliantly interweaves Dickens' turbulent life story with some of his most memorable fictional characters - [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/382848 Kultur International Films Ltd http://www.pr.com/press-release/381472 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 03:00:00 -0500 Kultur is proud to announce a new release in the Famous Authors Series, Confucius, which will be available on DVD January 31, 2012. This overview of Confucius’ biography and philosophy from the Famous Authors series contextualizes Confucius’ life during the Zhou Dynasty, relaying the Chinese values of family and ancestor-worship, history and record-keeping, and spirituality. This time saw many intellectual [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/381472 Kultur International Films Ltd http://www.pr.com/press-release/381265 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 03:00:00 -0500 Kultur is proud to announce three news releases in the Famous Composers Series: Frédéric Chopin, Gustav Mahler and, Jean Sibelius available on DVD on January 31, 2012. Frédéric Chopin The Polish composer Frederic Chopin is unique in that he composed almost exclusively for his own instrument, the piano. As a pianist he was self-taught and had an astonishing talent for improvisation. As a [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/381265 Kultur International Films Ltd http://www.pr.com/press-release/381267 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 03:00:00 -0500 Kultur is proud to announce the release of Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 1 "Titan" with Lorin Maazel conducting available on DVD January 31, 2012. Conductor Lorin Maazel leads the Orchestra Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini in this performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, “Titan.” The setting for this outdoor concert is the spectacular Great Thermae at Emperor Adrian’s Villa (also known as the [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/381267 Kultur International Films Ltd http://www.pr.com/press-release/381281 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 03:00:00 -0500 Kultur is proud to announce the release of George Frideric Handel’s oratorio La Resurrezione available on DVD on January 31, 2012. First performed on the Easter Sunday of 1708 in Rome, this acclaimed oratorio details the events between - and during - Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Characters that appear in this liturgical drama are Lucifer (bass), Mary Magdalene (soprano), an Angel (soprano), St John the Evangelist [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/381281 Kultur International Films Ltd http://www.pr.com/press-release/381283 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 03:00:00 -0500 Kultur is proud to announce the release of De Gaulle and Churchill: The Appeal of June 1940 available on DVD on January 31, 2012. This TV drama tells the story of the final days of the fall of France to the Nazi’s in June 1940. Chaos and violence had taken over the towns and villages and the French army had been defeated by the Nazi troops. It shows how De Gaulle supported by Churchill urged the French population [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/381283 Kultur International Films Ltd http://www.pr.com/press-release/381285 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 03:00:00 -0500 Kultur is proud to announce the release of Calder: Sculptor of Air available on DVD on January 31, 2012. Unique modern artist Alexander Calder (1898-1976) revolutionized the art of sculpture with his distinctive modernism, freeing sculpture from its stand and adding movement to the art itself. He rose to fame in the 1930s with his renowned Miniature Circus, but his modernist creativity skyrocketed with his wire [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/381285 Kultur International Films Ltd http://www.pr.com/press-release/381287 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 03:00:00 -0500 Kultur is proud to announce the release of Béjart! Did You Say Béjart? available on DVD on January 31, 2012. This documentary, made with the complicity of Maurice Béjart, reveals the first 30 years of his life which were totally unknown: his happy childhood in Marseille, the painful loss of his mother, his classic training at the hard Russian school, his father’s death, the philosopher Gaston [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/381287 Kultur International Films Ltd http://www.pr.com/press-release/369938 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 03:00:00 -0500 José Carreras Celebrates his 65th Birthday. Kultur is proud to honor the great tenor José Carreras on his 65th birthday on December 5th. Mr. Carreras, who’s first public performance as an eight year old on Spanish National Radio in December 1954 performing "La donna è Mobile," blossomed to become one of the legendary tenors of all time. Kultur is pleased that Mr. Carreras’s [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/369938 Kultur International Films Ltd http://www.pr.com/press-release/368846 Sun, 13 Nov 2011 03:00:00 -0500 FDR The Acclaimed One-Man Show Starring Robert Vaughn Now Available on DVD Kultur is proud to announce the DVD release of FDR starring Robert Vaughn which is available now for a suggested retail price of $19.99. “Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 -- a date which will live in infamy -- the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.” We all know [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/368846 Kultur International Films Ltd http://www.pr.com/press-release/364422 Fri, 28 Oct 2011 03:00:00 -0400 Kultur Celebrates National Opera Week October 28th to November 6th Kultur celebrates National Opera Week which is being recognized worldwide this year from October 28th to November 6th. The earliest composition considered an opera was Dafne, written in 1597 by the composer Jacopo Peri. Over the ensuring 400 years hundreds of operas have been written, and many have become legendary along with the singers who portrayed [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/364422 Kultur International Films Ltd http://www.pr.com/press-release/362648 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 03:00:00 -0400 The First World War: 1914-1918 In recognition of one of the most turbulent chapters in human history, Kultur announces the availability of the DVD The First World War: 1914-1918 available now at a suggested retail price of $19.99. "The eleventh (hour) of the eleventh (day) of the eleventh (month)"... That was when WW1 was scheduled to end, Armistice Day. This informative documentary tells the story of World [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/362648 Kultur International Films Ltd http://www.pr.com/press-release/360859 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 03:00:00 -0400 The Trans-Siberian Muse - The Revealing History of the Legendary Russian Railway Stretching over 5,000 Miles from Moscow to Vladivostok Debuts on DVD Nov. 15. Kultur is proud to announce the release of The Trans-Siberian Muse available on DVD on November 15th. The Trans-Siberian Muse presents the history of the legendary Russian railway that stretches over 5,000 miles from Moscow to Vladivostok. At all times the soul of [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/360859 Kultur International Films Ltd http://www.pr.com/press-release/360863 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 03:00:00 -0400 The Palace of Versailles Available on DVD Nov. 15. Kultur is proud to announce the release of The Palace of Versailles available on DVD on November 15, 2011. The Chateau of Versailles remains forever the emblematic symbol of Louis XIV, whose reign lasted for almost half a century. This new program presents a visually stunning tour of the many rooms and works of art inside of France's national treasure. The Orangery at [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/360863 Kultur International Films Ltd http://www.pr.com/press-release/360868 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 03:00:00 -0400 A Journey of Dmitry Shostakovich Debuts on DVD Nov. 15. Kultur is proud to announce the release of A Journey of Dmitry Shostakovich available on DVD on November 15th. The greatest composer of the 20th century remains one of its biggest mysteries. Nine days of the ocean voyage from Moscow to New York comprise the nine chapters of this documentary film about Dmitry Shostakovich. Unique, highly personal fragments of the [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/360868 Kultur International Films Ltd http://www.pr.com/press-release/360869 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 03:00:00 -0400 The Legacy of Rosina Lhevinne: A Portrait of the Legendary Pianist Available on DVD Nov. 15. Kultur is proud to announce the release of The Legacy of Rosina Lhevinne: A Portrait of the Legendary Pianist available on DVD on November 15th. The Legacy of Rosina Lhevinne: A Portrait of the Legendary Pianist explores the nature of art, creativity and the human potential through the extraordinary life and accomplishments of [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/360869 Kultur International Films Ltd http://www.pr.com/press-release/360872 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 03:00:00 -0400 Irish Lighthouses: The Folklore, History and Beauty of Ireland's Coastal Beacons Available on DVD Nov. 15. Kultur is proud to announce the release of Irish Lighthouses: The Folklore, History and Beauty if Ireland’s Coastal Beacons available on DVD on November 15th. In a land whose roots are so entangled with myths and legends of the past, it is no surprise that Ireland's lighthouses, located in some of the most [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/360872 Kultur International Films Ltd http://www.pr.com/press-release/360874 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 03:00:00 -0400 Discovering Havana: In the Footsteps of Hemingway Available on DVD Nov. 15. Kultur is proud to announce the DVD release of Discovering Havana: In the Footsteps of Hemingway available on November 15th. Ernest Hemingway was a thrill-seeker eager for exoticism. He would womanize, hunt lions in Africa, supported the Republican side during the Spanish Civil War and reported on the D-Day invasion in Normandy. But he would [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/360874 Kultur International Films Ltd http://www.pr.com/press-release/356846 Thu, 29 Sep 2011 03:00:00 -0400 From the PBS Music Series CD Highway Kultur is proud to announce the DVD release of CD Highway. This six DVD set will be available October 25. CD Highway brings you 39 programs of music, entertainment, and interviews with America's up-and-coming stars and musical legends such as, Al Green, Lou Rawls, Chuck Mangione, Doug Kershaw, Randy Bachmann and Kinky Friedman. Hosted by songwriter and recording artist Laurie Roth, [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/356846 Kultur International Films Ltd http://www.pr.com/press-release/356573 Wed, 28 Sep 2011 03:00:00 -0400 Bayreuth Festival Production of Harry Kupfer’s The Complete Cycle of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, conducted by Daniel Barenboim. Newly Re-mastered 11-DVD Box Set available on October 25th. Kultur is pleased to announce its release of Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, filmed at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus in June & July 1991 and 1992. This historic Ring Cycle, under the musical direction [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/356573 Kultur International Films Ltd http://www.pr.com/press-release/356640 Wed, 28 Sep 2011 03:00:00 -0400 Jean-Paul Sartre: A 20 Year Absence on DVD October 25. Kultur is proud to announce the DVD release of Jean-Paul Sartre: A 20 Year Absence? is available October 25. Jean-Paul Sartre, French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, biographer, literary critic, and winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature. He was one of the leading figures in 20th century French philosophy. This historic [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/356640 Kultur International Films Ltd http://www.pr.com/press-release/356641 Wed, 28 Sep 2011 03:00:00 -0400 Barbara Cartland: My Life is a Novel Kultur is proud to announce the DVD release of Barbara Cartland: My Life is a Novel, available October 25th. This DVD tells the extraordinary life story of this great woman of literature who wrote 723 books which sold over 650 million copies. She was a gossip columnist for the Daily Express, and in 1923 Cartland published her first novel, Jigsaw, an edgy society thriller which would [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/356641 Kultur International Films Ltd http://www.pr.com/press-release/356647 Wed, 28 Sep 2011 03:00:00 -0400 The Gallery of the Masters - Edgar Degas: Of Dandies, Ballerinas and Women Ironing. Kultur is proud to announce the DVD release of Edgar Degas: Of Dandies, Ballerinas and Women Ironing, available on DVD October 25th. At the age of 36 his sight began to fail. He could no longer stand bright daylight. In only a few years he would go blind, this he knew. Edgar Degas, the son of an Italian banker, had stopped studying law [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/356647 Kultur International Films Ltd http://www.pr.com/press-release/356648 Wed, 28 Sep 2011 03:00:00 -0400 Gallery of The Masters Series - Rubens: Passion, Faith, Sensuality and The Art of The Baroque Kultur is proud to announce the DVD release of Rubens: Passion, Faith, Sensuality and The Art of The Baroque from our Gallery of Masters Series available October 25th. His legacy consists of over two thousand pictures - an imposing and contradictory life's work, with which Rubens, the disciplined artist and diplomat, educated [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/356648 Kultur International Films Ltd http://www.pr.com/press-release/354103 Sat, 17 Sep 2011 03:00:00 -0400 Kultur celebrates composer and trumpet virtuoso Wynton Marsalis on his 50th birthday October 18th and Peter Martins Ballet Dancer and Choreographer celebrates his 65th birthday October 27th, by announcing the availability of their collaborative project Accent on the Offbeat. Accent on the Offbeat is a cinema vérité film about the creation and premiere of the ballet Jazz (Six Syncopated Movements), composed [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/354103 Kultur International Films Ltd http://www.pr.com/press-release/354104 Sat, 17 Sep 2011 03:00:00 -0400 Kultur celebrates Jon Vickers on his 85th birthday on October 26th by announcing the availability of two of his Opera performances Tristan und Isolde D2230 and Peter Grimes D2255 on DVD. Jon Vickers was born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan Canada, October 26, 1926. In 1950, he was awarded a scholarship to study opera at The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. Seven years later, Vickers joined London’s Royal [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/354104 Kultur International Films Ltd http://www.pr.com/press-release/354107 Sat, 17 Sep 2011 03:00:00 -0400 Kultur celebrates Chuck Berry on his 85th birthday available now. From the Impact Series, Songs That Changed The World - featuring Chuck Berry: Maybellene was recorded on May 21, 1955 and is referred to as the birth of rock 'n' roll history. On that day, Chuck Berry recorded a song whose influence was massive and groundbreaking. Berry took an old Western swing-style song, gave it an extra kick with his signature [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/354107 Kultur International Films Ltd http://www.pr.com/press-release/354108 Sat, 17 Sep 2011 03:00:00 -0400 Kultur celebrates Ruggero Raimondi on his 70th birthday. Kultur is privileged to have Mr. Raimondi in two versions of Tosca in his pivotal role of Baron Scarpia as well as two outstanding performances singing bass in Verdi’s requiem opposite Jose Carreras and Placido Domingo conducted by Claudio Abbado and Leonard Bernstein respectively. These DVDs are available now. Verdi’s Requiem/Verdi’s [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/354108 Kultur International Films Ltd http://www.pr.com/press-release/352227 Sat, 10 Sep 2011 03:00:00 -0400 Steve Reich, Composer Celebrates 75th Birthday Kultur celebrates composer Steve Reich on his 75th birthday on October 3rd by announcing the availability of the DVD Steve Reich’s City Life. Steve Reich has been called “our greatest living composer" by The New York Times. Born in 1936, Steve Reich is one of the most significant American composers of the 20th century. Manfred Waffender’s major [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/352227 Kultur International Films Ltd http://www.pr.com/press-release/350031 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 03:00:00 -0400 Gallery of the Masters Series William Turner: Visions of Color and Light Debuts on DVD September 27 Kultur announces the DVD release of William Turner: Visions of Color and Light. This DVD will be available September 27, 2011. William Turner is one of the most important English painters of the Romantic Movement. He was unique in placing great significance on the atmospheric content of his portrayals. In his later works [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/350031 Kultur International Films Ltd http://www.pr.com/press-release/350035 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 03:00:00 -0400 Gallery of the Masters Series Paul Cezanne: The World in an Apple Debuts on DVD September 27 Kultur is proud to announce the DVD release of Paul Cezanne: The World in an Apple from our series The Gallery of the Masters. This illuminating program presents an overview of Cezanne’s extraordinary life and work and will be available on DVD September 27, 2011 Paul Cezanne revolutionized art. He made painting an end in [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/350035 Kultur International Films Ltd http://www.pr.com/press-release/350039 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 03:00:00 -0400 Einstein: The Man Behind the Genius Debuts on DVD September 27 Kultur announces the DVD release of Einstein: The Man Behind the Genius. This DVD will be available September 27, 2011. This unique one-man show stars actor Steve Polinsky who portrays the great scientist Albert Einstein. This dramatic production presents Einstein's life, and the ideals, conflicts, humor and compassion of the man who revolutionized our view [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/350039 Kultur International Films Ltd http://www.pr.com/press-release/350043 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 03:00:00 -0400 The Eternal Road: Kurt Weill and the Jewish Response to Hitler's Germany Available on DVD September 27 Kultur announces the DVD release of The Eternal Road: Kurt Weill and the Jewish Response to Hitler’s Germany, available on September 27. This enlightening program tells the little-known story of Kurt Weill, Max Reinhardt and Meyer Weisgal's operatic Jewish response to Hitler's Germany. It chronicles the [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/350043 Kultur International Films Ltd http://www.pr.com/press-release/350047 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 03:00:00 -0400 Ballet Favorites Newly Revised Version Available on DVD September 27 Kultur is proud to announce the DVD release of the newly revised version of Ballet Favorites on September 27. This new version of Ballet Favorites features stunning excerpts from the world's most famous ballets. This spectacular compilation showcases the talent of many of the greatest dancers of recent years, filmed at the world's leading venues, [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/350047 Kultur International Films Ltd http://www.pr.com/press-release/350049 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 03:00:00 -0400 Paloma Herrera: Here and Now A Profile of the Prima Ballerina of The American Ballet Theatre Available on DVD September 27 Kultur is proud to announce the DVD release of Paloma Herrera: Here and Now available September 27, 2011 for a suggested retail price of $19.99. This insightful documentary film shows different aspects of the career and personal life of the ABT Prima Ballerina. From her start as a prodigy is South [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/350049 Kultur International Films Ltd