Shoot the piano

By: Alex Fisher

Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me;
Taking me back down the vista of years, till i see
A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings
And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.

In spite of myself, the insidious mastery of song
Betrays me back, till the heart of me weeps to belong
To the old Sunday evenings at home, with winter outside
And Hymns in the cozy parlor, the tinkling piano our guide.

So now it is vain for the singer to burst into clamor With the great black piano appassionato.
The glamour Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast
Down in the flood of remembrance,
I weep like a child for the past.

D. H. Lawrence – Piano

Franz Schubert – Sonata in A Major D-664

Johannes Brahms – Sonata Op. 1 No. 1 in C Major

Robert Schumann – Grand Sonata No. 1 in F# Minor Op.11

Arnold Schoenberg – Drei Klavierstücke (3 piano pieces) Op.11-1

John Cage – 4’33’’

• 01
  The Piano in a Factory
  Zhang Meng
• 02
  Tokyo Sonata
  Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• 03
  Fingers
  James Toback
• 04
  The Cat Concerto
  Joseph Barbera
• 05
  Un chien andalou
  Luis Buñuel
• 06
  Valse brillante de Chopin
  Max Ophüls
• 07
  The Music Box
  James Parrott
• 08
  My Heart Is in the Highlands
  Rustam Khamdamov
• 09
  A Song to Remember
  Charles Vidor
• 10
  The Pianist
  Roman Polanski
• 11
  Besieged
  Bernardo Bertolucci
• 12
  The Piano Teacher
  Michael Haneke
• 13
  The Piano
  Jane Campion
• 14
  The Page Turner
  Denis Dercourt
• 15
  Piano, solo
  Riccardo Milani
• 16
  Novecento, pianist
  Sarah Van den Boom
• 17
  Shine
  Scott Hicks
• 18
  The Legend of 1900
  Giuseppe Tornatore
• 19
  Shoot the Piano Player
  François Truffaut
• 20
  Young Chopin
  Aleksander Ford
• 21
  Four Minutes
  Chris Kraus
• 22
  Madame Sousatzka
  John Schlesinger
• 23
  Song of Love
  Clarence Brown
• 24
  Spring Symphony
  Peter Schamoni
• 25
  Amadeus
  Miloš Forman
• 26
  Autumn Sonata
  Ingmar Bergman
• 27
  Five Easy Pieces
  Bob Rafelson
• 28
  Song Without End
  Charles Vidor
• 29
  The Competition
  Joel Oliansky
• 30
  Heimat II: A Chronicle of a Generation
  Edgar Reitz
• 31
  Casablanca
  Michael Curtiz
• 32
  The Beat That My Heart Skipped
  Jacques Audiard
• 33
  The Blues: Piano Blues
  Clint Eastwood
• 34
  Chopin: Desire for Love
  Jerzy Antczak
• 35
  Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
  Scott Hicks
• 36
  Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
  François Girard
• 37
  The Seventh Veil
  Compton Bennett
• 38
  Lisztomania
  Ken Russell
• 39
  Impromptu
  James Lapine
• 40
  Immortal Beloved
  Bernard Rose
• 41
  The Fabulous Baker Boys
  Steve Kloves
• 42
  Dangerous Moonlight
  Brian Desmond Hurst
• 43
  The Mephisto Waltz
  Paul Wendkos
• 44
  September Affair
  William Dieterle
• 45
  Visca el piano!
  Pere Portabella
• 46
  Ray
  Taylor Hackford
• 47
  Great Balls of Fire
  Jim McBride
• 48
  Copying Beethoven
  Agnieszka Holland
• 49
  Michel Petrucciani
  Michael Radford
• 50
  Letter from an Unknown Woman
  Max Ophüls
• 51
  Pianomania
  Robert Cibis
• 52
  The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
  Roy Rowland
• 53
  The Union
  Cameron Crowe
• 54
  Three Colors: Blue
  Krzysztof Kieślowski
• 55
  Intermezzo
  Gustaf Molander
• 56
  Phantom of the Paradise
  Brian De Palma
• 57
  You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown
  Sam Jaimes
• 58
  Merci pour le chocolat
  Claude Chabrol
• 59
  The Piano Tuner
  Olivier Treiner
• 60
  The External World
  David O'Reilly
• 61
  The Universal Mind of Bill Evans
  Louis Carvell
• 62
  Piano Girl
  Murat Saraçoğlu
• 63
  10
  Blake Edwards
• 64
  Ragtime
  Miloš Forman
• 65
  The Blue Note
  Andrzej Żuławski
• 66
  The Accompanist
  Claude Miller
• 67
  Acció Santos
  Pere Portabella
• 68
  The English Patient
  Anthony Minghella
• 69
  Villa Amalia
  Benoît Jacquot
• 70
  L'effrontée
  Claude Miller
• 71
  The Piano Lesson
  Lloyd Richards