movies wherein vinyl records are played

and now I remember Edith Piaf being played in Saving Private Ryan.

• The Shawshank Redemption
• The Last Days of Disco
• That Ali G film (probably>

Why are you asking anyway, halo?

Human Traffic

Grosse Point Blank is the best movie EVAH.

I've never seen A Clockwork Orange, but John Michell worked on the set-design for that (and 2001), and apparently one of his early turntables features (the Hydraulic Reference?). No idea what plays on it. Is that anachronistic? Made in '71 but set in the future.

Coppola's The Conversation too - Hackman listening to jazz off vinyl. 1975, though. Nice speakers.

'Brighton Rock' ('what you want me to say is I love you...' then a scratch on the record-it-yourself disc omits the snarled 'but really I hate you!').

'If' (which uses 'Missa Luba' repeatedly I think, certainly there's a scene of it being cued up on a small mono gramophone).

Quadrophenia--the Cascades get ripped off the turntable at a party, "My Generation" gets put on.

Drinking Buddies, more than once.

Almost Famous--when the sister leaves home (blanking out on the song...Who's Next?)

Will have to give it some thought, but I'm sure I can come up with a few more.

I found this doco called Vinyl (which - I thought insultingly - says it includes: "a number of women with lots of records (for a woman, that is)") & has "Harvey Pekar, Guy Maddin, Don McKellar, Bruce LaBruce, Daniel Richler, Geoff Pevere, Don Pyle, DJ Nav, A Man Called Warrick, Jane Farrow, Eddie B and many, many, many others"--including clemenza!

Grey Gardens: Edie puts on a march and dances, Miller in hand.

Rock and Roll High School: Riff tokes up, puts Road to Ruin on, and there the Ramones are in her bedroom.

20th century women!!

Almost Famous--when the sister leaves home (blanking out on the song...Who's Next?)

When she actually leaves, it's "America" by Simon & Garfunkel. Then after that, when William get her collection of records, in her letter she tells him to cue up Tommy and 'he'll see the future', he plays "Sparks" which cues a time jump in the story.

Over on ILM: Sad vinyl fetishist query: Scenes in movies featuring/revolving around vinyl records?

(xpost) Thanks. So we just hear "America," but we actually see William cue up Tommy I take it.

Dancing on the beach to Francoise Hardy in Moonrise Kingdom.

The truck driver's portable player in Wender's Kings of the Road.

So now we've got check both threads to see if we're repeating something--too much pressure.

I Knew Her Well, an Italian film from 1965. If you skip to 9:30, you can see the relevant scene--spoilers, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp3YUtpUEq8

There have got to be some mid-'60s Warhol films that qualify.

XPS No, separate sequential scenes: The family listens to "America" because she says it explains why she has to leave, and then in the next scene William takes possession of her suitcase full of records and listens (per her order) to Tommy.

And geez, #1 on my list: Satie in Goin' Down the Road (16:50, till it gets taken down again).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khvy2-Qxuzw

The other thread mentions several Fassbinder films where this happens. Another case would be Fear of Fear in which Margit Carstensen puts on the Stones' "We Love You" 45.

I don't think anyone's mentioned Mike Leigh's Abigail's Party, in which Alison Steadman sets the mood by putting on Demis Roussos.

Countless seduction scenes have this - one of the more iconic ones would be Bo Derek playing Ravel's Bolero in Blake Edwards' 10,

20th century women!!
― Unchanging Window (Ross)

Have now seen this...definitely. Hall of fame.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up0pJ4Otvkk

Talented Mr. Ripley has records as a plot point.

Just saw 20th Century Women...additional spot in the Hall of Fame to Greta Gerwig explaining The Raincoats as "Fairytale In The Supermarket" spins.

Sixth episode of Six Feet Under, the first great musical moment in the series: Nate throws "Journey to the Center of Your Mind" on the turntable (can't tell if it's an Amboy Dukes LP or some Nuggets-type compilation), sits back, and watches his dead father dance, entertain bikers, and play Charles Whitman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29SIKOFJnAA

Rosemary's Baby, twice: the night Rosemary stays behind when Guy goes back to the Castevets, and also baby night ("Would you turn the record over, please?"). It think it's the same record both times--vaguely jazzy, candlelight-and-wine stuff.

Pet peeve: when characters in movies cue up a famous record and the wrong song plays, and/or the songs play in the wrong order. Was reminded of this today by 20th Century Women, where Billy Crudup cues up track 1 side B of More Songs About Buildings and Food only for track 5 to play. (Doubly annoying bc the characters are shown to be dancing and reacting to that specific song, so they knew which cut they were going to use when they filmed it.) (They get the Black Flag song right though.)

First time I remember noticing this was in Royal Tenenbaums when they the listen to Between the Bottons and "She Smiled Sweetly" is followed by "Ruby Tuesday". Does anyone else get bothered by this?

I don't know whether vinyl records are still getting a lot of use as Western Freedom! icons, but A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night works well with this.

Bruno Gantz plays at least one kinks record in the The American Friend

In Kauriamki's "Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana " the main characters listen to 45's in a car record player.

Just watched a very early example of this, one where the choice of vinyl - or rather, shellac - is meaningful to the story: Cecil B. DeMille's 1920 marital comedy Why Change Your Wife? starring Gloria Swanson. In it, Thomas Meighan tries to loosen up his prisspot wife (Swanson, playing against type) by cueing up a lively fox trot 78 on their fancy console-type phonograph. This is too frivolous a choice for his wife, who suggests he put on a different record - one called "The Dying Poet" (apparently a real piece by Louis Moreau Gottschalk). This and other incidents precipitate their divorce.

Unfortunately the streaming version of the film only features random background music so you never actually hear these records.

Just saw Ghost World. The "party" scene is even funnier when you consider how all eras of popular music will ultimately cater to these types of fans when the original audience has long passed - collectors and academic types who are so far removed from the people who originally made the music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE_2Xy8aXUM

Nice Frank Stokes photo on the wall there