― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Monday, 29 November 2004 23:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 29 November 2004 23:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 29 November 2004 23:16 (nineteen years ago) link
What about the very first A Star Is Born with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March?
Nico Icon! (! mine)
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 29 November 2004 23:19 (nineteen years ago) link
Ken, it's been so long since I've seen the Gaynor one that I couldn't remember if she played a singer!
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 29 November 2004 23:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 29 November 2004 23:23 (nineteen years ago) link
someone mentioned purple rain. has anyone ever SEEN any of the others?
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 29 November 2004 23:25 (nineteen years ago) link
How about the Robert Frank directed stuffed-with-cult-music-figures movie about a wannabe musician looking for a legendary guitarmaker, Candy Mountain? Which will of course prompt somebody to say...
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 29 November 2004 23:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 29 November 2004 23:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 29 November 2004 23:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 29 November 2004 23:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 29 November 2004 23:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 04:04 (nineteen years ago) link
Roy Harper plays a "boring old folk singer"! Script by Howard Barker!
― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 11:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 14:09 (nineteen years ago) link
Lisztomania by Ken Russell.
Both great movies, imho.
― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― beaty (beaty), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 20:46 (nineteen years ago) link
Madreselva, from Argentina in the 30's. The plot is something like this: struggling singer meets and then loses macho but ultimately decent man. Goes to Europe to mend broken heart, becomes huge singing star, feted and celebrated in all major capitals. Some time later returns home, somehow concealing presence, where her former paramour is now marrying her sister. Hiding behind a curtain she provides the singing voice (singing title song "Madreselva"?- now a beloved tango) for a puppet show at sister's wedding, causing aged father to drop dead on the spot (because he recognized her voice?), before she has had a chance to pop out from behind curtain to embrace him. Sings about the madreselva (honeysuckle) one more time and somehow they all live happily ever after.
― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 21:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 21:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 22:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― briania (briania), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 22:21 (nineteen years ago) link
god i loved that one. in a way it was the template for "behind the music." could easily be remade as "the fabulous gallagher boys" or "the fabulous van halen boys" without too much work.
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 22:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 22:23 (nineteen years ago) link
and i add "little voice"
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 22:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 22:30 (nineteen years ago) link
Oh! The Hot Spot!
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 22:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 22:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 03:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bruce S. Urquhart (BanjoMania), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 04:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― briania (briania), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 04:55 (nineteen years ago) link
Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story
― Lazarus Niles-Burnham (res), Saturday, 25 September 2010 19:50 (thirteen years ago) link
just watched I'm Not There and it's cool, still sinking in. It's fictionalized like Velvet Goldmine with different characters/actors for the various stages of Dylan (young folkie, Voice of a Generation, rocker, etc). don't know how it would go over with those who don't know his story already but way better than a straight biopic (which could have easily turned into The Doors movie cheese).
― Aqua Buddha (herb albert), Saturday, 25 September 2010 20:12 (thirteen years ago) link
I definitely recommend the film Crossroads - here's a blog post I just put together on the 'Ten Must-See Films for Musicians' might give you a few more ideas!http://www.themusiciansguide.co.uk/blog/08/five-ways-to-learn-about-music-promotion-without-compromising-your-songwriting-time/
― marcustaylor, Sunday, 10 October 2010 20:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Grand Theft Parsons
― earlnash, Sunday, 10 October 2010 23:08 (thirteen years ago) link
There's a fantastic moment in the Buddy Holly Story, where we see Buddy in the studio during the recording of 'Raining in My Heart' dashing off the part for the waiting Orch. and two Cherman classical dude are seen poring over it: 'Ist ferry Clefer, he hass ze shtrings playink pizzicato - like ze raindrops on ze vindow!' (something like that anyway)
― sonofstan, Sunday, 10 October 2010 23:20 (thirteen years ago) link
let's get lost, directed by bruce weber, about chet baker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PGeOZqvISk
i loved it, but know going in that it's gonna glorify a person who left a trail of despair, basically because he was so handsome and charismatic
but dang, so handsome and charismatic, and what a trail, and you can view the film as a version of what it might have felt like to fall under that spell
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Thursday, 28 November 2019 05:47 (four years ago) link
101 Dalmatians
― Siegbran, Thursday, 28 November 2019 06:19 (four years ago) link
People who sign their posts on internet forums: where are they now?
Chinaski
― Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski), Thursday, 28 November 2019 15:31 (four years ago) link
Pretty sure this wasn't me, would like to think it's the real Big Mick.
― éminence rose et jaune (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 28 November 2019 15:40 (four years ago) link
I have an unfortunate affinity for Let's Get Lost tho Karl is right about it
― éminence rose et jaune (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 28 November 2019 15:42 (four years ago) link
finally watched Be Here to Love Me, thought it did a really nice job of noting TVZ's particular genius without romanticizing or diminishing the extent and impact of his alcoholism on those who cared about him.
― Simon H., Thursday, 28 November 2019 15:47 (four years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/movies/blank-generation-amos-poe.html
Amos Poe lost control of his documentary Blank Generation about the music scene that spawned artists like Blondie and Talking Heads after a dispute with Ivan Kral, the guitarist who made the movie with him.
That's an article from 2020. Does anyone know whether the streaming versions of Blank Generation are the original version with credit to Poe and Kral, or the more recent Kral estate version with Poe's name deleted and the film ending changed ?
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 22 February 2024 20:39 (two months ago) link