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

I like the bit in "Duck Soup" when the villainous Trentino, having asked his spies (Harpo & Chico) to gather information about President Rufus T. Firely, demands "Give me his record!" Naturally, Harpo instantly produces an old record (shellac, not vinyl; big deal)from inside his coat. Trentino tosses it away in disgust, only to have Harpo then produce a shotgun and blast the airborne record into a million pieces, thereby winning one of Trentino's cigars.

Scratch: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0143861
"A feature-length documentary film about hip-hop DJing, otherwise known as turntablism."

If that counts, this one (Vinyl) wins the thread:

http://imdb.com/title/tt0120454/

i laughed, i cried, i said "i have that record!" about a dozen times, and i felt really good that i wasn't as neurotic as the rest of those people

I forget which Three Stooges short it was, but that scene where Curly Howard nearly hypnotizes himself watching a 78 record play on a victrola is funny as burning hell.

I was just watching Inland Empire and a b/w shot of high-contrast vinyl spinning, the needle looking like it's about to spark and do damage, shows up a few times — feels a bit like a visual to go along with the noise on the soundtrack mainly. Interesting choice for a determinedly digital movie, production-wise. But then all those train noises are sort of analog too, aren't they?

I was about to say Inland Empire.

Unfaithfully Yours, with Rex Harrison attempting murder and covering it up with a faked recording of the crime.

Empire Records (ducks the rocks and garbage).

my fave vinyl scene is in that albert brooks movie - modern romance? - when he takes a qualude and embraces his vinyl and says "i love my albums". this happened to me on ecstasy once. i just sat by my shelves all night caressing my records. i could barely get up to play one.

-- scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, January 15, 2005 6:15 PM

oh to be a fly on the wall

Pan's Labyrinth, but that was set in the '40s

Singles by Cameron Crowe. I remember seeing a copy of Kate Bush's Hounds of Love (among others) in the apartment of Campbell Scott.

Mo' Better Blues by Spike Lee. CD's are purchased as well.

Last Days by Gus Van Sant. The hipster friends of the Cobain-esque main character listen to The Velvet Underground's Venus in Furs.

The scene with Woody Allen anticipating a date, attempting to suavely put vinyl on the turntable and nervously sliding the needle across it, in "Play It Again Sam."

also, when he sends a vinyl record flying from its sleeve while non-chalantly waving his arms about, in the same scene.

O, Brother, where art thou? - spinning vinyl (or shellac, i guess) at manufacturing and broadcasting stages

Tom Waits plays a DJ in Down By Law, and the first time you see him he's just been fired and Ellen Barkin is throwing all his stuff out the window, including his records.

Pee Wee Herman putting 'Tequila' by the Champs in PW's Big Adventure

also...Harvey 'Sport' Keitel putting 'Theme from Taxi Driver' on turntable in TD when he's dancing with JFoster.

'Girl Of My Dreams' 78 in Angel Heart

And the composer to this song, I've no soundtrack listing from Friday the 13th-The Final Chapter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIMj_tYfzsc

<i>I like the bit in "Duck Soup" when the villainous Trentino, having asked his spies (Harpo & Chico) to gather information about President Rufus T. Firely, demands "Give me his record!" Naturally, Harpo instantly produces an old record (shellac, not vinyl; big deal)from inside his coat. Trentino tosses it away in disgust, only to have Harpo then produce a shotgun and blast the airborne record into a million pieces, thereby winning one of Trentino's cigars.

-- Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 13 June 2005 16:12 (2 years ago) Link</i>

Another Marx Brothers one in Monkey Business: they all try to pass through customs hiding a record player behind their backs, trying to pass as Maurice Chevalier by miming along with the music. (nb. again this is shellac, not vinyl)

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La Maman et le Putain to thread! Has a great realtime sequence where a guy puts on a record and listens to it and the camera doesn't move. Can't remember what song it is though, so Morbius will no doubt call me a popcorn-eating thrillseeker.

This scene was Bernadette Laffont in her last scene in the film. She puts an Edith Piaf record. Earlier on, there is a sequence where she's listening to Deep Purple's Concerto For Group & Orchestra when Leaud comes in and turns it off. They talk and then Laffont turns it back on as Leaud leaves. You can also spot a copy of Sticky Fingers in their collection.

Another Gaffe: Eva Green listening to Cheap Thrills by Big Brother & The Holding Company in The Dreamers (at point her brother tries to smash the record and she replies, "What, you don't like Janis?"). The album was still being recorded at the time the action in the movie takes place (Jan. through May '68).,

This isn't from the movies, but McDonalds has been running a tv ad about how you can spend the money you save by eating at McDonalds on the things you love. They show one character-a youngish indie girl- dancing around aroom housing her enormus vinyl collection. At one point, she fans herself with an old Capitol lp w/the rainbow label trim.

"The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant" - playing of records Platters' "The Great Pretender" and Walker Bros' "In My Room" quite significant in this film

^^^must see

There are lots of old movies with scenes of radio DJs spinning vinyl ... two that come to mind are "Play Misty for Me" and the original version of "The Fog."

Lili Taylor putting on her copy of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan on the turntable before bedding River Phoenix in Dogfight.

Kings of the Road has the all-time coolest record player, a portable setup on the armrest between the driver and passenger seats in Rudiger Vogler's truck. Long scenes with no one talking, just the record spinning while he drives around. There's got to be other Wenders stuff too.

I remember watching 'Indecent Proposal' at my audiophile brothe in law's and he got very excited when he spotted this in Robert Redford's house.

http://home.c2i.net/jantoresvart/turntables/tnt-3.gif

Probably the best thing about the movie too.

that HEARTBREAKING scene in "The Concrete Jungle" where the bad kids destroy their teacher's beloved jazz record collection...

I finally saw The Science of Sleep a couple of days ago, and it had a two good vinyl moments:

1. In the opening sequence, when Bernal is explaining the recipe for dreams, He mentions "songs you heard during the day," and produces some 45s which he drops into his pot.

2. Later on, when he dreams he's in a demolished house, the ground is completely covered with loose records.

Best scenes I've ever seen specifically about filing vinyl are in Diner and Hi Fidelity, but an honorable mention might go to one involving Parker Posey's DJ roommate in Party Girl, which I'm pretty sure nobody has mentioned.

There's a dj that does a blues show here in town that plays that audio clip from the record scene in Diner every week at some point during the show.

He plays the bit in italics.

"Every one of my records means something! The label, the producer, the year it was made. Who was copying whose style... who's expanding on that, don't you understand? When I listen to my records they take me back to certain points in my life, OK? Just don't touch my records, ever! You! The first time I met you? Modell's sister's high school graduation party, right? 1955. And Ain't That A Shame was playing when I walked into the door! "

Brighton Rock, specifically the "Make a Record of your own voice"

There's a scene in Badlands where Martin Sheen uses one of these machines and it plops out a 45. How cool were those machines?!?! I wonder if people would go in with a guitar and demo a track or 2.

There a good "record yr own voice" scene in Godard's Masculin féminin.

There's a scene in Masculin, féminin when Jean-Pierre Léaud uses one of those machines as well. Was just watching it last night.

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He also puts an unfeasibly big looking 12" on to one of those small old portable record players for playing 45s on and plays some Mozart (?)

Best 'cut your own record' scene ever: "Unfaithfully Yours."

uh, as I said seven months ago.

oh man Chuck GREAT call on Diner - I used to completely love that movie, anybody seen it recently?

Looking back over this thread, I see I brought up Antoine and Collette a few years back. I was making my way through the Doinel cycle at the time, and if memory serves, there is a vinyl scene in each of the sequels. I think it goes:

Antoine and Collette-Doinel work in pressing plant, gives Collette the first record he pressed.
Stolen Kisses-Doinel attempts to learn the english language via a set of instructional lps.
Bed & Board-I forget. Maybe he gets a set of child birthing lps?
Love on The Run-Doinel's girlfriend works in a record store. Final scene takes place in a listening booth in said store.

And finally on the Leaud front (even though he isn't in the scene), there's that bit in Last Tango wherein Maria Schneider is trying to plug in a record player using a faulty socket and she gets zapped. There is an old Elektra lp (w/the butterfly logo) on the turntable.

And of course the barn dance sequence in The Giant Gila Monster with the most ridiculous dj'ing ever.

In "Juice" there's a nice one with one of the characters - Q, maybe? - practicing his set before a DJ contest.

My local PBS affiliate has started showing Inspector Morse again. The first ep involves the possible murder of a woman who used to work at a audiophile turntable company. Morse naturally owns one of the company's decks, and at one point attends a lecture on HI-FI given by her ex-boss, one of the suspects.

lots of records seen/heard being played in fassbinder's work, but delighted to spot this prominently displayed next to the turntable in the penultimate episode of eight hours don't make a day.

Two bits in Tar: The collection of Mahler vinyl on the floor in the opening montage, and a later scene where Lydia and her assistant Francesca talk about getting Deutsche Grammophon to reconsider not giving her upcoming box set a vinyl release.

this is one of the best thread titles. lol