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

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.

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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.

"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!"
And this:
"I mean, you wouldn't put the Charlie Parker in with the rock and roll, would you?"
"I don't know ... Who's Charlie Parker?"

There's a killer scene in Fassbinder's "Chinese Roulette" that involves a precocious and bitter crippled adolescent girl sitting in an empty room listening to Kraftwerk's "Radio-Activity" LP. And the film starts with her kind of punishing her parents by listening to a classical LP at blistering volume.

Oh man, "Killer of Sheep" - little girl sings along to Earth Wind and Fire in a closet. Man.

There's the opening sequence of Almost Famous with the beautiful shot of the vinyl turning

and the studio version of the Who's "Sparks" morphs into the Live At Leeds version, which Lester Bangs snatches off a radio station's turntable...except the live version wasn't released until 1995, and the scene was set in 1973. But whatever, it works.

That Killer of Sheep scene is so good. Charles Burnett did a short called Only When It Rains in the 90s that has a major plot point about a guy and his collection of jazz lps.

Diane Lane was on Conan the other night, promoting that Nick Sparks movie she did w/Richard Gere. The clip they played featured Lane's character putting on some 60s faux-Spector thing on her turntable and dancing around a bit before deciding to have drink.

Fitzcarraldo playing Caruso records as his riverboats hurtles down the river

the film, I referenced earlier (with the scene of the high school teacher's beloved jazz records getting destroyed by his rowdy students) is actually The Blackboard Jungle...still sends shivers down me spine...

Also from Almost Famous, there's an eight minute silent outtake of the family gathered round the turntable (not) listening to Stairway to Heaven, because they couldn't get permission to use it. It's pretty cool that they recorded it anyway

I love Carole King and Todd Rundgren (and who don't?), but that scene in Virgin Suicides where the guys are playing their records over the phone to the gals is pretty cringe-worthy...

documentary movie on record collectors:

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In Copland, Stallone's desperate late-in-the-career bid for respect, his character (a half-deaf New Jersey cop) listens to Bruce Springsteen (Nebraska, I believe, but not sure) on scratchy vinyl. His love interest gives him the same album on CD later on.

It's actually the song "Stolen Car" from The River. And if I remember correctly, Stallone drops the needle in the wrong spot.

In Copland, Stallone's desperate late-in-the-career bid for respect

For about 20 seconds, I was like, "They made a movie about the life of Aaron Copland...starring SYLVESTER STALLONE?!" before properly recognizing the title of the film in question (which I didn't see.)

Seems like Fassbinder films often have people playing records, A Merchant of Four Seasons being another.

Ana Torrent in Cria Cuervos plays Jeanette's "Porque te Vas" repeatedly on her portable record player.

Scanners and The Hidden both have memorably destructive record store scenes. It does seem though that in movies with record stores they sometimes just get a bunch of copies — overstocked? — of the same one and cover the walls/shelves with them, without putting too much focus on the records themselves (in Scanners the store had loads of copies of Frank Zappa's Sheik Yerbouti, and I wondered if that was a big album in Canada at the time).

Ever since I saw the trailer on a DVD called Grindhouse Universe I have very much wanted to see Record City, which looks like a sublimely trashy piece of late seventies end-of-civilization Americana. No home video release, though.

Detectives Stabler & Benson were just interviewing someone in a record store on this episode of SVU. Stabler is looking at a Jelly Roll Morton LP. The episode with Jill from Home Improvement in it. Where the guy has panties stuffed down his throat.

I saw some of Record City on Spanish TV once. It's kinda like Car Wash, but in a record store. Kinky Friedman has a small role.

On that same tip, there's another 70s flick called Outlaw Blues, which has Peter Fonda playing a (literally) outlaw country singer and includes a couple scenes set in record stores. Here are two TV ADs.

And if I remember correctly, Stallone drops the needle in the wrong spot.

In the recent horror movie The Strangers, Liv Tyler keeps putting on LPs in this deserted house owned by her boyfriend's grandparents. It kept bugging me, because it would be, like, Joanna Newsom's "Sprout and the Bean," made to sound all old and crackly-like, and I was thinking "why would the guy's grandparents have this on vinyl? And that song's not the first song on either side." I felt lame.

Detectives Stabler & Benson were just interviewing someone in a record store on this episode of SVU. Stabler is looking at a Jelly Roll Morton LP. The episode with Jill from Home Improvement in it. Where the guy has panties stuffed down his throat.

That reminds me in roundabout way about replacement show NBC ran in the early 90s. I don't rember the title, but it was a serialized single-camera sitcom about a detective in Frisco(or maybe LA) who had his office inside a used record store he ran with his secretary. The main plotline concerned the dectective getting hired by a celebrity to investigate his wife, who happened to be having an affair with the detective. The main thing I remember was that in one ep there was a running gag about a guy who was looking at every single record in the store. The detective told his secretary to leave the guy alone, that he wasn't going to buy anything. And of course, right after the detective leaves, the guy goes up to the secretary with like 200 albums and tells her, "I'll take these."

Crumb & American Splendor - Crumb and Pekar's mutual fetish for old blues 45s

Twin Peaks ... Leland Palmer gets deep with his jazz collection
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Yes, but the most memorable scene involving a record is the hissing/skipping turntable during the sequence in which the killer is revealed. One example of Lynch's talent for making picturesque domesticity seem creepy as hell.

I caught The Mother and The Whore in rep this past weekend. I'd forgotten how much vinyl stuff was in the film. And its not just like, "Oh, they've got some records lying around," but really knowing, keenly observed stuff about listening and responding to music. That unbroken sequence w/Bernadette Lafont listening to Edith Piaf (on a scratchy 78!) is justifiably famous, but there's so much more.

Some other great scenes:

• Jean-Pierre Leaud getting teased by Lafont and Françoise Lebrun for putting on an appropriate soundtrack (Mozart?) to brood to after their fight.

• Leaud playing and singing along with a Marlene Dietrich song after bedding Lebrun.

• Leaud's buddy talking about buying a classical album and then walking home hoping a woman he liked would see him carrying the album and would be so knocked out by his good taste that she'd want to go to his flat to hear it. One of the great music snob scenes in cinema history.

Finally saw A Serious Man the other day. Lots of vinyl stuff in it, but just wanted to cite the scene w/the phone conversation about the Columbia Record Club ("I don't want Santana Abraxis!") as deserving special recognition.

Oblivion -- 2013
The Weight by The Band
Ramble On by Led Zeppelin
A Whiter Shade Of Pale by Procol Harum

American Hustle -- 2013
Jeep's Blues by Duke Ellington

Virgin Suicides where the boys-n-girls are sending tracks over the phone,,, had to look these up
Hello It's Me by Todd Rundgren
Alone Again, Naturally by Gilbert O'Sullivan
Run To Me by Bee Gees
So Far Away by Carole King

Shawshank Redemption -- Andy alone in the Warden's office over the P.A. -- Marriage of Figaro

Good Morning, Vietnam -- many

Iron Man (?) -- he had to have a turntable in one of those

Lost -- lots of records in the shelter, 10 Cloverfield Lane had the jukebox in that shelter; actually jukeboxes would open a whole new group of options.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest -- 45s in the nurses station during medication time

Both Mad Men and Suits have some records/turntables

Iron Man (?) -- he had to have a turntable in one of those

DJ AM was using a laptop in Iron Man 2

There's that scene in Seeking A Friend for the End of the World where Steve Carell's character cues up Scott Walker's 1967 debut LP - first track "Mathilde" (which is the name of the meteor about to end life on earth), but instead we hear "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore". The last track on side A is "My Death", also appropriate, but as that visibly plays, dubbed in instead is "Stay With Me Baby". Damn those post-prod decisions!

During a party scene in Quadrophenia, Jimmy takes off whatever record is playing and puts on "My Generation," to the delight of the partygoers. Only, the sleeve he takes the record out of is The Who Sell Out/A Quick One twofer issued in 1974. The film is set in 1964, "My Generation" wasn't released until late 1965, and "My Generation" isn't on the album shown in the film.