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Your favourite music movie?
Just for fun.
Three movies spring to mind for myself when I think of what moves me here.
In no particular order.
Rocky Horror Picture Show.
So camp it is brilliant!
Tim Curry slays it!
Just way too much to begin to mention.
I can still get a blast from it now.
Let's do the Time warp again!
The Blues Brothers.
Ah, Jake and Ellwood.
Just for the record this was the second VHS tape I ever bought( first was Enter the Dragon)
Just so right....
Rock of Ages.
Now before you all run off gagging, it most certainly was not for Cruises wooden performance.
Catherine Zeta Jones was notable though.
No it was for the pair who stole the show.
Alec Baldwin and Russel Brandt.
Simply perfect for the movie.
Your thoughts on these and your nominations?
Three movies spring to mind for myself when I think of what moves me here.
In no particular order.
Rocky Horror Picture Show.
So camp it is brilliant!
Tim Curry slays it!
Just way too much to begin to mention.
I can still get a blast from it now.
Let's do the Time warp again!
The Blues Brothers.
Ah, Jake and Ellwood.
Just for the record this was the second VHS tape I ever bought( first was Enter the Dragon)
Just so right....
Rock of Ages.
Now before you all run off gagging, it most certainly was not for Cruises wooden performance.
Catherine Zeta Jones was notable though.
No it was for the pair who stole the show.
Alec Baldwin and Russel Brandt.
Simply perfect for the movie.
Your thoughts on these and your nominations?
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Yes another vote for both Grease and Saturday Night Fever. Then there's the Last Picture Show (awesome beyond words) and the classic rock and roll drive-in movie, American Grafitti. Not really my favourite kind of music featured but it works perfectly within those films. Plus all the Beatles films of course, esp Magical Mystery Tour where the songs are intrinsic to the plot. |
By "music movie" I presume you mean a movie in which music is the central theme, not just it’s soundtrack? Crazy Heart, Coal Miner’s Daughter, Tender Mercies, The Rutles, Riot On Sunset Strip, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, The Wrecking Crew, George Harrison: Living In The Material World, Hail Hail Rock ’n’ Roll!, Standing In The Shadows Of Motown, Muscle Shoals, Tom Dowd & The Language Of Music, The Last Waltz of course, Don't Look Back and No Direction Home, and A Hard Day’s Night and Help!. |
I’m surprised that no one mentioned Amadeus. I guess that there are very few classical music fans in audiogon. Amadeus won 11 Oscars in 1985 including best picture, best director and best sound mixing. It did not win best sound track because, as Maurice Jarre stated when he received the award for scoring Passage to India, was fortunate that Mozart did not qualify for the award. |
I’m surprised that no one mentioned Amadeus. I guess that there are very few classical music fans in audiogon. @rhg88 Actually "Amadeus" was mentioned on 7-3-2019 by both 77Jovian and Skipskip. I had been thinking of mentioning it also, in my earlier post, but I chose to limit my response to a single favorite. In any event, it was certainly a marvelous film. Regarding classical music, if you haven't seen it check out this thread: https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/classical-music-for-aficionados Best regards, -- Al |
2 by Alfred Hitchcock, with scores written by the great Bernard Hermann: VERTIGO & PSYCHO (it doesn't hurt that these are among the very best films I ever saw). More recently, 2 sci-fi films w/astounding, subtle, bleeding-edge soundtracks: ARRIVAL & UNDER THE SKIN. The latter soundtrack is quite unsettling & menacing, as is the film itself. |
Speaking of Spinal Tap how about A Mighty Wind? See the movie on your iPad! https://youtu.be/F7hMbnNf404 |
Let's not forget what the Library of Congress has designated one of the best Music & dance films ever - All That Jazz. From Wikipedia > "Upon release in 1979, director Stanley Kubrick, who is mentioned in the movie, reportedly called it "[the] best film I think I have ever seen". In 2001, All That Jazz was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. It was also preserved by the Academy Film Archive in the same year. In 2006, the film was ranked #14 by the American Film Institute on its list of the Greatest Movie Musicals. The film would be the last musical nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture until Disney's (animated) Beauty and the Beast in 1991, and was the last live-action musical to compete in the category until Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge! was nominated over twenty years later" Who am I to argue with Stanley Kubrick? The 13 film musicals rated above it by AFI were certainly all less Avante Garde & much stodgier. Bob Fosse was quite literally the American Shakespeare of Dance & related music. If you haven't seen it you really have no idea whatsoever what you're missing (on as big a screen as possible). The transcendental ending actually rivals the ending of 2001 A Space Odyssey, in its way - hence (in part) Kubrick's praise. Just like 2001, no one's ever, even tried to copy it. It's that fabulously good & original. |
others have mentioned some good ones, here are a few I enjoy. Apocalypse Now, REDUX Version (incredibly better movie than chopped up original) Black Hawk Down, powerful sound Bond movies Bourne movies Chicago Crank, powerful sound *****Domino**** Incredible Soundtrack throughout, Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, wow! Dreamgirls High Fidelity, the other John Cusack movie Jurasic Park, the reason for the subwoofer *****Metropolis, Giorgio Moroder Special Edition*****, amazing Moulin Rouge Pump up the Volume, Christian Slater Pulp Fiction ******Schlinder's List**** |
those were movies, these are Music DVDs. I have many, these are the ones I remember the sound being very good Allison Krauss + Union Station, Live (2 discs) Appalachian Journey, Yo Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, several others Bob Dylan, MTV Unplugged, Sony Studios Nov. 1994 Capercallie Collection (1990-1996) Cesaria Evora, Portugese, West African Fairport Convention, Cropready (I think it was good sound, not really sure) ***Festival In the Desert (Mali, Africa, Toureg Annual Gathering)*** ***Nora Jones, Handsome Band, Nashville, TN, Live 2004*** Paul Simon, Graceland, African Concert ***Piano Blues*** Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese presents Queen, various Sade, various ***Sessions at West 54th (CBS/Sony Studio)*** ***Sophie Milman, Live in Montreal*** oh yeah! Standing in the Shadows of Motown, 2 discs, for the story mostly U2, Rattle and Hum |
