Tuesday, September 07, 2010

For Your Consideration: Great Movies About Music

24 Hour Party People
Come for the sounds of Madchester, stay for God chastising Tony Wilson for not signing The Smiths.

Almost Famous
A love letter to rock and roll with hearts over the i's and glitter in the envelope.

Anvil! The Story of Anvil
When following your dream starts becoming a nightmare, there's always Japan!

Crazy Heart
The Dude imbibes.

DiG!
Seven years documenting the rivalry between The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre. They're hot then they're cold; they're yes then they're no.


Don't Look Back/
Meeting People is Easy/
Heima
Three outstanding "rockumentaries" whose artistic visions directly mirror their respective subjects: the innovation of early Bob Dylan, the disengagement of OK Computer-era Radiohead, and the aural 'scapes of Sigur Ros.




Great World of Sound
A cringe-worthy comedy about the unethical practice of song sharking. The humor in this film is so dark it makes 1969 Tito look like 2009 embalmed MJ.

High Fidelity
A movie (check) about music (check check) filled with needless opinionated lists (check check check)!

Hustle & Flow
An Oscar win for Three 6 Mafia marked the first Academy Awards luncheon to offer a new concoction of Dom Perignon and sizzurp.

Hype!
She's overboard and self-assured.

Laurel Canyon
Dinosaur Ju...err...Sebado...err...Folk Implosion play the fictitious band covering original songs by the recently deceased Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse. It's an aging indie-rocker's wet dream.




This is Spinal Tap
A film in C-minor, the cleverest of all keys.

The Wall
Introducing kids to (and subsequently repelling them from) LSD since 1982.

Young @ Heart
Spoiler Alert: Most of them die at some point. Try not to get too emotionally attached.