Favorite Band Movies ???

[JayeSF]

Just rented a good movie last night....Honeydripper, directed by John Sayles and starring Danny Glover...about a blues bar in 1950's rural Alabama (well, it's sorta about that).

Got me to wondering, what are some of your favorite band/music movies ? Not talking musicals...I mean movies where a band, musician, etc. was an integral part of the film...y'know ?

Sure, OK, fiction or documentary....

A few more of mine:

Leningrad Cowboys Go America (Finnish director Aki Karusimaki's early masterpiece !)

'Round Midnight (Dexter !!!!)

Taxi Blues (early Soviet glasnost era, excellent !)

[Saxhound]

The Commitments.

[gary]

Movies where the titles, captions, print is in readable B&W and not in red.

Lush Life
- one of my favourites, Jeff Goldblum and Forest Whittaker; NY studio guys; very swinging sound track by Lennie Niehaus

The Tic Code
- beautiful story of child piano player and his, and his mother's relationship with a jazz tenor player (Gregory Hines)

Paris Blues
- sound track by Duke Ellington

Schultz Gets the Blues
- German accordian player searches for Cajun music

The Band's Visit
- Egyptian police band gets lost in Israel - gentle, must see film

Spinal Tap
- obligatory

[hakukani]

+1 for Schulz Gets the Blues

I'd also like to add the documentary Genghis Blues, about a blind blues singer going to Tuva. It don't get more real.

[Doghouse Riley]

How about; "The Rita Rio All Girl Band" with Alan Ladd on vocals?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8wYUJgcCj0


Oh well, never mind...

[tonyz]

"That Thing You Do".....the best ever!

[JayeSF]

Movies where the titles, captions, print is in readable B&W and not in red.

Jeez, Gary...I even made the names boldface for all yooze old(er) guys......



Nice list, hadn't heard of several of those....

How about; "The Rita Rio All Girl Band" with Alan Ladd on vocals?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8wYUJgcCj0


Oh well, never mind...

Wow...definitely outside the scope of the question...BUT....where do you folks even dig up this stuff.....?

actually, Doghouse...that was pretty excellent (I liked the trombones being in the back row wth the tpts in the middle, BTW)...until Alan Ladd kinda ruined it....

[Doghouse Riley]

Wow...definitely outside the scope of the question...BUT....where do you folks even dig up this stuff.....?

actually, Doghouse...that was pretty excellent (I liked the trombones being in the back row wth the tpts in the middle, BTW)...until Alan Ladd kinda ruined it....

There's some debate over these particular "musicians"
Rita Rio did have an "all girl band" but just how many seen in this particular clip were real musicians and which were just "window dressing" we'll probably never know.

[nachoman]

"The Continental Twist" terrible movie but lots of great footage of Louis Prima and Sam Butera at their best...

[gary]

Young Man With a Horn
- corny plot line but good singing and playing from Doris Day and Harry James

The Five Pennies
- decent biopic about Red Nichols

And how could we forget -
A Hard Days Night

I'd like to see movies about, if they could be well done, Bix Beiderbecke and Chet Baker. Very colourful as well as musical guys. Should be a lot of material for interesting flicks.

[ansyf125]

The Pick of Destiny - Tenacious D

[JayeSF]

Good one !

Then you gotta include School of Rock, I suppose....

[MartinMusicMan]

Standing In The Shadows Of Motown, the best documentary about making the music.

From my long ago youth, the movie that inspired me to be a musician was The Benny Goodman Story.

[gary]

Standing In The Shadows Of Motown, the best documentary about making the music.

From my long ago youth, the movie that inspired me to be a musician was The Benny Goodman Story.

"Motown" is great. And wasn't Joan Osborne a surprising treat?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_Pb0...eature=related

Re. The BG Story, you might want to go back and see that sometime. . . or not. I had actually put that down but deleted it when I remembered how sad it is, LOL. Ah the things that impress us when we're kids, wot?

[MartinMusicMan]

Re. The BG Story, you might want to go back and see that sometime. . . or not. I had actually put that down but deleted it when I remembered how sad it is, LOL. Ah the things that impress us when we're kids, wot?

I was going to add that I've seen that movie several times since on TV and it's incredibly lame, but that can't change the effect it had on my young and impressionable (read: uncritical) mind.

add: what I heard was the music. I didn't notice the bad acting or poor writing.

[Rob Dorsey]

Are you guys clinically brain dead? "The Fabulous Dorseys" is the best band movie of all time!!

Uncle Tommy and Jimmy playing at their top. Jeeze Louise, Jimmy Dorsey on alto, and clarinet, perhaps his best instrument.

Dig it,
Rob Dorsey

[ghettosax]

Josie and the Pussycats?

[Kritavi]

Havin a Wild Weekend with the Dave Clark Five
Sid and Nancy

[gary]

Sid and Nancy

Definitely!

Brassed Off
- excellent character studies centering around a community band in an English mining town

Sun Valley Serenade
- centers around a band's (Glenn Miller) pianist smitten with a Norwegian refugee he has sponsored; with Sonja Henning, Glenn Miller (and band) and Milton Berle.

[hakukani]

Hedvig and the Angry Inch.