Popular Music Movies - Page 424
Blues Divas
2005
Blues Divas
2005
star 6A documentary featuring live performance footage and interviews with eight contemporary female blues' artists including Mavis Staples, Denise LaSalle, Irma Thomas, Odetta, Deborah Coleman, Bettye LaVette, Ann Peebles and Renee Austin.To Hear Your Banjo Play
1947
star 4.5A short film about Pete Seeger and the birth of banjo music throughout the Southern United States.Storefront Hitchcock
1998
Thin Lizzy: Bad Reputation
2011
Affectionate but honest portrait of Thin Lizzy, arguably the best hard rock band to come out of Ireland. Starting with the remix of the classic album Jailbreak by Scott Gorham and Brian Downie, the film takes us through the rollercoaster ride that is the story of Thin Lizzy. From early footage of singer Phil Lynott in Ireland in his pre-Lizzy bands the Black Eagles and Orphanage, it follows his progress as he, guitarist Eric Bell and drummer Brian Downie form the basic three-piece that was to become Thin Lizzy - a name taken from the Beano. Using original interviews with Bell, Downie, the man who signed them and their first manager, it traces the early years leading to the recruitment of guitarists Brian 'Robbo' Robertson and Scott Gorham - the classic line-up. The film uses a number of stills, some seen on TV for the first time, archive from contemporary TV shows and a range of tracks both well known and not so famous.Rigoletto
1946
Rigoletto
1946
star 5This tragic story revolves around the licentious Duke of Mantua, his hunch-backed court jester Rigoletto, and Rigoletto's beautiful daughter Gilda. The opera's original title, La maledizione (The Curse), refers to the curse placed on both the Duke and Rigoletto by a courtier whose daughter had been seduced by the Duke with Rigoletto's encouragement. The curse comes to fruition when Gilda likewise falls in love with the Duke and eventually sacrifices her life to save him from the assassins hired by her father.The Gondoliers
1990
The Gondoliers
1990
A couple of happy-go-lucky Venetian gondoliers discover that one of them is heir to the throne of a distant kingdom.A Man Is Mostly Water
2000
star 2The lives of two unambitious duplex neighbors, divorced father, hot-tempered, blues-obsessed documentarian Roper and wealthy golf-playing wastrel Andy, are compared. Both have loved ones who want them to do something with their lives.Tell No One
1952
Tell No One
1952
The film's events revolve around the singer Farid, who is in love with one of the dancers, who decides to travel on an artistic tour. He proposes to her to marry her after she returns from the travel, but he falls under psychological pressure that forces him to marry another girl who also works as a singer. After the dancer returns from the travel, she discovers something... Her lover's marriage, so she leaves him, but later she discovers that things are not as they seem, and that the singer's uncle loves the dancer and wants to marry her.Virgo
2024
Virgo
2024
star 5.3The young punk band "The Rasperries" is touring Sweden in a worn-out van. Along the way, they meet Ava, a charming and intense goth girl who offers them an after-party - while pursuing a dark agenda of her own.Skeeno H.C. Rules
1991
Skeeno H.C. Rules
1991
Sonic Youth play hockey arena w/ Neil Young in Reno, Nevada. Ten years earlier 7 Seconds recorded the earnest hardcore classic "Skins, Brains, & Guts" EP. The town was known as Skeeno. Audio recorded especially for the film by Society's Ills, a band consisting of Mike Watt (bass), Thurston (vocals), Dez Cadena (guitar), & David Markey (drums), who cover said EP.Kelela: Interlude
2016
Kelela: Interlude
2016
star 8Spend a night out in LA with Kelela, as the Dazed spring 2016 issue cover star takes us clubbing, rides a car through the city and sings sweet nothings into her iPhone.A Study in Gravity
2013
A Study in Gravity
2013
This first person text by Michael Haussman examines gravity's effect on human emotion, told through five high definition video sequences filmed at 2,000 frames per second.Neko to Wakai se na
2023
Neko to Wakai se na
2023
star 5A short anime directed by Mizuki Ito in collaboration with music by HENTAI SHINSHI CLUB. A part of the "TOHO animation: Music Films" project, in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of TOHO animation.Carole King: Home Again - Live in Central Park
2023
star 8.7On Saturday May 26th, 1973 before 100,000 plus fans on the Great Lawn of Central Park in New York City, a generational talent singer-songwriter at the undeniable top of her game enjoyed a humbling homecoming a mere 14 miles from the house in Brooklyn where she grew up. The historic event highlighted the earth-moving power she’d unleashed with her watershed Tapestry (already being touted as one of the highest selling albums in history a mere two years after its release), all the way through her soon-to-be released song-cycle album Fantasy, (her fourth consecutive Lou Adler-produced album to land in Billboard’s Top Ten), Carole King’s performance that day was, according to Jack Nicholson, one of only two current events “proper” to be seen at in public.The Great Magic
2023
The Great Magic
2023
star 5The 20s. In a seaside resort where everybody is bored, Albert Marvuglia, a slightly shabby conjurer, makes Marta, the wife of the wealthy bourgeois Charles Moufflet, disappear, who takes advantage of this tour to escape for good.Jal Bin Machhli Nritya Bin Bijli
1971
Film about a young woman who enjoys singing and dancing, but is not thrilled about her impending arranged marriage.Deedar
1951
Deedar
1951
star 6A traumatized and blind young man makes a living singing, and searching for his childhood sweetheart.7 Deaths of Maria Callas
2022
star 7A meditation on the female body as a source of both power and pain that focuses on the tragic figure of renowned American-Greek opera singer Maria Callas (1923-77), whose stunning soprano voice captivated audiences around the world in the mid-20th century while her life was wracked by scandal and personal suffering.The Beach Boys: It's OK
1976
star 8A live performance from the Beach Boys, featuring their best known songs, including 'Help Me Rhonda' and 'Good Vibrations'.Kurt Cobain: About a Son
2007
star 6.9An intimate and moving meditation on the late musician and artist Kurt Cobain, based on more than 25 hours of previously unheard audiotaped interviews conducted with Cobain by noted music journalist Michael Azerrad for his book "Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana." In the film, Kurt Cobain recounts his own life - from his childhood and adolescence to his days of musical discovery and later dealings with explosive fame - and offers often piercing insights into his life, music, and times. The conversations heard in the film have never before been made public, and they reveal a highly personal portrait of an artist much discussed but not particularly well understood.
