Whats your favorite "music" movie?

I like Spinal Tap and A Mighty Wind.

I think that The Commitments comes closest to capturing the highs and lows of actually being in a band. A lot of people dislike Almost Famous, but it has real heart, and I like that.

32 Short Films About Glenn Gould is the best musician/composer biopic ever, hands-down, no contest.

My favourite movie musicals are Singin' in the Rain and The Bandwagon. I like all the Ashman/Menken collaborations, too.
 
Baby Snakes.
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Whenever I watch Blues Brothers I end up wanting to skip pretty much everything but the musical numbers and the car chases.
 
Flamencology said:
Whenever I watch Blues Brothers I end up wanting to skip pretty much everything but the musical numbers and the car chases.
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Blues Brothers has something of a sentimental thing for me because I spent the better part of a summer hanging out with my buddies watching this, Animal House, Blazing Saddles and Monty Python movies non-stop and started my love affair with the buffalo wing :embarrassed:
 
BTW, tomorrow i get my first DVD from netflix of Ken Burns' Jazz. I have been looking forward to this for quite awhile. I hope it's as good as his Baseball one.
 
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BTW, tomorrow i get my first DVD from netflix of Ken Burns' Jazz. I have been looking forward to this for quite awhile. I hope it's as good as his Baseball one.
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Jazz fan perspective; it starts falling apart in the mid-50s, is a train wreck by the start of the 70s, and gets worse from there. The good news is that this is only 2 out of 10 episodes. It's not as moving as Baseball or especially The Civil War. It never finds a talking head as good as Shelby Foote or Buck O'Neil, and the roster of interviewees isn't especially well-chosen. But it is interesting, entertaining, informative, and (obviously) features a hell of a lot of great music.
 
Flamencology said:
Jazz fan perspective; it starts falling apart in the mid-50s, is a train wreck by the start of the 70s, and gets worse from there. The good news is that this is only 2 out of 10 episodes. It's not as moving as Baseball or especially The Civil War. It never finds a talking head as good as Shelby Foote or Buck O'Neil, and the roster of interviewees isn't especially well-chosen. But it is interesting, entertaining, informative, and (obviously) features a hell of a lot of great music.
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Thanks, i really loved the Civil War too. Shelby Foote was a rockstar.

Well, thanks for the advice. I'm still glad to be watching it, at least i'll learn something.
 
Phil513 said:
Thanks, i really loved the Civil War too. Shelby Foote was a rockstar.

Well, thanks for the advice. I'm still glad to be watching it, at least i'll learn something.
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You'll learn plenty and have fun doing it! :mad:

(Shelby Foote was a better talking head than he was a writer/scholar, FWIW.. his telling is no Battle Cry of Freedom)
 
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You'll learn plenty and have fun doing it! :mad:

(Shelby Foote was a better talking head than he was a writer/scholar, FWIW.. his telling is no Battle Cry of Freedom)
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I'll have to investigate. I was so impressed after Civil i actually googled him.
 
Amadeus... without a doubt.

Then Spinal Tap.

There are others that I like such as Walk the Line, Purple Rain, Almost Famous, and some others that were mentioned, but going back to Amadeus.... that scene where he's on his death bed, composing... and Salieri is transcribing for him... and he finally "gets it" and hears the composition the way Mozart hears it in his head... gives me chills every time I watch it.

as far as real documentaries, the "Dream of Blue Turtles" that Sting did right after the Police is pretty awesome. Branford Marsalis, Kenny Kirkland, Omar Hakim and the other musicians are just killin' it.
 
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Amadeus... without a doubt.

Then Spinal Tap.

There are others that I like such as Walk the Line, Almost Famous, and some others that were mentioned, but going back to Amadeus.... that scene where he's on his death bed, composing... and Salieri is transcribing for him... and he finally "gets it" and hears the composition the way Mozart hears it in his head... gives me chills every time I watch it.
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Its in my top 10 movies. No joke.
 
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Its in my top 10 movies. No joke.
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It's my #1.

There are others that are tops in their genres like Comedy, Sci Fi, horror, action, etc.... but without throwing a label out front, Amadeus has been my favorite movie since the first time I saw it.
 
I'm an Amadeus... hater is too strong a word. I like it, think the production values are stunning, well-directed, well-acted, music goes without saying, etc., but I'm really not a fan of the writing and I really think it's one of the most overrated movies of all-time. But that's just me.
 
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I'm an Amadeus... hater is too strong a word. I like it, think the production values are stunning, well-directed, well-acted, music goes without saying, etc., but I'm really not a fan of the writing and I really think it's one of the most overrated movies of all-time. But that's just me.
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I'm sure there are good reasons to not like it.

All i know is, it entertains me, and holds my attention to the very end. More than 90% of the other movies out there. :grin:
 
As I'm watching the 3rd season of HBO's Treme, I have to cheat by adding it to this music movie thread. This is a musician's music series that captures every level from sidewalk busker to the top session professional. Also, each season packs in more legendary 'Nawlins musician cameos than the preceding one.

Like David Simon's last big series, The Wire, everything feels real, not contrived nor over dramatic.

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I've never given it a lot of thought. I'd have to say A Mighty Wind and Spinal Tap for fictional music movies. For music documentaries I'd say Pete Seeger: The Power of Song. (Beside being a PS fanboy, the movie is well constructed. Using Pete's house in spring at the start of the movie and his house in winter at the end as he is aging works beautifully; much better in the seeing than the telling.) I'd also add The Wobblies. Even though it is not technically a music film, there is a lot of music in it as you cannot seperate the IWW from their union songs. For concert flms it is a toss-up between Stop Making Sense and The Last Waltz. I am not a docudrama fan, so haven't seen things like Ray and I Walk the Line. I did the the Hank Williams docudrama, Your Cheatin' Heart; it was a double feature with the original release of A Hard Day's Night. :grin:
 
I forgot about A Mighty Wind.

There was a lot of abuse in my family but it was... musical... in nature.
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Honestly, I haven't seen Amadeus since high school. We watched it in band at the end of the year. The only thing that sticks out about it was the scene were Salieri tries to commit suicide.

One of the (many) girls in band I kind of liked said, "Did he try to kill himself?"
I said, "He took a stab at it."

She laughed. :grin:
 
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