Best Music Movies

Here are my top ten, gimmie yours:

1. Almost Famous
2. Help!
3. This is Spinal Tap
4. Amadeus
5. The Commitments
6. Eddie and the Cruisers
7. What's Love Got to do With it?
8. Grace of my Heart
9. Purple Rain
10. A Hard Day's Night

I just watched the Commitments like weeks ago, and I'm still hummin' the tunes, that's what sparked this thread.

Do you mean movies about musicians or music in general. Or just movies that have great music? I can think of a few for both category.

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What about Grease?

mmm-hmm.

1.) New York, New York

here's some more

Almost Famous
Ocean's 11 (Original)
The Commitments
The Blues Brothers
The Glenn Miller Story
La Bamba
CB4

That Thing You Do! is easily one of my favorite "music movies." I can't help but smile when I watch it.

The Blues Brothers! Yes!

I didn't like That Thing You Do...it was so cliche.:bored

That Thing You Do was alright but your right it had cliches and was overly sentimental from time to time.

Of course it was cliche -- it knew it was and didn't try to be anything else. That's one of the reasons I dug it. And, of course, the soundtrack was amazing. It's hard to believe that wasn't "real" music. And, of course, it's funny:

"And you know how The Beatles have a b-e-a like The Beatles? Well we can have an o-n-e like the one-ders."
"You're talkin' gibberish."

I agree with so many already listed... esp. Amadeus, The Blues Brothers, The Commitments, This is Spinal Tap, What's Love Got to Do With It, La Bamba, CB4...

Fear of a Black Hat--if you liked CB4, this is even better... a great mockumentary about Niggas With Hats (NWH)

Hard Core Logo--excellent mockumentary about an old-school punk band getting back together for a reunion tour.

The Fabulous Baker Boys

The Great Rock n' Roll Swindle

Head--so, so weird. Break out the acid for this one.

Strange Fruit

Tender Mercies--Robert Duvall just kicks a*s.

There's a couple more rattlin' around in my head--I need more time...

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Oh yeah, that was a cool one.

If anyone says, Mr. Holland's Opus; they die. Slowly and without mercy.

Oh, God... we saw that in the theater.

So uplifting, so life-affirming, so... BORING.
Gag me.

BEST DOCUMENTARIES
1. The Last Waltz (1978)
2. Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (1989)
3. Gimme Shelter (1970)
4. Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg: Speaking in Strings (1999)
5. Jazz on a Summer's Day (1959)
6. Stop Making Sense (1984)
7. Woodstock (1970)
8. Let it Be (1970)
9. Let's Get Lost (1988)
10. Eat the Document (1972)

BEST NARRATIVES
1. A Hard Day's Night (1964)
2. Bird (1988)
3. Amadeus (1984)
4. 'Round Midnight (1986)
5. This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
6. The Commitments (1991)
7. New York, New York (1977)
8. Nashville (1975)
9. High Fidelity (2000)
10. Pink Floyd, The Wall (1982)
11. Almost Famous (2000)
12. "The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash" (1978, Made-for-TV)
13. Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
14. Bound for Glory (1976)
15. Honkytonk Man (1982)
16. Young Man with a Horn (1950)
17. The Blues Brothers (1980)
18. Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
19. Tapeheads (1988)
20. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)


WROST OF THE WORST
1. A Star is Born (1976)
2. Sgt. Pepper's Lonley Hearts Club Band (1978)
3. Glitter (2001)
4. The Jazz Singer (1980)
5. One Trick Pony (1980)
6. Can't Stop the Music (1980)
7. Graffiti Bridge (1990)
8. Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965)
9. Under the Cherry Moon (1986)
10. Light of Day (1987)
11. "KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park" (1978, Made-for-TV)
12. Spice World (1997)
13. Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984)
14. Josie & the Pussycats (2001)
15. Staying Alive (1983)

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Oh, hell yeah. Good choice.

"Charlie, you b*tch! Let's work it out!"

Yes--High Fidelity, Nashville, the Rutles, and Coal Miner's Daughter, definitely.

And Josie and the Pussycats as the worst of the worst... I dunno. It's not grand cinema, certainly, but it was so self-referential that it was funny. It also skewered teen pop pretty effectively.

I don't know why I feel the need to defend it, but I do.

Kathleen Turner Overdrive...

That movie was so smart, and a brilliant book.

Yeah, I was amazed that even after transplanting the narravtive to Chicago it was still such an incredibly faithful adaptation. Helped immesurably by the perfect casting, especially of Johnny Cusack and Jack Black. Cusack and his Grosse Pointe Blank co-horts, all obviously rabid fans of the novel, wrote the screenplay, and Stephen Frears is just damn good.


So speaking of Cusack (and Tim Robbins), does anybody else here know Tapeheads (1988), and do you love it as much as I do?

Yes! We've got it on tape--great movie. God, I love the end, with the FBI guys--that's Jello Biafra as an FBI man, and I believe he's the one who actually says, "Remember what we did to Jello Biafra?"

Nice. I didn't think anyone else had ever seen it...