Music movies

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996)

Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Crime | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Judge, Mike | Willis, Bruce | Robert Stack | Bogosian, Eric | Brown, Kristofor | Darling, Tony | Doman, John | Dumaurier, Francis | Flaherty, Jim | Guinee, Tim | Letterman, David | Huss, Toby | Johnson, Sam | Linklater, Richard | Nayyar, Harsh
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MTV junkies Beavis and Butt-head awaken one day to find their beloved TV stolen. On their adventure to do a murderous smuggler’s wife (Demi Moore), they encounter an FBI agent (Robert Stack) with a predilection for cavity searches, two rather familiar looking ex-Motley Crue roadies, Mr. Van Driessen singing “Lesbian Seagull”, a little old lady, and, of course, Mr. Anderson and his trailer. Can the Great Cornholio save the day? Let’s hope so!

Honeydripper (2007)

Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Glover, Danny | Hamilton, Lisa Gay | DaCosta, Yaya | Dutton, Charles S. | Curtis-Hall, Vondie | Clark Jr., Gary | John, Mable | Keach, Stacy | Clay, Nagee | Adams, Absalom | Williams, Arthur Lee | Santiago-Hudson, Ruben | McFadden, Davenia | Edwards, Daryl | Thomas, Sean Patrick
Directors: Sayles, John
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1950. Rural Alabama. Cotton harvest. It’s a make-or-break weekend for the Honeydripper Lounge and its owner, piano player Tyrone “Pine Top” Purvis. Deep in debt to the liquor man, the chicken man, and the landlord, Tyrone is desperate to lure the young cotton pickers and local Army base recruits into his juke joint, away from Touissant’s, the rival joint across the way. After laying off his regular talent, blues singer Bertha Mae, Tyrone announces to his sidekick Maceo that he has hired the famous electric guitar player, Guitar Sam, for a special one night only gig: pack em in and save the club. On the day of the show, the train arrives and Guitar Sam is no where to be found. Tyrone is forced to take drastic action. He makes a deal with Sheriff Pugh to release Sonny, the kid who hopped off a freight car here in Harmony, and turned up in the club claiming he could play the guitar as well as any Guitar Sam. Tyrone cleans Sonny up and launches a last ditch scheme to pass off the young guitar picker as Guitar Sam just long enough to cut the lights and run off with cash box. When Sonny takes the stage and launches into his first scalding electric licks, Tyrone will learn if it’s lights out for the Honeydripper or if his luck has changed: he might just be another man saved by rock n’ roll. Honeydripper features an all-star cast including Danny Glover, Charles S. Dutton, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Stacy Keach, Mary Steenburgen,Yaya DaCosta and Sean Patrick Thomas; as well as such notable musicians as Keb’ Mo’ and Dr. Mable John. It also introduces a major new talent, Gary Clark Jr. who makes his electrifying film debut as Sonny.

Fantasia/2000 (1999)

Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Genres: Animation | Family | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Stokowski, Leopold | Grierson, Ralph | Battle, Kathleen | Martin, Steve | Perlman, Itzhak | Jones, Quincy | Midler, Bette | Jones, James Earl | Jillette, Penn | Teller | Levine, James | Lansbury, Angela | Allwine, Wayne | Anselmo, Tony | Taylor, Russi
Directors: Algar, James
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In this update of Disney’s masterpiece film mixture of animation and music, new interpretations of great works of music are presented. It begins with an abstract battle of light and darkness set to the music of Beethoveen’s Fifth Symphony. Then we see the adventures of a Humpback Whale calf and his pod set to “The Pines of Rome.” Next is the humourous story of several lives in 1930’s New York City, scored with “Rhapsody in Blue.” Following is a musical telling of the fairy tale, “The Steadfast Tin Soldier” set to Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2. Then a goofy Flamingo causes havoc in his flock with his yo-yo to the tune of the finale of “Carnival of the Animals.” This is followed by the classic sequence from the original film, “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” starring Mickey Mouse and followed by “Pomp and Circumstance” starring Donald Duck as a harried assistant to Noah on his Ark. Finally, we see the awesome tale of the life, death and renewal of a forest in a sequence featuring the composition, “The Firebird.”

Wayne’s World 2 (1993)

Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Myers, Mike | Carvey, Dana | Walken, Christopher | Carrere, Tia | Farley, Chris | Brown, Ralph | Hong, James | Taylor, Rip | Tyler, Steven | Perry, Joe | Whitford, Brad | Hamilton, Tom | Kramer, Joey | Tergesen, Lee | Bell, Dan
Directors: Surjik, Stephen
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Wayne is back, this time trying to organize a rock festival with help from friend Garth and the spirit of Jim Morrison (Doors). Meanwhile, his girlfriend’s manager is busy trying to woo her away from Wayne and move her to LA. Life gets interesting when Wayne must rush from the concert to try and stop the wedding. Aerosmith are featured at the concert.

Little Voice (1998)

Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Music | Romance
Countries: UK
Actors: Blethyn, Brenda | Horrocks, Jane | McGregor, Ewan | Jackson, Philip | Badland, Annette | Caine, Michael | Broadbent, Jim | Fogerty, Adam | Welsh, James | Gregory, Karen | Feast, Fred | Turner, Graham | Oliver, George | Tracy, Virgil | Van Winkle, Dick
Directors: Herman, Mark
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After the death of her father, Little Voice or LV (played by Jane Horrocks) becomes a virtual recluse, never going out and hardly ever saying a word. She just sits in her bedroom listening to her father’s collection of old records of Shirley Bassey, Marilyn Monroe and various other famous female singers. But at night time, LV sings, imitating these great singers with surprising accuracy. One night she is overheard by one of her mother’s boyfriends, who happens to be a talent agent. He manages to convince her that her talent is special and arranges for her to perform at the local night club, but several problems arise.

I’m Not There (2007)

Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | Music
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Blanchett, Cate | Whishaw, Ben | Bale, Christian | Gere, Richard | Franklin, Marcus Carl | Ledger, Heath | Kristofferson, Kris | Francks, Don | LaFortune, Roc | Day, Larry | Cagelet, Paul | Fortin, Pierre-Alexandre | Havens, Richie | Benskin, Tyrone | Roberts, Kim
Directors: Haynes, Todd
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Six incarnations of Bob Dylan: an actor, a folk singer, an electrified troubadour, Rimbaud, Billy the Kid, and Woody Guthrie. Put Dylan’s music behind their adventures, soliloquies, interviews, marriage, and infidelity. Recreate 1960s documentaries in black and white. Put each at a crossroads, the artist becoming someone else. Jack, the son of Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, finds Jesus; handsome Robbie falls in love then abandons Claire. Woody, a lad escaped from foster care, hobos the U.S. singing; Billy awakes in a valley threatened by a six-lane highway; Rimbaud talks. Jude, booed at Newport when he goes electric, fences with reporters, pundits, and fans. He won’t be classified.

Wayne’s World (1992)

Monday, May 19th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Myers, Mike | Carvey, Dana | Lowe, Rob | Carrere, Tia | Doyle-Murray, Brian | Boyle, Lara Flynn | DeLuise, Michael | Bell, Dan | Tergesen, Lee | Fuller, Kurt | Sullivan, Sean Gregory | Camp, Colleen | Dixon, Donna | Coffin, Frederick | Hagerty, Mike
Directors: Spheeris, Penelope
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Wayne is still living at home. He has a world class collection of name tags from jobs he’s tried, but he does have his own public access TV show. A local station decides to hire him and his sidekick, Garth, to do their show professionally and Wayne & Garth find that it is no longer the same. Wayne falls for a bass guitarist and uses his and Garth’s Video contacts to help her career along, knowing that Ben Oliver, the sleazy advertising guy who is ruining their show will probably take her away from him if they fail.

Shine (1996)

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | Music | Romance
Countries: Australia
Actors: Rush, Geoffrey | Braine, Justin | Todd, Sonia | Haywood, Chris | Rafalowicz, Alex | Poole, Gordon | Mueller-Stahl, Armin | Bell, Nicholas | Cox, Danielle | Gooden, Rebecca | Kaczmarek, Marta | Cousins, John | Taylor, Noah | Linkson, Paul | Berger, Randall
Directors: Hicks, Scott
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Based on the true story of Australian pianist David Helfgott, this delightful movie charts the early and traumatic early years. Telling the story in flashback we see David as he grows up and into a child prodigy while his father abuses him and his siblings with the memory of his childhood in Europe and the loss of his family in the concentration camps. David finally breaks away from his father and goes away to study overseas, he later suffers a breakdown and returns to Australia and a life in an institution. Many years later he is released and through several twists of fate (in reality even more unlikely than film portrays) he starts playing a piano in a bar before finally returning to the concert hall.

Road to Nashville, The (1967)

Monday, May 12th, 2008
Genres: Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Robbins, Marty | Pierce, Webb | Anderson, Bill | Arlen, Richard | Buck | Cash, Johnny | Emery, Ralph | Frizzell, Lefty | Gumstump, Quinine | Jennings, Waylon | Osborne, Bobby | Osborne, Sonny | Phillips, Bill | Rhodes, Speck | Snow, Hank
Directors: Zens, Will
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A Hollywood film company wants to make a movie about country music and sends Doodles Weaver to round up talent to appear. A host of then-current country stars perform their hits.

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)

Monday, May 12th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Abernathy, Don | Adams, Patrick J. | Anton, George | Arnold, Michael William | Ausburn, Christopher | Babcock, Caleb | Barry, Raymond J. | Bates, Paul | Beasor, Terrence | Besser, Matt | Bird, Jay | Bishop, Rian | Black, Jack | Blake, Clement | Bodell, Ian
Directors: Jake Kasdan
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The up-and-down-and-up-again story of musician Dewey Cox (John C. Reilly), whose songs would change a nation. On his rock’n roll spiral, Cox sleeps with 411 women, marries three times, has 22 kids and 14 stepkids, stars in his own 70s TV show, collects friends ranging from Elvis to the Beatles to a chimp, and gets addicted to (and then kicks) every drug known to man, but despite it all, Cox grows into a national icon and eventually earns the love of a good woman.