Category Archives: “Foreign Film”
February 2nd, 2014: Yozhik v humane aka Hedgehog in the Fog
January 5th, 2014: Divorzio All Italiana aka Divorce, Italian Style (1961)
December 8th, 2013: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
December 6th, 2013: The Wind that Shakes the Barley
December 4th: Chopper (2000)
November 16th, 2013: The Orphanage
The Corruption of Devotion in The Grapes of Death
Committing to the Commitments (1991)
We’ll put the band back together, do a few gigs, we get some bread. Bang! Five thousand bucks. (Blues Brothers, 1980)
There are lots of movies about music. Most common are the character-driven biopics that follow the same plot (talented but troubled youngster gets into music, gets into drugs and then finds redemption later in life, with variations: Walk the Line, 2005; Ray, 2004). And then there are the tragic-arc narratives that memorialize performers brought down before their time (Selena, 1997; The Doors 1991; Notorious, 2009). We even have nostalgic fantasy pieces (That Thing You Do 1996; Dreamgirls, 2006;, Rockstar 2001), musicals and humor based in and around being in a band or a near a band (Blues Brothers, 1980, This is Spinal Tap, 1984; Wayne’s World 1991; The Rocker, 2008). Continue reading
