Movies about Music

Your favorites? And I don't mean concert films, but movies about (not just featuring) real or fictional composers, performers, bands, etc.

A few of mine:
High Fidelity (DJ's are musicians too, dammit!)
Thirty-two Short Films about Glenn Gould
Immortal Beloved
The Doors
Groove

Dog in Space featuring Michael Hutchens (INXS)

The Gift - the Jane's Addiciton movie.
Seppin' Razor (Red X) - the Peter Tosh movie.

both excellent, in their own ways. For added enjoyment, smoke something before watchin Steppin' Razor. It's a life changing experience.

Filth and the Fury...just a great docu. on the sex pistols
Rock and Roll High School...a whole movie of girls drooling over the Ramones...so strange and yet so right!
A Hard Days Night...the most fun movie ever ("Bet we make you wish you'd lost the war!")
Gimme Shelter...that knife stabbing at the end and the riots...you see the 60's end right there...
and even though its made up --Amadeus..."I am the patron saint of mediocrity"

[Edited on Jan 19, 2003 by MeanMrMustard]

[Edited on Jan 19, 2003 by MeanMrMustard]

This Is Spinal Tap.

"It goes to 11!"

prolly my tops would be the F. Murray Abraham movie "Amadeus".
Otherwise the documentary "Scratch" was really good and well done.

[Edited on Jan 19, 2003 by noiseslut]

This is a fantastic thread, by the by.
Just a few of many favourites:

The Red Violin (you MUST see this movie)
Amadeus
Hedwig!!!
Still Crazy (Billy Conolley, hil-frickin-larious)
Spinal Tap
Roadkill
"The Compleat Beatles"
ditto 32 short films. . .

Fear of a Black Hat

this is spinal tap
great rock'n'roll swindle
hardcore logo
rude boy
decline of western civilization
rock'n'roll high school
eddie and the cruisers 2 : eddie lives!

this is spinal tap
yellow submarine
and theres this hilarious documentary about elliott smith that i saw once.

here's one for ya:
the movie "indian runner" was based on the song "highway patrolman", off springsteen's "nebraska" album. i think it was directed by sean penn. it's pretty cool that an entire movie's story can be adapted from a 4 minute song. great movie. some cool cameos.
a different spin on this topic. it's definitely worth renting.

did we forget Almost Famous....

I'm watching High Fedilty as I type this and that totally counts

Thank god someone else remembered Almost Famous.

Did anyone see Standing in the Shadows of Motown?
Does El Mariachi count?
oh, and one of my favorites: VELVET GOLDMINE. (Glam rock, hot boys, and hot boys kissing each other. does it get any better???)

High Fidelity

And I can't believe nobody mentioned Empire Records.

yo, on the serious 3 1/2 percent tip...the second letter of the english alphabet is B....think about it

anyways we need to add
Crossroads...britney spears and shit...no just kidding...the other Crossroads about selling your sould too the devil Robert Johnson style

QUADRAPHENIA ROCKS!!!

edea, i couldn't have said it better myself! can't go wrong with prince in a movie. purple rain of course gives us the joys of morris day & the time. how can that ever be a bad thing?

i like the gwar movies.

HYPE!!!
Velvet Goldmine.
This Is Spinal Tap.

The fact that nobody mentioned my first one makes me sad. I will try not to repeat the great ones already mentioned.

The Clash-- Westway to the World
Radiohead-- Meeting People is Easy
Songs for Cassavettes
Fugazi-- Instrument
Scratch
The Freshest Kids - A History of the B-Boy
Bob Dylan-- Don't Look Back
The Beatles-- Let it Be

Almost Famous
This is Spinal Tap
Amadeus
The Red Violin
The Last Waltz

argh! too many to keep going.

the harder they come
another state of mined

SORE LOSERS!!!!! I say its about music since its got members of the Makers and Guitar Wolf and other bands that I can't remember right now in it. Makers + Guitar Wolf = Pass. Also, GWAR rocks.