I just watched The Thing Called Love. I really like this movie, I taped it off HBO a long time ago.


Four struggling country-western performers wrangle with making it in love and the music business in this film, centering around Miranda Presley (Samantha Mathis), a talented young singer who buses it from New York City to Nashville. En route to success, she finds herself at the Bluebird Café on open-mike night, making friends with handsome bucks, singers James Wright and Kyle Davidson (River Phoenix and Dermot Mulroney). Sandra Bullock also stars as Miranda's less-talented roommate, in this drama from Peter Bogdanovich (MASK).

THE THING CALLED LOVE marks the final screen performance of actor River Phoenix, who died of a drug overdose October 31, 1993.




What movies do you think accurately depict the life of a musician/singer-songwriter/composer type?

Here's another one I like...




Illeana Douglas plays a singer-songwriter (loosely modeled after Brill recording artist Carole King) whose life runs emotionally parallel to popular music trends. John Turturro is a stand-in for "wall of sound" producer Phil Spector and Matt Dillon is a thinly disguised version of maverick Beach Boy Brian Wilson. It's a bit too schematic in the way the central character is always in the right place at the right time, but as a tale of fame and romantic highs and lows in the '50s and '60s the movie is funny, touching, and sincere. It's a lively and loving tribute to timeless music and the colorful characters who created it

VinaBlue said:

VinaBlue said:

The fim is a little bit "TV Movie" but the music is really, really good in this movie. Very authentic.

'God Give Me Strength' by Burt Bacharach & Elvis Costello is one of my most favourite songs ever.

I recently spent a week in the US, and my hotel room had MTV etc. so I was hooked to that all nights (I don't even own a TV at home!). Anyways I caught a tv film on the life of The Temptations...again really TVish but I enjoyed it...the scene where they lay down popa was a rolin stone was pretty good.

theSpark said:

Most def.
Hey have u seen the deleted stuff, they're on the dvd.
They're at a signing gig at some record store and a fan brings up their album which is pure black cover, and they try signing it with black pen. lol, and the fan is trying to read the autographs, and the band was shining it through the light to show him its there.

Love these

Buena Vista Social Club (more of a documentry)

Cross Roads (Steve Via cutting heads with the karate kid)

Standing in the Shadows of Motown (more of a documentry)

Temptations (cheesy at points but entertaining)

and



Good stuff.

My fave is a movie called: The legend of 1900

if you ever get a chance to see this movie, it will change
your musical perspective forever!






Jshua

I've got to check out Spinal Tap and A Mighty Wind for that matter...

Other obvious choices are the movies based on real people:

Amadeus
La Bamba
Bird
Purple Rain
Imortal Beloved
Farinelli
What's Love Got to Do With It?

etc.
[This message was edited Mon May 10 10:11:19 2004 by VinaBlue]

Almost forgot, I saw this on the plane back from that us trip.....




And it ROCKED!

AMADEUS...I could watch over and over and over again.

Hey Kids, what's shakin'? How's project II spanning?
About to settle into new digs, new town - just about there.
It's a juggling act!

Looking 4ward 2 dropping by soon for a listening session. Been thinking boutchall.

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Red said:

I think we're going to drop project II and III in june.

Look Out!
you'll probably want to buy the albums or download for about a complete day. Trust me when I say that these next two will be something to talk about for quite a while. AWESOME tallent, this way comes.

Project III? Dang...I've missed much.

Be back for the launch of III and maybe we can scheme some promo.

Take care y'all.

Haven't seen this one in a looooong time

http://www.rickspringfiel...ohold.html

My favorites are

Purple Rain-A given
Almost Famous
Sid and Nancy
A Hard Day's Night
Five Heartbeats
La Bamba
The Commitments

just a Few

Special shout to my funky Bro Manki

I heard yo cds-Damn you Goooood

The new DaSilva Tracks are unfunkinbelivable

A total growth from the 1st cd

The group is now the world's best secret.

Peace-RC

pop my brotha Kuzey a watermelon bubblegum before a solo. Hendrix will appear before you.
give a hug to V for me

Jem said:

yes its one of my favorite films that tiny stone henge

I agree w/ most of the above. Grace of My Heart, Spinal Tap, That Thing You Do, etc. But here is another great one no one has mentioned.




http://www.rottentomatoes...eviews.php

krebsne said:

Oh YEAH! I want to see that again. Good choice.

Oddly enough, Jerry Seinfeld's Comedian.

It's a documentary that follows him, post-hit-series. He's dropped all his old bits, and is going through the process of working out all new material. The movie also follows another comedian who's on the rise, going through the same steps - revising material, doing live gigs, discussing what went well, what should be updated.

While the movie is about stand-up comedians, I found myself identifying with a LOT of the insights. Jerry's actual routine is RARELY shown in the movie, (thankfully, cuz, honestly, I don't think he's that funny) but a LOT of the movie focuses on pre-, or post-routine jitters... He's seen talking to other stand up comedians like Colin Quinn and Chris Rock - who ALL continue to work stand up.

Highlight:
Jerry S and Colin Q are talking about the process of developing new bits. Jerry's asking Colin, "how do you keep coming up with new material? I feel like I'm barely coming up with anything" and Colin replies, "always get up. Go out and find a comedy club, and just get up there, every night, and continue to try new stuff. Get up there with your 10 minutes, and then elaborate. Go, see what happens. Every night".

And that's EXACTLY the same with playing/writing. Whether it's in your basement or at an open jam somewhere, try every day, every night, to get in there and create. Start out with what you KNOW you can do, and then push yourself into new areas, not to prove yourself, but to get comfortable exploring new areas.

It was a great movie for ANY performing artist.