"Sexy, glamorous, avant-garde, radical, psychedelic" – nine of the most rock'n' roll movie recommendations, each of which is a high-scoring masterpiece!
迷墙 Pink Floyd The Wall (1982)
The film uses psychedelic images and rock music to tell the history of the growth of an atypical band lead singer. As a child, Pinker's (Bob Geldof) father was killed in World War II, and his mother's relationship with the family doctor was traumatized. At school, he abhors dull cramming education and is ready to fight back. As an adult, he met and had a relationship with a dancing girl while clubbing. However, the satisfaction of sexual desire did not last long, and he was tired of this unreliable feeling, especially his suspicion and jealousy of women reached an incomparable level, so when the other party showed affection and hugged again, he broke out hysterically, as if to smash the whole world to be at ease. During this period, he also expressed strong anti-war sentiments and cynical ideas, in the material rich life, his spiritual life was extremely scarce, in the environment where industrialization prevailed, he also clung to the ruins of his dreams...
The Gate (1991)
The film faithfully chronicles the life of Jim Morrison (Fang Kimmer Val Kilmer), the soul lead singer of gate band, the representative band of American psychedelic rock in the 1960s, from fame to self-destruction.
At film school, Morrison met keyboardist Ray Manzak, who loved to play the piano, and the two hit it off and decided to form a rock band that shocked the world: The Doors. Soon, Morrison found two other band members here: drummer John Dansmo and guitarist Robbie Craig. Soon, the gate band became famous with "Light My Fire", and thousands of music fans went crazy about it. After having many halos of money and fame, Morrison has never been truly understood by anyone, some people think that he is a poet, an artist, and some people regard him as a madman and an addict. Morrison, 27, chose death to end this unparalleled personal saga.
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man (2005)
In January 2005, director Lynn Luson travelled to the Sydney Opera House to shoot a concert called "Came So Far For Beauty", and in order to pay tribute to Leona, Nick Cave and a number of well-known artists participated in the grand performance, and the well-known music producer Hal Willner served as the director. This film can be said to be the first time to conduct zero-distance contact with Leonard, the giant of the music industry, the most naked in-depth interview, from Leonard's poems, novels and other works, and even his painting creation and photo collection, etc., through the valuable interview and Leonard's personal self-statement, to see his unique charm. In addition to many precious pictures, it also includes many singers such as U2 orchestra lead singer Bono, late 70s independent music leader Nick Cave, Rufus Wainwright and many other well-known artists brilliant performances, heavyweight cast is sure to be amazing.
John Lennon's Ideal World Imagine: John Lennon (1988)
John Lennon's Ideal World, one of the greatest musicians in rock 'n' roll, tells the story of the most legendary soul of rock and roll with more than 240 hours of film and recordings, interspersed with 36 classic songs.
The film contains a number of private video clips that have not been made public, and captures the multiple aspects of life of the following nong, a wild and uninhibited talented genius in the world of music. These wonderful and precious video footage tell the little-known story behind Lennon' music giant in 36 highly sung classic songs.
The School of Rock (2003)
Dewey Fein (Jack Black) is a rock musician who has passed his age but is still struggling for his ideals. He despised the shoddy, commercially flattering hypocrisy of the music, and the pure rock 'n' roll that chased the truth. To this end, he parted ways with countless bands, and has not achieved success so far, and he is facing the dilemma of being kicked out by his landlord.
Dewey's landlady and old friend, Neider Smith (Mike White), was a former fanatical death rocker, but has now become a good family man and substitute teacher. When Dewey was idle at home, he accidentally received a recruitment call from a middle school, and the other party invited Ned to quickly come to the school to substitute for him. Poor and bored and forced by his livelihood, Dewey stole beams and changed pillars, and entered the famous middle school with a strict school spirit as Neid. The students' lethargy bored him for a time, and one day Dewey stumbled upon the children's musical talents. So he crossed the sea and led this group of children who only knew how to read into a new and fun rock world...
Wild at Heart (1990)
Seiler (Nicolas Cage), who was imprisoned for murder, is finally released after a few years of a career behind bars, and his sweetheart, Lola (Laura Dern), welcomes him out of prison. The lovers are reunited, but Lola's mother, Mary, has always disliked Celler and has been blocking her daughter from interacting with Celler. The two had to elope together and came to the south.
Mary finds detective boyfriend Johnny to track them down in an attempt to bring Lola back. In the process of eloping, both revealed to each other the dark years of their lives, which were mixed with blood, violence and sex, but they were fully considerate of each other. Thaler is working for a drug dealer, Santo, who kills Johnny, fearing that Johnny will find their trading place by following Thaler. Another drug dealer, Bobby, sets a trap to get rid of Celler and is waiting for Celler to be hooked.
Sid and Nancy (1986)
Sid (Gary Oldman) spends his days addicted to drugs, and one day he meets Nancy (Chloe Webb) at his friend Linda's house, and soon the two meet again, Nancy cries to him that the money has been stolen and can't buy drugs, and Sid takes out all the money and asks Nancy to buy drugs. So the two became lovers, mixed together all day to make love and take drugs, hurt each other and rely on each other. Nancy takes Sid back to her grandparents' house, but the family can't accept the two punks and find a reason to drive them to the motel. Nancy was so convinced of Sid's musical talent that she decided to help the band hold a concert, and finally got permission from a famous acting company. The band grew more and more influential, and the relationship had to be separated by Sid's tour of the United States. One day Nancy receives a call from Sid from the United States...
The film is based on the story of Hildevichers, the bassist of THE SEX PISTOLS.
Velvet Goldmine (1998)
In the most gorgeous 70s in the history of rock and roll, various bold elements such as sexy, charming, avant-garde, radical and so on were fused into a unique rock genre. The face of this rock revolution, Brad Slade (Jonathan Les Meyers), was dumped. However, in 1984, he was "assassinated" during a performance, and the superstar has since fallen. London Herald reporter Arthur (Christian Bale) investigates his idol. In the past years, brad has unearthed a love affair with American rock singer Kurt Wilder (Ivan McGregor Ewan McGregor). Inspired by Kurt's music, Brad created his own flamboyant style that quickly became popular. The two inspire each other and become obsessed with each other, but eventually break up because of their personality conflicts. The popular Brad also began to give up on himself after losing Kurt, directing an "assassination" drama.... Arthur meets the depressed Kurt in the bar, as if possessed by Bled's soul, and they are immersed in the memory of Bled together, while a wonderful emotion is born between them.
The film was nominated for Best Costume Design at the 71st Academy Awards, Best Artistic Contribution at the 51st Cannes Film Festival and Palme d'Or.
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
In the fall of 1963, in order to make a fortune from the Beetles in the red half of the sky, United Artists and the Beetles in the United States signed a contract to make a film, with the aim of launching the film's soundtrack in the United States. They approached Walter Shenson as producer, directed by Richard Lester, and made the film A Hard Day's Night in 1964.
Shenson approached the Beatles before they left for the United States in the fall of 1963 and asked them to compose six songs for the film—the subject matter was not limited, but there were two lyrical songs, two fast-paced dance songs, and so on. During their Caribbean vacation, they wrote eight or nine songs, from which Dick Lester selected six to use in the film: You Can't Do That, And I Love Her, I Should Have Known Better, Tell Me Why, If I Fell, I'm Happy Just to Dance with You. Before filming began on March 2, the Beatles recorded the songs at EMI Studios in London. The part playing You Can't Do That was cut out when the film was released, but the previous B-side release as Can't Buy Me Love's single still appears on the American version of the soundtrack.
Filming began on March 2 and ended on April 24. The film uses exaggerated depictions of the Beatles' day of life, and its theme comes from a sentence that John Lennon said. When Lester asked John how their trip to Sweden was, John replied, "It was a room and a car and a car and a room and a room and a car." This sentence was slightly changed and used in the movie, becoming the line "Paul's grandfather".
Shenson had thought he could just find the title of a new song as the title of the movie, but none of the six new songs were appropriate. During filming, everyone racked their brains to find a suitable name for the film. Finally, one day, John talked to him about Ringo's interesting language and cited "A hard day's night" as an example. John himself used the phrase in his just-published In His Own Write. It was agreed that it could be used as a film title. So John wrote the theme song of the film at Shenson's behest and recorded it during the filming on April 16.
The original soundtrack albums published in the United States included only these seven new songs, but for Parlophone's British records, they returned to the studio in June and recorded five more new songs: I'll Cry Instead, I'll be Back, Any Time At all, Things We Said Today, and When I Get Home. Coupled with their previously released single Can't Buy Me Love used in the film, there are a total of 13 songs on the British album, all of which are original songs by the Beatles. It was the first time they had been able to release an entirely original album.
This achievement is largely due to John Lennon's exuberant creativity at the time. Of these 13 songs, 9 capitals were written by him. Paul wrote 3 songs and collaborated with John on I'm Happy Just to Dance With You for George. Of course, according to the principle of the lead singer, John's lead singer on this album is far more than the other three, and does not even give Ringo a chance to perform.
A Hard Day's Night's film became a classic in rock movies, teaching an entire generation of young people the principle of rebellion, and this album marked a new phase in the creation of the Beatles, which we can call "the middle of the early stage", right?
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