Sentences with phrase «films about musicians»

This year's Oscar documentary feature race is full of films about musicians both tortured and triumphant

That's Jimi Hendrix in Jimi: All Is By My Side, a film about the musician that, famously, doesn't have his music in it.

Not exact matches

The film, about a musician and his young daughter traveling home, was directed by Patrick Osborne, who won the Oscar for Best Animated Short in 2014 with his film Feast.

This film is about a socialite (Crawford) whom falls in love with a musician (John Carfield).

«Clean» might be a film in code about the most infamous of all rock - and - roll widows, but I hope not, since Allison Anders» «Sugar Town» had already done a fine job of eviscerating (again, in code) this woman, who nevertheless, love her or hate her, arguably served the important and underrated function of muse for the troubled drug - addled musician.

«Miles Ahead,» actor - director Don Cheadle's unconventional film about the jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, is odd and audacious — in other words, the kind of movie you should make if you're going to make a movie about the revolutionary and unconventional musician.

Even if the film in question isn't already a vanity project about the musician's life (Glitter, Purple Rain, Moonwalker and so on), there's a tendency for singers to either play themselves or needlessly draw attention to their presence.

From Japanese anime filmmaker Masaaki Yuasa (Mind Game, «Devilman: Crybaby»), this «joyously hallucinogenic» film is about a lonely, awkward musician boy in a small Japanese town on the water.

More than just about music and musicians, it is a film about the human condition.

1 and 2 (Netflix, Feb. 1) and Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker (Netflix and Hulu, Feb. 1), though of the films that came out yesterday, we're most jazzed about Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (Netflix, Feb. 1), the deeply underrated John C. Reilly vehicle that parodied the musician biopic — which has some great songs, too.

Led by a fantastic performance by Paul Dano, the film's about a struggling musician trying to keep...

Not to be confused with Samuel L. Jackson's other snake movie, «Black Snake Moan» is the sophomore effort from writer / director Craig Brewer, whose debut film «Hustle & Flow» (another movie about a Southern musician battling his inner demons) earned the director critical acclaim in 2005 as one of the generation's most promising young talents.

My first film was a documentary called They Will Have to Kill Us First about musicians in Mali, Africa who were trying to bring music back to their country after Sharia Law made music illegal.

The film follows about a young wannabe musician, Jon (Domhnall Gleeson), who finds himself out of his depth when he joins an avant - garde pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank (Michael Fassbender), a musical genius who hides himself inside -LSB-...]

Indiepix Festival Favorites, Volume 2 Value - priced, three film set of music documentaries: «Icons Among Us: Jazz In the Present Tense,» about the modern jazz scene, with Terence Blanchard, Ravi Coltrane, Robert Glasper, Nicholas Payton, Brian Blade & the Fellowship Band, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Donald Harrison Jr., Anat Cohen and Esperanza Spalding; «Echotone,» a lyrical documentary providing a telescopic view into the lives of Austin's vibrant young musicians as they grapple with questions of artistic integrity, commercialism, experimentation, and the future of their beloved city; and «Roaring Abyss,» a stunning audiovisual poem, the product of filmmaker Quino Piñero's two years of field recording traditional and modern music from around every corner of Ethiopia, a country of eighty different nationalities and cultures spread amongst mountains, deserts and forests.

But while there isn't much to distinguish Born To Be Blue's dramatic stakes from any number of stories about self - destructive, self - centered artists (or «movies about jazz musicians,» as they're more commonly known), the film is given a spark of life by the inspired casting of Ethan Hawke.

The film is about a blind musician, played by Natalie Dormer, who hears a murder committed in the apartment upstairs from hers that sends her down a dark path into London's gritty criminal underworld.

From the perfect production design and washed out look, to the cast and lead performance by Oscar Isaac (who I will be rooting for to get the Oscar) as folk musician Llewyn Davis, to the amusing but tragic story at its core, everything about this film is near perfect.

We're talking about biopics: those films that take the real - life stories of musicians, politicians, artists, atheletes and other famous folks, and mine them for reel - life fodder.

«Reel Chicago» will include Raul Zaritsky and Linda Williams's Maxwell Street Blues (1981), about the musicians who shaped the city's electric - blues sound as they performed in the legendary open - air market; Tom Palazzolo's Chicago, which collects key short works by the veteran city chronicler; The Films of Gordon Weisenborn, a quartet of half - hour educational films by the little - known director; and The People vs. Paul Crump (1965), a profile of the death - row inmate turned novelist that was one of the first films by director William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The French Connection).

The latest in the Guardian's watch on demand films is a brilliantly observed story about a musician — played by Paul Dano — who tries to connect with his small daughter during a custody battle

Acclaimed Irish director Lenny Abrahamson follows up his award - winning films Adam & Paul, Garage and What Richard Did with an offbeat comedy about a young wannabe musician, Jon, played by Gleeson, who finds himself out of his depth when he joins an avant - garde pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank, (Michael Fassbender) a musical genius who hides himself inside a large fake head, and his terrifying bandmate Clara, played by Maggie Gyllenhaal.

Ryan Gosling has opened up about his «unique experience» working alongside a variety of musicians on his latest film «Song To Song», including the...

Like most films of its ilk, Walk Hard may go too over-the-top to prove itself, but there is something charming about it, underscored by its genuine love of music and affinity for musicians.

The first of the two films on this list about troubled musicians, Love & Mercy is surprisingly sprightly biopic about the life of Brian Wilson.

«Whiplash» is, as they say, a tough sell — I don't know how many adults will be interested in watching the travails of a teen musician, and I don't know how many teens will rush to a film about the work and agony required to play jazz drums.

Cagney's a great actor, of course, but both he and Day seemed totally lacking in energy, as did the direction by Charles Vidor — I swear there were only two camera setups through the first 30 + minutes of he film: Day on stage in a flat composition in front of musicians and a solid color backdrop with neither camera nor actors moving much at all and Day and Cagney in her dressing room arguing about something.

You might know him as a stand - up comedian or musician but Bo Burnham is about to make his film feature debut with Eighth Grade.

Greenfield - Sanders has produced and directed 11 films, including a feature documentary about legendary musician Lou Reed that premiered in the United States at The Sundance Film Festival and in Europe at the Berlin Film Festival, and was recognized with a Grammy Award for «Best Music Documentary.»

About Gordon Parks and The Gordon Parks Foundation A groundbreaking photographer, musician, writer, and film director, Gordon Parks allowed his talents to shape the public's understanding of pressing social issues.

A film about three Syrian refugee musicians has been a labour of love for SFU staffer Lindsey Ridgway.

Its opening lines were appropriated from a poem by musician and performance artist Genesis Breyer P - Orridge, to which Geffriaud appended the announcement of the French release date of Marie Losier's 2011 film about him, The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, which documents P - Orridge's and his second wife Lady Jaye's manipulation of their bodies in order to become a single ``

The triennial, which coincides with New Orleans» tricentennial celebration, brings together 73 artists dealing with issues of colonialism and displacement, with projects including: Odila Donald Odita creating a new work for the Algiers Point ferry, and John Akomfrah debuting a film about jazz musician Buddy Bolden.

Mercurially applying the logic, aesthetics and politics of his subjects — who include the composers / musicians Cornelius Cardew and L. Voag, and the psychologist R.D. Laing — to the film he is making about them, he creates atmospheric, sampled histories that reverberate with the vitality of the people he studies.

Its opening lines were appropriated from a poem by musician and performance artist Genesis Breyer P - Orridge, to which Geffriaud appended the announcement of the French release date of Marie Losier's 2011 film about him, The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, which documents P - Orridge's and his second wife Lady Jaye's manipulation of their bodies in order to become a single «pandrogynous» being.

He's acclaimed for his cinematography and art direction work with musician Jack Johnson, as well as for his beautiful short films, such as «Tranquil Music,» about the summery musical vibe in a pre 9/11 NYC, «The Half Way Tree,» a tale of Jamaican surfing made with Dan Malloy, «Oxfam Make Trade Fair,» documenting Minnie Driver's trip to Cambodia to raise awareness on sweat shop labor.