Sentences with phrase «movie about musicians»

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Amid all the hype about the Black Panther movie following its premiere Monday night, it would be easy to forget that the movie has an original soundtrack compiled and produced by Kendrick Lamar, one of the world's most popular and most prestigious musicians.

We catched up with the Californian musician before one of her gigs of the European tour and talked with her about black sides, underground music and movies played in slow - motion.

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What's The Deal: This movie's director, Todd Phillips, made a documentary called Hated in the 1990s about the late punk rock musician G.G. Allin, a guy who used to beat up audience members and slam himself in the mouth with his microphone, breaking his own teeth.

«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.

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.

At the time of the movie's release, the common refrain concerning Chazelle's high school past as a jazz drummer was that it helped him to imbue his movie — about a musician — with a sense of musicality and rhythm.

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.

Once the movie stops being a whimsical comedy about a troupe of misfit musicians, it starts to take itself a little too seriously and all of a sudden the xylophone stops and the brooding drama starts.

Other movies have been made about musicians with addictions, including Love & Mercy and Walk the Line.

BILLY MIZE AND THE BAKERSFIELD SOUND The LAFF program is filled with movies about music, from Clint Eastwood's «Jersey Boys» and John Ridley's «Jimi: All Is By My Side» to a documentary about jazz musician Frank Morgan to an in - depth look at the videos for Beyonce's last album.

More diverse roles followed: the lovelorn time - traveller in Richard Curtis romcom About Time; the dead boyfriend in the Be Right Back episode of Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror; the hapless musician in Frank Sidebottom - inspired road movie Frank.

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Plus, updates on the biopic of musician James Brown called Get On Up, and an interesting project starring Justin Timberlake (Friends With Benefits), about the founder of an influential record company in a movie called Spinning Gold.

Leto, set in the days just before the dawn of Perestroika, is a movie musical about young rock musicians in Leningrad's underground scene trying to make their own music while poring over everything from punk to folk rock from the West.

The strangest and most uncompromising of all musician biopics, Jean - Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet's 1968 debut feature, The Chronicle Of Anna Magdalena Bach disregards most conventions of costume drama to ask some very human questions about history, what it takes to be an artist, and what movies can tell us about ourselves.

Popping up everywhere are movies about people buckling under their own artistic weight — the kind that comes with being a certain type of jazz musician («Whiplash»), actor («Birdman»), novelist («Listen Up Philip»), painter (Mike Leigh's «Mr. Turner»), actor again (Chris Rock's upcoming «Top Five,») concert pianist (the Ethan Hawke - directed fall - festival documentary smash «Seymour»), actor once more (Olivier Assayas» «Clouds of Sils Maria»), rock singer (the Michael Fassbender - starring «Frank»), documentary filmmaker (Noah Baumbach's upcoming «While We're Young») and actor again (Al Pacino's «The Humbling»).

Similarly, people compiling list of great movies about music and / or musicians frequently neglect to include 8 Mile, perhaps because its star (and indirect subject) is the polarizing rapper Eminem.

The Coens / Burnett tribute was tied to «Inside Llewyn Davis,» a road movie about a down - on - his - luck folk musician (inspired by Dave Van Ronk and played by Oscar Isaac) in early»60s Greenwich Village.

One thing most movies about struggling L.A. actors and musicians miss is the poetry of their struggle: these are blue - collar folks working day in and day out to make something happen.

Rhee, Canada, musician John Legend and Davis Guggenheim, the director of «Waiting for «Superman,»» were invited to The Daily to talk about Guggenheim's movie about the trouble with American schools.

Unless you've been living under a rock for the past couple of months, you've probably seen a trailer for The Soloist, a new movie about the remarkable bond between a Los Angeles journalist (played by Robert Downey, Jr.) and a homeless, classically trained musician (Jamie Foxx).

My Facebook friends are all in the entertainment business (actors, dancers, musicians, writers, singers, comedians, directors) so we talk as friends, instead of «I'm doing a play, I'm doing a movie, I wrote a song, I'm at the Comedy Store, etc.» We're not fans, we're friends, so we talk about our lives, not our jobs.

Listen to Indigenous musicians or watch a movie about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history.