A good movie can dust the old songs and provide the audience with a creator face that is indefensible. The Guardian interviewed six musicians and asked them to name the five best music films in their hearts. The following
is recommended by musicians (abridged).
Anna Calvi (British singer-songwriter, born in 1980, nominated for the "Mercury Award" for the first album of the same name)
1, "Walk the Line, 2005"
I am signing a record I watched this movie before the company, and it gave me the first impression of the tour: driving in a nice car, hanging out with a super famous singer, and watching Elvis from the background.
Johnny Cash, played by Jackie Phoenix, has the dangerous qualities of a bad man, and the charm of those songs will never diminish.
2, "Amy" (Amy, 2015)
is a desperate and beautiful movie. You watched Amy Winehouse rise like a wave from a gifted little girl and then destroyed. When I watched, I felt guilty-she was watched too much. But the film gave her respect and dignity and made her music shine.
3, Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
After the failed sex reassignment surgery, an East German musician left a small trace of anger between his legs. The film touches the core of the Greek tragedy, exploring the origin of love and gender consciousness. The music inside is great.
4, "The Doors" (The Doors, 1991)
I remember the scene when I watched this film when I was in college. You must keep watching the movie in a stone-like state, because it is too neurotic and weird.
5, "Blasting Drummer" (Whiplash, 2014)
If a music student wants to be great, how much sacrifice does he need to make? It reminds me of my experience of studying music at university. You must empty yourself, be as honest as possible, and use your tools to speak in a way that others can understand.
Neil Tennant (born in 1954, formed the "Pet Shop Boys" with Chris Lowe in 1981)
1, "The Young Ones" (The Young Ones, 1961)
A group of young people It was a great performance and successfully prevented the destruction of a theater. This film is so positive, beautiful, and brilliant, it allows me to see the magic of pop music on young people, and it leads me to enter a young theater a few years later.
2, "Cracked Actor" (Cracked Actor, 1975)
I am a big fan of David Bowie. I was there when he announced that he would not do it in the last "Ziggy Stardust". The BBC released this documentary a few years later, and it gave me a very special feeling. Very new. It is a record of Bowie in the United States, extremely fragile, and looks like an alien.
3, "Cabaret" (Cabaret, 1972)
The story of a singer from the Weimar Republic to the boring Britain. I think of it as a gorgeous rock documentary, because it's true: all those great songs confined to the stage, brilliant makeup, are in a terrible city.
4, "Song of Summer" (Song of Summer, 1968)
BBC has a show in which young composer Eric Fenby from Yorkshire found that the composer Delius was blind and paralyzed in bed in the 1920s, leaving him unfinished. s work. Fenby came to him and helped him compose the final music.
5, "The Wrecking Crew!" (2008)
In Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s, there was a group of hired musicians who were silent but omnipotent. After watching this movie, you will find that there is a voice behind those epoch-making records. This voice is from a band.
Nadine Shah (born in 1986, "Holiday Destination" was nominated for the Mercury Award)
1, "20,000 Days on Earth" (20,000 Days on Earth, 2014)
If you have a favorite artist, You would want to know everything about them, so you have this Nick Cave documentary. Obviously, every detail in it was carefully designed by him (Nick himself is the screenwriter).
2, "What Happened, Miss Simone?, 2015"
Nina Simone's coffin work. I am very fascinated by Nina's role model for all women. She allows us to sing in a lower and weirder way.
3, "Little Voice" (1998)
This movie is about how you can find your own voice by singing other people's songs. It captures how a silent girl grasps the desire to perform, and the existence of music as a perfect form of escape from the world.
4, "Scott Walker: 30 Century Man, 2006"
When I went to the cinema with friends to watch this documentary a few years ago, I didn't know who Scott Walker was. Stepping out of the theater, he is already on the list of my favorite artists. If you haven't watched this movie, I swear you will want to beat a rhythm on a piece of meat, just like Walker did at the end of "Clara." It's so great.
5, "Sound of Light" (Vox Lux, 2018)
Natalie Portman plays a teenage pop icon who started making music after the school shooting. The film shows the impact of the pop music industry on people, its taboos, and the Messianic plot.
Wayne Coyne (Born in 1961, sung by the "Big Lips" band, and directed the science fiction film "Christmas on Mars")
1, "Pink Floyd: Pompeii Live" "Music Documentary" (Pink Floyd: Live At Pompeii, 1972)
This movie changed my world. I didn't know what Pink Floyd was like during this period. It opened the door to a new world for me. I was 16 years old and wanted to be a rock star. This movie really captured them talking about how to write songs.
2, "Cocksucker Blues" (Cocksucker Blues, 1972)
At one time, this unreleased documentary about the Rolling Stones was a mystery that many people have heard of but never witnessed. Now, you can find resources online in minutes. It's better than you think, and it shows how absurd life the Rolling Stones lived when they wrote their pinnacle.
3, "Woodstock" (Woodstock, 1970)
is the opposite of the previous one, everyone has seen "Woodstock". Those live performances were great, and the editing was advanced and full of drama. Woodstock made people understand that music is not only about listening, but also about seeing and perceiving the personality behind all of this.
4, "The Kids Are Alright" (The Kids Are Alright, 1979)
Who band put that "thing" into my heart, let me become who I am now. They captured me in this documentary. The relationship between Pete Townshend and Keith Moon is rare in the world. It's hard to see anyone who is so obsessed with music, has such a powerful energy and connection to each other.
5, "Urgh! A Music War" (1982)
In Oklahoma in the early 1980s, a bunch of Anglo-American punk bands got together and jumped together, regardless of each other. Every band is weird and weird. You will never be a Beatle here, but John Cooper Clarke's performance for fifty people is as wonderful as that.
Nitin Sawhney (born in London in 1964, musician, composer, and soundtrack for more than 50 films)
1, "Control" (2007)
portrait of Ian Curtis (Joy Division), a young man doing his best Balance the relationship between music and disease in survival. The film tries to drag his story off the track of tragedy.
2, "Safe Trip" (Latcho Drom, 1993)
follows the evolutionary path of Flamenco, from the birthplace of India through Egypt, Eastern Europe and Western Europe. "Iatcho Drom" means "peaceful journey", the whole film has no narration, all connected by music and subtitles.
3, Searching for Sugar Man (2012)
, the unknown singer-songwriter Rodriguez in the United States did not know his status as a superstar in South Africa until it was rumored that he burned himself on stage in a strange way , His real life was gradually unveiled. It is incredible how difficult it was to find a lost star before the Internet age.
4, "This Is Spinal Tap" (1984)
I have played in heavy metal bands, funk bands, and jazz bands. This movie captured the hilarious craziness of tour life: musicians and tour managers The conceit, the pedantry behind the behavior, the serious atmosphere that suddenly came before the concert...
5, "Jazzman" (Bird, 1988)
About Charlie Parker's beautiful film, the director is obviously a jazz fan. The movie proves to you Parker's unparalleled talent, his brain circuit different from ordinary people, the severity of self-loathing, and how addiction makes everything fall apart.
Anna Meredith (born in London in 1978, her debut album "Varmints" won the Scottish Album of the Year Award)
1, "Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé, 2019" The
film tells the story behind Beyoncé’s performance at the 2018 Coachella Music Festival finale, showing the importance of African-American cultural education and college experience. A woman's powerful control over her thoughts is amazing.
2, "The Making of West Side Story" (The Making of West Side Story, 1985)
Bernstein is such an interesting person: emotional, insistent, impatient, funny, wearing a red polo shirt and smoking a cigar. Watching him conduct music: incredible, ambitious, funny, crazy, heartbreaking music, never overly sensational, plus those moments of release, it's simply great.
3, "George Michael: Freedom" (George Michael: Freedom, 2017) The
film was produced before George's death, and it was broadcast shortly after his death. He is such an excellent musician, an effortless singer, but also an ordinary and interesting person.
4, "A Mighty Wind" (A Mighty Wind, 2003)
The reunion of the three folk music bands is traced with calm and accurate brushwork, and at the same time full of mockery.
5, "Queen: Days of Our Lives" (Queen: Days of Our Lives, 1991)
When I was young, I heard Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody". There is so much joy in their music, a real spirit of not caring about anything. It’s great to see them in the documentary with their ordinary and weird looksUp.
