Famous Rock Movies (updated on 12. 18)
1. All-weather rock 1956
This may be the first real rock movie in the world.
This is also the first time that the word rock and roll has been used in movies.
From today's perspective, it is actually similar to a documentary.
Because the plot in the film can be almost ignored, and the lines are just the foreshadowing of music.
His real significance lies in bringing together the live performances of the earliest musicians and singers in rock music.
And use these craziness to trigger more craziness in the real world,
Because of bill haley, the performances of "Comet" and others are really crazy, and there are too many riots, which have been banned in many cities in Britain.
2. Mr. Rock and Roll 1957
In the 1950 s, there were a lot of gag movies made by the ancestors of rock music.
But besides rock and roll day and night, it's the only thing worth seeing.
Don't focus on this stupid love story,
What we really want to see is a rare rock leader in the 1950 s,
Look at how much rock music used to be like a village girl who never wore lipstick before it became enchanting.
Sure, look at that Mr. Rock and Roll, Allen Fred,
Soon after the film was released, the godfather of rock began to encounter fate.
Forced by anti-rock forces to leave rock and roll forever.
3. Elvis Presley Jaihouse Rock 1957
Elvis Presley, one of the most typical rock movies, describes a restless boy who is addicted to rock in prison, becomes a rock star after he gets out of prison, and then fades out to become a big star who is greedy for money and loses his closest friends. There are countless bad movies of Elvis Presley, at least one that really describes rock music itself. His appearance is really exciting.
4. A hard day's night 1964
At the beginning of this documentary and fictional film describing the life of the "top four",
Those four boys should be full of hope for life,
When the film was released, the "criticism fever" had begun to enter the mass media and eventually entered the dictionary.
In this carefully choreographed film, those scenes that deliberately highlight the affinity of the "first four films",
Highlight the director richard lester's calmness in fanaticism. He knows how to make people crazy best.
This should be the earliest rock movie that ordinary people can see.
It makes another charm of rock music different from its predecessors appear in front of the world.
5. "Don't look back" Don't look back 1967
This documentary is a faithful record of Bob Dylan 1965' s tour in Britain.
Director Peng Nebeker clearly explained how different Bao Bo was from the "critic" at that time.
Compared with the night of suffering in the same period, Never Looking Back is more direct and profound.
There is no flattery, even undisguised ridicule, to the stars of his subjects.
However, no calm lens can hide the brilliant light of young Dylan.
Compared with the old Dylan now, the young Dylan is unparalleled in arrogance, wit and passion.
And one of the opening scenes with allen ginsberg, a representative of the Cross-Customs School, as the background is even more precious.
6. Uncle Rou 1968
This is a strange film that combines feature films, home production and rock scenes.
Produced by rock geek Frank Zappa and his band Mother of Invention,
Mainly talked about "Uncle Meat" trying to create a hit song, but after some strange things happened,
Uncle Meat became a monster,
This eccentric film complements Zapa's eccentric musical style and plays Uncle Meat in the play.
It's don Preston, the keyboard player of the band,
There are many live bands, which are worth seeing.
Unfortunately, because the film itself is too avant-garde, even in the 1960 s, when it dared to explore all kinds of spiritual and physical edges,
Not recognized, born after 20 years of dust.
7. Easy Rider Easy Rider 1969
This movie is not only a road motorcycle movie, but also a rock movie. In the film, the two protagonists ride shiny motorcycles and wear national flags, almost aimlessly crossing the United States. After a series of adventures, the two protagonists died inexplicably. When watching this movie, it always reminds me of Kerouac's famous novel On the Road, and I always feel that the creative spirit of "howling" poets and writers is very similar to rock music. Although the music in the film is not very famous-the most famous music is probably the Byrd couple, these fresh and elegant folk music are impressive.
8. Wood Stockwood Stock 1970
Needless to say, this is almost the most famous rock documentary in the history of music: Woodstock, which records the musical myth of the hippie era. If you listen to rock and don't know this, then you ......
9. Give me asylum. Give me asylum 1970
1969 a film recorded four months after Woodstock Music Festival is far less famous than the former, but its significance and achievements are not worth mentioning. This band can be said to be the terminator of 60' s rock and roll. Of course, its surface phenomenon is 1969 12. At that time, the Rolling Stones, which had a large number of fans in the United States, held a free concert in Odemond, California, USA. On that day, 400,000 spectators came to the scene, but the tragedy happened. Wild one, who was hired to keep order, staged a violent scene at the concert, and an audience member was hunted to death. This documentary, also known as "Let me hide", records the most precious moments of the Rolling Stones and the fierce figures of the "Hell Angels". Originally, it was to maintain order, but in the end it got into a fight with some audiences, which made the great myth of the Love and Peace Party in the 1960s collapse instantly. Because of these extremely real shots, this film is of extraordinary importance in rock literature.
10. jimi hendrix Rainbow Bridge 1970
Jimi hendrix recorded by Jason Rice Hendricks is a music record of 1970s. This is a performance in Hawaii in the 1970s. The story is about filming actress Pat Hartley's trip to Maui, Hawaii, which was welcomed by a large group of local young people and established their own community. Hendricks' silver recording was added to the film, and Hedricks' performance at Halekaya volcano in Maui lasted for 17 minutes, and songs such as Lady Fox, Hey Baby, Voodoo Chile (slight return) and Pupul Haze were played ... These images have never appeared in public.
1 1. jimi hendrix-Experience the Electric Paradise 1970.
Jimi hendrix's untimely death made music critics think that it was one of the most important losses in swing music in the19th century. His psychedelic guitar-tying technique combines personal aura with music, which moves the audience. He can turn guitar-tying strings into human tongues, making people laugh and cry. Today, this electronic music video has been made into jimi hendrix's autobiography video, and contains the performance clips of Hendricks. The serious attitude in music production is completely divorced from time and space. I have also interviewed many musicians, such as Steve Windwood, Eddie Kramer (he is the recording engineer of the album "Electric Ladyland"), and Chas Chandler, the manager of Hendrix, who is the bass player of "Animals". From their speeches, they all highly praised the genius, which shows that they are from the heart. In VCD, of course, Hendricks' live performance is indispensable. On the stage, he was fascinated by the input, including all along the watchtower, gypsy eyes, cross-city traffic, voodoo chill ... watching him concentrate on playing, fingering is like flying on a string to pull his soul. In today's world, no one has the ability to tie their hands; This Elektis Redland must be a collection of Hendricks fans, even his music illustrations. Even if you are unfamiliar with this name, you can learn more about him from this VCD. This is a compulsory music class, and the topic is: jimi hendrix.
12. fillmore 1972
This film records the last days of Siful Mo Club, including the wonderful scenes of many psychedelic bands such as Grateful Death and Jefferson Spacecraft. Those passionate moments will remain in our hearts with fillmore's great contribution.
13. American graffiti 1973.
It's amazing that george lucas, the director of Star Wars series, can shoot such fresh and lovely sketches. Starring: Harrison Ford. The story is set in a small town in America in the summer of 1962. It describes the lives of several high school students who graduated overnight, and reflects the thoughts and feelings of American young people who lived a comfortable life on the eve of the Vietnam War. Among them, a lot of American rock music from 1950s was cited as background music, such as bill haley's Rock Around the Clock. It should be said that it is appropriate. This film is george lucas's most profound work-I don't understand why Americans talk so much about movies suitable for children, such as Star Wars-American style paintings are much better than Star Wars.
14. The song remains unchanged 1976.
A film about the band "LED ZEPPLIN".
15. buddy holly's buddy holly story 1978.
This film tells the life of buddy holly, a rock martyr (buddy holly died in a plane crash during a rock performance in 1959, accompanied by another group of rock stars, so American singer don mclean later sang in his song "American Pie": the day buddy holly died was the day rock music died). In the late 1970s, the first generation of rock singers and fans became parents, and children began to rebel against their families. The director arranged many old songs in the film, which brought out a strong nostalgic atmosphere.
16. American style painting (continued) More American graffiti 1979
Director: Bill Norton
Actors: Ron Howard, Ron Howard
Makanzfi Lipps Mackenzie Phillips
Harrison Ford, Harrison Ford
Plot introduction:
In the early 1970s, there was a nostalgic upsurge in the 1950s in America, and 1973' s "American Style Painting" was a quite successful example. This film is its sequel. Except Richard Dreyfus, the original team performed again. The background of the story is the mid-1960s. When the Vietnam War went on, all the protagonists were more mature and sophisticated than before, and they had learned how to face all kinds of problems in life. The development of the plot is all on New Year's Eve, but it is the story of four different protagonists, which took place on four different New Year's Eve between 1964 and 1967. The play explores the representative topics in the 1960s: war, drug abuse, campus protests, police brutality, "only sex without war", and many excellent music at that time. The simultaneous juxtaposition of different scenes can be said to be one of the pioneering works of film technology. Also, don't miss Harrison Ford's guest appearance in the film!
17. Hair 1979
Rock and roll always becomes the protagonist mercilessly when the image can't control him. Think of the movie version of this musical as MTV.
18. Singing the tears of roses 1979
This is a biopic about janis joplin, the greatest woman in the history of rock music. The producer asked Betty Midler, who looks similar and is also a singer, to play the legendary actress's short life, which made people cry. Betty Midler's performance should be said to be in place. In addition to quoting a lot of janis joplin's songs in the film, Betty Midler also sang in the film and shined brilliantly. The soundtrack album of the film is very popular, and there is a song "Rose", which is perhaps the most touching song in the history of rock music.
19. Rock High School 1979
Rive Randall, a student at Vince Labadi High School, is the biggest fan of ramones. With the support of several friends, she has long insisted on an indomitable struggle with the embodiment of fascist education, that is, their principal, Miss Toga. The performance of ramones is coming to an end, and they sang the theme song of the film. Schools were destroyed by students, and students were saved by rock music. The live performance scene of "ramones" specially shot for this film is very wonderful. They also stood on an old Cadillac and sang the famous "I just want to find something to do" (I just want to find something to do) The concert scene was packed with people, excited and full of wild youth burning with passion. "Rock High School" is a tribute and return to the rebellious spirit hidden behind the 1950' s youth rock movies. It combines the elements of low-budget movies in the 1950s and beach comedies in the 1960s. It is rough, direct and crazy, and full of explosive self-liberation. In addition, it is also a very interesting film, which shows a romantic and fantastic imagination of Reeve Randall-the band "ramones" serenades her in her boudoir, which is probably the female student's greatest wish all the time.
20. The big rock scam 1980.
Weird works featuring punk band "Sex Pistol" are a great collection of punk music, punk ideas and punk art.
2 1. The Decline of Western Civilization
A film about the black flag.
22. The Lost Wall 1982
One of the best and most famous rock movies. From 65438 to 0979, the legendary British rock band Pink Floyd released one of the most classic works in the history of rock music, The Wall, which is a semi-autobiographical work created by roger waters, the soul of the band, based on his own experience. This record expresses the fear of war (roger waters's father died in World War II), the accusation of numbness of human nature and the description of the dark side of society. Two years later, the famous British director Aaron Parker decided to put it on the screen. He invited bob geldof, the lead singer of British band Boomtown rats, to play Pink, and used a lot of film expression techniques-montage and animation, which conveyed the theme of the record very well (of course, the director himself understood). Not only that, the sound expression of the film caused a great shock, and there was no dialogue in the whole film. All the songs of Pink Floyd in the double album The wall (and some songs that did not appear in the album appeared in the film) are used as the media to promote the development of the film plot, just like a feature-length music video. It can be said that the appearance of this film directly triggered the upsurge of music video. In addition, the way of making movies has also caused filmmakers to follow suit. However, if you don't know enough about the profile of western young people after the war and the content of the record itself, you may not understand the film easily. It is worth mentioning that alan parker filmed Ai Weita (Madame Peron, starring Madonna) according to the musical Fifteen Years Later. ), there is still no dialogue in the whole film.
23. "Shake Dreams" fans 1982
This is a rock movie that can swing and dance wildly without knowing the story and director! The story of common death: the girl has a dream of idolize, the girl's mother is unemployed and her family is in crisis, the girl participates in a singing contest, the girl meets the boy, the boy loses the girl, and the boy wins back the girl's heart. The director showed his magical ability to control genre films. The youthful rock atmosphere of the whole movie is like a musical version of "Dancing Hero". If you like rock music, you can't miss it
24. Suburb 1983
Groups of punk youths live in the remote suburbs of Los Angeles. This film depicts their maverick life and captures the most primitive attitude towards life represented by punk rock: getting rid of the oppression of a society that obliterates individuality and becoming a truly independent individual. Flea, the bass player of the "Red Pepper" band, also played a role in it, and his acting skills were not too bad. The ending of this movie is quite explosive. At that time, the live performance of popular bands D.I. and T.S.O.L. in California pushed the film to a climax, which was one of the most wonderful performances of T.S.O.L. before it went to collapse.
25. Merry Christmas on the battlefield 1983
(UK/Japan)
Director: Takeshima
Starring: Kitano Takeshi tom conti David Bowie Ryuichi Sakamoto
At the end of World War II, British Major Sai Reaz was sent here, in a Japanese prison camp in Java. His behavior attracted the director of the shelter, and I secretly liked him. On the other hand, Lieutenant Colonel Lawrence is the only Englishman among the prisoners who can speak Japanese. He has established a certain friendship with Sergeant Yuan, although Yuan, a farmer, is rude and cruel to people. Reaz and Lawrence were held in solitary confinement for celebrating Christmas in violation of regulations. That night, drunk Ben claimed to forgive their sins because it was Christmas. The next morning, when Noe gathered all the prisoners, the captives captain refuted him. Just as Noe was brandishing combat knives to kill him, Reaz came out of the queue and kissed him on both cheeks. Noe collapsed and fainted on the spot. Shortly after his transfer from Ye Jing, SeReaz was sentenced to be buried alive. In the evening, Yokoi went to the square where he was buried alive, stared at him affectionately, then cut off a strand of his blond hair and left. 1946, Lawrence came to the detention center for war criminals to visit Yuan who was about to be executed. Lawrence told Yuan that Xiao Ye Jing had asked him to take Reaz's blonde hair back to his hometown before he was executed. When they parted, Yuan smiled and said to Lawrence, "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence!" "
This anti-war film with a unique perspective does not focus on depicting the killers who have completely lost their humanity in the Japanese army, but shows a group of people who are deeply poisoned by militarism and commit crimes of aggression, but still have a trace of humanity. The director compared the human strength of the Japanese nation and prisoners of war, and clearly revealed how the human nature of each individual was distorted when the Japanese nation as a collective was pushed to the criminal road of war. In the film, Yokoi's homosexual feelings for Seriazi are regarded by Nagisa o shima as a symbol of the Japanese nation's complex feelings for foreign cultures. Yokoi's suppression of his hidden feelings is precisely the attitude of * * * towards western culture: both exclusive and irresistible. This film shows a strong sense of introspection. Zhudao's criticism is aimed at the countries that have committed wars, trying to examine the traditional nation on the level of all mankind. It is worth mentioning that the lineup of this film is very interesting. None of the three main actors is famous for their performances, among which Kitano Takeshi is the best.
26. This is spinal puncture 1984.
The form of imitating a documentary looks amazing, but it is really like that.
27. Sid and Nancy 1986
Although Sex Pistols are not the best punk band, they are the most famous punk band. Sid and Nancy tells the story of the capricious love relationship between Sid Vicious, the guitarist of this legendary band, and Nancy Spangan, his American girlfriend, and the tragic ending of Romeo and Juliet. The director objectively depicts these two marginal people at the bottom of the social food chain: their rudeness and pain, their sensitivity and self-injury, but they seem impossible to destroy themselves. After that dangerous trip to America, the sex pistol finally disintegrated, and Sid was still under the control of heroin addiction. He tried to start his personal development, but it was found that Nancy was stabbed to death on the floor one morning and Sid was arrested for murder. Their tragedy just confirms a song of punk band "Circle Jerks"-"Love Killer". The relationship between courtney love and kurt cobain is often compared with the relationship between Nancy and Sid, and courtney love happens to play a small role in this film. Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb used convincing acting skills to clearly show the immature, hurtful and disgusting side of the relationship between Sid and Nancy to the audience. They were determined to get rid of any bondage and their love was so sad that they even sobbed. Filth and Fury in 2000 is an excellent documentary about the band Sex Pistol, which is true, objective, passionate and quite enjoyable.
28. The light of day 1987
The name of "The Light of Day" comes from a lyric by Bruce Springsteen: "I was a little lost along the way, but I was at the corner leading to the light of day" (I was a little lost when I was walking on the roadside, wandering around the corner where the light of day could not reach). The film was written and directed by Paul Schulard, starring joan jett, a real rock actress, and Michael fox, a movie star with a baby face. In the film, they play a young brother and sister who live in an industrial zone. The elder sister is full of ambitions for the future of their band "Bar Bomb", but the surrounding environment and family constraints make them confused and eager to get rid of music. In a sense, Michael fox is more suitable to play some comedy roles, while joan jett, as a rock musician, shows quite good acting skills in the film, much better than Madonna. Detroit is a motor city and a rock city, because of the existence of KISS.
29. Mystery Train 1989
Jim jarmusch's film works, this film can better reflect its spiritual essence than many Elvis Presley's own films.
30. The Great Fireball 1989.
This is another biographical film, which describes the life of Jerry Lee Lewis. The musical achievements of this generation of superstars can be compared with Elvis Presley in the history of rock music. Jerry is a tragic figure, and the film focuses on his love life. The pessimistic atmosphere revealed in the film is very touching, interspersed with a series of famous songs by Jerry, and of course, the song "Big Fireball" is indispensable.
3 1. Gate 199 1
This is a movie that I personally like very much-of course it has something to do with the director. I'm a big fan of Oliver Si Tong, and I'm also a big fan of The Gate and its lead singer jim morrison (jim morrison). Oliver Si Tong and jim morrison are alumni of UCLA Film Academy, or Si Tong once read Jim his own plays before jim morrison died. In the early 1980s, Si Tong came up with the idea of putting the story of Jim and the Door Band on the screen. This wish didn't come true until Si Tong finished Born on the 4th of July. After he announced that he would shoot the film, many male movie stars competed to play the leading role of Jim-that's why. When shooting this film, Si Tong took a different way from ordinary biography, intercepted several fragments of Jim's life, did not stick to historical facts completely, and even used some surreal techniques (such as the old Indian who died in a car accident repeatedly) to express Jim and Da.
The legendary experience of the door band has achieved good results. Si Tong is worthy of the title of movie master. He has a good grasp of the atmosphere and rhythm of the film. Fang Kimmer's performance is also excellent. In order to play this controversial role well, he not only studied the performance methods seriously, but also studied the poems and songs of Jim and the Gate Band, understood the role carefully, and even imitated Jim's every move. It should be said that he portrayed this character vividly, not only in appearance, but also in spirit. Even people who have never seen a movie and only seen stills will agree with me. This film, like other works by Si Tong, caused great controversy after its release, but its artistic value is beyond doubt. This film also proves that Fang Jinmo and meg ryan (who play Pamela, Jim's wife) will not only play silly roles like those in Top Gun.
32. Highway 611991
33. Single 1992.
This film may not be as high in the history of movies as it is in the history of rock music, because the film itself may not be very attractive about the interesting life of single aristocrats. But the life of young people in San Francisco described in the film quoted a lot of songs from underground bands that were unknown in Seattle at that time. The soundtrack of the film and Nirvana band's album "Nevermind" together created the last rock wave of the 20th century-Grunge, which tells the last rock myth of the 20th century and also promoted the popularity of a large number of underground bands. Of course, the film itself is more attractive, and the style of light comedy makes the film very attractive.
34. "1991:The Year of Punk Breakthrough" 1993.
35. The Beatles BACKBEAT 1994
Regarding the biographical film of Stuart, the fifth member of the first four years, if we know the scenery in the last four days of the first four years, I wonder if he will draw it again. The rise of The Beatles is a legend in contemporary pop music. This film tries to capture their youth before they became famous. In order to reflect the era of the early 1960s, the story describes that John Lennon wants to form a solo singing group to make his name in the world, and urges his good friend Stuart to go to Hamburg to form a rock group with him. Later, he found like-minded paul mccartney and george harrison to sing in a small bar in Hamburg. Soon, Stuart got to know a German girl named Ai Cui Shi, who loves art, and started painting again. Lennon was a little jealous and urged Stuart to leave Cui Shi. In the first half of the film, director Iain Softley is full of energy, but his dramatic power is unsustainable. Ian hart, who plays Lennon, also robbed the hero Stephen Duff of his manners.
36. Fool 1994
Radio Head is about three gangsters who play garage rock. Their band is called Lonely Wanderers. Brandon Fratcher plays Chaz, the songwriter, lead singer and guitarist of the band. Adam sandler plays the lovely bassist Pip. Steve Bathyme is Rex, an old rock youth who works in a toy store. His role is drummer, and many famous faces play small roles in this film. David arquette plays a truck driver, and Remy Kilmist of Madhead also makes a small appearance in the film, in which white zombies perform as a band in a club (the soundtrack of the film includes songs of Madhead and white zombies). Disgruntled "vagabonds" with imitation toy guns tried to take over the local radio station and coerce the DJ to play their songs. At this time, they accidentally destroyed their demo tape. Fortunately, this is a comedy that they are destined to be lucky. With the help of a kind DJ, "Wanderer" finally stopped wandering and made great strides towards success. As far as my experience is concerned, Brandon Fratcher and adam sandler are not bad in comedy, but the film as a whole is mediocre.
37. Trainspotting, Trainspotting 1996
This film is adapted from Irving Welsh 1993, a best-selling novel of the same name. The cost is only $2.5 million and the shooting time is 49 days. It became the focus of public opinion as soon as it came out. Not only because of the detailed description of heroin abuse in this low-budget film, but also because of the depravity in the film-critics in London said that this film makes people want to "try drugs with their own bodies." Of course, the film director denies it. He thinks that the painful description of drug addiction in the back of the film is very objective. In fact, the attitude of the whole film is indifferent rather than objective. The film takes the first person as the narrative angle, fully unfolds the plot in the protagonist's narrative, and hides the film's position; However, in the already very loose structure, the narrative is terminated at will, and comments, analysis and even memories across time and space are added; This purely subjective technique is not only refreshing, but also very consistent with the tone of the film, so that it has been adopted repeatedly in future films of the same type, almost becoming a fixed model. The film begins with the preface of the protagonist Litton: "... big TV, fitness equipment, Ford car, nine to five ... too many choices." What do you choose? " I choose not to choose. "Wide-angle lens with city street view and iggy pop music. The film begins with the real life of a small group of decadent young people headed by Leighton: doing nothing all day, wandering around, fighting, drinking and picking up girls, taking drugs; Gather around the railway to bet on the passing time of the next train to kill time; With a baby who doesn't know who his father is. They are satisfied with this decadent life, but they don't want to change the status quo and evade all norms and responsibilities. They are anarchists and heroin addicts. The accidental death of a baby after a group drug abuse strongly stimulated everyone who might be the father; Prompted Raton to make up his mind to give up drugs after countless failures. Just as he successfully got rid of drugs and started a normal life, violent enthusiast Bobby found him with his old partner, Litton, and let him participate in a huge drug trafficking activity. In the end, Raton stole the money from drug trafficking and disappeared into the crowd. In the film, Litton was in a trance after overdose, and the part where he fainted in the street was treated with romantic high-speed photography, and the background was accompanied by Loud Reed's quiet "A Perfect Day", which described the pleasure after taking drugs. What's next?