Comments on: Carl’s Rock Songbook #53: What Are the Best Films about Popular Music?

By: Carl’s Rock Songbook #64: Robert Fripp and Laura Jane » Postmodern Conservative | A First Things Blog

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:15:17 +0000

[...] n’ ends post. I’m going to do ONE more post on rock films, soon enough, and then give that series a rest for a while. High-time for the songbook to get back to [...]

By: Carl’s Rock Songbook #59: ALMOST FAMOUS on Sex, Drugs, and 70s Rock » Postmodern Conservative | A First Things Blog

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:08:55 +0000

[...] move now on my list of best pop music films from THE DOORS to ALMOST FAMOUS, a natural progression in rock time to about 1973–the next [...]

By: Carl’s Rock Songbook #58: Revolution’s Rush—Oliver Stone’s The Doors » Postmodern Conservative | A First Things Blog

Sat, 28 Jul 2012 15:40:02 +0000

[...] despite its lack of conventional plot and Stone’s perhaps conflicted conception, as one of our best films on popular music, and the most insightful one about rock’s founding revolution. Comments [...]

By: Carl’s Rock Songbook #57: The Cheerful Nihilism of Repo Man » Postmodern Conservative | A First Things Blog

Sat, 14 Jul 2012 12:43:28 +0000

[...] Man is perhaps the least justifiable entry on my list of pop music films. While punk rockers feature in only so many of its scenes, it nonetheless captures the spirit of [...]

By: Carl’s Rock Songpost #56: The Contagious Stupidity of Spinal Tap » Postmodern Conservative | A First Things Blog

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 02:07:06 +0000

[...] Man is the better of the two (again, my original listing of the best pop music films is chronological, not in terms of [...]

By: Carl’s Rock Songbook #55: Talking Back to Mr. S. » Postmodern Conservative | A First Things Blog

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 19:48:24 +0000

[...] Black-played rocker/teacher character in The School of Rock. That film is one of my favorites from my list of best films about popular music. Very funny, but I also like the way presents an intelligent teaching about rock’s role in our [...]

By: Kerry NZ

Kerry NZ — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 03:31:56 +0000

I second 24 Hour Party people – captures the whole british scene from the sex pistols through to blur.

By: Mrsschiavolin

Mrsschiavolin — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 02:32:39 +0000

That should have been “Bruton”!

By: Mrsschiavolin

Mrsschiavolin — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 02:31:54 +0000

A movie with a killer soundtrack but lowsy script is Crazy Heart. It’s worth seeing just to experience the collaboration between Tbone and Stephen Bruto.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 21:16:42 +0000

Hmm again. Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist for a contemporary flick to consider…