- but I'm not just interested in the anachronisticky incidences...
― halo halo, Sunday, 28 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― lou, Sunday, 28 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
and now I remember Edith Piaf being played in Saving Private Ryan.
― halo halo, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ron, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― petra jane, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― katie, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Why are you asking anyway, halo?
― D., Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Human Traffic
― Anna, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Grosse Point Blank is the best movie EVAH.
― Jeff W, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― DavidM, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I've never seen A Clockwork Orange, but John Michell worked on the set-design for that (and 2001), and apparently one of his early turntables features (the Hydraulic Reference?). No idea what plays on it. Is that anachronistic? Made in '71 but set in the future.
Coppola's The Conversation too - Hackman listening to jazz off vinyl. 1975, though. Nice speakers.
― Michael Jones, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― j.lu, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Pete, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― halo halo, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
'Brighton Rock' ('what you want me to say is I love you...' then a scratch on the record-it-yourself disc omits the snarled 'but really I hate you!').
'If' (which uses 'Missa Luba' repeatedly I think, certainly there's a scene of it being cued up on a small mono gramophone).
― David, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Quadrophenia--the Cascades get ripped off the turntable at a party, "My Generation" gets put on.
Drinking Buddies, more than once.
Almost Famous--when the sister leaves home (blanking out on the song...Who's Next?)
Will have to give it some thought, but I'm sure I can come up with a few more.
I found this doco called Vinyl (which - I thought insultingly - says it includes: "a number of women with lots of records (for a woman, that is)") & has "Harvey Pekar, Guy Maddin, Don McKellar, Bruce LaBruce, Daniel Richler, Geoff Pevere, Don Pyle, DJ Nav, A Man Called Warrick, Jane Farrow, Eddie B and many, many, many others"--including clemenza!
― clemenza, Sunday, 18 June 2017 18:07 (six years ago) link
Grey Gardens: Edie puts on a march and dances, Miller in hand.
Rock and Roll High School: Riff tokes up, puts Road to Ruin on, and there the Ramones are in her bedroom.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Sunday, 18 June 2017 18:41 (six years ago) link
20th century women!!
― Unchanging Window (Ross), Sunday, 18 June 2017 19:16 (six years ago) link
When she actually leaves, it's "America" by Simon & Garfunkel. Then after that, when William get her collection of records, in her letter she tells him to cue up Tommy and 'he'll see the future', he plays "Sparks" which cues a time jump in the story.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 18 June 2017 19:37 (six years ago) link
Over on ILM: Sad vinyl fetishist query: Scenes in movies featuring/revolving around vinyl records?
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 18 June 2017 19:39 (six years ago) link
(xpost) Thanks. So we just hear "America," but we actually see William cue up Tommy I take it.
― clemenza, Sunday, 18 June 2017 19:55 (six years ago) link
Dancing on the beach to Francoise Hardy in Moonrise Kingdom.
The truck driver's portable player in Wender's Kings of the Road.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Sunday, 18 June 2017 19:58 (six years ago) link
So now we've got check both threads to see if we're repeating something--too much pressure.
I Knew Her Well, an Italian film from 1965. If you skip to 9:30, you can see the relevant scene--spoilers, though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp3YUtpUEq8
There have got to be some mid-'60s Warhol films that qualify.
― clemenza, Sunday, 18 June 2017 20:04 (six years ago) link
XPS No, separate sequential scenes: The family listens to "America" because she says it explains why she has to leave, and then in the next scene William takes possession of her suitcase full of records and listens (per her order) to Tommy.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 18 June 2017 20:07 (six years ago) link
And geez, #1 on my list: Satie in Goin' Down the Road (16:50, till it gets taken down again).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khvy2-Qxuzw
― clemenza, Sunday, 18 June 2017 20:08 (six years ago) link
The other thread mentions several Fassbinder films where this happens. Another case would be Fear of Fear in which Margit Carstensen puts on the Stones' "We Love You" 45.
I don't think anyone's mentioned Mike Leigh's Abigail's Party, in which Alison Steadman sets the mood by putting on Demis Roussos.
― Josefa, Sunday, 18 June 2017 20:41 (six years ago) link
Countless seduction scenes have this - one of the more iconic ones would be Bo Derek playing Ravel's Bolero in Blake Edwards' 10,
― Josefa, Sunday, 18 June 2017 20:59 (six years ago) link
20th century women!!― Unchanging Window (Ross)
Have now seen this...definitely. Hall of fame.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up0pJ4Otvkk
― clemenza, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 21:06 (six years ago) link
Talented Mr. Ripley has records as a plot point.
― nachismo (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 11 July 2017 21:33 (six years ago) link
Just saw 20th Century Women...additional spot in the Hall of Fame to Greta Gerwig explaining The Raincoats as "Fairytale In The Supermarket" spins.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 23 July 2017 06:13 (six years ago) link
Sixth episode of Six Feet Under, the first great musical moment in the series: Nate throws "Journey to the Center of Your Mind" on the turntable (can't tell if it's an Amboy Dukes LP or some Nuggets-type compilation), sits back, and watches his dead father dance, entertain bikers, and play Charles Whitman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29SIKOFJnAA
― clemenza, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 05:12 (six years ago) link
Rosemary's Baby, twice: the night Rosemary stays behind when Guy goes back to the Castevets, and also baby night ("Would you turn the record over, please?"). It think it's the same record both times--vaguely jazzy, candlelight-and-wine stuff.
― clemenza, Sunday, 27 August 2017 05:55 (six years ago) link
Pet peeve: when characters in movies cue up a famous record and the wrong song plays, and/or the songs play in the wrong order. Was reminded of this today by 20th Century Women, where Billy Crudup cues up track 1 side B of More Songs About Buildings and Food only for track 5 to play. (Doubly annoying bc the characters are shown to be dancing and reacting to that specific song, so they knew which cut they were going to use when they filmed it.) (They get the Black Flag song right though.)
First time I remember noticing this was in Royal Tenenbaums when they the listen to Between the Bottons and "She Smiled Sweetly" is followed by "Ruby Tuesday". Does anyone else get bothered by this?
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 17:33 (four years ago) link
I don't know whether vinyl records are still getting a lot of use as Western Freedom! icons, but A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night works well with this.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 18:29 (four years ago) link
Bruno Gantz plays at least one kinks record in the The American Friend
― jbn, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 19:09 (four years ago) link
In Kauriamki's "Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana " the main characters listen to 45's in a car record player.
― /asarco (AcnalbasacNoom), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 19:17 (four years ago) link