rock stars' vanity films, search and destroy/classic or hubris

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one trick pony vs. give my regards to broad street vs. renaldo & clara vs.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 12 May 2005 05:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i've yet to see "cool as ice".

― latebloomer: the rebel sound of grits and bacon (latebloomer), Thursday, 12 May 2005 05:58 (twenty-one years ago)

you've yet to live

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 12 May 2005 06:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Under the Cherry Moon is the best vanity film if not, alas, the best Vanity film.

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 12 May 2005 06:10 (twenty-one years ago)

i think to qualify the rock star has to have written and/or produced and/or directed the film, right?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 12 May 2005 06:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought Renaldo and Clara was great, but I accept that I may be in a minority of one and in need of remedial care.

― andyjack (andyjack), Thursday, 12 May 2005 06:56 (twenty-one years ago)

forget Renaldo and Clara (although I kind of like it, myself)--"Train Ride to Hollywood" is in a whole 'nother league:

Early '70s rock/R&B sensation Bloodstone (the group's first hit, "Natural High," can be heard on the soundtrack of Quentin Tarantino's "Jackie Brown") star in this rarely-seen 1975 musical comedy. Bloodstone play a group of singing train conductors out to solve a mystery aboard a celebrity train bound for Hollywood. The film is filled with over-the-top, Marx Brothers-style musical numbers that must be seen to be believed!

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Thursday, 12 May 2005 12:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyone seen "Journey Through The Past"?

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Thursday, 12 May 2005 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Born to Boogie is kinda crap
the Jane's Addiction ones are fun, though

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Thursday, 12 May 2005 13:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I've seen "Journey." It's a mess, but there are a few good scenes, plus KILLER footage of Buffalo Springfield on "Hollywood Palace." The "climactic" scene of slow-motion (?) horses goes on forever, though.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 12 May 2005 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait wait wait - Jane's Addiction oneSSSS? As in there was something AFTER Gift?

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 12 May 2005 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Johnny Cougar's was pretty good.

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 12 May 2005 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Classic: The Monkees, Head

Dud: Paul Simon, One Trick Pony

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 12 May 2005 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

xxpost: "The Gift" and the previous "Soul Kiss"

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Thursday, 12 May 2005 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Human Highway has its charms. It does come off something like a 90 minute bong rip, though. I've never seen Journey through the Past.

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Thursday, 12 May 2005 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

monkees neither wrote nor produced nor directed head, though yeah it would take any movie (besides under the cherry moon, which prince did direct) on this thread.

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 12 May 2005 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm a big fan of Ray Davies' Return To Waterloo, and not at all of Pete Townshend's White City.

― brianiac (briania), Thursday, 12 May 2005 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyone seen "Journey Through The Past"?

isn't it weird how many of these films are either suppressed or impossible to see?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 12 May 2005 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

"Crossroads."

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 12 May 2005 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.strait2heart.com/pure_country.jpg

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Thursday, 12 May 2005 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

> monkees neither wrote nor produced nor directed head, though yeah it would take any movie (besides under the cherry moon, which prince did direct) on this thread.

Technically correct, although they have claimed to have written substantive sections of it. Thanks for the clarification, though.

Has anyone seen Sonny & Cher's Chastity or Good Times?

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 12 May 2005 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

"Crossroads."

seriously though, movies-featuring-music-stars is a broad category, of which the music-star-as-would-be-movie-auteur is a small but curious subgenre (or offshot).... let's keep this distinction.

i had no idea prince directed 'under the cherry moon'! i'm sure it's awful, but i should see that, shouldn't i?

didn't jim morrison have some vanity production at some point?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 12 May 2005 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I've seen Chastity, and it was kind of rough going, despite lots of Cher at her ultra-foxiest, when she still packed some fat. I wouldn't seek it out, unless you really, really need Cher.

Under The Cherry Moon is brilliant!!

― brianiac (briania), Thursday, 12 May 2005 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Jack Nicholson cowrote "Head"!

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 12 May 2005 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Who has seen the be-all and end-all of rock star vanity films, Renaldo and Clara?

― brianiac (briania), Thursday, 12 May 2005 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

god must I pick just one movie?

As its hard to pick just one of the Prince troika (Purple Rain the most respectable, Under The Cherry Moon the most absurd, Graffiti Bridge more Prince than Purple and more musical than Cherry), I'm just gonna go with Cool As Ice I've seen that movie so many times.

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 12 May 2005 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Head is pretty terrific but it's not fun to watch sober cuz I sit there wishing I was high.

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 12 May 2005 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

My junior film (which quite a few ILXors have seen) had a homage to the "Daddy's Song" sequence and I'm always impressed when someone notices it.

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 12 May 2005 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Is Give My Regards to Broad Street any good? Haven't seen it since it came out.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 12 May 2005 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

"Junior Film" is another of your hip-hop names, right Miccio?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 12 May 2005 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Only in the video for "Gravel Pit"

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 12 May 2005 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh WOW. I thought you were kidding at first, but not only does this film exist, I think I saw it on cable way way way back in the day: it was very silly, and there were these murders and Dracula kept skulking around the train. Fucking weird.

From one IMDB review: "The thin plot requires the singing conductors to solve a mystery; Marlon Brando is murdering Nelson Eddy, Jeanette McDonald, and others by suffocating them in his armpits. Arriving in Hollywood, the Bloodstone boys are turned into wax sculptures by Brando."

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 12 May 2005 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe a double bill of that and the Slade film (which I hear is good).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 May 2005 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe a double bill of that and the Slade film (which I hear is good).

The Slade film is outstanding.

Would Alice's Restaurant count here?

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 12 May 2005 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

The Slade film is great. "Hubris" isn't really a term that could be used to describe it.

That advert with Noddy in it at the moment in the UK is the only funny advert I've seen in a decade.

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 12 May 2005 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Is Give My Regards to Broad Street any good? Haven't seen it since it came out.

er, no. well, it would be a lot better if it abandoned the pretext of a plot and was instead presented as just a series of music videos for a bunch of fairly okay songs.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 12 May 2005 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

amateurist you should totally see under the cherry moon, prince's best movie EASILY!

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 12 May 2005 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anyone know, is Greendale as good as Masked & Anonymous?

― roger kaputnik, Thursday, 12 May 2005 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

i heard greendale was pretty good!

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 12 May 2005 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.thezreview.co.uk/posters/posterimages/d/disorderlies.jpg

― chris andrews (fraew), Thursday, 12 May 2005 22:13 (twenty-one years ago)

What's so great about the Slade flick?

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Thursday, 12 May 2005 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

"Cool As Ice"! Yes! The horse-ridey girl in that is fit.

― David Merryweather (DavidM), Thursday, 12 May 2005 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

man how embarrassing! the only film mentioned here i've seen is "masked and anyonymous" which was shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitty

― g e o f f (gcannon), Friday, 13 May 2005 00:01 (twenty-one years ago)

"Bloodstone play a group of singing train conductors out to solve a mystery aboard a celebrity train bound for Hollywood. The film is filled with over-the-top, Marx Brothers-style musical numbers that must be seen to be believed!

Oh WOW. I thought you were kidding at first..."

Now, you know I never kid around these parts, especially about something so important. Anyway, I saw the trailer for this, and about half of the film, and I had to leave to keep an appointment, and because I was laughing so fucking hard I think I need to see a hernia-doctor now. My buddy, who will be getting the bill for my harness, is making me a copy of the movie.

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Friday, 13 May 2005 00:02 (twenty-one years ago)

it's amazing that dylan got to do another one of "these." and yes, M&A was fucking horrible.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 13 May 2005 01:22 (twenty-one years ago)

> My junior film (which quite a few ILXors have seen) had a homage to the "Daddy's Song" sequence

"Song was pretty white."
"Yeah, well, so am I."

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 13 May 2005 02:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought Masked & Anon was kind of funny.

― shookout (shookout), Friday, 13 May 2005 03:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Me too. And effective political satire. More than I can say for a lot of what the youngins have been up to.

― roger kaputnik, Friday, 13 May 2005 03:15 (twenty-one years ago)

we're well into this thread, and i cannot BELIEVE that we have not yet mentioned (let alone discussed) KISS's phantom of the amusement park.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 13 May 2005 03:17 (twenty-one years ago)

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