Friday, November 23, 2007
News / Film Movies that rock
Posted by David Lee Simmons on Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 4:53 PM
(photo © Jonathan Wenk/TWC 2007)
In this week’s issue I took a rather broad-sided look at the slew of rock-related movies that have been released in 2007, "Rocking in a hard place" — particularly the rock biopic, which seems to have been practically reinvented whether as a documentary or as a feature film.
I’d dashed off the piece for a Wednesday deadline but failed to check to see if all the movies mentioned were still in local theaters. Fortunately, all but one of the films, Kurt Cobain: About a Son, are still around, most notably the recently released Todd Haynes film I’m Not There — about Bob Dylan.
Also fortunate is the fact that our film critics have reviewed each of the movies, so I’d definitely recommend checking out Felicia Feaster’s reviews of I’m Not There and Control, as well as Curt Holman’s reviews of Across the Universe and Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten. One caveat: A quick glance at our Movie Showtimes reveals that Across the Universe, Control and Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten are all hanging by a thread. (Both Control and Strummer have moved over to the Plaza Theatre, which for some reason does have its own kind of rock ’n’roll vibe.)
Finally, a question: What’s your favorite rock ’n’ roll movie, or rock biopic, for that matter?
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