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Ten Years Later -- Omitted Great Movies with Jazz Scores Revisited (Reply to this comment)
by theuresamaven
I fell over an Epinions.com article regarding films with jazz scores, and cringed because a few of the great ones had been omitted. While most readers may never see this comment, I just had to add some more movies to the list, and they are: The Strip; I Want to Live!; Sweet Smell of Success; In Cold Blood; and Play Misty for Me (and practically every Clint Eastwood nonwestern movie ever produced by Malpaso Productions). Frankly, I'm too lazy to give the years that these films were released, but I figured that anyone who is truly interested will look up these films anyway.
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Mar 04 '11
8:01 pm PST
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`round midnight (Reply to this comment)
by robin5866
Hi, I saw the movie a few years ago, and I was very impressed by the actor.
It stayed with me, but I didn`t know the name or the actors name,I thought is was called around midnight and i couldbn`t find it anywere on the internet. And now I know again, thank you for posting this.
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Jan 29 '10
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My Ten Favorite Jazz Movies (Reply to this comment)
by ftapache
I really liked your list however I have a great liking for Woody Allen's comedy "Sweet and Lowdown" starring Sean Penn and Samantha Morton. Hilarious and well crafted. It should have been on this list ahead of many of your choices.
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Jun 09 '08
11:14 am PDT
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Let's Get Lost (Reply to this comment)
by kinsmang
Mike you forgot the film noir movie about Chet Baker. By famed photographer Bruce Weber. A popular and critical smash at its 1989 Film Forum premiere, but unseen since 1993 in any medium. LET’S GET LOST has now been personally restored by Weber himself. Check it out if you have not seen it.
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Jan 25 '08
1:08 pm PST
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Re: Syncopation (Reply to this comment)
by richwmcmlxiv
I'm sure the movie you are referring to must be A Song is Born (1948), starring Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo and a who's who of jazz talent: Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, Charlie Barnet and Mel Powell, to name a few!
A Song is Born was Howard Hawks' remake of his own film, Ball of Fire (1941), starring Gary Cooper, except in the 1948 remake, the professors are now musicologists, headed up by Kaye, who has inadvertently overlooked the jazz age while he and his colleagues have cloistered themselves away from the outside world in order to create a written and recorded history of human music. Virginia Mayo leads Kaye, along with his greying and bespectacled entourage into the jazz world (and underworld) of modern America.
A very enjoyable, much overlooked film in my opinion, as it's long been a favourite of mine, and was one that I thought would have made this Top Ten list.
A Song is Born (1948):
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040820/
Ball of Fire (1941):
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033373/
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Oct 10 '07
8:13 pm PDT
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Jazz Movie list (Reply to this comment)
by msaxman1
How about "Death Wish I" - great film starring Charles Bronson with music by Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters. Also, "Blowup". Philip Kaufmann's remake of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" with an incredible score by Denny Zeitlin w/ Mel Martin and Eddie Henderson. Then there is the documentary of the original Newport Jazz Festival "Jazz on a Summer's Day" , the Chet Baker documentary "Let's Get Lost", the Sonny Rollins documentary "Saxophone Collosus", "Lush Life" w/ Forest Whitaker and Jeff Goldblum, "The Gig" about the old LA Central Avenue scene. Most of Spike Lee's films have great jazz scores by either his father bassist Bill Lee or Terence Blanchard. "Mo Better Blues" was marred by a lame story line and one of Denzil's lesser performances but the music is good. How about John Cassavetes' great films such as "Shadows" and "Too Late Blues". One of my all time favorites is "The Sweet Smell of Success" w/ the Chico Hamilton Quintet. Also check out "Straight No Chaser" the documentary on Thelonious Monk and "Jammin' the Blues" featuring Lester Young, Roy Eldridge and more. "The Sound of Jazz" was a live one-hour TV Jazz special from 1960 which can be found here or there. "Paris Blues" w/ Paul Newman featured Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington's score. Finally, let's not forget the unforgettable "Stormy Weather" with the great Lena Horne and music and an appearance by Benny Carter.
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Mar 19 '05
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Syncopation (Reply to this comment)
by br189
This was an excellent movie I saw in the 1940's. It showed the beginnings of jazz, and made fun of some old fogies who did not understand it at first but then got into the swing. Very entertaining. I have been trying for years to find out where it can be seen. It was an American movie. Do you have any ideas?
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Jun 17 '03
6:39 am PDT
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??? (Reply to this comment)
by macresarf1
Dear mike holmes: You had me worried for a while, but you came in on the money with ROUND MIDNIGHT.
Regards.
[Macresarf1]
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Jul 04 '01
8:11 pm PDT
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Nice Job! (Reply to this comment)
by Saxguy
I'm kinda surprised that "Some Like It Hot" didn't make the list. Maybe it wasn't a JAZZ movie but it was about a jazz band.
Incidentally, my high school jazz band director was in the trumpet section of the real band it was about. She never did say much about being on the road, other than it wasn't nearly as much fun as the movie and she liked the high school gig a lot.
Another review up to your usual high standards.
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May 23 '01
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Re: Great+job! (Reply to this comment)
by conter7
lol!
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May 19 '01
11:23 am PDT
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Huh? (Reply to this comment)
by conter7
A jazz movie exists? Bup, i never knew that ... i may want to check one out. DO they have Euro Club Hits Movies? :P
Rich (conter7)
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May 19 '01
11:21 am PDT
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These sound marvelous! (Reply to this comment)
by sumo_rhino
When will someone make a movie about the Oscar Peterson Trio?
- sumo_rhino
P.S. I get through your place from time to time, blazing a trail from East Texas to El Paso. And, as we used to live in San Angelo for a few months, my wife flew out of the airport (when it was Midland/Odessa) on occasion. Plus, my cousin lives in Monahans and works in your vicinity at U.S. Oncology.
I love a Texas connection.
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May 17 '01
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Great job! (Reply to this comment)
by Yzerman
This is the first "10 best movies" list that I have read here on Epinions that I haven't seen a single movie on the list. I guess I need to expand my horizons and see what this jazz stuff is all about!
Nice job on the list!
Diane
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May 16 '01
10:23 pm PDT
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