Rock and
Roll Movies
2010-2019
* Recommended Titles
Includes musicals, concert films, documentaries, biographies and fictional subject matter (where singers and groups appear as musical interludes.)
* Nowhere Boy (2010)… Aaron Johnson, Kristan Scott-Thomas, Ann-Marie Duff, David Threlfall, Josh Bolt, Ophelia Lovibond. The story of John Lennon’s youth in the mid-1950s and his struggles to find himself amidst the two women who raised him, his aunt Mimi and mother Julia. The film also touches on the creation of his first band, The Quarrymen, and how they developed into the Beatles triggered by the historic meeting with Paul McCartney. The film ends as they were off to Hamburg which was a few years before making it big. Great performances all around.
* The Runaways (2010)… Kristen Stewart, Dakota
Fanning, Michael Shannon, Stella Maeve,
Scout Taylor-Compton, Alia Shawkat, Riley Keough. The Runaways, starring Joan
Jett, were the first all-girl rock-band to make it big. This movie follows the
teenage rock band from 1975-1977; formed by underage girls living near
* George Harrison: Living in a Material World (2011)… Martin Scorsece’s
documentary on the life of George Harrison. Directed by Richard Lester. John, Paul, Ringo,
Dhani Harrison (his son), Olivia Harrison (second
wife), George Martin, Patti Boyd (first wife), Eric Clapton, Yoko Ono, Eric
Idle, Terry Gilliam, Jackie Stewart (race car driver), et al. Olivia, as co-producer,
made available all the archival material, photos, film and video. Also featured
are Astrid Kirchherr and Klaus Voormann,
close friends of the band during their early days in Germany, and Tom Petty,
who was in The Traveling Wilburys with Harrison, Bob
Dylan, Roy Orbison and Jeff Lynne. Hi-lights include: rare concert footage and
photos, George’s letters to home, Ringo’s interviews,
HBO two-parter.
