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It's like the second album blues for most people.
They may have gotten older, as have their fans, but the energy is still there, with the great arrangements of classic blues songs as well as their own.
This musical ranks number two in musicals to me (second next to the blues brothers).
Oh the colours, the dazzling reds, blues, greens, and yellows.
Music by blues legend Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Jammin' the Blues is an Oscar-nominated short from 1944 that is basically 10 minutes of improvisational jazz played in one long jam.
A great blues song "All Night Long Blues" done by an unknown female artist; if she is listed in the credits,sadly it was not translated to English.
Even if you don't particularly like the Blues (though to me, this sounded much more like jazz), you can easily appreciate this film.
The latter is generally credited as being the first full color process American cartoon, as opposed to two strip color which emphasized either blues or greens at the expense of certain shades that were lost to the lesser and less costly techniques of the day.
The only thing Tommy has, and the rest of his drinking buddies for that matter, is drinking his blues away.
The film's mastermind, 31 year old Sam Dunn, does an excellent job dissecting the genre, from its classical and blues origins, to why the Scandinavian black metal scene is so evil.
Fusion of jazz and blues.
LADY SINGS THE BLUES was the heavily fictionalized film biography of legendary cabaret chanteuse Billie Holliday, who rose to great stardom as one of the great blues impressionists of our time but, sadly, was never able to complete escape the multiple demons which haunted her for her entire life.
looking back at roots like blues, Rickover vagnars classical influence to the well overlooked blue cheer.
As far as sequels go, I thought Blues Brothers 2000 was bad in a 'way too little way too late' kinda way.
Contrary to popular opinion, I enjoyed the obvious rewrite from the original 'Blues Brothers'.
I recently watched 'Blues Brothers 2000' with some young people who didn't have a clue, and seeing things through their fresh eyes, made this movie very exciting.
The Blue's Brothers is all about the Blues and I feel sad for those reviewers who can't appreciate the quality of the music and musicians showcased in this excellent and entertaining movie.
Moreover, the story is plausible and the movie is well-acted too, with Whitney Houston turning in an outstanding performance reminiscent of Diana Ross's in Lady Sings the Blues (which is another great movie).
I would only recommend this film to anyone who has those Summer Repeat blues and there is nothing else on.
The reds and blues are quite lovely and photograph far better outside under natural lighting than inside the studio where I had mistakenly assumed the controlled lighting would have made these shots superior to the exterior ones.
This is a rare treat (even though we only see browns, reds and blues and even though the water is sometimes red, sometimes blue) and along with the original score re-recorded and 19 minutes of outtakes following the 90 minute feature, it is somewhat of an event.
Crumbs passion for mostly blues music from 1936 and before and his premier collection is fascinating.
Fans of TV's "Saturday Night Live" may never have guessed that one-time rivals Chase and Aykroyd would end up starring in a picture together, or that "Blues Brothers" filmmaker John Landis would be directing, however they may be the only audience for this type of slapstick silliness.
One comment here said, "They don't make 'em classy like this anymore" and he couldn't be more right: from the restrained, low-key performance of Streep (accent-free but looking perhaps more beautiful here than in any other film she's done; she nearly resembles those women in a Dutch Renaissance painting), balancing the "livelier" performance of Scheider, to the lovely muted blues, browns, greys and blacks of its cinematography.
Well two out of three can kill you these days.But The Rose was set in the late sixty's or early seventy's where drugs were all she really had to worry about.She diden,t.If your a fan of Bette Midlers or Janis Joplin you should love The Rose.Bette Midler Gives an Oscar worthy performance (she was nominated,but Sally Field won for NormaRae)in her first major film role.Rose Foster is a major star in the rock and blues music world But being a great success with a voice that most of the world would kill for is not enough to fill her emptiness.Shes on the booze in the first few frames,the drugs soon follow.Recently relesed on DVD,The Rose is not the feel good movie of 79 or any year but Bette Midler,her voice and her acting talent make this film well worth watching.
Just about every song is a winner because her voice fits her blues- rock material extremely well and her band is outstanding.
The beginning was decent, and the new characters were for the most part acceptable, but the further into the movie you go, the worse it gets, until finally you get into flying characters and voodoo witches, neither of which (in my opinion) belongs in a "Blues Brothers" movie.
This one, filmed in chilly blues and grays, is just as seedy and depressing.
Rodgers plays two of his own compositions, 'Ballad of the Bayou' and 'Rajah's Blues'.
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