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POSTPONED: Movie Discussion Group: I’m With the Band: Concert and Music Themed Films

January 16, 2024 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Due to weather, the January 16 event has been postponed and included in the discussion on January 23.

 

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Tuesday, January 16, 2024

T.A.M.I. Show is a 1964 concert film released by American International Pictures.[1] It includes performances by numerous popular rock and roll and R&B musicians from the United States and England. The concert was held at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on October 28 and 29, 1964. Free tickets were distributed to local high school students.

Tuesday, January 23, 2024

A Hard Day’s Night is a 1964 musical comedy film directed by Richard Lester and starring the English rock band the BeatlesJohn LennonPaul McCartneyGeorge Harrison and Ringo Starr—during the height of Beatlemania. It was written by Alun Owen and originally released by United Artists. The film portrays 36 hours in the lives of the group as they prepare for a television performance.

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Monterey Pop is a 1968 American concert film by D. A. Pennebaker that documents the Monterey International Pop Festival of 1967. Among Pennebaker’s several camera operators were fellow documentarians Richard Leacock and Albert Maysles. The painter Brice Marden has an “assistant camera” credit. Titles for the film were by the illustrator Tomi Ungerer. Featured performers include Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis JoplinJefferson AirplaneHugh MasekelaOtis ReddingRavi Shankarthe Mamas & the Papasthe Who and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, whose namesake set his guitar on fire, broke it on the stage, then threw the neck of his guitar in the crowd at the end of “Wild Thing“.

Tuesday, February 6, 2024

The Last Waltz was a concert by the Canadian-American rock group The Band, held on American Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1976, at Winterland Ballroom in San FranciscoThe Last Waltz was advertised as The Band’s “farewell concert appearance”, and the concert had The Band joined by more than a dozen special guests, including their previous employers Ronnie Hawkins and Bob Dylan, as well as Paul ButterfieldBobby CharlesEric ClaptonNeil DiamondEmmylou HarrisDr. JohnJoni MitchellVan MorrisonRingo StarrMuddy WatersRonnie Wood, and Neil Young

Tuesday, February 13, 2024

This Is Spinal Tap (also known as This Is Spın̈al Tap: A Rockumentary by Martin Di Bergi is a 1984 American mockumentary film co-written and directed by Rob Reiner (in his feature directorial debut). The film stars Christopher GuestMichael McKean and Harry Shearer as members of the fictional heavy metal band Spinal Tap, who are characterized as “one of England’s loudest bands”

Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Stop Making Sense is a 1984 American concert film featuring a live performance by the American rock band Talking Heads. Directed by Jonathan Demme, it was shot over four nights at Hollywood’s Pantages Theatre in December 1983, when Talking Heads were touring to promote their 1983 album Speaking in Tongues.

Stop Making Sense includes performances of the first Talking Heads single, “Psycho Killer” (1977), through to their most recent hit at the time, “Burning Down the House” (1983). It also includes songs from the solo career of frontman David Byrne and by Tom Tom Club, the side project of the drummer and bassist, Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth.

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

The Commitments is a 1991 musical comedy-drama film based on the 1987 novel of the same name by Roddy Doyle. It was directed by Alan Parker from a screenplay written by Doyle, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. Set in the Northside of Dublin, the film tells the story of Jimmy Rabbitte (Robert Arkins), a young music fanatic who assembles a group of working-class youths to form a soul band named “The Commitments”. 

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Date:
January 16, 2024
Time:
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
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Organizer

Patten Free Library
Phone:
443-5141

Venue

Zoom
Website:
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