There was one doc about Tom Petty, Peter Bogdaovich's exhaustive 4 hrs. Running Down a Dream (2007). Now there's also Somewhere You Feel Free (2021), about the amking of his album Wildflowers. And now this Lost documentary about Tom Petty in 1983. And the Heartbreakers. Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Beach Party came out in US theaters in 2024 for a few days, ultra limited. It's the 1st film (lost too) of Cameron Crowe. Featuring the grand weird desert video of "You Got Lucky" from Long After Dark (1982). And the outtakes. And the making of a director - C.C. -
The film was restored for a one-weekend theatrical release in October2024 (on Tom's Bday), and it’s now available to stream on Paramount+ as of March 11.
Yesterday (40 years from john lennon's demise, I'm just making it a co-incidental) a new music video for an unrealeased Tom Petty song-Something Could Happen, from the album Wildflowers was out, together with a special livestream aabout his videos along the time (David Fricke from Rolling Stone moderates, Dave Edwards, directors Julian Temple Jeff Stein, Warren Fu, producer Anne-Marie Mackey and actress Lauren Cohan participate).
Tom Petty died on Oct. 2 2017 and Wildflowers and the Rest is a posthomous boxset that incudes what was left out of his Wildflowers album in 1994.
The heartfelt video of Something Could Happen is warmly directed by Warren Fu and starts the beautiful and delicate Lauren Cohan (Maggie from The Walking Dead series), and its basically a tribute to other iconic videos of Tom Petty, from Into the Great Wide Open to Mary Jane's Last Dance and so on. Its a very beautiful video, romantic, funny in a bittersweet way and emotional, which Tom himself would have loved. Great song too. His spirit is all over it ! I'm still psyched I got to see him live at least...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eZwCzNfNns
A one-off, totally lost in the woods of movieland, and seeing it after 20 years after its release, with fear and anguish :), and wow, I've been mesmerised. An anti-western, or Revisionist western, that today is a genre of its own, and brought us the most nihilistic movies I fave but nobody gave a damn, at least box office wise, and mostly the critics spat on it. This one was called a shit sandwich and worse. Now really, have you seen Straight to Hell with The Clash and 'em acolytes, so that was fun and this is hell ? C'mon folks..
.Welcome to South of Heaven , that equals Hell. As if the pun was not enough the day-bread title goes on- West of Hell ! Texas border, that is !
It's the only film country legend singer (and part time actor) Dwight Yoakam wrote (co-wrote), produced and directed. And he was the lead, which might be the main problem, cos he ain't neither Steve McQueen, neither Kevin Costner. So, yeh, but what, this is his madness, ok ? He put all his money into his passion project, selling his Malibu house and later on declaring total bankrupcy...
The film happens on the day before Christmas 1907 in a village next to the Mexican border, where people can watch the first western, The Great Train Robbery, (from 1903, by Edwin Porter-maybe also a nod to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid's opening), and then goes into 1908 even closer to the border, in the line of it quite so (no walls by then :). It's more like an alegory of death and living dead, in the vein of Pale Rider, High Planes Drifter anti-hero, who might or might not be alive/ dead.
Same in the genre- Dead Man, from which cult scene by the bonfire i think inspired this one ! These days a flick like The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robet Ford (see here my review with more about revisionist westerns) and most recently The Sisters Brothers can get away with anything, but the roots on this are more like Peckinpah's Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, more to The Missouri Breaks and Get South, Posse or The Great Norfield Minesotta Raid. Remember it all goes down to McCabe and Mrs. Miller after all, and to the anarchy of now so-called punk western, aka the spaghetti western from late 60's (did I say nihilism, I wrote the word in the above paragraph).
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Now lookie here at the cast: Bo Hopkins, Luke Askew, Peter Fonda, his daughter Bridget, Billy Bob, (yes,Thornton, with a long blonde hair wig), Vince Vaughan as his baddiest !, Mr. Pee Wee aka Paul Rubens as Arvid, Bud Cort !,Joe Ely ! Matt Clark ! Scott Wilson ! Michael Jeter (a riot!!) and vetran Noble Willingham in a part that is totally Jack Nance's David Lynch. Actually Lynch's name has been more than mentioned in regards of this movie !
***and if that wasn't enough, one far out cameo-Warren Zevon, as mr. Babcock !!!, he's there for ten minutes and doesn't say a word, except on his exit, two words -2- nicht drei, zwei !!!, <Good Night !> Warren was already ill at the time, you can se it on his face, and I guess he's here because of Billy Bob (yes, Thornton), keep in mind this is one single shot for Warren in a feature film !!!
BTW- Dwight looks like Tom Petty...
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wiki page here
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article in The Guardian about the financing of the film, and such kind of off-ones, here
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The soundtrack- the piano on repeat reminds me of something, Zevon-like, or more like The Band
can't be rated, I've seen it from 1 to 10 on imdb, i think its a real curio an acquired taste, I'd give it an 8 tho, or rather a 7 that is a *** 1/2 !
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Bravo Dwight Yoakam for trying, as I said above the man went totally bankrupt out of this and I guess he still suffers from it, maybe in between the south and west of somewhere, but hey, he did IT :D
discovery ul si revelatia anului
un soi de album de covers, daca se poate spune asa, The Bird and the Bee reinterpretind clasicii, in cazul de fata Van Halen (ei au reinterpretat anterior Hall and Oates)
The Who, album nou dupa 13 ani de la Endless Wire , intitulat simplu WHO, si docar al 12-lea album de studio din cariera (adica din 1964 !!!)
piesa Nothing To Prove spune totul, cu instrumentatia de epoca, funny si mischivious.
Hollywood Vampires-Rise
a doilea album, cu piese originale stiș Alice & Depp si coveruri mai obscure, dupa Johnny Thunders (Can/t Put Your Arms Around a Memory), Jim Carroll (People Who Died), sau overknown, Heroes !
The Raconteurs-Help Us Stranger
amzing cum gaseste inca Jack White idei si riffuri...
albumul anului de la Uncut, Weyes Blood-Titanic Rising, un soi de reminiscente de fleetwood mac, abba, beach boys, beatles, etc etc
The Usual Suspects:
Iggy Pop - Free, ciudatel si jazzy si talky
Edwyn Collins _Badbea (thx, Joseph T.)
Jeff Lynne (ELO) -From Out of Nowhere
pina scoate Mike Campbell album cu trupa lui, aici se simte spiritul lui Tom Petty, plus Beatles,
Corky Laing, care a venit si la Brasov, cu un album rar, Toldeo Sessios,
excelent, cu inflexiuni beatles-ine si antemicul Hell Yeah !
Hell, Yeah !
la metal probabil Rammstein,
cu hituri si videouri noi si fresh - Deutschland (Uber Allen), Auslender
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The Red Rocker:
pentru ca Sammy Hagar e clar Classic Rock. Trupa lui noua si proiectul The Circle, highly entertaining
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and yes, Joseph T, of course there is love for The Boss (si inca nu am vazut filmul/ videoul la Western Stars)
and then there is the BLUES, which i mostly listened to, for obvious TRANSILVAN IA BLUES NIGHTS reasons :)
toate nominalizarile aici
intro deosebit de fun si de serios a lui Jimmy Kimmel
cu mentionrea lui Harvey expulzatul si a celulilalt expulzat din AMPAS, actorul Corrado ..in 2004, pe motiv de screenere
si plug-in-ul cu jetskiul de 20.000 $ pentru cel mai scurt speech !!
bineintele glume despre greseala de anul trecut cu Lalaland vs. Moonlight-Warren Beatty si Faye Dunaway vor prezenta din nou best picture !
prima surpriza. ICARUS, documentarul netflix preferat lui de Faces//Places de Agnes Varda
best supporting actor-Sam Rockwell (3 Billboards), frumos ca a multumit celorlalti nominaliati, Christopher Plummer (pt All the Money in the World) parea emotionat si nervos, e cel mai batrin nominalizat la 89 de ani. Eva Marie Saint a prezentat premiul pentru costume. Are 94 de ani si arata fabulos ! Mark Bridges a luat al doilea Oscar (dupa Artistul) pentru Phantom Thread.
Christopher Walken e in sala. Se implinesc 40 de ani de cind a luat Oscarul pentru Deer Hunter. Shape of Water-primul Oscar -scenografie Dunkirk a batut Baby Driver la sound mixing si sound edting ! Rita Moreno-are 86 de ani si arata fabulos ! a venit in aceiasi rochie cu care era cond a primit premiul pentru West Side Story in 1962. Prezinta premul pentru cel mai bun film strain, nici o surpriza -ia Una mujer fantastica -din Chile, Sebastian Lelio, un favorit al TIFFului clujean unde a primit premiu pentru debutul sau, La Sagrada Familia -2005
nicio surpriza la actrita in rol secundar-Allison Janney pentru I, Tonya !
cei de la Star Wars sunt cam impaiati, prezinta animatia. Mark Hammill included. cu glume alui de pensie de Jedi.
Coco la animatie. Cum ziceau unii-Spirited Away in mexico.
Blade Runner 2049 la efecte vizuale. Ma astptam sa ia maimutele.
o shotie mai buna decit cea cu selfie-urile. Un grup de vedete se duc in cinemaul de vizavi. Vedetele fata in fata cu publicul lor. Li se dau goodies.
Piesele muzicale. Common ridica sala in picioare. "Dreamers, imimgarants". Spielberg, fata de care Kimmel a facut o glumita acida- "You got Pot?"aplauda cam stingaci.
#metoo si #timesup trio-Salam Hayek, Ashley Judd, feminism. Nah, prima femeie DOP nominlaizata ever ? 2018 ? Black Panther si Wonder Woman filme vizionare, curajoase, despre minoritati ? Really ?
now we get political.
Premiul de scenariu.
Adaptat _Call Me By Your Name-James Ivory -nu pot sa cred ca abia acum ia Oscarul. a mai avut 4 nominalizari. Ivory are 89 de ani. Poarta o camasa cu fața lui Timothee Chalamet desenata pe ea.
Original. Jordan Peele-Get Out.
Very political. Filmul a cistigat bigtime ieri al Independent Spirit Awards. Ma gindesc ca am vazut acest filmulet acum aprope un an, in cinema, si l-am apreciat dar nici chiar asa.
Wes Studi ! trebuia un nativ indian - sa anunte un montaj de filme de razboi si ca Oscarul multumeste soldatilor. Scuze pentru Matt Damon, ca face parte din montaj zice Kimmell care continua serie de glume damoniste.
n-am prea inteles gluma cu clonarea ciinelui Barbrei Streisand-Yentl si ? deci femeia si-a clonat ciinele !
my favorite Oscar this year-Roger Deakins, pentru imaginea la BR 2049. Dupa 14 nominalizari !!!!
long overdue ! Kudos ! Omul a dedicat premiul echipei !
Am zis ca o sa prezinte ceva Christopher Walken. Premiul pentru muzica. A fost restrained. Previzibil Desplat un al doilea Oscar, pentru The Shape of Water.
si momentul in memoriam. de la John Avildsen la Jerry Lewis. Pe o piesa cintata live de Eddie Veder.
Piesa lui Tom Petty, Room at the Top of the World. Touching for all reasons. voila le clip:
Regie. Anul lui Del Toro. Al treilea mexican, dupa Curaon si Innaritu. Bravo, Guillermo !
Urmeaza actorii. Gary Oldman for sure. Prezinta Jane Fonda si Helen Mirren. Fonda are 80 de ani si arat superb ! Compara decorul de la Oscar cu Orgasmatronul din Barbarella :) Cristale Swarowski and stuff. Kimmell: Humility-
nice speeches. Oldman a multumit mamei sale de 99 de ani ! i-a zis sa pregateasca ceainicul. Il aduce pe Oscar !
si Frances McDormand la al doilea premiu. 3 Billboards. Premiul e prezentat de Jodie Foster (in cirje!) si Jennifer Lawrence, asta in locul lui Cassey Aflleck, care e acuzat de molestare.
Sa vedem daca ia Shape si la film. A luat.
4 premii din 13 nominalizari. Buna si gaselnita de a-i readuce pe Beatty & Dunaway. Au reparat fatada.
si Mark Bridges a luat jet skiul pt cel mai scurt speech -37 de secunde or so.
and so, these were the Oscars 90. Nu l-am vazut deloc pe Jack.
Steal away, to the dark end of the street, mmm mmm
They're gonna find us
They're gonna find us
They're gonna find us, oh someday
You and me, at the dark end of the street
You and me
And when the daylight hour rolls around
And by chance we're both downtown
If we should meet, just walk on by
Oh darling, please don't cry
Tonight we'll meet
At the dark end of the street, mmm mmm
Songwriters: Chips Moman / Dan Penn
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also a version of the song by THE COMMITMENTS in the Alan Parker 1991 film
covered by so many (from Percy Sledge to Ry Cooder, Gregg Allman, Elvis Costello, Frank Black to Cat Power)
and discoverd a Tom Petty desperate rambling live version from 1978 in Winterland
"From the dark end of the street, to the bright side of the road," ....made my Sunday nite. The Street still has dark ends...ad you've gotta make endsmeet...
just now... Tom Petty, 66. Heart attack. Tru Heatbreaker :(
saw him in 2012 in Lucca.
Hoped i'll see him again, played a lot of his music these last few years and recently, including Mudcrutch 2 (his album in 2016)....
on the trip to Pirate's Cove ?
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
setlist Lucca, Italia, Piazza Napoleone, 29.06.2012
Listen to Her Heart
You Wreck Me
I Won't Back Down
Here Comes My Girl
Handle with Care
(Traveling Wilburys cover)
Good Enough (de pe Mojo)
Oh Well
(Fleetwood Mac cover)
Something Big
Don't Come Around Here No More
Free Fallin'
It's Good To Be King (de pe Wildflowers)
Carol
(Chuck Berry cover)
Learning to Fly (de pe Into The Great Wide Open)
Yer So Bad
I Should Have Known It
Refugee (Damn The Torpedoes)
Runnin' Down a Dream
Encore:
Mary Jane's Last Dance
Two Men Talking (new song) !!!!!
American Girl
pentru prima data in 20 de ani Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers si-au anuntat aparitia pe scena in Europa ! Pare a fi evenimentul live al anului 2012 so act accordingly :>! datele cuprind toata luna iunie si sunt in total 12 concerte: June 7: 02 Arena, Dublin, IR June 8: The Marquee, Cork, IR June 10: 02 World, Hamburg, GER June 12: Open Air, Horsens, DK June 14: The Globe, Stockholm, SWE June 15: Norwegian Wood Festival, Oslo, NOR June 22: Isle of Wight Festival, UK June 24: Hallenstadion, Zurich, SWI June 25: Lanxess Arena, Cologne, GER June 27: Grand Rex, Paris, FR June 29: Piazza Napoleone, Lucca, IT June 30: SAP Arena, Mannheim, GER interesant ca Anglia e cuprinsa doar de festivalul de la Isle of Wright unde cinta si The Boss si cu E Strret Band !!!
coolest news: Kevin Costner si trupa lui, Modern West cinta live in Bucuresti ! Costner, care filmeaza de vreo 2 luni la noi miniseria western Hatfields & McCoys, si care a fost vazut pe la concertele lui Elvis Costello si Tom Jones, va da el insusi un concert, luni 12 decembrie la ora 20.00 in clubul Tribute de pe Calea Victoriei, imediat linga Green Hours.
Veste mai putin buna, biletele costa 150 RON si clubul nu-i tocmai ieftin...ceea ce cred ca o sa aduca mai mult spectatori de fitze...
Costner a cintat deja in filme (Swing Vote) si piesa de pe Open Range, el cinta un country rock, dupa cum zice si numele trupei, Modern West. Ceva din voce si stil imi aduce aminte si de Tom Petty. Costner a scos pina acum 2 albume, „Untold Truths" (2008) şi „Turn It On" (2010). El a mai cintat la noi la Arad in 2009, in cadrul festivalului de film Ro-IFF.
Eu cred ca va sold out miine (azi la ora 15.00 mai erau 80 de bilete-din 100!-s-au pus in vinzare tot azi !). See ya there !
"It's a crazy fucking world..." am aflat de Animal Kingdom de pe lista de top ten a lui Tarantino pe 2010, e pe locul trei. a luat Marele premiu a juriului la Sundance si a fost nominalizat la 18 premii AFI -institutul Australian de film(numar record!). Scris si regizat de debutantul David Michod, e un crime drama apasator, o ruda australiana a lui Mystic River si The Town, sau mai mult a filmelor gen coming of age intr-o familie de criminali (un fel de fratii Karamazov criminali-cu o mama de tragedie antica, un fel de Gorgona blonda, cu numele de Mama Smurf, Jacki Weaver-nominalizata la Globul de Aur!), gen optzecistele At Close Range, Rumble Fish, The River's Edge, State of Grace (1990). Sau australianul mult-premiat Lantana (2001), ca stil. Are slowmotion si on sound design adecvat, care mareste tensiunea si apasa atmosfera, si muzica orchestrala Michael Mann-esca (compozitor Antony Partos). Guy Pearce e un politist care incearca sa-l scoata pe adolescentul J. (James Frecheville) din acest mediu ostil si mlastinos care il va trage la fund. In soundtrack se afla 2 piese de Partos cu David McCormack si respectiv, Sam Petty, o piesa cu Air Supply (All Out of Love), clipul se vede la TV, si apare ca fundal sonor in teaser:
una cu alta trupa autraliana, Mental As Anything - Berserk Warriors (1981), una cu Jimmy Cliff-Sitting in Limbo, una cu trupa neo-zeelandeza Dragon-April Sun in Cuba (din 1977), iar una cu Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, anume Refugee (din 1979),
e la minutul 33, intr-o scena importanta de noapte (no more spoilers, stiti ca nu prea imi place sa povestesc subiectele filmelor si ce si cum, astea se vad singure). Singura mea problerma, nu mi s-a parut atit de involving...si pe alocuri pretentios... interviu cu David Michod in Slant sit oficial aici metacritics score; 83 din 100 ! 3,5 din 5/7 din 10 ! DVD extras: comentariu cu David Michod, comentariu cu actorii (partial, numai o ora), trailer, teaser, alte 4 trailere de la Madman ! ***cu ocazia asta am mai auzit de un film australian, The Square, de Nash Edgerton, in acelsi gen. Will inform and report :-)
jee boyoz, this is a tough one !
dar trebuie pusa aici pt fanii de southern rock, to get it:
e un combo de Sweet Home Alabama cu Werewolves of London cu satira din Southern Man, reluata de Lynyrd in Southern Ways!
o versiune geniala piano based unplugged din 1994 aici (cu o infuzie scurta de "Dixie")
download moca la concertul de Wheeler Opera House, Aspen, Colorado, aici
de asta e All Summer Long cool si uncool, pentru ca Kid Rock citeaza Sweet Home A. si Werewolves linia melodica si a creat un worldwide hit, si pustii nu stiu nimic nici de L.Skynyrd , cit despre Warren Z, he is gonna be remembered as the best kept secret in RnR ! the Norwegian Roland's friends know, though !
so i wasn't so surprised when I saw this:
Drive By Truckers, doing it a la Tom Petty...
si aici the one and only truly Genius:->..Warren Z ! (around 1982)
piesa a aparut original pe Bad Luck in Dancing School (1980) !!!!
written by Warren Zevon 1980 Zevon Music BMI
Grandpa pissed his pants again
He don't give a damn
Brother Billy has both guns drawn
He ain't been right since Vietnam
"Sweet home Alabama"
Play that dead band's song
Turn those speakers up full blast
Play it all night long
Daddy's doing Sister Sally
Grandma's dying of cancer now
The cattle all have brucellosis
We'll get through somehow
"Sweet home Alabama"
Play that dead band's song
Turn those speakers up full blast
Play it all night long
I'm going down to the Dew Drop Inn
See if I can drink enough
There ain't much to country living
Sweat, piss, jizz and blood
"Sweet home Alabama"
Play that dead band's song
Turn those speakers up full blast
Play it all night long
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well dudes, as Warren said: Enjoy every Sandwich ! I did 2 /am 2 !
a mai trecut un an ! Tim Robbins si Susan Sarandon s-au despartit dupa 23 de ani, Brittany Murphy a murit la 32, Rain Man the original la 58 si Steven Tyler s-a internat la dezintoxicare !!! Lemmy a implinit 64 de ani azi & lemmy f**in Xmas de anul trecut ! but as Bob says here intr-un clip excelent si el cu peruca seamana cu Tom Petty, MUST BE SANTA !
