Cult Movies, Music & Musicals

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Actors:Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O'Brien, ...
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Widescreen Edition)
by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (DVD) (Release Date: 2002-09-03)

An \""ordinary\"" couple spend an unforgettable night at the castle of a mad-scientist from the planet Transexual.Genre: MusicalsRating: RRelease Date: 3-OCT-2000Media Type: DVD

Actors:Bob Geldof, Christine Hargreaves, James Laurenson, Eleanor David, ...
Pink Floyd - The Wall 25th Anniversary (Deluxe Edition)
by Sony (DVD) (Release Date: 2005-01-25)

Actors:Roger Daltrey, Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed, Elton John, ...
Tommy
by Sony Pictures (DVD) (Release Date: 1999-09-28)

If you've ever wanted to hear Jack Nicholson sing (or try to) or marvel at the sight of Ann-Margret drunkenly cavorting in a cascade of baked beans, Tommy is the movie you've been waiting for. As it turns out, the Who's brilliant rock opera is sublimely matched to director Ken Russell's penchant for cinematic excess, and this 1975 production finds Russell at the peak of his filmmaking audacity. It's a fever-dream of musical bombast, custom-fit to the thematic ambition of Pete Townshend's epic rock drama, revolving around the titular "deaf, dumb, and blind kid" (played by Who vocalist Roger Daltrey) who survives the childhood trauma that stole his senses to become a Pinball Wizard messiah in Townshend's grandiose attack on the hypocrisy of organized religion. The story is remarkably coherent considering the hypnotic dream-state induced by Russell's visuals. Tommy's odyssey is rendered through wall-to-wall music, each song representing a pivotal chapter in Tommy's chronology, from ...

Actors:Michael Aronov, Ermes Blarasin, Rob Campbell, Karen Hines, ...
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (New Line Platinum Series)
by New Line Home Video (DVD) (Release Date: 2001-12-11)

Sometimes grace and hope come in surprising packages. The title character of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, a would-be glam-rock star from East Germany, undergoes a botched gender-change operation in order to escape from the Soviet bloc, only to watch the Berlin Wall come down on TV after being abandoned in a trailer park in middle America. Hedwig gets involved with Tommy, an adolescent boy who steals her songs and becomes a stadium-filling musical act. Suffering from a broken heart and a lust for revenge, Hedwig follows Tommy's tour, playing with her band (the Angry Inch) at tacky theme restaurants. Into this simple storyline, writer-director-star John Cameron Mitchell packs an astonishing mix of sadness, yearning, humor, and kick-ass songs with a little Platonic philosophy tucked inside for good measure. A visually dazzling gem of a movie. --Bret Fetzer

Actors:Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O'Brien, ...
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (25th Anniversary Edition)
by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (DVD) (Release Date: 2000-10-03)

Fasten your garter belt and come up to the lab and see what's on the slab! It's The Rocky Horror Picture Show Special Edition, a screamingly funny, sinfully twisted salute to sci-fi, horror, B-movies and rock music, all rolled into one deliciously decade

Actors:Alex Briley, David Hodo, Glenn Hughes, Randy Jones (II), ...
Village People - Can't Stop the Music
by Starz / Anchor Bay (DVD) (Release Date: 2002-04-16)

Actors:Bob Geldof, Christine Hargreaves, James Laurenson, Eleanor David, ...
Pink Floyd - The Wall
by Sony (DVD) (Release Date: 1999-12-02)

By any rational measure, Alan Parker's cinematic interpretation of Pink Floyd: The Wall is a glorious failure. Glorious because its imagery is hypnotically striking, frequently resonant, and superbly photographed by the gifted cinematographer Peter Biziou. And a failure because the entire exercise is hopelessly dour, loyal to the bleak themes and psychological torment of Roger Waters's great musical opus, and yet utterly devoid of the humor that Waters certainly found in his own material. Any attempt to visualize The Wall would be fraught with artistic danger, and Parker succumbs to his own self-importance, creating a film that's as fascinating as it is flawed. The film is, for better and worse, the fruit of three artists in conflict--Parker indulging himself, and Waters in league with designer Gerald Scarfe, whose brilliant animated sequences suggest that he should have directed and animated this film in its entirety. Fortunately, this clash of talent and ego does not prevent ...

Actors:Hilary Beane, Robert Beecher, Gene Borkan, Beatrice Colen, ...
American Pop
by Sony Pictures (DVD) (Release Date: 1998-06-17)

Animator-director-screenwriter Ralph Bakshi audaciously tries to chronicle the history of 20th-century American popular music, while also placing each period into historical and social context--all in 97 minutes! Its animated, episodic narrative follows four generations of Jewish-American musicians as each painfully seeks fame through changing musical eras. Starting at the turn of the century with a piano-playing immigrant in New York, the film moves swiftly, following his offspring through such movements as Gershwin-era pop, jazz, folk music, '60s psychedelia, and punk--and only pauses for elaborate, energized musical numbers designed to showcase the work of Benny Goodman, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Lou Reed, the Jefferson Airplane, and numerous others. However, these electric set pieces provide brief dynamism in a relatively bleak film filled with hard-luck protagonists suffering through clichéd drug addiction, death, and alienation. While the film's scope is admirably ...

Actors:Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly, Michael Beck, James Sloyan, ...
Xanadu
by Universal Studios (DVD) (Release Date: 1999-07-20)

A wimpy remake of an already anemic movie (the 1947 Rita Hayworth vehicle Down to Earth), this glitzy musical from 1980 improbably stars Olivia Newton-John as a heavenly muse sent here to help open a roller-derby disco. Gene Kelly is mixed up in this well-meaning but goofy effort to fuse nostalgia with late-'70s glitter-ball trendiness, and he looks just plain silly. Directed by Robert Greenwald, the film doesn't even work as decent kitsch. --Tom Keogh

Actors:Sandra Bernhard, John Doe, Steve Antin, Lu Leonard, ...
Without You I'm Nothing
by MGM (Video & DVD) (DVD) (Release Date: 2005-08-23)

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