No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005), Heartworn Highways (1976), Neil Young: Heart of Gold (2006), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), If I Should Fall From Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story (2001), Yellow Earth (1984), The Boys From County Clare (2003) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Folk Music movies.
Storyline: Filmmaker Martin Scorsese traces Bob Dylan's evolution from folk troubadour to iconic rock star. Live concert footage and press conferences from the 1960s and a new interview with Dylan are used to draw a portrait of the legendary singer-songwriter.
Plot Keywords: musician, girlfriend, allen ginsberg, gutsy, passionate, new york city, concert stage ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The best music and the best whiskey come from the same part of the country.
Plot Keywords: musician, country singer, songwriter, engaging, lighthearted, positive, united states ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A film shot over during a two-night performance by Neil Young at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium.
Plot Keywords: musician, airy, creative, engaging, positive, raw, uplifting ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Follow a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles -- some of them of his own making.
Plot Keywords: musician, singer-songwriter, music producer, mogul, confident, engaging, passionate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Music videos and archived footage supplement recent interviews in this documentary of ex-Pogues singer Shane MacGowan. We follow his life from the early days in Ireland and England, through his formation of - and later dismissal from - The Pogues, to his new band The Popes. Shane's family, friends, and former bandmates comment on the music, the rumors, and the alcohol.—sienel
Plot Keywords: singer-songwriter, band member, friend, family member, somber, profound, ireland ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 'Yellow Earth' focuses on the story of a communist soldier who is sent to the countryside to collect folk songs for the Communist Revolution. There he stays with a peasant family and learns that the happy songs he was sent to collect do not exist; the songs he finds are about hardship and suffering. He returns to the army, but promises to come back for the young girl, Cuiqiao, who has been spell-bound by his talk of the freedom women have under communist rule and who wants to join the Communist Army.—Ronald Aiken <aikenrd@netcom.com>
Plot Keywords: peasant, soldier, communist, girl, solemn, powerful, striking ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A traditional music competition rekindles a rivalry between two estranged brothers (Colm Meaney, Bernard Hill) from Ireland.
Plot Keywords: brother, band leader, pianist, flutist, violinist, ex-girlfriend, lighthearted ...
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