Let's match the filmmaker with the band.

I remember reading a few months ago in a book (it may have been "There's a Riot Goin' On") that Jean-Luc Godard said, when filming the Jefferson Airplane in concert for a film of his, that the band "epitomized everything (Godard) is about." This got me thinking about what a perfect match the filmmaker and the band seemed to be for each other. Both Godard and J.A. were icons of the 1960s counter culture, painfully self-indulgent at their worst, briefly Maoist, and though highly original they seem incredibly dated today. Now while some of those similarities are subjective opinions of mine, it made me think of a second, even better, idea: how many other filmmakers have a matching rock band/pop star?

Right off the top I could think of Quentin Tarantino/Pavement. They both ascended around the same time, are incredibly smartass, have always enticed critics with their vast knowledge of film and rock and roll's past (and the way they can litter their works with homages and in-jokes that only fellow buffs will appreciate), and both still have a strong presence amongst undergrads. I'm sure there are many more similarities between those two.

Anyway, what other filmmaker-band connections can we make? Does Steven Spielberg have a corresponding band? Is Wes Andersen/Belle and Sebastian a fit, or is that just the obvious answer? What about Scorsese/Rolling Stones? This could be fun, ILM.

I thought Tarantino was the Jesus Lizard.

tarantino's more of a pavement to me.

that's the most disgusting blasphemy i've ever heard.

David Cronenberg/Aphex Twin

damn stevie, must be a boring life you lead :p
xp

Tarkovsky- Sigur Rós

Orson Welles/Scott Walker

Chris Marker, Robert Ashley.

Bill Forsyth - Roddy Frame/Aztec Camera?

Beyond the collaboration on Faces, Cassavetes and Mingus shared a scrappy outlook and prickly humor. And both were happy blurring the line between composing/scripting and improvisation. It's always hard to tell what's planned and what being made up in their work.

Obvious answer: Scorsese/Clash

ed wood - misfits

Woody Allen/Sparks
David Lynch/Pere Ubu

Wes Anderson would like to be matched with the Kinks but it is actually Vampire Weekend

Also Tarkovsky/ Sigue Ros? No-o-o-o-o.....!

He's worth Can at least, and they're about on a level with Luc Besson or somesuch

Wes Anderson would like to be matched with the Kinks but it is actually Vampire Weekend

ha!

otm

rob zombie/rob zombie

Tarantino is no where near as boring as Pavement.

that's the other way around.

Nope it's right.

i mentioned it for the obvious postmodern influences in each artist's work.

i find it sad that someone could be so pathetically humorless to call pavement "boring".

Yes, cuz Pavement such good joke-rock, of course.

Anyway not to derail the thread, I think I could see someone like Kubrick = Scott Walker. Woody Allen seems more like Prince to me.

minus some of the sauciness obv.

The image of Woody dressed in a purple jumpsuit, tootling a pink clarinet (oh, er) springs irrestibly to mind.....
Otherwise, not sure I see it?
Richard Curtis/ James Blunt?
Dickie Attenborough/ Sting?

and a good one:
Duke Ellington/ Howard Hawks

Who matches with the Smiths? John Schlesinger?

Oh, and I guess we can get the obvious out of the way with Warhol/Velvet Underground.

Woody Allen and Prince is inspired, really.
Others:
Richard Linklater / Pavement
Godard / Beatles (think about it)
Fassbinder / Velvet Underground
Scorsese / Rolling Stones
Antonioni (or Visconti) / Roxy Music
Altman / Captain Beefheart?
What band is Cassavettes?

boetticher- link wray
is john waters germs or flipper?
fassbinder- half japanese or maybe gg allin if he was good
dreyer-kraftwerk

are any of these right? this is hard.

also bresson-homosexuals if they did more than one album? maybe pole.
wes anderson- esquivel

What band is Hitchcock?
(It's amazing what smoking a bowl does to this thread)

hitchcock could be serge gainsborg or maybe birthday party

(It's amazing what smoking a bowl does to this thread)

Alas, far too many of my threads go well with that.

I'm kind of teetering on the edge of committing to Guy Maddin/Magnetic Fields...

Oh yeah, you couldn't have thought of that without being high
Great idea btw.

well, thank you

John Waters and the B-52s

steven spielberg/?

i was thinking michael jackson but spielberg is still successful and popular

Spielberg and U2 - both over-earnest and prone to large hammy gestures.

B-52's is good but dosent have the shock value needed for his early films? Otherwise perfect fit.

Robert Bresson- Ornette Coleman

So, essentially, filmmakers I like are musicians I don't like?

Spielberg and U2

What specifically are you referring to Eric?

The fact that I like most of these directors and dislike most of these musicians.

Like which filmmaker is the Isley Brothers?

Larry Cohen

Which musicians do you like? Very hard to have a discussion over generalities. Perhaps it could work the other way round.

OK, I want filmmakers who match with Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Masters at Work, Wonderlove, The Gap Band, The Supremes, One Way, Parliament, Daft Punk, Basement Jaxx, Earth Wind & Fire, A Tribe Called Quest and Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band.

who is spike lee?

there are some holes in this, but scott walker feels like a david lynch. the whole schmaltz mixed with the grotesque.

tarantino is kinda serge gainsbourg. or a more rock n roll stereolab.

Anyone read the recent Sunday NYTimes piece where QT talked about his new Nazi hunter movie? I thoguht he canme off as a Holy Idiot whose success is likely due to a set of congenital quirks and deficiencies -- making him the Wesley Willis of filmdom.

Tarantino can get really excited and come off as sort of aspie or even idiot savantish at times, but I think calling him the Wesley Willis of film is a little extreme. I mean, as weird a dude QT is, he's not really on the same level as a schizophrenic outsider musician who belts out songs about sucking animals' dicks over Casio beats.

(not intending to slander Wesley Willis, just illustrating a point)

I think David Lynch = Jesus and Mary Chain

The first similarity is that their most revered work came out within a year of each other, then there is the way they both took traditional genres from yesteryear (both used innocent 1960s pop, and in BV the all-American boy's mystery case) and subversively warped them beyond belief - influencing legions of others. Lastly, there's the intentionally bad production (the feedback throughout Psychocandy, the fact that Blue Velvet's washed-out look was achieved by not developing the film footage correctly. In both cases people wondered whether these things were mistakes or aesthetic choices).

Psychocandy would actually soundtrack quite well to a few Blue Velvet scenes imo.

Don't really agree with Mary Chain for Lynch. They just arent wierd or baffling in any way really whereas Lynch is a lot. He seems to be all about the sub concious and dream states- Mary Chain just foggy, dark, noisy pop songs. I would go with Sun Ra for Lynch or maybe Sun City Girls.

My comparison works better if you just single out Psychocandy and BV, now that I've thought about it.

michael bay = the prodigy
― the bourgeoisie and the rebel (Stevie D),

Michael Bay:Dragonforce
― 8 HOOS Dog (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver),

Michael Bay - U2

michael bay = the prodigy
― the bourgeoisie and the rebel (Stevie D),

Michael Bay:Dragonforce
― 8 HOOS Dog (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver),

Michael Bay - U2

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― meisenfek, jueves 3 de septiembre de 2009 06:29 AM (25 minutes ago)

Michael Bay - KISS

Jim Jarmusch - The White Stripes

gaspar noé - genesis p-orridge

Walt Disney - Phil Spector

guy ritchie - bloodhound gang

If I said that Kevin Smith were Weezer, does that make Judd Apatow a kind of Blink 182?

roland emmerich - liberace

abel ferrara - iggy pop

werner herzog - moondog

Michael Herz & Lloyd Kaufman (troma) - Sam Sacks

Sonic Youth is totally fucking Godard.

this came from a conversation tonight that placed Herzog as SWANS and Godard as SY, btw.

did jefferson airplane REALLY have a maoist phase??!!

godard prolly more like dylan

discounting the politics, SY and Godard totally hipster name-checking sorta shtick. also pretty radical, fucking shit up approach to their craft.

also all decent work done in first decade of career

(joeks, like some later Godard)

> Sonic Youth is totally fucking Godard.

Bad mental image.

Michael Bay is Pendulum of course.

Sofia Coppola = Phoenix.

Sort of uninspired considering they're scoring her next film, but they work perfect for each other.

Yep, Sofia Coppola is totally fucking Phoenix.

Oh wait.

Sonic Youth is the new Jefferson Airplane

David Lynch = The Raveonettes?

(Actually, whoever said Lynch = Scott Walker is probably right.)

Don Siegel - Link Wray
Clint Eastwood - Eric Clapton
Nicolas Winding Refn - Trent Reznor
Roman Polanski - Betrand Burgalat

* a very dark burgalat *

david lynch - david lynch

John Milius - Motörhead

Sam Raimi - Perez Prado

Joe Dante - The Misfits
David Lynch - David Lynch
Guy Ritchie - Lenny Kravitz

Claude Lelouch - Jay Kay

Jacques Rivette - Can

Darren Aronofsky - Rollins Band

David Lynch = Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works (Vol. 2)

yes, yes, i will sign autographs later.

spike jonze - pavement
i get double points b/c he's already directed a music video or two for them.
god i'm great.

terrence malick - godspeed you! black emperor

tony scott - theoretical girls
apichatpong weerasethakul - the united states of america
yasujiro ozu - owl city

Abel Ferrara = Suicide
Michael Bay = Black-Eyed Peas

Russ Meyer = Sex Pistols?

Frank Capra = The Carpenters

Tim Burton = The Cure

Shane Meadows = Sham 69

Billy Wilder = The Kinks

late adopter, you fucking nailed it w/ burotn.