CBGB Movie

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18069510

Actor Alan Rickman is to star in a new film about famous New York nightclub CBGB, which helped launched acts like The Ramones, Blondie and Patti Smith.

The Harry Potter and Die Hard star will play the club's owner Hilly Kristal.

The film, titled CBGB, will tell the story of how Kristal opened the venue in 1973 for country, bluegrass and blues music - hence the name.

But as he began to book other acts, the venue found itself at the heart of the thriving punk and new wave scene.

Unlike many clubs, Kristal had a rule saying bands could not play cover versions, and many new groups began to forge their careers there, including also Talking Heads and Television.

the writer hasn't done much. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0767713/

could be good though.

although you can't help but think of..

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/18/54_poster.jpg

somehow did not know that 54 movie existed. holy hell. I've got to watch that now.

Heed piscesx's warning: it's pretty pointless.

who will play the toilet

hedorah the smog monster

54should've been a great movie.

Hard for me to get why legendary clubs like CBGB can't keep themselves in business.

seems like it was kind of in-fighting amongst kristal's family that really brought it down?

there was a doc film (by Seymour & Linda Stein's daughter) and I don't recall that angle being explored.

Rickman will have to get a bit slovenly.... Who will play Debbie, Patti, and Johnny Thunders?

who will play the toilet

― tylerw, Tuesday, May 15, 2012 4:16 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Who is the most digusting actor on Earth?!

It still makes me sad that CBs is no more. I will totally watch it even though it probably won't be that great. Studio 54 at least had some hot shirtless Ryan Phillipe action.

i dunno, i think they should go full out broadway musical with this. On The Bowery!

Michael Shannon's too old to play Dee Dee, alas.

oh man that would be perfect casting

seriously!

yeah no doubt

lol
http://www.boston.com/ae/music/blog/2012/06/foo_fighter_tay.html
Foo Fighter Taylor Hawkins to play Iggy Pop in CBGB movie

whut

he would've been better as the toilet.

Hoping John Leguizamo will reprise his Summer of Sam role.

norah jones as Patti Smith

Topher Grace as Chris Stein

taylor swift as Debbie Harry

Lou Reed as himself

Johnny Depp as Richard Hell

p. sure I heard that Malin Akerman is playing Debbie Harry.

I hope they have the scene where Hilly is up on the ladder changing the marquee and Tom Verlaine walks by and gets Television booked there and I hope Tom Verlaine is played by George Clooney because why not.

lol

"We'd like to do a CBGB's story but let's make everyone look healthy. man they were all so UGLY back then."

We need Bieber as Joey Ramone.

Patti Smith:

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTYxNjk3NzY5N15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwODQxNzAwMw@@._V1._SX214_CR0,0,214,314_.jpg

Harry Potter's pal as Cheetah Chrome, Hangover guy as Stiv Bators

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1786751/fullcredits#cast

I guess they are shooting this in Savannah. Which is funny cos last weekend I was there and one of the last minute friends that tagged along for the road trip just got a gig working on it. Then we ended up drinking at the bar that they're filming it at (i think). The Velvet Elvis?

I guess they are flying down pieces from actual CBGB's down to feature in on the set.

http://www.billdawers.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/DSC_0081-e1342073928866.jpg

http://www.billdawers.com/2012/07/12/rupert-grint-in-cbgb-as-cheetah-chrome/

of course you could construct the mid '70s Bowery anywhere but the East Village.

savannah??

*SIGH*

http://2a56b976980e0793ddee-5cc5435fcbc367bb03f9a415e7067a97.r91.cf2.rackcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/cbgb.jpg

haha, i kind of see what they're going for (punk magazine), but they failed. who is donal logue supposed to be in this? jeff bridges?

taylor hawkins as iggy pop interests and scares me

who are they all supposed to be?
I'm guessing l-R: Hilly K, Debbie Harry... then 2 extras from Reality Bites... then Cheetah Chrome?, then maybe Richard Hell?, Joey, Patti Smith?, The Dude from Big Lebowski wearing a construction helmet, that girl from Square Pegs, Iggy Pop

They nailed Hilly's dog, that's for sure.

ew

Looking forward to the Mad Magazine parody.

Woof Me Worry?

I wish I had invented ecccchhhs...

I did karaoke at the bar they filmed this at last year. I think "You Win Again" and "Proud Mary".

Tina Turner version of the latter?

Hah no.

And a trailer: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/cbgb-trailer-go-inside-greatest-601919

I'll see it, even though I now cannot think of Hilly without thinking of Professor Snape.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/cd08ebb7c02b8a13dbc39a185f46f1f7/tumblr_mm9y6fqnq61qdm4v9o1_500.png

hahahah

This looks so horrible

it will make a good double feature with 54

"just like it never happened"

Why is it that movies about rock bands always look like they were made by people who have never actually seen a rock band play in person?

wow that's bad

looks.. cheap. still i'm looking forward to HACIENDA the movie some time soon i guess.

rupert looks like he walked out of the JC Penney punk catalog

HACIENDA the movie

did this not already happen

yeah, Winterbottom-Coogan fucked up and made a good one.

was just thinking how 24 hour party ppl is a minor miracle of a rock film

yeah parts of that one are about as good as this kind of film can possibly get, I think.
feel like someone could make a great nashville-esque movie about the nyc music scene in 1976-ish. has anyone started adapting love goes to buildings on fire as a screenplay?

Ha ha, there's no pleasing you jaded MFers! I bet if original pictures were snuck into the movie stills you'd still find something to bitch about. "What's with that raincoat, did they get that from Target?"

http://25.media.tumblr.com/a6de5aa73f1d7a2c6ef31ea5afadebb3/tumblr_mn348iwD2T1qlsutzo1_500.jpg

When Jonathan Demme was supposedly making a CBGB's movie in 1988 and it never happened, I was surprised this one even made it. It may not be great art, but it looks fun, and look forward to it. I'll just enjoy Alan Rickman's deadpan jokes (he doesn't seem much like I imagined Hilly Kristal, but I wouldn't know) and hope it strikes the right balance of sleeze and innocence, convincing casting and performances worthy of all these iconic bands. Richard Hell, Cheetah Chrome, Patti Smith, Iggy, Joey Ramone, Tom Verlaine, Lou Reed. They don't seem to have a Johnny Thunders in the cast list, but most other key players seem covered.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6JsgZU9jHY

biggest problem is there isn't an actor in hollywood ugly enough to play joey ramone

lol at the police at the end of the trailer

I hope they have the scene where Hilly is up on the ladder changing the marquee and Tom Verlaine walks by and gets Television booked there and I hope Tom Verlaine is played by George Clooney because why not.

― Brony! Broni! Broné! (Phil D.), Tuesday, June 5, 2012 1:35 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Well, according to :16-:17 in the trailer they're doing the scene. I don't get Clooney, but I do get Johnny Galecki as Terry Ork, so, uh, win?

lol at the police at the end of the trailer

― tylerw, Friday, August 9, 2013 12:16 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah what the hell?

"You're PUNKS. Anything bad, anything wrong - you want to do it"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=O1ZNfaOpqKo

oh but anyway the trailer reminds me of Almost Famous.

see I was ready to lean back fold my arms and pshaw this looks terrible

but then I saw Opie from Sons of Anarchy was in it

#gamechanger

if I am one thing, it's fickle :)

Why is it that movies about rock bands always look like they were made by people who have never actually seen a rock band play in person?

not just that but like, you're making a punk rock movie... have you ever actually watched a punk rock movie? because there were a lot of movies that really captured the spirit and aesthetic of punk and yours is not one of them.

it's very clean and bright

reminds me of that terrible woodstock movie

there's a Woodstock movie??

by Ang Lee!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taking_Woodstock

So, uh, enjoy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=447z3jPVNxU

To quote a comment:

The best scene: when Blondie plays a song from their third album ("Sunday Girl"),

and Iggy jumps onstage, so that Blondie can play "I Wanna Be Your Dog" exactly like

the Stooges. Highly creative, to say the least!

In skipping around the comic panel transitional bits make me want to beat people.

Related:

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/if_you_thought_cbgbs_bathrooms_were_full_of_shit_check_out_the_movie

Lou Reed looking like a cross between Eminem and the Pillsbury Doughboy

well, one guy who was there kinda liked it

Some remarks from Richard Lloyd, one of the founding members of Television

I thought that the first third or so of the movie almost to the halfway point was quite good, and many of the actors and actresses both looked like and acted like their real-life characters. That having been said, I think the emphasis on Hilly always being on the verge of bankrupt was neither completely true in the first couple of years, meaning 75 – 80, and my own band Television was packing the place right about the time that Patti Smith began playing there. Terry Ork, in addition to being the manager of Television, also booked the bands into CBGBs for nearly 3 years, and we never had more than two bands and night playing two sets each.

The fact was that Television had been speaking about finding a place where we could be the house band and perform more often in order to develop an audience. Using a formula from the double feature at the movies,Terry would book 2 bands per night, so that for instance Talking Heads would perform followed by Television, then again Talking Heads would play third, and Television would end the night.

But I enjoyed the transition of real-life into cartoon segments resembling stills from Punk Magazine, and the written out comic book sound effects (Whoooosh!, Plang!, Zonk!). I felt this was a great way to transit from scene to scene. There were very few places in NY if any that would allow new music – so very soon after Television began playing CBGBs, bands seem to literally begin to appear out of nowhere and found themselves with CBGBs as a home base.

That first era, was a near miraculous blend of very different sounding and yet with all the bands clearly belonged to the same new wave of music that the journalists had no idea of what to call us until Punk Magazine gave them a convenient label which was then used on all the bands both in New York and in London.

Of the New York bands there were very few who embraced the term Punk, but the music makes the name and the name describes the music and in hindsight it could not have been any other way.

I look forward to the premier later this month and although I think that the reviewer in many cases was dead accurate, the historical liberties that the movie-makers used didn't bother me – every band there, and every separate musician in each of the bands embodied something so unique and exquisite that it would be impossible to cast the characters any better than the casting agent for this film seem to achieve. Now that's enough from me – and I hope the movie does good business because it is filled with a wonderful sense of Hilly's integrity and bands of musicians whose drea– Richard Lloyd, NYC October, 2013.

Free on Amazon Prime, not sure I've seen a movie with so little energy before.