Eye For Film >> Festivals >> Glasgow >> 2009 >> Music and Film

An exciting new look at music as celebrated in cinema, with documentaries and features.

View other Glasgow Film Festival Films by strand: European Cinema , Frightfest , Galas , Glasgow Shorts Film Festival , Great Scots , Happy Birthday Errol Flynn! , It's a Wonderful World , Retrospective , Stranger Than Fiction , The State Of Independents , Viva Mexico! , Youth Film Festival

Nosferatu and The Wrecking Crew

Anvil! The Story Of Anvil (Anvil! The True Story Of Anvil) (Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Sacha Gervasi; Stars: Steve 'Lips' Kudlow, Robb Reiner, Ivan Hurd, Tiziana Arrigoni, Chris 'CT' Tsangerides, Glenn Gyorfy, Kevin Goocher, Lee Ulrich, Slash, Tom Araya, Scott Ian, Malcolm Dome, Lemmy, Gary Greenblatt, Toby Kudlow, Droid Reiner, Ginny Kudlow, Michael Schenker, JJ French, Fraser Hill, Jane Reiner) , Official Site

Documentary tracks the attempts of rock band Anvil to 'make it' 20 years after their were first hailed as the "demi-gods of Canadian metal".

Full Review See: Interview with Anvil about Anvil! The Story Of Anvil
, Diary feature about the Glasgow Film Festival 2009

Am I Black Enough For You? (Country: Sweden; Director: Goran Olsson; Stars: Billy Paul)

Documentary about soul musician Billy Paul and his lifelong marriage.

Cape No. 7 (Hái-kak Chhit-ho) (Country: Taiwan; Year: 2008; Director: Te-Sheng Wei; Writer: Te-Sheng Wei; Stars: Van Fan, Chie Tanaka) , Official Site

A frustrated Taiwanese singer and a Japanese model form a band for a big music festival.

Every Little Step (Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Adam Del Deo, James D. Stern; Stars: Bob Avian, Michael Bennett, Charlotte d'Amboise, Ramon Flowers, Jessica Lee Goldyn)

Documentary about dancers auditioning for A Chorus Line.

Nosferatu (Nosferatu eine Symphonie des Grauens, Nosferatu - A Symphony Of Horrors) (Country: Germany; Year: 1922; Director: FW Murnau; Writer: Henrik Galeen; Stars: Max Schreck, Gustav Von Wangenheim, Greta Schroder, Georg Heinrich Schnell, Ruth Landshoff, Gustav Botz, Alexander Granach, John Gottowt)

F W Murnau's silent adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Full Review

Who Killed Nancy? (Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Alan G. Parker)

On October 12th 1978 New York Police discovered the body of a 20 year-old woman. The woman was Nancy Spungen, the girlfriend of Sex Pistols’ bassist Sid Vicious. At the request of Sid’s mother, who committed suicide in 1996, rock author and punk expert Alan Parker has devoted himself to discovering what really happened. Parker has re-interviewed 182 people, re-examined NYPD evidence, and gone back to his original interviews with Sid’s mother.

The Wrecking Crew (Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Denny Tedesco) , Official Site

Examination of the influential group of LA-based session musicians who worked alongside many of the greats, including Elvis Presley and The Byrds.

Full Review