Norm’s Favorites (movies, music videos,
books, and other stuff)
All-time favorite movies
·
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999
version with Michelle Pfeiffer, others are awful)
·
African Queen (1951)
·
All About Eve (1950)
·
All of Me (1984)
·
American Beauty (1999)
· American
Pie (1999) (Mara
made me watch it!)
· L'Auberge Espanol (2002) / Les Poupées Russes (2005)
·
Birdcage (1996)
·
Bowfinger
(1999)
·
Bowling for Columbine (2002)
·
Buddy Holly Story (1988)
·
But I’m A Cheerleader (1999)
·
Cannes Man (1996)
·
Cinema Paradiso
(1989)
·
City Lights (1931)
·
The Closet (Le Placard, 2001)
·
Dinner Game (Le Diner des Cons,1998)
·
El Norte (1984)
·
Erin Brockovich
(2000)
·
Father of the Bride (1991)
·
Ghostbusters (1984)
·
Godfather (1972)
·
Hail! Hail! Rock N’ Roll (1984, 2006)
·
Il Postino
(1994)
·
The Insider (1999)
·
It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
·
Jeanne and the Perfect Guy (2000)
·
Les Visiteurs
(1993)
·
Mad Hot Ballroom (2005)
·
Maltese Falcon (1941)
·
My Father’s Glory/My Mother’s Castle
(1990)
·
Mystic
Masseur (2002)
·
Oblomov
(1979)
·
The Perez Family (1995)
·
Philadelphia (1993)
·
Pleasantville (1994)
·
The Princess Bride (1987)
·
Ray
(2004)
·
Rear Window (1954)
·
School
of Rock (2003)
·
Standing in the Shadows of Motown
(2003)
·
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
·
Tampopo
(1985)
·
This is Spinal Tap (1984)
·
Tom Dowd and the Language of Music
(2003)
·
Traffic (2000)
·
When We Were Kings (1996)
·
Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001)
Music Video Samplings
· Asleep at the Wheel “Western
swing ain’t dead, it’s Asleep at the Wheel!” (since 1971)
o
2007 Asleep at the Wheel in
California
o
2007 Am
I right (or Amarillo) (and others)
o
1981 Miles and Miles of Texas -
Cool as the Breeze, Austin City Limits (Season 6)
o
2008 With
Barack Obama, Boogie Back to Texas
o
2007 Cotton Eyed Joe,
at the (original) Broken Spoke, Austin, Texas
· Stevie Ray Vaughan live
concerts recordings database (1978-1990)
o
1983 Texas Flood, Live at
El Mocambo
o
1987 Little Sister, with
Jeff Healy
· Allman
Brothers Band live show database (1969-2008)
o
1970 Dreams, at the
Fillmore East with Duane Allman and Dickey Betts
o
2003 Dreams, at the
Beacon, Derek Trucks solo
· Orchestra Baobab Senegal's finest
musicians on the World Circuit Label
o
2007 Nijaay
- Live at Malta Jazz Festival
o
2007 Hutru
horas - Live at Malta Jazz Festival
· Chuck Berry the King of rock and roll
o
1984 Rock and Roll Music,
with Etta James
o
1979 Rock
and Roll Music, with Tina Turner
o
1972 Johnny B. Goode, with
John Lennon
o
196? Johnny B. Goode
Concert DVDs (commercially
available)
· Mozart
Great Piano Concertos, Vols. I - IV. (esp. #20 with Ivan Klansky
on Volume
III)
· Los
Lobos, Live
at the Fillmore
· Los
Super Seven, No
Borders: Canto
· Stevie
Ray Vaughan
o
Pride
and Joy, Rome Inn segment (out of print VHS)
· Allman
Brothers Band, Live
at the Beacon Theater
· Lynyrd Skynyrd, Freebird the Movie (avoid the current imposter
group on the second disc)
· Jeff
Healey Band
o See
the Light (out of print VHS)
· Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Plays Berkeley
· Fleetwood
Mac, The
Dance
· Susan
Tedeschi, Live
from Austin Texas
· Roy
Orbison, Live
at Austin City Limits
· Asleep
at the Wheel
o
Ohne Filter - Musik Pur: Asleep at the Wheel in Concert
· John
Lee Hooker, Come
and See about Me
· Albert
Collins, The
Iceman at Mount Fuji
· Albert
King, Live
in Sweden (not the best production but it’s all we’ve got)
· Led
Zeppelin, Led
Zeppelin
· Hubert
Sumlin, Robert Randolph, BB King, many more, Crossroads
Guitar Festival
Concert DVD’s
(favorite bootlegs)
SRV,
old Austin City Limits, etc, coming soon…
Movie music scenes
· Chuck
Berry, Rock and Roll Music, with Etta James (+ everything else, Hail!
Hail! Rock N’ Roll)
· Aretha
Franklin, Think (+ all the other music, Blues
Brothers)
· Joan
Osborne and the Funk Brothers, Heatwave (+ all
the other music, Standing
in the Shadows of Motown)
· Fiona
Apple, Across the Universe (an extra on the Pleasantville
DVD)
· Soggy
Bottom Boys, In The Jailhouse Now (+ all the others, Oh
Brother, Where Art Tho?)
· Neville
Marriner, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, everything
(Amadeus)
· Soul
Stirrers with Sam Cooke, everything (The Ladykillers)
· Glenn
Gould, Bach Concerto No. 5 (+ others, Glenn
Gould Life and Times) (awful studio production as are all Glenn Gould
video performances, but the magic survives)
· Joshua
Redman, James Carter, others (Jazz
‘34 Remembrances of Kansas City Swing)
· Ray
Charles/Jamie Foxx, everything (Ray)
· Portishead, Glory Box (Chacun Cherche Son Chat
, aka When the Cat’s Away, closing scene beginning with the neighborhood “Ça c'est Paris” chant in the cafe)·
School of Rock, closing scene (School of Rock)