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 Cotton Eyed Joe,
at the (original) Broken Spoke, Austin, Texas
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
·
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
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)