Musicians on film

Musicians on Film #11: Levon Helm in Michael Apted's Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)

American movies, 1970-1979

from Mike Nichols' Carnal Knowledge (1971)

Musicians on film

Musicians on Film #10: Jimmie Dale Gilmore in Joel & Ethan Coen's The Big Lebowski (1998)

American movies, 1970-1979

from Elaine May's A New Leaf (1971)

"Air! You can't even see it, so why talk about it?"

from Raoul Walsh's The Strawberry Blonde (1941)

Merde

Denis Lavant as Merde, and two of that character's inspirations, Opale and Godzilla

From the top:
Leos Carax's Merde from the anthology film Tokyo! (2008)
Jean Renoir's Le testament du Docteur Cordelier aka The Doctor's Horrible Experiment (1959)
Ishiro Honda's Godzilla vs. Mothra (1964)

Musicians on film

Musicians on Film #9: Jimmy Cliff in Perry Henzell's The Harder They Come (1972)

American movies, 1970-1979

from Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971)
I'm stretching the rules a bit. A British film made by an American director.

Batalla en el cielo

from Carlos Reygadas' Battle in Heaven (2005)

"Probably those same dudes"

from Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)

Moartea domnului Lazarescu

from Cristi Puiu's The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005)

Musicians on film

Musicians on Film #8: Howard Devoto in Michael Winterbottom's 24 Hour Party People (2002)

American movies, 1970-1979

from Monte Hellman's Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)

R.I.P. Lou Perryman

Character actor Lou Perryman was murdered in his home in Austin, Texas on Wednesday night by a mentally ill man who had stopped taking his meds. His murder appears to be a random act in a string of tragic, unfortunate circumstances involving the mentally ill man. The 67-year-old Perryman was a great actor who should have been a lot more famous. I saw him at a Q&A for Eagle Pennell's The Whole Shootin' Match at the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown last year, and he came across as a big-hearted curmudgeon with a potty mouth. I immediately liked him, and I wished I were his drinking buddy. He appeared on some episodes of Walker, Texas Ranger and was later quoted as saying, "Chuck Norris is a pussy! I'd flush that cocksucker down the toilet!" The world goes on without Lou Perryman. Matthew McConaughey is a multi-millionaire.

Recommended roles
The Whole Shootin' Match (1978)
The Blues Brothers (1980)
Poltergeist (1982)
Last Night at the Alamo (1983)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)
Boys Don't Cry (1999)

W as in war, A as in Alamo, L as in Lenin, S as in science fiction, C as in crime, and H as in Hell

from Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The American Soldier (1970)