People nowadays have forgotten just how good Cameron Crowe was at his peak. For the writer-director, Almost Famous was his masterpiece, which told the story of a teenage rock journalist on tour with a mid-level rock band in the seventies. For many of us, it remains one of the greatest modern films and a masterpiece that, almost twenty-five years later, remains a cultural touchstone for many of us. In this episode of Revisited, we examine Crowe’s seminal film and how it holds up all these years later.
One of the reasons that Almost Famous was such an essential film for Crowe is that it’s autobiographical. Like Spielberg’s recent The Fabelmans, Crowe fictionalizes his story somewhat, but many of the formative events that occurred in his life happen here. Like his main character, William Miller, Crowe was a teenage rock journalist for Rolling Stone Magazine. Crowe had begun...
One of the reasons that Almost Famous was such an essential film for Crowe is that it’s autobiographical. Like Spielberg’s recent The Fabelmans, Crowe fictionalizes his story somewhat, but many of the formative events that occurred in his life happen here. Like his main character, William Miller, Crowe was a teenage rock journalist for Rolling Stone Magazine. Crowe had begun...
- 6/4/2023
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
This Post Contains spoilers for this week’s episode of The Last of Us, “Left Behind.”
The world of The Last of Us is both vast and tiny. Over the course of seven episodes, we’ve traveled from Texas to Boston to Colorado, with a stop in Jakarta. We’ve seen planes crash, society fall, cities be consumed. But we’ve seen this transformed world almost entirely through the eyes of two people(*). Post-apocalyptic worlds are a dime a dozen in modern pop culture. Even a fully-realized one like this...
The world of The Last of Us is both vast and tiny. Over the course of seven episodes, we’ve traveled from Texas to Boston to Colorado, with a stop in Jakarta. We’ve seen planes crash, society fall, cities be consumed. But we’ve seen this transformed world almost entirely through the eyes of two people(*). Post-apocalyptic worlds are a dime a dozen in modern pop culture. Even a fully-realized one like this...
- 2/27/2023
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
“I’ve got to make the most of every minute I have,” David Crosby told Rolling Stone in 2018. “Wouldn’t you?” He was on his third or fourth life by then — the golden-voiced, long-haired, cantankerous, beatific American original who was there to invent folk-rock with the Byrds in the mid-Sixties, to redefine the supergroup with Crosby, Stills, and Nash a few years later, and to remain unquestionably himself through all the decades of gorgeous harmonies and outrageous opinions that followed. In his final years on this planet, Croz seemed renewed,...
- 1/20/2023
- by Jonathan Bernstein, David Browne, Kory Grow, Brian Hiatt, Angie Martoccio and Simon Vozick-Levinson
- Rollingstone.com
You don't have to love rock & roll to love "Almost Famous," but it helps. From the early days when DJ Alan Freed first popularized the term to the pinnacle of rock in the 1970s, bands like Led Zeppelin and The Allman Brothers had become mythic figures that were worshipped by hardcore fans. "Rolling Stone" magazine had worldwide circulation and was considered a legitimate, respectable periodical that showcased these groups without compromising journalistic integrity. Interviews with luminaries like John Lennon and Pete Townsend helped to launch the magazine into the cultural mainstream while also keeping one foot in the world of the hippie underground.
"Rolling Stone" founder Jann Wenner's new memoir, "Like a Rolling Stone," vividly chronicles the rise of the legendary rag, romanticizing the music and highlighting the astounding team of writers that helped define the voice of a generation. The mad musings of Hunter S. Thompson leaped off...
"Rolling Stone" founder Jann Wenner's new memoir, "Like a Rolling Stone," vividly chronicles the rise of the legendary rag, romanticizing the music and highlighting the astounding team of writers that helped define the voice of a generation. The mad musings of Hunter S. Thompson leaped off...
- 12/23/2022
- by Drew Tinnin
- Slash Film
Early in the new documentary Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge, a 22-year-old Jann Wenner is seen sitting at his desk in the cramped San Francisco loft where he started the magazine 50 years ago. The Berkeley dropout is surrounded by a bulging Rolodex, a rotary telephone and a photo of the Beatles, discussing why he started the new publication. "Rock & roll is a particular form [of music] that's changed tremendously, has changed, keeps changing," he tells a local TV reporter. "There was no publication that covered it the way it should be covered,...
- 10/30/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Bit-players in movies are the people that can actually make a huge difference if they’re not there, but when they are there they tend to be the people that the main actors are paid to overlook. In other words they’re the ones that fill in the spaces in the room and in the conversation so that the dialogue can run smoothly and the scene can play out the way it needs to. They’re the unsung backbone of the movie that makes it run by being as quick to the point as possible before blending into the background once again. Ben
Bit Part Movie Characters We Love: Ben Fong Torres in “Almost Famous”...
Bit Part Movie Characters We Love: Ben Fong Torres in “Almost Famous”...
- 8/15/2017
- by Wake
- TVovermind.com
Park City - It would be wrong to pigeonhole Jason Segel as simply a comedic actor. Whether playing the romantically scorned Nick in "Freaks and Geeks" (or Peter in "Forgetting Sarah Marshall"), the psychotically romantically scorned Eric on "Undeclared," the romantic but, in a key arc, grieving Marshall on "How I Met Your Mother," Segel has always been able to infuse his clowns with a grounding of real pain or disappointment or passion. But thinking back over Segel's resume, it was hard to point to any role that indicated Segel might be a chameleon. He's always come across as too large in stature, too modern in tone to be invited to do period films or biopics or really any kind of project skewed towards the dramatic. I'd never have described Segel as limited in his acting range, but whether by his choice or Hollywood's perception of him, Segel's CV was...
- 1/24/2015
- by Daniel Fienberg
- Hitfix
There are certain technologies that are well past their expiration date: The 8-Track player, beepers, the Boom Box...each all had their day, but those days long gone. Included in that list is the fax machine. Believe it or not, this was once seen as cutting edge technology...back in the 1970s, anyway. Per Ben Fong-Torres, fictional Rolling Stone editor in the classic Almost Famous when instructing the film's teenage protagonist how to send his story and notes "quickly" from across the country:...
- 12/22/2014
- by Joe Concha
- Mediaite - TV
The late Lou Reed's catalog of music sees great gains this week, following his death on Sunday, Oct. 27. As Nielsen SoundScan's sales tracking week ended on Oct. 27, Billboard's new sales charts reflect less than one day since Reed's passing. (SoundScan provides data to Billboard for its music chart rankings.) Thus, we'll probably see even larger increases for his music a week from now, after a full seven days have passed following his death. Guest Column: Lou Reed Remembered by Legendary Rock Journalist Ben Fong-Torres Reed's catalog of albums sold 3,000 last week -- up 607 percent
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- 10/30/2013
- by Keith Caulfield, Billboard
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Johnny Depp sure proved he's not "all hat and no cattle," as the saying goes, while in town for a showing of "The Rum Diary" at the Austin Film Festival.
The actor surprised fans by rocking out at the Continental Club after the screening. This old school South Austin joint is famous for its live music scene and has hosted a wide range of acts, from Kinky Friedman to Stevie Ray Vaughn. Depp got on the Continental's stage with the Og bearded hipster Billy Gibbons of Zz Top and Bill Carter of Bill Carter and the Blame.
If you need any proof that Johnny Depp has a photo of himself hidden in a closet somewhere a la Dorian Grey, here's a YouTube video of his old band P, which included lead Surfer of Buttholes Gibby Haynes and Bill Carter, playing at SXSW in 1993. (Also worth noting! Gibby Haynes' father...
The actor surprised fans by rocking out at the Continental Club after the screening. This old school South Austin joint is famous for its live music scene and has hosted a wide range of acts, from Kinky Friedman to Stevie Ray Vaughn. Depp got on the Continental's stage with the Og bearded hipster Billy Gibbons of Zz Top and Bill Carter of Bill Carter and the Blame.
If you need any proof that Johnny Depp has a photo of himself hidden in a closet somewhere a la Dorian Grey, here's a YouTube video of his old band P, which included lead Surfer of Buttholes Gibby Haynes and Bill Carter, playing at SXSW in 1993. (Also worth noting! Gibby Haynes' father...
- 10/26/2011
- by Jenni Miller
- NextMovie
Release Date: Oct. 4, 2011
Price: DVD $14.98
Studio: Eagle Rock Entertainment
The Hollies serve up a song via the air that they breathe in Look Through Any Window.
The Hollies: Look Through Any Window, 1963–1975, the first official documentary film on the legendary British group, includes 22 full-length performances sourced from television appearances filmed at the time the songs were initially hitting the charts.
Between performances, original band members Graham Nash, Allan Clarke, Tony Hicks and Bobby Elliott share the history of the beloved 1960s rock outfit, whose hits include “Bus Stop,” “Look Through Any Window,” “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother,” “Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress)” and the final Top 10 hit, 1974’s “The Air That I Breathe.”
Also in the feature-length movie are performances by The Hollies, from the post-Graham Nash era, featuring Terry Sylvester, along with never-before-released home movies of the group on tour in the 1960s in America,...
Price: DVD $14.98
Studio: Eagle Rock Entertainment
The Hollies serve up a song via the air that they breathe in Look Through Any Window.
The Hollies: Look Through Any Window, 1963–1975, the first official documentary film on the legendary British group, includes 22 full-length performances sourced from television appearances filmed at the time the songs were initially hitting the charts.
Between performances, original band members Graham Nash, Allan Clarke, Tony Hicks and Bobby Elliott share the history of the beloved 1960s rock outfit, whose hits include “Bus Stop,” “Look Through Any Window,” “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother,” “Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress)” and the final Top 10 hit, 1974’s “The Air That I Breathe.”
Also in the feature-length movie are performances by The Hollies, from the post-Graham Nash era, featuring Terry Sylvester, along with never-before-released home movies of the group on tour in the 1960s in America,...
- 8/15/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
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