IDS 101: The Art of Musical Invective: Films

Harrowing look at the bizarre, self-destructive, yet compelling relationship between British punk rock singer Sid Vicious (of the Sex Pistols) and American groupie, Nancy Spungen in the 1970's

The rock group Spinal Tap still clings to some glint of their lost glory as they embark on an accident-plagued tour across America.

It's been 10 years since glam-rock superstar Brian Slade faked his own death and vanished from the spotlight...

It's the opportunity of a lifetime when teenage reporter William Miller lands an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine.

When a failed musician-turned-journalist interviews a reclusive aging pianist, he doesn't realize he's being interviewed himself - to be the vessel for the satanist's dying soul.

the Beatles are chased from London to the Austrian Alps to the Bahamas by religious cult members, a mad scientists and the London police.

A disfigured man in a mask abducts the prima donna of the Paris Opera House to his lair in the sewers below.

The story of an English asylum inmate by the name of Crossley who forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.

A music group trying to make it big in Siberia are advised to go to American where they like "anything".

A professional musician's life is changed when he is mistaken for a secret agent.

Set on the Baltic Sea, is the lovin' and fightin' of 10 teenage boys and 11 teenage girls on vacation.

During the Iran-Iraq war, an Iranian-Kurd musician and his sons go to find the old man's former wife, a singer, who fled Iran when women were forbidden to perform publicly.

In Carioca Hill, a dangerous slum in Rio de Janiro, Orfeu, a charismatic and beloved samba musician, leads his school each year in the Carnaval parade, refusing to abandon the slums where he was raised. When Orfeu falls in love with Euridice...

A young musician discovers a magic window which takes him from his rundown Russian apartment to the streets of Paris.

The film is an outrageous comedy which follows docile housewife Luci , her trendy, marijuana smoking neighbour Pepi and rock star Bom who are close friends.

For three days in the summer of 1969, a rock concert was held on an upstate New York farm, and 400,000 people attended...

A documentary film of the Rolling Stones on tour in 1969, focusing on the concert at the Altamont Speedway in California.

Follow the Dixie chicks, the top selling female band of all-time, through the now infamous anti-Bush comment made by the groups lead singer Natalie Maines in 2003...