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Warming by the Devil's Fire (Charles Burnett): fiction on a blues-based theme; Godfathers and Sons : about Chicago blues and hip-hop; Red, White & Blues (Mike Figgis): about British blues-influenced music (e.g., Tom Jones, Van Morrison) Piano Blues (Clint Eastwood): focuses on blues pianists such as Ray Charles and Dr. John; Ray (2004)
Toggle 1920s subsection. 1.1 1927. 1.2 1928. 1.3 1929. ... The following is a list of musical films by year. ... Jailhouse Blues (short) Little Johnny Jones;
Lady Sings the Blues (1972) One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975) The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977) The Twelve Chairs (1970) Upstairs, Downstairs (1971-1975) Valentino (1977) W.C. Fields and Me (1976) The World's Greatest Lover (1977)
By the mid-to-late-1920s, the silent "art film" was on the rise with some of the greatest silent film achievements, such as Josef von Sternberg's Underworld and The Last Command, King Vidor's The Crowd, and F. W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans. Erich von Stroheim's ultra-realist films such as Greed also had a big influence.
Documentary films about blues music and musicians (17 P) Pages in category "Blues films" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
Title Director Featured Cast Genre Note 813: Charles Christie, Scott Sidney: Wedgwood Nowell, Ralph Lewis, Wallace Beery, Laura La Plante: Mystery: FBO: The Adorable Savage: Norman Dawn
The blues' 12-bar structure and the blues scale was a major influence on rock and roll music. Rock and roll has been called "blues with a backbeat"; Carl Perkins called rockabilly "blues with a country beat". Rockabillies were also said to be 12-bar blues played with a bluegrass beat.
List of LGBT-related films of the 1920s; List of lost silent films (1920–1924) List of lost silent films (1925–1929) List of Universal Pictures films (1920–1929) M.