I had a time of my life which I came across some 70s movies with Franco Nero as main actor, most of them were police-related action films like “La polizia incrimina la legge assolve”, “Il cittadino si ribella” and “Perché si uccide un magistrato”, but there were also western, comedian and adventure films. The soundtracks of those…
Well, when I was thinking about movies that better represent the 80s era, the first one that came to my mind was the movie The Toxic Avenger. Let me set some scenes.We are in a fitness club in New Jersey arranged as a virtual cornucopia of tight bodies poured into thrusting leotards and full of…
Oscars were awarded recently and on this occasion the Obscure Music Club goes back to 1941, when Leigh Harline, Paul J. Smith and Ned Washington received the award for the best soundtrack. The movie was Pinocchio, one of the most obscure and original of the great Disney era and on it we can find a…
“Get on Up” is a biopic about the life of the “Godfather of Soul” Mr. James Brown: for me, just pretty impossible to miss! In the USA it was released on August, 2014 and in Italy on November, 2014, but, as usual, i had to work hard in finding a cinema which had that movie…
Sometimes we are surprised how a movement of joyful creativity can born in a difficult period of political repression as it was in Brazil in 60-70’s, but we must keep in mind that every action has a reaction and often art is starring in these cases. Tropicàlia is a movie by Marcelo Machado relased in…
Supersnooper (Poliziotto Superpiù / Der Supercop) is an Italian comedy film directed by Sergio Corbucci, starring Terence Hill and whose O.S.T. was curated by The Oceans, one of the several pseudonym used by brothers Carmelo and Michelangelo La Bionda, who are considered the inventors of Italian disco music. In this 70s hilarious-action movie there is…
Akira is a landmark in Japanese animation, it’s cyberpunk settings are a cult for 80/90’s imagery of many of us, almost like Blade Runner. The movie based on the manga, has the powerful soundtrack by Geinoh Yamashirogumi a Japanese musical collective founded on January 19, 1974 by Tsutomu Ōhashi. The collective consist of hundreds of…
Probably one of the best, easiest and funniest way to discover the Manchester music scene between 70’s and 90’s and in particular the story of the legendary Factory Records. 24 hour party people is a 2002 British comedy-drama movie written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and directed by Michael Winterbottom. The film is a dramatisation based…