{"id":3289,"date":"2008-10-12T02:44:01","date_gmt":"2008-10-12T01:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=3289"},"modified":"2008-10-12T02:56:08","modified_gmt":"2008-10-12T01:56:08","slug":"25-movies-about-music-by-coffee-and-celluloid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2008\/10\/12\/25-movies-about-music-by-coffee-and-celluloid\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Movies About Music by Coffee and Celluloid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/coffeeandcelluloid.com\/2008\/10\/06\/25-movies-about-music-you-havent-seen\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3290\" title=\"Coffee and Celluloids 25 Movies About Music\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/cac-25-movies-about-music.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"324\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/coffeeandcelluloid.com\/\">Coffee and Celluloid<\/a> have compiled an interesting list of <a href=\"http:\/\/coffeeandcelluloid.com\/2008\/10\/06\/25-movies-about-music-you-havent-seen\/\"><strong>25 Movies About Music You Haven&#8217;t Seen<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There are some interesting entries along with video clips but my pick is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Superstar:_The_Karen_Carpenter_Story\">Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by\u00a0<a title=\"Todd Haynes\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Todd_Haynes\">Todd Haynes<\/a>\u00a0in 1987, it is 43 minutes long and tells the story\u00a0the life of pop vocalist\u00a0<a title=\"Karen Carpenter\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Karen_Carpenter\">Karen Carpenter<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The interesting thing about it is that nearly all the characters are\u00a0played by modified\u00a0<a title=\"Barbie\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barbie\">Barbie<\/a>\u00a0dolls.<\/p>\n<p>Released in 1987 it was withdrawn from release in 1990 after Haynes lost a copyright\u00a0lawsuit\u00a0filed by Karen&#8217;s\u00a0brother and musical collaborator,\u00a0<a title=\"Richard Carpenter (musician)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Carpenter_(musician)\">Richard Carpenter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen it &#8211; and there is a good chance of that as it has been banned since 1990 &#8211; then you should check out the version posted on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/\">Google Video<\/a>\u00a0here:<\/p>\n<p><embed id=\"VideoPlayback\" src=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/googleplayer.swf?docid=622130510713940545&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=true\" style=\"width:480px;height:360px\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"> <\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coffee and Celluloid have compiled an interesting list of 25 Movies About Music You Haven&#8217;t Seen.\u00a0 There are some interesting entries along with video clips but my pick is\u00a0Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story. Directed by\u00a0Todd Haynes\u00a0in 1987, it is 43 minutes long and tells the story\u00a0the life of pop vocalist\u00a0Karen Carpenter.\u00a0 The interesting thing about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}