Thursday, October 4, 2007

I admire that Time Out London's list of the 50 greatest music films ever is full of off beat choices, most of them documentaries, but I am upset that they couldn't find one spot on the list for the best musical biopic ever, The Buddy Holly Story. They picked Todd Haynes' Karen Carenter as played by a barbie doll Superstar: the Karen Carpenter Story as their number one choice. From what I have seen the movie is good but gets a little old after a time and only a handful of people have ever seen this film (The Carpenters have never signed a release for the characters or the songs, it showed up on youtube sometime ago but has since been removed). Also a bit strange that they include Be Here to Love me as their number 7 pick but there is no mention of Heartworn Highways.

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