Recommendations of the editorial team
We looked through our film collections and compiled this list of the 10 most beautiful vinyl moments-of course with “high fidelity”, but also with many not so obvious stripes.
Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
After the nerdy scouts Sam and his Suzy have blown, they dance a wonderfully euphoric freedom-boogie-woogie in their idyllic tent camp to the sound of their suitcase player.
Almost Famous (2000)
The beginning of a rock youth and reporter career: “The songs say everything”, his big sister whispered to the young William and inherited his record collection.
Solar avenue (1999)
Platten smuggling in East Berlin: Wuschel (Robert Stadlober) buys exile on Main St. for an entire GDR monthly salary, which only puts him in danger and then saves her life when she hides the pistol balls of a border guy under his jacket.
High fidelity (2000)
Ordinary madness-or Saturday in the record store: “You Don’t have it? That is perverse! Don’t tell anybody you don’t get own fucking blonde on blonde,” jack Black as a freaky record nerd.
The convicts (1994)
In the prison drama, Andy (Tim Robbins), who is sentenced to life, breaks into the supervisor’s office and puts on an Italian opera aria where he lets all other inmates participate through loudspeakers – “and for a short moment we all felt free”.
A clockwork orange (1971)
The petty criminal Alex roams a synth version of “joy of beautiful gods” through a superfuturistic record store.
One of the fictional band names there later owed her name to Heaven 17.
Lilo & Stitch (2002)
The crazy extraterrestrial, disguised as a dog, reveals amazing skills in his house of his Hawaiian family: if you put your finger on vinyl grooves, he becomes a lively turntable.
Jackie Brown (1997)
As a drug -smuggling stewardess, Pam Grier in the bathrobe talks to her probation officer about her record collection: “I never got into the CD Revolution”, she admits to the sound of the Delfonics.
Mars Attacks! (1996)
Never underestimate the power of the vinyl!
It’s a good thing that the evil Marsians stopped by the tapped grandmother: the yodel country music that she is listening to her old turntable is exploding the heads of the aliens.
The Virgin Suicides (1999)
It all starts with Todd Rundgren’s “Hello, it’s me”.
As if it were their only language in the narrow 1970s, the strictly protected Lisbon sisters communicate with the neighboring boys only through records that they play on the phone.