Blondie Movies
Fronted by cool and sexy vocalist Deborah Harry and guitarist and songwriter Chris Stein, Blondie was one of the few bands to emerge from the early New York punk scene who won both critical acclaim and public acceptance, scoring a handful of hit records and becoming a major concert draw. In 1999, Harry and Stein assembled a new version of Blondie, recording a pair of new studio albums which proved they hadn't lost their touch, and this concert video (from a 2004 television special staged for the Arts and Entertainment cable network) finds the group playing a collection of favorites suggested by fans. Blondie: Live By Request features the songs "Dreaming," "Rapture," "Call Me," "Heart of Glass," "One Way or Another," "Rip Her to Shreds," and more. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
There's only one Blondie. Fronted by Debbie Harry, the band made inroads in punk, new wave, and even early rap during their late-'70s and early-'80s heyday. This collection from Capitol features music videos for six of the group's biggest hits. The songs included are "Heart of Glass," "Hanging on the Telephone," "Dreaming," "Atomic," "The Tide Is High," and "Rapture." ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide
Blondie became one of the most successful bands to sprout from the fertile ground that was CBGB in the '70s. Blondie: Greatest Video Hits compiles 16 vintage-era music videos from the band including such classic songs as "The Tide Is High," "Rapture," "Heart of Glass," "Hanging on the Telephone," and "Dreaming." ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- 2000
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In the late 1970s, Blondie was the little band that could. Along with the Ramones, Television, and Patti Smith, Blondie was one of the groups that helped define New York's embryonic punk/new wave scene at the Bowery rock club CBGB, and their edgy but playful power-pop sound took them to the top of the charts with such hits as "Heart of Glass," "Dreaming," and "One Way or Another" -- and made Deborah Harry the new music's first sex symbol. But personal tensions within the band and a near-fatal illness for leader Chris Stein caused the band to split apart in 1982, until Harry and Stein decided to give Blondie another try in 1998. This documentary, produced for the VH1 series Behind the Music, examines the rise, fall, and resurrection of one of the defining bands of the new wave era, and includes interviews with members of the band, their friends and collaborators (including Joey Ramone), and rare film footage of the band onstage at CBGB prior to the release of their first album. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- 1999
In 1998, Blondie members Debbie Harry, Chris Stein, Clem Burke, and Jimmy Destri reunited to cut the group's first album in 17 years, No Exit, and launched a reunion tour that gave the band's old fans a chance to see them in action again, and showed younger listeners that New Wave's original power pop hitmakers still had plenty to offer. Blondie: Live In New York, taped at New York City's Town Hall on Feb. 10, 1999, captures the band ripping through 16 songs, including Dreaming, Heart of Glass, Hanging On The Telephone, Rapture, and X Offender, along with such No Exit highlights as Maria, Screaming Skin, and Boom Boom in the Zoom Zoom Room. Blondie: Live In New York was originally aired in edited form on VH1; this home video release features nearly 45 minutes of footage edited from the original broadcast. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Roadie is a showbiz saga about the working slobs who make live pop-music performances happen. Texas good ol' boy Travis W. Redfish (pop singer Meat Loaf) drives a Shiner beer truck on his appointed rounds, but he becomes smitten with rock groupie Lola Bouillabase (Kaki Hunter), a "roadie" whose sole ambition in life is to bed her idol, Alice Cooper (playing himself). Travis' grizzled pappy, Corpus C. Redfish (Art Carney), feels disgusted by his son's lifestyle. After hearing that Cooper and his band are on tour, Lola sets out to catch up to them and offer her services, with Travis in pursuit. Along the way, they meet a number of pop-music stars -- Blondie, Asleep at the Wheel, Hank Williams Jr., Roy Orbison, and Ramblin' Jack Elliott -- who are all working on their own tours. Travis signs on, himself, as a groupie for a rock band, and is quickly dubbed "greatest roadie of all time," but he soon realizes that he must return to Texas for the wedding of his sister and his best friend. ~ Tom Wiener, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Meat Loaf, Kaki Hunter, (more)
- 1979
Out of New York and fronted by lead singer Debbie Harry, Blondie became one of the quintessential bands of the late-'70s new wave scene. In this 1979 concert video, the band performs a live set at the Apollo Theater in Glasgow. "Heart of Glass," "Hanging on the Telephone," "Sunday Girl," "Eat to the Beat," and "Picture This" are among the 11 songs included. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide
- 1979
This 1979 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Steve Martin and features musical guest Blondie. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Steve Martin, Blondie, (more)
- 1976
In 1976, Ivan Kral was a Czech exile who was struggling to make a name for himself as musician and filmmaker when he joined the Patti Smith Group and became friendly with underground filmmaker Amos Poe. Poe and Kral were both interested in the punk rock scene that was just beginning to emerge in New York City at venues like CBGB and Max's Kansas City, and they began bringing cameras to shows, shooting silent footage of bands who were beginning to develop potent reputations in the rock underground, including Talking Heads, Blondie, the Ramones, the Heartbreakers, and of course, the Patti Smith Group. Poe and Kral married their silent footage with live tapes or demo recordings of the bands (most of whom had yet to release a record) to create a deliberately rough audio-visual record of the burgeoning punk scene. The result, Blank Generation, is a fascinating bit of musical archeology, preserving for the ages the earliest moments of what would become one of the most important and influential movements in the history of rock & roll. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
