Jack Bruce Movies
- 2009
Classic rocker and master musician Jack Bruce reteams with fellow Cream alum and guitar god Robin Trower for this live performance from Nijmegen, Netherlands. The pair had previously teamed on several albums, but this show serves as a stage for their 2008 collaboration Seven Moons. The show begins with the eponymous track, and it continues to build with favorites such as "Lives of Clay," "So Far to Yesterday," and "The Last Door". ~ All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jack Bruce, Robin Trower, (more)
This program documents the career of the legendary guitarist Eric Clapton. In addition to offering footage of the man performing, the filmmakers interview critics and contemporaries who explain how many of his greatest songs came to be. The experts also place the man's work in proper historical context. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jack Bruce, Pete Brown, (more)
In 2005, after nearly four decades apart, the rock trio Cream (Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, and Jack Bruce) reunited for a series of shows at London's world famous venue the Royal Albert Hall. This concert film includes songs from various nights and offers renditions of classics like "Sunshine of Your Love," "White Room," "Crossroads," "Politician," "I'm So Glad," and over a dozen more. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce, (more)
- 1997
Screenwriter and director John Byrne transformed his own 1983 off-Broadway play into this coming-of-age comedy-drama that is divided into six segments, each one a different day during one week in the lives of its main characters. Spanky Farrell (Russell Barr), Hector McKenzie (Bill Gardiner), and Phil McCann (Robin Laing) are a trio of working class teenage boys who labor in a drab Scottish carpet factory in 1957. Each of the lads dreams of a way out of his dreary life: Spanky desires to relocate to the U.S., Hector plans to marry a coworker -- Lucille (Louise Berry), who works in the mailroom -- and Phil toils as an artist, assembling a portfolio that he hopes will earn him an art school admission. While they plan for the future, the three young men are also eagerly anticipating a staff-sponsored dance that's going to be held that weekend by their company. Byrne's original stage production starred Kevin Bacon, Sean Penn and Val Kilmer in the leads. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
- 1991
This tuneful documentary video chronicles the brief history of the first pop music "supergroup" and features interviews with members Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker. Also featured are comments by other major musicians who were influenced by Cream including John Mayall, Robert Cray, Pete Brown and members of Masters of Reality. Featured songs include: "Sunshine of Your Love," "White Room," "Spoonful," "Strange Brew," "I Feel Free," "Toad," "I'm So Glad," "Crossroads," and "Sitting on Top of the World." ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Cream
Martin Scorsese explores the life of organized crime with his gritty, kinetic adaptation of Nicolas Pileggi's best-selling Wiseguy, the true-life account of mobster and FBI informant Henry Hill. Set to a true-to-period rock soundtrack, the story details the rise and fall of Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian New York kid who grows up idolizing the "wise guys" in his impoverished Brooklyn neighborhood. He begins hanging around the mobsters, running errands and doing odd jobs until he gains the notice of local chieftain Paulie Cicero (Paul Sorvino), who takes him in as a surrogate son. As he reaches his teens, Hill (Ray Liotta) is inducted into the world of petty crime, where he distinguishes himself as a "stand-up guy" by choosing jail time over ratting on his accomplices. From that moment on, he is a part of the family. Along with his psychotic partner Tommy (Joe Pesci), he rises through the ranks to become Paulie's lieutenant; however, he quickly learns that, like his mentor Jimmy (Robert DeNiro), his ethnicity prevents him from ever becoming a "made guy," an actual member of the crime family. Soon he finds himself the target of both the feds and the mobsters, who feel that he has become a threat to their security with his reckless dealings. Goodfellas was rewarded with six Academy Award nominations including Best Picture; Pesci would walk away with Best Supporting Actor for his work. ~ Jeremy Beday, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, (more)
- 1978
- PG
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Pop star Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees star in this musical, loosely based on the popular 1967 Beatles album Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. In the story, Billy Shears, who now heads the Lonely Hearts Club Band, is the grandson of the famous Sergeant Pepper. He is confronted by the need to save the magical musical instruments of the band from the bad guys, led by music tycoon B.D. Brockhurst (Donald Pleasance), who want to steal them. If they succeed, the magic which infuses "Heartland U.S.A." will disappear. Among the many Beatles' songs performed in the film by well-known popular artists are: "She's Leaving Home" (Bee Gees, Jay MacIntosh, John Wheeler), "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" (Steve Martin), "Got To Get You into My Life (Earth, Wind & Fire), "When I'm 64" (Sandy Farina), "Come Together" (Aerosmith), "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (sung by the Bee Gees, Paul Nicholas), "With a Little Help from My Friends" (Peter Frampton, the Bee Gees), "Fixing a Hole" (George Burns), and "Get Back" (Billy Preston). ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Peter Frampton, Barry Gibb, (more)
While he began receiving international acclaim durring his stints with The Yardbirds and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Eric Claption truly rose to the status of rock's premier guitar hero with the bluesy power trio Cream, which teamed him with two unusually gifted and individual collaborators, Jack Bruce on bass and Ginger Baker on drums. Cranking out four acclaimed studio albums and a long string of live shows in a scant two years, Cream called it quits on November 26, 1968 with a concert at London's Royal Albert Hall, which was captured on film for this release. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Cream
The instructional video Jack Bruce: The Cream of Cream features the legendary bass guitarist offering a series of tips on how anyone can learn to play some of the most celebrated songs in Cream's formidable catalogue including "Sunshine of Your Love," and "White Room." ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
