As ever with a film season such as Sound and Vision: Pop Stars on Film, there are titles that we wanted to screen but had to discount for numerous reasons.
To demonstrate how wide we cast our net, Jason Wood Jason Wood, Creative Director: Film and Culture at HOME, shares an insight into the films that got away in a pop pickers style countdown of titles we considered.
Frank Sinatra – Suddenly, Lewis Allen, 1954
Ella Fitzgerald – Pete Kelly’s Blues, Jack Webb, 1955
Dean Martin + Ricky Nelson – Rio Bravo, Howard Hawks, 1959
Harry Belafonte – Odds Against Tomorrow, Robert Wise, 1959
Cliff Richard – Expresso Bongo, Val Guest, 1959
Nico – Strip-Tease, Jacques Pointrenaud, 1963
John Lennon – How I Won The War, Richard Lester, 1967
Marianne Faithful – Girl on a Motorcycle, Jack Cardiff, 1968
Johnny Cash – A Gunfight, Lamont Johnson, 1971
Dennis Wilson/James Taylor – Two-Lane Blacktop, Monte Hellman, 1971
Diana Ross – Lady Sings The Blues, Sidney J. Furie, 1972
David Essex/Ringo Starr – That’ll Be The Day, Claude Watham, 1973
Kris Kristofferson/Bob Dylan – Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Sam Peckinpah, 1973
Amitabh Bachchan – Abhimaan, Hrishkesh Mukherjee, 1973
Tina Turner – Tommy, Ken Russell, 1975
David Bowie –The Man Who Fell To Earth, Nicolas Roeg, 1976
Sam Hui – The Private Eyes, Michael Hui, 1976
Tina Turner – Tommy, Ken Russell, 1975
Sting – Radio On, Chris Petit, 1979
Hazel O’Connor – Breaking Glass, Brian Gibson, 1980
John Lurie – Permanent Vacation, Jim Jarmusch, 1980
Nazia Hassan – Star, Vinod Pande, 1982
John Lydon – Order of Death, Roberto Faenza, 1983
Charlotte Gainsbourg – The Cement Garden, Andrew Birkin, 1983
George Lam/Teddy Rodin – Banana Cop, Po Chih Leong, 1984
Grace Jones – Vamp, Richard Wenk, 1986
Michael Hutchence – Dogs In Space, Richard Lowenstein, 1986
Alice Cooper – Prince of Darkness, John Carpenter, 1987
Tom Waits/Joe Strummer/Dr. John/Arto Lindsay, Mary Margaret O’Hara/David Johannson – Candy Mountain, Robert Frank, 1988
Nick Cave – Ghosts of the Civil Dead, John Hillcoat, 1988
Lydia Lunch/Henry Rollins – Kiss Napoleon Goodbye, Babeth Mondini, 1990
Jacques Dutronc – Van Gogh, Maurice Pialat, 1991
Ice Cube/Ice T – Tresspass, Walter Hill, 1992
Faye Wong – Chungking Express, Wong Kar Wai, 1994
Iggy Pop – Dead Man, Jim Jarmusch, 1995
Evan Dando + Deborah Harry – Heavy, James Mangold, 1995
Tricky – The Fifth Element, Luc Besson, 1997
Meat Loaf – Fight Club, David Fincher, 1999
Vanessa Paradis – The Girl on the Bridge, Patrice Leconte, 1999
Bjork – Dancer in the Dark, Lars von Trier, 2000
PJ Harvey – The Book of Life, Hal Hartley, 2000
Sammi Cheng/Andy Lau – Needing You, Johnnie To, 2000
Johnny Hallyday – The Man on the Train, Patrice Leconte, 2002
Eminem – 8 Mile, Curtis Hanson, 2002
Ashley Walters – Bullet Boy, Saul Dibb, 2004
Mos Def – The Woodsman, Nicole Kassell, 2004
Kim Gordon – Last Days, Gus Van Sant, 2005
Beyonce/Jennifer Hudson – Dreamgirls, Bill Condon, 2006
Will Oldham – Old Joy, Kelly Reichardt, 2006
Miriam Yeung – Hooked On You, Johnnie To, 2007
Kylie Minogue – Holy Motors, Leos Carax, 2012
Selina Gomez – Spring Breakers, 2012, Harmony Korine
Justin Timberlake – Inside LLewyn Davies, Coen Bros, 2013
Janelle Monae – Moonlight, Barry Jenkins, 2016
Takuya Kimura – Blade of the Immortal, Takashi Miike, 2017
Adam Horovitz – Golden Exits, Alex Ross Perry, 2017
Check out the films that did make the cut here