So whats your favorite music themed movie?

I love the Blues Brothers. All of it. Belushi was a genius.

And the music of course.

But I wonder if the ’documentary’ aspects of the movie are under appreciated. In other words, Cab Calloway, Aretha, James Brown, Ray Charles, John Lee Hooker. These folks are gone now and those performances were great.

Shaft hands down. A B movie but boy was the music outstanding! Isaac Hayes won the Oscar for best song in shaft. There’s not one song on the double album that isn’t listenable. It’s truly an absolute gem of an album that I still listen to today, 50 years later. Talk about timeless.

The songs Cafe Regio and Ellie’s Love Theme have a jazz feel. Most of the album has an R&B feel. It’s over an hour of great music. 

Lady Sings The Blues is a very close second. Diana Ross killed it on this album. The French Jazz Musician Michel Legrand wrote the orchestration. Superbly done!

1. The Deer Hunter 
2. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
3. Master and Commander

One of my favorites is "A Knight's Tale" (2001) which is a fun mash up of a feel good medieval knight tale with a classic rock sound track. 

Not sure it has been cited, but, Fantasia!!!!!

And Hard Days Night, as already mentioned lots -- revolutionary,. And hosts of Nat Fleisher cartoons from the 30s.

Lots of other good stuff mentioned that I noticed.  But these are genuinely music focused, not just musically valuable for some reason.