I need the name of this movie?!
Question: I have been trying to remember the name of a movie i watched a few years ago. It was about a woman that hiked into the deep hills (looked like hillbilly country) searching for the old bluegrass/folk music. she carried this phonograph looking thing that the people sang into and she recorded it. they were amazed that this thing could play music back to them. it was almost like a documentary but more of a movie. i keep wanting to call it "The Music Maker" or something like that. Can anyone help me PLEASE!?!?!
Answers: I have been trying to remember the name of a movie i watched a few years ago. It was about a woman that hiked into the deep hills (looked like hillbilly country) searching for the old bluegrass/folk music. she carried this phonograph looking thing that the people sang into and she recorded it. they were amazed that this thing could play music back to them. it was almost like a documentary but more of a movie. i keep wanting to call it "The Music Maker" or something like that. Can anyone help me PLEASE!?!?!
Songcatcher? with Aiden Quinn
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210299/plot...
It was Songcatcher from 2000
The Songcatcher (1999)
starring Janet McTeer, Aidan Quinn, Jane Adams, Emmy Rossum, Pat Carroll, E. Katherine Kerr, David Patrick Kelly, Michael Davis, Michael Goodwin
IMDB synopsis:
After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impulsively visits her sister, who runs a struggling rural school in Appalachia. There she stumbles upon the discovery of her life - a treasure trove of ancient Scots-Irish ballads, songs that have been handed down from generation to generation, preserved intact by the seclusion of the mountains. With the goal of securing her promotion, Lily ventures into the most isolated areas of the mountains to collect the songs and finds herself increasingly enchanted - not only by the rugged purity of the music, but also by the raw courage and endurance of the local people as they carve out meaningful lives against the harshest conditions. It is not, however, until she meets Tom - a handsome, hardened war veteran and talented musician - that she's forced to examine her motivations. Is the "Songcatcher," as Tom insists, no better than the men who exploit the people and extort their land?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210299/
Songcatcher (2000)--Janet McTeer played Professor Lily Penleric, PhD.--Hauntingly beautiful folk music and stunning Appalachian scenery take center stage in this winner of the 2000 Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize for outstanding ensemble performance. Musicologist Dr. Lily Penleric has a deep love of English folk ballads. After a humiliating failure to make full professor, she heads off to visit her sister's tiny school in rural Appalachia and finds herself in folk music central. Lily is entranced, but the locals are suspicious of the outlander's motivations. Issues of tolerance, clashing cultures, and Big Bad Men abound, but Songcatcher wisely focuses on the music. Janet McTeer does fine with the "repressed academic gets in touch with the earth" role, but her truly outstanding work is in revealing scholar Lily's rapture in her discoveries. McTeer leads a truly great cast, including the wonderful Pat Carroll, and a just-for-the-hell-of-it cameo by bluesman Taj Mahal. Songcatcher has a healthy respect for the mountain people it portrays, and an absolute reverence for their music.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210299/plot...
Amazon.com at: http://www.amazon.com/Songcatcher-Janet-...
The name of this fiml is "The Record" buy I don't know , I am not sure
Songcatcher