Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

The Paramount Theater in partnership with the Virginia Film Festival* is proud to announce our August movie line-up of iconic rock films.

Detroit, Michigan, 1959. Berry Gordy gathers the best musicians from the city’s thriving jazz and blues scene for his new record company: Motown. For the next fourteen years these players are the heartbeat on every hit from Motown’s Detroit era. By the end of their phenomenal run, the unheralded group of musicians has become the greatest hit machine in the history of popular music. They call themselves the Funk Brothers. But no one knows their names…this is their story.

Rob Reiner’s cult classic follows a has-been heavy metal group Spinal Tap as they navigate the joys (amps that go to 11) and pitfalls (having too much meat for too little bread) of touring to promote their latest album, Smell the Glove.

Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison examines the most important day in the career of one of America’s foremost popular artists.  It was January 1968, a year that would be saturated in violence and historical change. Cash’s 1968 concert at Folsom State Prison in California and the ensuing album became a symbol of the late 1960s and transformed his career.  Drawing from rock photographer Jim Marshall’s stark images of that day, rare archival footage, as well as exclusive interviews with participants and observers, the film traces Cash’s rocky road that led to the concert and the torrent of stardom and political debate that came after it.

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