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Big Time is the first conventional live album by American musician Tom Waits, featuring performances from two shows on Waits' 1987 tour. The album was released less than a year later on Island Records.
Big Time is a 1988 American musical film directed by Chris Blum. Summary. A concert film centering on singer Tom Waits featuring songs from the albums Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs and Franks Wild Years. [1] Production. Filming took place in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California. [2]
Big Time: Directed by Chris Blum. With Tom Waits, Michael L. Blair, Ralph Carney, Greg Cohen. Bringing his unique sense of humor to this bizarre and original piece of moviemaking, Tom Waits takes the audience through a musical journey with his jazzy, quirky, bluesy tunes presented as you would never, ever, ever expect.
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- Documentary, Music
- Chris Blum
- 1988-10-20
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Big Time. 1988 · 1 hr 27 min. PG. Documentary · Music. This highly-theatrical concert movie crackles with the same vivacity and curve-ball humor that has animated Waits through his 15-year career. Subtitles: English. Starring: Tom Waits. Directed by: Chris Blum.
- Chris Blum
- January 1, 1988
- Tom Waits
- 87 min
Big Time throws Tom Waits' skills as a mime, actor, storyteller, and verbal sleight-of-band artist into startling relief. In round-robin fashion, the viewer meets an ever-shifting rogue's gallery: the brimstone-spouting preacher beating the Devil "Down In the Hole;" the wisecracking guy who drives his piano like a truck through the film; the ...
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Sep 30, 1988 · ''Big Time'' squanders a rare opportunity: The chance (and budget) to film Tom Waits, one of rock's most aberrant and meticulous character actors, in a theatrical concert tailored to his ...
