Jim Jarmusch's 'Gimme Danger': Cannes Review. There's a nice throwaway moment in Paterson, Jim Jarmusch's supple exploration of the poetry at the heart of blue- collar New Jersey, in which a local bar owner consults the regular customer played by Adam Driver over whether a 1. Iggy Pop took center stage at the press conference for Jim Jarmusch's documentary 'Gimme Danger,' which focuses on his punk band The Stooges. The item reports the Paterson Teenage Girls' Club voting Iggy Pop, vocalist of The Stooges, the world's sexiest man. It's a given that the clipping will make the wall, just as it's no surprise when, right at the start of Jarmusch's tremendously entertaining rock doc, Gimme Danger, The Stooges are declared to be the greatest rock 'n' roll band ever. Sydney Film Festival Schedule Filters. Here's where you can cut the festival down to size, according to your tastes, interests or availability. Premiering alongside Jim Jarmusch's 'Paterson' in Cannes, the director's documentary salutes influential proto-punk band The Stooges and its sinewy frontman Iggy Pop. This font is free for personal use. For any commercial use please contact me. Cette police est gratuite pour un usage personnel. Pour toute utilisation commerciale. The tight friendship between Jarmusch and Pop (listed in the main credits with his birth name: . It seems natural he would be a subject for Jarmusch's first documentary feature since another rock odyssey, Year of the Horse, the 1. Neil Young and his band on tour. What makes this witty, wildly affectionate tribute to the proto- punk band out of Ann Arbor, Michigan, so inclusive, however, is the even- handed embrace it extends to all the significant Stooges members, surviving and fallen; the film is dedicated to four of the latter. It's a testament to the respect of both Pop and Jarmusch for the music- as- collective spirit that the doc passes right over the singer's successful solo career, which spawned classic cuts like . Their music remained largely under- appreciated at the time, being gradually rediscovered during the subsequent rise of punk. It picks up again when The Stooges reformed for a 2. Coachella show and wraps with their 2. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a milestone Pop celebrates with a triumphant two- finger salute. Detailing the evolution of The Stooges out of a non- political communist ethos, Pop takes a hilarious side- swipe at the peace- freedom- love acts assembled in commercially savvy corporate boardrooms, while a smiley- happy Crosby, Stills & Nash hit is heard. Other notably articulate and insightful talking heads are guitarist James Williamson, who returned to the band after a three- decade career in technology, making him probably the only 6. Sony executive office to a sweaty rock stage; and recording industry veteran Danny Fields, who managed The Stooges and later The Ramones. At the same time he signed The Stooges to Elektra Records, he also signed MC5, another Michigan band acknowledged as instrumental in The Stooges' emergence. Pop memorably comments on Williamson's skills, saying, . It's typical of Pop's unpretentious take on their musicianship that he explains his early relinquishment of drummer duties by confessing: . An accident that resulted in the band's van and instruments being wrecked when a stoned driver plowed into a low- clearance bridge is held up as a cautionary signpost. But much more engrossing is the analysis of how The Stooges' sound and performance style coalesced, starting with the incorporation of clanging industrial noise and black jazz and blues influences, and continuing with the development of Pop's primitive- man dance moves and the inauspicious introduction of his signature stage dive. The first time he catapulted himself into the audience, the crowd parted, leaving him on the floor with busted teeth. He says his preference for performing shirtless came from Egyptian pharaoh movies, illustrated with a choice clip of Yul Brynner raising Anne Baxter's temperature in The Ten Commandments. Examples such as that one of Jarmusch's sly sense of humor make this doc as fun as it is illuminating. The use of Three Stooges clips yield laughs, as does a glimpse of the 1.
Lucille Ball comedy The Long, Long Trailer in reference to the trailer in which Pop was raised. Hearing him talk about the formative benefits of growing up in such close proximity to his supportive parents is a nice switch from the usual tales of rock- star rebellion. But the real takeaway from Gimme Danger (the title comes from a track off The Stooges' 1. Raw Power) is the enduring charge of signature songs like .
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