This documentary portrait of a great musical maverick is a terrific, terrifying blast of unwholesome rock’n’roll excitement
Jim Jarmusch’s documentary tribute to Iggy Pop and the Stooges is an act of fanboy – or rather fanman – love and it is entirely beguiling. This is not an obviously Jarmuschian film and Iggy is not himself a particularly Jarmuschian character – he is too humorously direct in conversation, too cheerfully ready to render up his meaning to you right away.
This film hooks you from the start, but I was especially smitten by the record-sleeve montage of those who have absorbed the great man’s influence: great to see the Adverts’ Gary Gilmore’s Eyes.
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Jim Jarmusch’s documentary tribute to Iggy Pop and the Stooges is an act of fanboy – or rather fanman – love and it is entirely beguiling. This is not an obviously Jarmuschian film and Iggy is not himself a particularly Jarmuschian character – he is too humorously direct in conversation, too cheerfully ready to render up his meaning to you right away.
This film hooks you from the start, but I was especially smitten by the record-sleeve montage of those who have absorbed the great man’s influence: great to see the Adverts’ Gary Gilmore’s Eyes.
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- 11/17/2016
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
He's only in six scenes, but his turn as General MacArthur in Emperor steals the show - again
• Interview: Matthew Fox on Emperor
With a face that belongs either on Mount Rushmore or one of the higher-denomination Us Treasury banknotes, Tommy Lee Jones has for 40 years been the saviour of more movies than I can count. That includes this week's listless, though occasionally diverting, historical drama Emperor, in which he essays the role of General Douglas MacArthur with far greater conviction and aplomb than pretty-boy Gregory Peck managed for Us TV back in 1977, or Henry Fonda the year before, or Lawrence Olivier in the Moonie-backed megaflop Inchon in 1981.
Although his is a supporting role – the lead is whey-faced, pasteurised Matthew Fox as his protege, General Bonner Fellers – and Jones is only in about six scenes, it's his work that sticks with the viewer. The movie, which is about the process...
• Interview: Matthew Fox on Emperor
With a face that belongs either on Mount Rushmore or one of the higher-denomination Us Treasury banknotes, Tommy Lee Jones has for 40 years been the saviour of more movies than I can count. That includes this week's listless, though occasionally diverting, historical drama Emperor, in which he essays the role of General Douglas MacArthur with far greater conviction and aplomb than pretty-boy Gregory Peck managed for Us TV back in 1977, or Henry Fonda the year before, or Lawrence Olivier in the Moonie-backed megaflop Inchon in 1981.
Although his is a supporting role – the lead is whey-faced, pasteurised Matthew Fox as his protege, General Bonner Fellers – and Jones is only in about six scenes, it's his work that sticks with the viewer. The movie, which is about the process...
- 9/30/2013
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
Guys, tell me if I've had a little bit too much of Paula Abdul's Percocet margarita, but are we on our way toward all-female top five? I'm both giddy and a little unnerved. Are these results doctored? I'm scared of the truth. But I'm ready for the truth, if it means the Top 5 reign of <3 Amber <3. Or Candice or Not Angie.
Anyway, here are 25 fiiiiine observations from last night's perfectly palatable elimination show.
1. Ryan Seacrest announces this is the 450th episode of Idol. I'm starting to think they'll never resolve that Brian Dunkleman subplot.
2. Uhhh, Lazaro wore white suspenders with a white belt (Nerd alert? Emily Dickinson alert?), a gold bowtie, and a palm tree-emblazoned dress shirt. I hope it was a Holy Thursday outfit, because I sure wanted to crucify him.
3. The top 8 sing the unthinkably dated "That Old Time Rock 'N Roll." My soul = not soothed. If...
Anyway, here are 25 fiiiiine observations from last night's perfectly palatable elimination show.
1. Ryan Seacrest announces this is the 450th episode of Idol. I'm starting to think they'll never resolve that Brian Dunkleman subplot.
2. Uhhh, Lazaro wore white suspenders with a white belt (Nerd alert? Emily Dickinson alert?), a gold bowtie, and a palm tree-emblazoned dress shirt. I hope it was a Holy Thursday outfit, because I sure wanted to crucify him.
3. The top 8 sing the unthinkably dated "That Old Time Rock 'N Roll." My soul = not soothed. If...
- 3/29/2013
- by virtel
- The Backlot
This week American Horror Story delivered the first half of a two-part Halloween episode, and let's just say that it sure as hell weren't no Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. Loaded with more twists and turns than even the usual Ahs episode (which is saying a lot), this Halloween special delivered one of the nastiest shocks yet in the form of the death of a central character. Even worse? That central character was one of the only likeable ones in the bunch.
So toss on your Pretty Girl masks and let's pick this baby apart, shall we? Whoops - sorry, Charles and Norah, no pun intended!
This week's opening flashback takes us all the way back to 2010. You remember - that long-forgotten yesteryear when when Zachary Quinto was still straight. (All kidding aside, Zach, huge props for coming out last week.) Yes, Laquinto is in the House, playing Chad - one...
So toss on your Pretty Girl masks and let's pick this baby apart, shall we? Whoops - sorry, Charles and Norah, no pun intended!
This week's opening flashback takes us all the way back to 2010. You remember - that long-forgotten yesteryear when when Zachary Quinto was still straight. (All kidding aside, Zach, huge props for coming out last week.) Yes, Laquinto is in the House, playing Chad - one...
- 10/27/2011
- by Brian Juergens
- The Backlot
You'd think that there was nothing "nice" about criminals. They are people who should be reviled, particularly for crimes of murder and rape. Yet in a New York Times review that cites Norman Mailer's relationship with Utah killer Gary Gilmore, Michiko Kakutani states: "The 'ordinary' criminal who espouses a radical mode of thought, after all, has long exerted a certain hold on the literary imagination. Jean Genet, for instance, who was jailed for theft and male prostitution, was granted a presidential pardon thanks to pleas from Andre Gide, Jean Cocteau, Paul Claudel and Jean-Paul Sartre, and he was later canonized by Sartre in 'Saint Genet.' Eldridge Cleaver, who wrote .Soul on Ice' while serving time for rape, was praised by Maxwell Geismar for eloquently illuminating the 'black soul which had been colonized' by an oppressive white society.'' For a time Jacques Mesrine, who once held the title...
- 7/21/2010
- Arizona Reporter
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