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Formed in one of the nation’s countercultural capitals, Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1967, The Stooges “helped to wipe out the 1960s” with their assaultive blend of rock, blues, R & B, free jazz, and the musical avant-garde. When combined with the simplified lyrical approach that songwriter Iggy Pop credits to watching the Howdy Doody television program as a child, The Stooges were helping to forge a new musical style that soon became known as punk rock. Gimme Danger, however, opens with the band’s early drug-fueled collapse, in 1974, before tracing the band’s origins and charting their overwhelming influence upon whole generations of musical artists. Filmed by indie-film icon and Stooges’ super-fan Jim Jarmusch (Stranger Than Paradise, Dead Man), Gimme Danger features interviews with all of the longest-surviving band members, including the perpetually cool, engaging, and of course, shirtless rock-god, Iggy Pop.
Director Jim Jarmusch 2016 United States 108 minutes NR DCP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fgiW_S2Hgk
