Time to rock out with Iggy! Magnolia Pictures has unveiled a trailer for the documentary Gimme Danger, about the rock band The Stooges, directed by legendary filmmaker Jim Jarmusch. This is the other ...

Early in “Gimme Danger,” Iggy Pop speaks lovingly of a high school field trip to a Ford factory in Detroit. There, the man born Jim Osterberg Jr. heard what he calls “a mega-clang” — two plates ...

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Jim Jarmusch built “Gimme Danger,” his new documentary on legendary proto-punk band the Stooges, around what he calls “an interrogation.” The director spent about 14 hours — including 10 in a single ...

Has anyone on this planet aged as beautifully as Iggy Pop? Still rocking in the free world at the age of sixty-nine, Iggy continues to look impossibly good in his natural habitatonstage, shirtless, ...

Director/writer Jim Jarmusch doesn't pull any punches in his Stooges documentary, Gimme Danger, calling the Ann Arbor group "the greatest rock and roll band ever" in the first two minutes. He spends ...

The Stooges made a critical discovery during their first recording session in New York in 1969: The band couldn’t lay down a decent instrumental track if singer Iggy Pop, nee Stooge, didn’t dance in ...

The Stooges were a ragged band. They looked ragged, sounded ragged, acted ragged. Any documentary about them begs for the same aesthetic, and director Jim Jarmusch understands that. "Gimme Danger" ...

A defining scene in “Gimme Danger,” Jim Jarmush’s (“The Dead Don’t Die”) documentary about the Stooges, is when a 1970s talk show host asks Iggy Pop, the band’s lead singer, if the Stooges influenced ...

Sometimes starting at the end is the best way to tell a story. Legendary indie filmmaker Jim Jarmusch's documentary Gimme Danger begins the story of the Stooges — the proto-punk band co-founded by ...

In the early ‘70s, the group of kids I hung out with would religiously bring whatever new album they’d discovered to school to show it off to their friends. For us, records represented something more ...

Too noisy. Too raw. And too (fill in the expletive of choice used by detractors). It's one thing to survive a sordid bender when you have the cocaine and cash being delivered by managers. It's quite ...