Gimme Danger

Name: Gimme Danger
Genre: Music, Documentary
Released: October 28, 2016
Duration: 108 min
Rating: 72

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Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: October 28, 2016 | Not Rated

Summary: Emerging from Ann Arbor Michigan amidst a countercultural revolution, The Stooges’ powerful and aggressive style of rock-n-roll blew a crater in the musical landscape of the late 1960s. Assaulting audiences with a blend of rock, blues, R&B, and free jazz, the band planted the seeds for what would be called punk and alternative rock in theEmerging from Ann Arbor Michigan amidst a countercultural revolution, The Stooges’ powerful and aggressive style of rock-n-roll blew a crater in the musical landscape of the late 1960s. Assaulting audiences with a blend of rock, blues, R&B, and free jazz, the band planted the seeds for what would be called punk and alternative rock in the decades that followed. Jim Jarmusch’s Gimme Danger chronicles the story of The Stooges, one of the greatest rock-n-roll bands of all time, presenting the context of the Stooges emergence musically, culturally, politically, historically, and relating their adventures and misadventures while charting their inspirations and the reasons behind their initial commercial challenges, as well as their long-lasting legacy.… Expand

Director: Jim Jarmusch

Genre(s): Music, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 108 min

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Jeff Albertson

Nov 3, 2016

Jarmusch allows Pop and the music of the Stooges to be the focus of the film. For most fans, that will be enough: Pop proves to be as likable and riveting on screen as he is on stage. Read full review

David Rooney

May 20, 2016

If not every detail of the band's fluctuating fortunes and lineup is chronicled with crystal clarity, the punchy scrappiness of Jarmusch's film — stuffed not only with electric concert footage but with a cornucopia of amusing visual references, plus cool graphics and some droll original animation by James Kerr — is an appropriate fit for the subject. Read full review

Sheri Linden

Nov 3, 2016

The Stooges were postwar kids who took to the stage with fearless, demented exuberance, Iggy writhing half-naked. With Gimme Danger, Jarmusch doesn’t ask him to strip down further. He simply thanks him. Read full review

Mike D'Angelo

Oct 26, 2016

Considering how cheerfully its subject courted controversy, this is a chummy, openly booster-ish profile, designed as an introduction for those ignorant of the Stooges’ legacy. It’s plenty entertaining, but it’s also nearly as tame as Iggy, in his prime, was wild. Read full review

Melissa Anderson

Oct 27, 2016

The frontman's reminiscences, though, are invariably eloquent, witty, and often moving. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

May 20, 2016

Gimme Danger has an ironic tone for a Stooges portrait: dutiful and engrossing, but not electric or crazy. Read full review

Empire Hamish Macbain

Nov 7, 2016

The Stooges’ story is a natural fit for the silver screen. Unfortunately, superfan Jim Jarmusch’s love letter to them does not quite do it justice. Read full review

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geewah

Jan 5, 2021

Fantastic doco on one of music's most seminal bands. Jarmusch lets the music and Iggy's fine ability to tell a story do all the work too great effect.

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