- Title: Iggy Pop lively at news conference for Stooges documentary screening in Cannes
- Date: 19th May 2016
- Summary: CANNES, FRANCE (MAY 19, 2016) (REUTERS) ****WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** ****WARNING CONTAINS PROFANITY*** MUSICIAN IGGY POP AND DIRECTOR JIM JARMUSCH ENTER NEWS CONFERENCE AND SIT DOWN AUDIENCE MEMBERS TAKING PICTURES AND IGGY STANDING UP WHOLE 'GIMME DANGER' TEAM SEATED (L-R) MODERATOR, ARGENTINIAN PRODUCER FERNANDO SULICHIN, IGGY POP, US DIRECTOR JIM JARMUSCH (C), US PRODUCER CARTER LOGAN (2NDR) AND BRAZILIAN FILM EDITOR AFFONSO GONCALVES (SOUNDBITE) (English) DIRECTOR, JIM JARMUSCH, SAYING: 'There is a limited amount of Stooges footage film footage and all of it really Stooges’ fans have seen so all of this stuff so all of this stuff that was known, so we were able to with the help of Carter Logan and also with Mr Osterberg we were able to track down a lot of stuff that, well not a lot but quite a bit of stuff that no one has seen before the film itself and it's style is kind of a collage - our intention was to make something somehow close to the Stooges music which is not easy to do with film - but that means let it be wild and messy and funny and heartfelt and emotional and strong and we did our best.' AUDIENCE (SOUNDBITE) (English) MUSICIAN, IGGY POP, SAYING: 'I am a throw away guy but I knew a lot of people who would so I contacted them all on behalf of the film and Jim and I said you know give this guy what you got, give him - you know - find more stuff - you know so - fans and old drug dealers and bootleggers you know - strange followers, things like that, you know - that was the idea you know, but no I didn't, I can't think of anything - I have - I have pictures of my mum and dad - my beautiful parents you know - I had that.' MAN IN AUDIENCE ON LAPTOP (SOUNDBITE) (English) MUSICIAN, IGGY POP, SAYING: 'The drugs - the drugs everybody should just drop that shit - simple as that - I would draw the line at - for me the best is a very good wine but weeds ok for most people up to a point and a little maybe a little - this is what happens with the drugs - well a little wine, well a little weed - hey about some mushrooms - well if we're gonna take mushrooms - I have got this mescaline so I don't know you know, all I can say is I don't drug up any more.' 'GIMME DANGER' TEAM SITTING AT NEWS CONFERENCE (SOUNDBITE) (English) MUSICIAN, IGGY POP, SAYING: 'I had really great parents and I didn't listen to them and then along about - later in my life I began to listen to them - especially to what my mother had to say - simple stuff like that and then you know when I am not doing this job I go to bed early, you know, I er you know, I try to limit - well that's not true - I was going to talk about my sex life but that's (laughs) - I think just that you know for some for some reason I have seemed to have been able so far to regenerate from the various things that I have put into myself.' TEAM AT NEWS CONFERENCE (SOUNDBITE) (English) MUSICIAN, IGGY POP, SAYING: 'I was on the beach the other day and some big yob from Serbia twenty years old came up to me (does impression) 'yeah I like your music - it's very good and er, you know of course I listen to the new techno and electronic but we like that old stuff too' - so what are you gonna do - you know - you're gonna be polite - and then when he walks away you're going to say, you know, oh fuck you egor - you know.' VARIOUS IGGY POP SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS IGGY POP LEAVING NEWS CONFERENCE
- Embargoed: 3rd June 2016 18:07
- Keywords: The Stooges Jim Jarmusch Iggy Pop
- Location: CANNES, FRANCE
- City: CANNES, FRANCE
- Country: France
- Topics: Film
- Reuters ID: LVA0014IH2BM5
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
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With "Gimme Danger", a crafty documentary on Iggy Pop and the Stooges premiering on Thursday (May 19) at the Cannes Film Festival, American director Jim Jarmusch sheds a bright, playful light on the band who influenced punk rock.
While "Paterson", Jarmusch's feature film competing for the Palme d'Or, was a quiet ode to the daily routine, "Gimme Danger" turns the amplifier up to 10 for a "collage" on the career of the Stooges from 1967-74 and from 2003.
"Our intention was to make something somehow close to the Stooges music, which is not easy to do with film - but that means let it be wild and messy and funny and heartfelt and emotional and strong," Jarmusch told a news conference on Thursday.
The documentary, which is screened out of competition in the 'Midnight screening' section, was made with unique footage recovered by Jarmusch's team and sometimes with the help of Iggy Pop himself.
"I am a throw away guy but I knew a lot of people who would (help): fans and old drug dealers and bootleggers, and strange followers," said Iggy Pop, whose real name is James Osterberg and was referred to as "Mr Pop" by the moderator.
A playful Jarmusch, who claims the Stooges are "basically the greatest rock band ever", brings his touch in the cutaways, a mix of animations and historical clips.
With interviews with Iggy Pop, but also guitarist James Williamson, drummer Scott Asheton (who died in 2014), saxo player Steve Mackay (who died in 2015) as well as guitarist Ron Asheton (who died in 2009), "Gimme Danger" tells the numerous rises and crashes of the band who repeatedly dived into drug abuse.
The Stooges's success was more critical than commercial.
"We were delusional about what's popular," Williamson says in the film, which sees Iggy Pop recall his childhood in his parents' trailer in Ann Arbor, Michigan, but also his disdain for the hippie movement.
"It was created in meetings. It smells," he says.
Now 69, Iggy Pop says he has given up drugs.
"Everybody should just drop that shit - simple as that. For me the best is a very good wine, but weed is OK for most people up to a point," he said.
"This is what happens with the drugs: 'oh well a little wine, a little weed, hey about some mushrooms, and some mescaline."
"All I can say is I don't drug up any more."
He was in good spirits at the news conference - also joking about being approached on the beach by a young Serbian who inadvertently insulted him. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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