The Runaways
DVD, Entertainment One
It's virtually impossible for a rock biopic to completely replicate all the trappings of the time in which it's set. For the story of the Runaways, the first major all-female rock band of the 1970s, there wasn't a great deal of money or time to fuss over every little detail. While it does get plenty correct, it completely nails the spirit of the story almost from the get-go – when Dakota Fanning as singer Cherie Currie (complete with Aladdin Sane lightning bolt painted across her face) lip synchs to David Bowie's Lady Grinning Soul to waves of derision from her classmates. From then on it's a colourful, fast-paced tale of a band that burned brightly before dramatically imploding after a few short years. Existing in the netherworld between glam and punk, the band were treated at best like a novelty, at worst like a freak show.
DVD, Entertainment One
It's virtually impossible for a rock biopic to completely replicate all the trappings of the time in which it's set. For the story of the Runaways, the first major all-female rock band of the 1970s, there wasn't a great deal of money or time to fuss over every little detail. While it does get plenty correct, it completely nails the spirit of the story almost from the get-go – when Dakota Fanning as singer Cherie Currie (complete with Aladdin Sane lightning bolt painted across her face) lip synchs to David Bowie's Lady Grinning Soul to waves of derision from her classmates. From then on it's a colourful, fast-paced tale of a band that burned brightly before dramatically imploding after a few short years. Existing in the netherworld between glam and punk, the band were treated at best like a novelty, at worst like a freak show.
- 2/5/2011
- by Phelim O'Neill
- The Guardian - Film News
London -- The London Independent Film Festival, one of a slew of capital-set film festivals, is ramping up its ambitions ahead of next year's April event.
Run by film producer Erich Schultz, the Liff aims to provide a platform for low-budget and no-budget films in the U.K. and will open with Jan Dunn's "The Calling" in 2010.
Written and directed by Dunn, the movie stars Brenda Blethyn, Susannah York and Rita Tushingham and details the story of a woman who gives up her life to become a nun.
Said Dunn: "We make films because we have something to say but often we can't compete with the sheer weight of a commercial feature to get our films onto a British cinema screen...so well done Liff in giving filmmakers like us a starting point!"
Dunn secured the festival's £50,000 ($82,000) prize for "Ruby Blue," which screened during the festival's 1998 edition and used...
Run by film producer Erich Schultz, the Liff aims to provide a platform for low-budget and no-budget films in the U.K. and will open with Jan Dunn's "The Calling" in 2010.
Written and directed by Dunn, the movie stars Brenda Blethyn, Susannah York and Rita Tushingham and details the story of a woman who gives up her life to become a nun.
Said Dunn: "We make films because we have something to say but often we can't compete with the sheer weight of a commercial feature to get our films onto a British cinema screen...so well done Liff in giving filmmakers like us a starting point!"
Dunn secured the festival's £50,000 ($82,000) prize for "Ruby Blue," which screened during the festival's 1998 edition and used...
- 12/7/2009
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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