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Gimme Danger, Jim Jarmusch’s documentary about the Iggy and the Stooges, will make its North American premiere at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival, taking place September 8-18. The film will make its Texas premiere at the Austin Film Festival, which runs from October 13-20.

For more information, visit TIFF.net and AustinFilmFestival.com.

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02:00PM Photocall Gimme Danger – Jim Jarmusch
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Gimme Danger, the Iggy and the Stooges documentary by Jim Jarmusch, will have two screenings during the Sydney Film Festival in June. The film will be shown in Sydney at the State Theatre on June 17 at 9 p.m. and Event Cinema George Street on June 19 at 3:45 p.m. local time as part of the festival.

In addition, Le Pacte has struck a deal for French rights to the film. Additional territories sold include Australia (Transmission), Japan (King Records), Germany (Studiocanal), Hong Kong (Edko), Poland (Gutek), Portugal (Leopardo) and Switzerland (Filmcoopi Zurich).

The worldwide premiere of Gimme Danger will take place at the Cannes Film Festival on May 19.

Read more at Noise11 and Screen Daily.

Third Man Books is excited to announce one of the most anticipated books of the year about one of the most influential bands of all time… The Stooges. TOTAL CHAOS: The Story of The Stooges / As Told by Iggy Pop is the first time the story of this seminal band has been told entirely in Pop’s own words.

Author Jeff Gold and contributor Johan Kugelberg, noted music historians and collectors, spent two days with Pop at his Miami home, sharing with him their extensive Stooges collection and interviewing the legendary singer. Pop’s candid, bare-all responses left them with the almost unbelievable tale of the band he founded-the alternately tragic and triumphant story of a group who rose from youth, fell prey to drugs, alcohol, and music biz realities, collapsed and nearly 30 years later reformed, recording and touring to great acclaim. In 2010 The Stooges, credited with having invented punk rock, were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Their continuing influence can be felt today in the shape and sound of rock-n-roll music.

Jeff Gold, Johan Kugelberg and editor/contributor Jon Savage are among the most respected music authors and historians working today. Their efforts include numerous acclaimed and best-selling books and a Grammy Award. TOTAL CHAOS stands as a work for all fans of the band and rock music to draw inspiration. Including an absolute treasure-trove of rare and unseen photographs, TOTAL CHAOS is a book that shows AND tells the story of The Stooges. A metallic k.o. of only the best kind.

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It was a rare privilege to sit with Iggy as he downloaded the story of The Stooges. He’s an incredible storyteller with a fantastic memory and a great sense of humor, and he held nothing back. The Stooges were pioneers in sound, look, and live presentation, and along the way invented a genre-punk rock-and influenced countless others that followed. There was no precedent in rock music for what they did. They’re definitely the only group in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame who started out playing an amplified Waring blender, a vacuum cleaner, spring water bottles and a 200 gallon oil drum. – Jeff Gold, Author of 101 Essential Rock Records

Iggy and The Stooges have to be one of the greatest American rock bands that has ever been. – Joan Jett

What does it mean to be Iggy Pop, five decades of being ‘the wildest man in rock’? Iggy Pop is many things. Rock Star. Singer, Rebel. Primitive. Stooge. The Jean Genie, Passenger. Legend. – Johnny Marr

Iggy Pop has turned the interview into an art form. In this book he tells the history of The Stooges with a mixture of wit, candor and spontaneity: from their early beginnings to their full flaming flare over three groundbreaking albums before the crash and the triumphant return that no-one could have predicted. Profusely illustrated with dozens of unseen images, this is the story of The Stooges like you’ve never read it before. – Jon Savage, Author of England’s Dreaming.

ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE:

Ben Blackwell

Joan Jett

Johnny Marr

Jack White

& more.

Jim Jarmusch’s documentary Gimme Danger, which looks at Iggy Pop and The Stooges, will premiere in a midnight screening, out of competition, at the Cannes Film Festival to be held May 11-22. More details on the 2016 films will be released a week before the festival.

View the official selections at Festival-Cannes.fr.

Iggy Pop is featured in a new cover story for the April 2016 issue of MOJO, in an interview that surveys his entire career. Speaking about his Stooges bandmates, brothers Ron and Scott Asheton, he discusses the relationships which fueled their creativity. “I was very much pursuing a brotherhood with them,” he said.

Read more at MOJO. The magazine is on sale now.

Iggy Pop, whose solo recording career began with two albums produced by David Bowie, said in an interview this week that he had still not fully processed Mr. Bowie’s death, at 69, on Sunday.

“The friendship was basically that this guy salvaged me from certain professional and maybe personal annihilation — simple as that,” said Mr. Pop, who is 68. “Only he was the one who had enough truly in common with me, and who actually really liked what I did and could get on board with it, and who also had decent enough intentions to help me out. He did a good thing.”

He added, “He resurrected me.”

Read more at The New York Times.

David’s friendship was the light of my life. I never met such a brilliant person. He was the best there is.

– Iggy Pop