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Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's true, Joan Jett became mega-famous from the number-one hit "I Love Rock n Roll," but that's only part of the story. This documentary gives a wild ride as Jett and her close friends tell you how it really was in the burgeoning's 70s punk scene and the rocky road to rock stardom decades on. Their interviews are laced with amazing archival footage.
Series
Rock 'n' roll cinema volume 1
Publisher
Rhino
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Recently orphaned Corinne "Third Degree" Burns enlists her sister and cousin to launch a punk rock band, The Stains. Three rehearsals later, The Stains score the opening slot on a cross-country tour with aging metal act The Metal Corpses and British punk rockers The Looters. The Stains' meteoric rise (and equally lightning-quick fall) owes more to TV exposure than to talent.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rock star John Norman Howard has noticed that his career has begun to decline. Too many years of concerts, bad managers and life on the road have made him cynical. Then he meets the innocent, pure and very talented singer Esther Hoffman. John shows Esther the way to stardom while forsaking his own career. As they fall in love, her success only makes his decline even more apparent.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It follows three young female rockers going Hollywood in hell-bent sixties style under the spell of a flamboyant producer, whose decadent bashes showcase Meyer's trademark libidinal exuberance. Transgressive and outrageous, this big-studio version of a debaucherous midnight movie is an addictively entertaining romp from one of the movies' great outsider artists.
6) The Rose
Series
Criterion collection volume 757
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tells about rock-and-roll singer Mary Rose Foster (known as the Rose to her legions of fans), whose romantic relationships and mental health are continuously imperiled by the demands of life on the road.
7) The runaways
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
With the success of their all-girl teenage rock band The Runaways, Joan Jett and Cherie Currie's friendship begins to unwind after Currie decides to leave the group.
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83, 31 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Arabic
Description
Malika is the leader of the all-female punk rock band Traitors, with a strong vision of the world, her hometown of Tangier, and her place in it. When she needs money to save her family from eviction, and to realize her dreams for the band, Malika agrees to a fast cash proposition: a smuggling run over the mountains for a dangerous drug dealer. But her companion on the road is Amal, a burnt-out young drug mule, who Malika decides to free from her enslavement...
10) The Go-Go's
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
[Blu-ray + DVD combo pack].
Physical Desc
1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (1 hr., 35 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The candid and archive-rich documentary assesses the group's place in music history and offers full access to The Go-Go's, including past members as well as longtime members of their inner circle. With their roots in the L.A. punk scene, they were bad girls and genuine punk rockers, and this serious appraisal of their story is the first to set the record straight about their historical ascent to global stardom. A major highlight of the film focuses...
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