The Runaways

[MUXU]

read some reviews today, generally pretty positive reviews. im surprised kristen kept that joan jett hair, it looks good on her, definitely breaks her away from the bella image. but it almost looks too good on her, reminds me of someone i used to know...

 

[franchini]

Some more pictures from Sundance.

Cherie Currie/Joan Jett:


Michael Shannon/Floria Sigismondi:


Stella Maeve/Riley Keough:


Tatum O'Neal:


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[franchini]

Dakota Fanning/Kristen Stewart:


Group pictures:




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brad elterman tumblr

 

[dajrekshn]

great interview with floria:

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Excl...unaways-Director-Floria-Sigismondi-16741.html

can't embed it so...

 

[MUXU]

^that's great! thanks. really nice to hear more about the movie in depth.

i think it will be a while before i can watch this movie though, no idea when it's coming to uk

 

[Empress Merel]

Brandon's Sundance Review: Floria Sigismondi's Runaways

If ever there was film that was a perfect fit for this year's Sundance, it's The Runaways. This fest is all about rebellion, and not many people embody rebellion more than Joan Jett and The Runaways. Focusing on Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, over-sexualized teenage girls living the wild, reckless lifestyle of rock 'n' roll super stars, the film chronicles the band's conception, its rise to stardom, and its fall. Under the abusive management of Kim Fowley (played by Michael Shannon), the girls struggle with their budding sexuality, drugs, and the pressures of being stars.
What's most disappointing about the film is that there are a few truly great performances that get swallowed by the meandering, boring, slapdash story. Kristen Stewart captures the intensity, angst, and presence of Joan Jett. Michael Shannon owns the wild role of Fowley. And Dakota Fanning continues to be incredible in anything that can be projected on screen. Just as Cherie Currie was sexualized while a teenager in the seventies, the filmmakers and Fanning challenge the audience not to become ephebophiliacs. The film often wins.

Despite its performances, however, The Runaways is just mind-numbing. The first thirty minutes have real attitude, teeth, claws, and bras, but it quickly slows to a crawl. For the remaining hour and a half, it meanders through different points in The Runaways's history, compressing the events, rushing their outcomes, and destroying all context. It feels heartless. Soulless. It's an R-rated film without a distinct audience. More so, it's just a poorly constructed, shoddily-directed, uninteresting biopic.



Read more: http://www.firstshowing.net/2010/01...loria-sigismondis-the-runaways/#ixzz0eD7UtrBg

 

[jemina]

Riley Keough is also in the movie?

 

[Allelle]

Is the March release date just for the US? Anyone know when it's out in the UK and Ireland?

 

[dajrekshn]

there's still no info on weather they found european distributor.

 

[Dora]

Vanity Fair’s Andi Teran got an early screening of the Runaways recently and says you should be prepared for full on rock and roll mayhem!

At last night’s midtown Manhattan press screening of the highly anticipated biopic The Runaways, a diminutive figure in a black hoodie slunk into the front row minutes before the lights dimmed. I could just make out a pair of Kohl-rimmed eyes and an inky fringe, but it was the unmistakable slouch that made me wonder: “Is that Kristen Stewart?” I was half-right. It was Joan Jett, the pioneering hard rocker portrayed in the film by Stewart.

The Runaways tells the story of its namesake band—the all-girl teen band that launched Jett’s career in the 1970s. It tells the age-old tale of sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll, but with the twist that it’s all from a young woman’s perspective. Directed by photographer and music-video director Floria Sigismondi, the movie stars two of the most sought-after young actresses working today: Dakota Fanning, who plays the drug-addled lead singer, Cherie Currie; and Stewart, the face of the Twilight film franchise (which also, coincidentally, features Fanning). Both actresses are roughly the age their fictional counterparts were at the height of their fame, and both seem eager to leave behind their doe-eyed images (and fan bases) and venture into more mature artistic territory. Judging from this effort, they may well succeed.

Aggressive, raw, and amped up on frenetic—and sexual—hunched-punk intensity, Stewart’s Jett smokes, snorts, and struts with abandon, her energy centered strategically in her pelvis. (I can’t wait to see what the Twi-hards make of this!) A favorite scene—and there were many—takes place in the bathroom where Jett gives a blasé “lesson” to one of her band mates about how to pleasure oneself with a shower head while visualizing Farrah Fawcett. This is a woman who revels in her well-earned bad reputation. “I want what he’s wearing,” she says, and she is never disappointed.

Then there’s Fanning as Currie, the kittenish blonde who fronts the band like a female crossbreed of Ziggy Stardust and Keith Richards. Like Jett, she’s an outcast born into a virtually fatherless home, game for whatever adventure comes her way. She falls into The Runaways by chance (unlike Jett, who charges ahead with unbridled intensity) and easily succumbs to rock’s infinite varieties of candy. Fanning’s performance is both chilling and convincing, and will serve as the cautionary foil to every underage girl who sees this movie (they will find a way to get in) and is inspired to mimic its lifestyle (they will want to mimic it—I found myself jonesing for a guitar and a cigarette when it was over).

While there’s nothing that will surprise you story-wise, especially if you’ve read about the history of The Runaways, the sheer force of the girl-power energy that went into the film combined with the contagious ferocity of the music (featuring impressive vocals by Stewart and Fanning) will leave you jumpy—in a good way. You’ll want the soundtrack, not to mention every album The Runaways and Joan Jett and the Blackhearts produced, and you’ll definitely want more of Stewart and Fanning.

And what does Joan Jett want? Nothing too complicated. I happened to overhear her in the ladies room after the screening telling one admirer, “I just want people to enjoy it.”

vanityfair

 

[Allelle]

there's still no info on weather they found european distributor.

Oh ok,thank you. i didn't know that

 

[dajrekshn]

no problem. european distributors are probably are putting it on hold until they see boxoffice results in USA.

 

[dajrekshn]

promo pics for TR

twitpic.com/photos/kstewartfan

 

[farou7a]

^ i want to see it!!!

 

[dajrekshn]

two new promos, this thread is sooo dead



kstewartfan.org

 

[maxlinden]

awesome looking

 

[Alvedansen]

Soundtrack listing

ontd @ livejournal

1. Nick Gilder – “Roxy Roller”
2. Suzi Quatro – “The Wild One”
3. MC5 – “It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World”
4. David Bowie – “Rebel Rebel”
5. Dakota Fanning – “Cherry Bomb”
6. The Runaway – “Hollywood”
7. Dakota Fanning – “California Paradise”
8. The Runaways – “You Drive Me Wild”
9. Dakota Fanning & Kristen Stewart – “Queens Of Noise”
10. Kristen Stewart & Dakota Fanning – “Dead End Justice”
11. The Stooges – “I Wanna Be Your Dog”
12. The Runaways – “I Wanna Be Where The Boys Are (Live)”
13. Sex Pistols – “Pretty Vacant”
14. Joan Jett – “Don’t Abuse Me”

 

[Alvedansen]

apparently the release dates have been changed

New date:
3/19/10 limited
4/9/10 wide

(isn't that usually a bad sign?)

 

[dajrekshn]

yeah, i saw that yesterday, though i'm reading it was the same way with Into the wild (and they had the same producers - Linsons or something), it break out only 3 weeks after the opening weekend into the wider release.

anyway, my guess is that the tickets aren't selling by the pace they'd want them to sell.

 

[Dora]

Just a reminder:




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