BORN TO LOSE
and as abonus
New York Doll (2005)
THE LAST
ROCK AND ROLL
MOVIE
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Dee Dee Ramone
Johnny Thunders
Willy Deville
Stiv Bators
Chris Spedding
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Lech Kowalski - Producer, Editor, Director
Johnny Thunders - Composer (Music Score)
Type: Documentary
Rating: NR
Running Time: 125 minutes
Starring: Stiv Bators, Willy Deville,
Dee Dee Ramone, Johnny Thunders
Directed by: Lech Kowalski
Born To Lose: The Last Rock 'N'
Roll Movie
1999 - USA
The film was made over years of work, with more than 400 hours of filmed material, archive footage, interviews and personal memories. It sketches a portrait of singer Johnny Thunders, a myth from the New York punk-rock scene in the 70s and 80s, who founded the New York Dolls and the Heartbreakers, and who was dedicated to a way of life literally lost between sex, drugs and rock and roll, which took his life of only 39 years in 1991.
"One day I was approached by a young girl who wanted me to meet johnny's son in prison: he was her companion and they also had had a baby together. This struck me hard: it was a signal that while I had been making this film life had gone on, that from Johnny's obscurity something else had been born. I would think that I could never convey this ideain the film, and so I would fiddle with it some more, until I had made several different versions of it. But, in reality, this is a film that would never end, because there was no answer to the things that I was seeking. For me, Johnny Thunder remains an enigma: he was a great musician. When he was on stage he was truly exciting, but, as a person, I didn't like him."
Veteran documentary
filmmaker and hipster Lech
Kowalski creates this film
about his friend and
hard-partying rock god
Johnny Thunders, member
of legendary proto-punk
band the New York Dolls.
Through archive footage and interviews with such
musicians as Dee Dee Ramone and Sylvain Sylvain, the film
details his stint with the Dolls, the formation of his other
band, the Heartbreakers; his rise to fame, particularly in
Japan; his descent into heroin addiction, and the
mysterious circumstances of his death in a New Orleans
hotel room in 1991. Born to Lose: The Last Rock 'n' Roll
Movie also contains some rarely seen concert performances
in Max's Kansas City and the Mudd Club. It was screened as
a part of the Midnight Madness program at the 1999
Toronto Film Festival.
New York Dol
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New York Doll (2005)
A recovering alcoholic and recently converted Mormon, Arthur "Killer" Kane, of the rock band The New York Dolls, is given a chance at reuniting with his band after 30 years.
Regia
Greg Whiteley
Star
Arthur KaneDavid JohansenSylvain Sylvain
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