Iggy Pop Filmography

Persepolis

Actors: Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Gena Rowlands, Sean Penn, Iggy Pop

Synopsis: Filmmakers Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi collaborated to co-write and co-direct this adaptation of Satrapi's bestselling autobiographical graphic novel detailing the trials faced by an outspoken Iranian girl who finds her unique attitude and outlook on life repeatedly challenged during the Read More

Kurt Cobain About a Son

Crew: Featured Music

Synopsis: Filmmaker A.J. Schnack draws from over twenty-five hours of audio taped interviews to offer an intimate meditation on the life of the man who changed the face of rock and roll in the 1990s in this film that uses materials originally gathered for music journalist Michael Azerrad's book Come as You Read More

Lil' Bush: Season 01

Coachella

Actors: Nu Mark

Synopsis: Filmmaker Drew Thomas brings California's popular Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival to the screen with a different kind of musical documentary that not only showcases performances by some of the hottest acts to take the stage, but offers interviews with such musical icons as Beck, Joshua Homme Read More

New York Doll

Synopsis: The New York Dolls were a rock band who titled their second studio album {^Too Much Too Soon}, and it summed up the band's career all too well. Playing hard, swaggering rock & roll that anticipated the aural chaos of punk five years before the Sex Pistols became a cause célèbre, and Read More

Bang Bang Orangutang

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Mikael Persbrandt, Lena Olin, Tuva Novotny, Michael Nyqvist, Jonas Karlsson

All We Are Saying

Coffee and Cigarettes

Actors: Roberto Benigni, Steven Wright, Joie Lee, Cinqué Lee, Steve Buscemi

Synopsis: Jim Jarmusch's black-and-white feature Coffee and Cigarettes contains three vignettes originally released as short films along with separate yet somewhat related sketches. As the title suggests, most of the vignettes involve famous people smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee. The first, "Coffee Read More

Iggy & the Stooges: Live in Detroit

Synopsis: On August 25, 2003, Detroit rock & roll fans witnessed something that many would have thought impossible only a few months before: Iggy Pop reunited on stage with guitarist Ron Asheton and drummer Scott Asheton for the first Michigan performance in 30 years by the ferociously influential Read More

Snow Day

Actors: Chris Elliott, Mark Webber, Jean Smart, Schuyler Fisk, Iggy Pop

Synopsis: It's the day children dream of and parents dread: a sudden snowstorm causes the cancellation of school, giving kids a day off and their folks one more thing to worry about. Snow Day traces what happens in an upstate New York town when a thick layer of white stuff forces local schools to take a day Read More

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 134: The Magnificent Ferengi

Synopsis: As suggested by its title, this Deep Space Nine episode invokes memories of the Akira Kurosawa classic The Seven Samurai (or at least its American remake, The Magnificent Seven). The plot is set in motion when Quark's mother Ishka (Cecily Adams) is captured by the Dominion. Organizing a Read More

The Brave

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Marlon Brando, Johnny Depp, Cody Lightning, Nicole Mancera

Synopsis: Johnny Depp made his debut as a director and screenwriter with this allegorical tale of the plight of Native Americans. Raphael (Depp) is an alcoholic American Indian who lives in a hovel near a junkyard with his wife Rita (Elpidia Carillo) and his children Frankie (Cody Lightning) and Marta (Nicole Mancera Read More

Home to Rent: Series

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: On this Anglo-French cartoon series, five aliens crash-landed on earth and immediately attempted to make themselves inconspicuous despite their strange appearance. To that end, the quintet of space travellers took up residence in a rented house and did their best to act human. In other words, it Read More

The Crow: City of Angels

Actors: Vincent Perez, Mia Kirshner, Richard Brooks, Iggy Pop, Thomas Jane

Synopsis: It is said that when a man dies wrongfully, a crow may bring him back to life to seek vengeance upon his killer. Like the first Crow, this revenge saga is set in a fantastical urban nightmare and is based upon the dark comic book stories of artist James O. Barr. The first film was set in a Read More

The Adventures of Pete & Pete: Farewell, My Little Viking

Synopsis: Little Pete's hero, Artie, the strongest man in the world, may be driven out of town by the Wellsville International Adult Conspiracy and Supervillain J. McFlemp. Now it looks like little Pete will have to fight the school bully, Papercut, all by himself over a simple misunderstanding. Watch out Read More

Va Mourire

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Marc Duret, Jules Nassah, Roland Marchisio, Florence Madec

Synopsis: The four days in the life of three aimless, but handsome men in the South of France are chronicled in this French buddy film. It is the end of the tourist season and Marcel, Raoul, and Yoyo are simply hanging around. As usual, their days are spent drinking pastis, sunning themselves, robbing Read More

Tank Girl

Actors: Lori Petty, Malcolm McDowell, Ice-T, Naomi Watts, Don Harvey

Synopsis: Based on a popular British cult comic book, this film is the story of a futuristic feminist superhero and her fight to preserve the environment against an evil government bureaucracy. The action is set in the year 2033, after an ecological disaster of drought and pollution has ravaged the Read More

Dead Man

Actors: Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Lance Henriksen, Michael Wincott, Robert Mitchum

Synopsis: A dark, bitter commentary on modern American life cloaked in the form of a surrealist western, Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man stars Johnny Depp as William Blake, a newly-orphaned accountant who leaves his home in Cleveland to accept a job in the frontier town of Machine. Upon his arrival, Blake is told Read More

NFL Rocks On The Edge

Synopsis: A smorgasbord of wild and raucous NFL football action set to the music of heavy "alternative" bands such as Cracker, Fishbone, and Pantera. Quick video cuts of action from training room workouts to spectacular on-the-field plays are interspersed with footage from the bands' performances. NFL Read More

Iggy Pop: Live in San Francisco

Synopsis: This concert film captures the former Stooges frontman performing in San Francisco during a 1981 tour. Although the tour was in support of the album {^Party}, Pop serves up songs a dozen songs that draw from every era of his career. The set list includes "T.V. Eye," "Lust for Life," "Some Weird Read More

Iggy Pop: Kiss My Blood

Cry-Baby

Actors: Johnny Depp, Amy Locane, Susan Tyrrell, Polly Bergen, Iggy Pop, Ricki Lake

Synopsis: John Waters does a quirky spin on '50s nostalgia in Cry-Baby, his musical homage to Rebel Without a Cause and Romeo and Juliet. Set in Baltimore in 1954 at the birth of rock & roll, the film features Johnny Depp as Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker. Depp is pure charisma as a juvenile delinquent with a Read More

Hardware

Actors: Dylan McDermott, Stacey Travis, John Lynch, William Hootkins, Iggy Pop

Synopsis: Music video director Richard Stanley made his feature debut with this apocalyptic, post-industrial nightmare set in the distant future. Dylan McDermott stars as Moses "Hard Mo"' Baxter, a washed-up ex-soldier who spends most of his time in "The Zone" -- a scorched, ochre-colored desert littered Read More

Red, Hot + Blue

Synopsis: The original, full-length {^Red Hot and Blue} album gets the royal treatment in this release that not only offers the best-selling release in its entirety, but some exciting extras as well. All of the artists are here, including David Byrne, Erasure, the Neville Brothers, Tom Waits, U2, and Annie Lennox Read More

The Color of Money

Actors: Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Helen Shaver, John Turturro

Synopsis: Oscar-nominated in 1961 for his performance as pool hustler Fast Eddie Felson in The Hustler, Paul Newman won that award a quarter century later when he reprised the role in The Color of Money. At the end of The Hustler, Felson was banned for life from playing the game professionally. In the Read More

Sid and Nancy

Actors: Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb, David Hayman, Andrew Schofield, Debby Bishop

Synopsis: Punk rock's first great embodiment of the motto "live fast and die young," Sid Vicious joined The Sex Pistols when they were already established as the most controversial rock band in British history; and it soon became apparent that he couldn't play his instrument, had a magnetic attraction to Read More

Coffee and Cigarettes

Repo Man

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Olivia Barash, Tracey Walter, Sy Richardson

Synopsis: Alex Cox's directorial debut was a wickedly funny and willfully bizarre story that became a major cult item once it began making the art-house rounds a year after its release (an initial run in a string of Southern grind houses and drive-ins, where it was billed as an action film, was a resounding Read More

Rock & Rule

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Don Francks, Paul Le Mat, Susan Roman, Dan Hennessy

Synopsis: A rock & roll singer searches for eternal life in this animated musical fantasy set in a post-nuclear dystopia. Similar to the earlier Heavy Metal (1981) in tone, this film attempts to incorporate mythical themes and mutant beings with music by Cheap Trick, Deborah Harry, Iggy Pop, and other Read More

Iggy Pop: Iggy in Paris

Synopsis: Punk rock godfather Iggy Pop was touring Europe in support of his album {^Brick by Brick} when he played this no-holds-barred concert for a packed house of Parisian fans. Featuring an occasionally pants-less Iggy, Iggy Pop: Iggy in Paris contains rave-up performances on great tunes from his solo Read More