‘The Runaways’ to screen at New Zealand International Film Festival

‘The Runaways’ to screen at New Zealand International Film Festival

The Runaways

Director: Floria Sigismondi

Year: 2010

Running time: 109 mins

Censor Rating: R16 - drug use, sex scenes, offensive language

Producers: John Linson, Art Linson, Bill Pohlad

Screenplay: Floria Sigismondi. Based on the book Neon Angel by Cherie Currie

Photography: Benoît Debie

Editor: Richard Chew

Production designer: Eugenio Caballero

Costume designer: Carol Beadle

Music: Lillian Berlin

With: Kristen Stewart (Joan Jett), Dakota Fanning (Cherie Currie), Michael Shannon (Kim Fowley), Stella Maeve (Sandy West), Scout Taylor-Compton (Lita Ford), Alia Shawkat (Robin), Riley Keough (Marie Currie), Johnny Lewis (Scottie), Tatum O’Neal (Cherie’s mom), Brett Cullen (Cherie’s dad)

Festivals: Sundance, SXSW 2010

“The Runaways tells the story of its namesake band – the all-girl teen band that launched Joan 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 Kristen Stewart, the face of the Twilight film franchise…

Aggressive, raw, and amped up on frenetic – and sexual – hunched-punk intensity, Stewart’s Jett smokes, snorts, and struts with abandon… Then there’s Fanning as Currie, the kittenish blonde who fronts the band like a female crossbreed of Ziggy Stardust and Keith Richards… The sheer force of the girl-power energy… combined with the contagious ferocity of the music will leave you jumpy – in a good way.” — Andi Teran, Vanity Fair

“Even if you’d never heard them, you wouldn’t have had any trouble understanding what The Runaways were about: this was a bunch of tough-looking Los Angeles girls who may have been brought together by a sleazy, exploitative impresario named Kim Fowley… With their jagged feathered hair and satin jumpsuits, they were girls you wanted to be, less sugar and spice than glamour and sweat...

Even though there’s always some rock ’n’ roll wanker – usually a guy – on hand to volunteer, ‘I was on the scene, and that’s not how it went down,’ the best rock ’n’ roll movies are less about strict authenticity than about capturing a vibe. And The Runaways gets the vibe just right.” — Stephanie Zacharek, salon.com

Session Times

Thu 15 Jul--3:30pm--Civic Theatre

Fri 16 Jul--9:15pm---Civic Theatre

Ticket Info HERE

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