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New York Dolls: All Dolled Up

2005 Movie Music Documentary

In the early 70’s, Rock photographer Bob Gruen and his wife Nadya purchased a portable Video Recorder. In a period of three years they shot over 40 hours of New York Dolls footage. Now for the first time ever this footage is unveiled. This feature length documentary captures the band during early performances in New York at Kenny’s Castaways and Max’s Kansas City, then follows the Dolls on their tour of the West Coast, including footage from the Whisky A Go Go, the Real Don Steele Show, Rodney Bingenheimer’s E Club and much more. Intercut with revealing interviews, backstage banter and late night debauchery, this is THE definitive document of the New York Dolls.

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Johnny Thunders was the legendary hard-living rock'n'roll guitarist who inspired glam-metal, punk and the music scene in general. 'Looking For Johnny' is a 90-minute film that documents Thunders' career from his beginnings to his tragic death in 1991. The film examines Johnny Thunders' career from the early 70's as a founding member of the influential New York Dolls; the birth of the punk scene with The Heartbreakers in New York City and London; Gang War and The Oddballs. It also explores Johnny's unique musical style, his personal battle with drugs and theories on his death in a New Orleans hotel in 1991 at age 38. The film includes forty songs with historic film of Johnny, including unseen New York Dolls and Heartbreakers footage and photos. Cult filmmakers Bob Gruen, Don Letts, Patrick Grandperret, Rachael Amadeo and others contribute classic archive footage.

Looking for Johnny

2014 Documentary
Born to Lose: The Last Rock and Roll Movie poster
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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.

Born to Lose: The Last Rock and Roll Movie

2001 Music
Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers: Dead or Alive poster
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The spotlight is on guitarist Johnny Thunders, best known for his stint with punk gods the New York Dolls, in this combination concert video and documentary chronicling his hedonistic, self-destructive lifestyle. Included is his only live show on film -- backed by the Heartbreakers and featuring the songs "Chinese Rocks," "Born to Lose" and "Hurt Me" -- plus behind-the-scenes studio footage and clips from his 1976 "Anarchy" tour of Britain.

Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers: Dead or Alive

2006 Documentary

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