Directed by:
Brendan TollerScreenplay:
Brendan TollerCast:
Danny Fields, Alice Cooper, Wayne Kramer, John Cameron Mitchell, Iggy Pop, Tommy Ramone, Lenny Kaye, Fayette Hauser, Jonathan Richman, Seymour Stein (more)VOD (1)
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Being the Ramones manager is a pretty impressive claim to fame. But as Brendan Toller's documentary – which employs a classic Ramone track for its title – reveals, that was just one fabulous role in the glittering career of punk rock's very own Zelig, Danny Fields (nee Feinberg). Using a rich archive of pop culture flotsam and Danny's own riveting, often irreverent penchant for a good story, Toller charts Field's involvement in some of the biggest music moments of the 1960s and 1970s. A 'faggot' who dropped out of Harvard law school to move to New York with all its cute long-haired boys, he hung out with Nico and Edie Sedgewick at the Factory, worked as a rock journalist and sparked the Beatles' 'bigger than Jesus' controversy, appointed himself The Doors' press officer, worked with the Stooges, Lou Reed and MC5, as well as giving boosts to Patti Smith, Television and The Modern Lovers. Presenting a subject who is unfailingly unpretentious, warm and witty, Danny Says is a love song to a great gay and punk cultural icon. (London Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Danny Fields
USA
Alice Cooper
USA
Best movies:
Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper (1974)
Alice Cooper: The Nightmare (1975) (TV movie)
Prince of Darkness (1987)
Wayne Kramer
USA
John Cameron Mitchell
USA
Best movies:
Vinyl (2016) (series)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
Band of the Hand (1986)
Iggy Pop
USA
Best movies:
Persepolis (2007)
Dead Man (1995)
Private Parts (1997)
Tommy Ramone
Hungary
Lenny Kaye
USA
Jonathan Richman
USA
Best movies:
There's Something About Mary (1998)
Kingpin (1996)
Seymour Stein
USA
Paul Morrissey (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Rich and Famous (1981)
Andy Warhol (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
Tootsie (1982)
The Driver's Seat (1974)
Detroit Rock City (1999) - a.f.
Edie Sedgwick (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
Chelsea Girls (1966)
Ciao Manhattan (1972)
Vinyl (1965)
John Cale (a.f.)
UK
Nico (a.f.)
German Empire
Best movies:
La Dolce Vita (1960)
Man Called Rocca (1961)
La tempesta (1958)
Lou Reed (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
Rock & Rule (1983)
Blue in the Face (1995)
Prozac Nation (2001)