Featuring incredible archival footage and candid interviews with jett and her friends, colleagues, and the artists shes influenced, this is the story of a true rockstar. Bad reputation shows no one is better at being joan jett. The documentary traces jetts musical career from the formation of the runaways through her subsequent partnership with songwriter and producer kenny laguna. Perhaps kerslake is trying to reflect that aspect of jetts personality. The movie chronicles music industry tales of glory and failure. Not to be confused with the joan jett song of the same name, or the 2018 documentary about her.
Bad reputation watch your favorite free movies online. Bad reputation documents rocker joan jett and the art of staying relevant. Joan jett may have had a bad reputation in her early career when the very fact of her being a female rocker was seen as an abomination to the musical genre. Joan jett made several perfect singles in the 1980s, i love rock n roll being the best known a snarly chart topper during the year of ebony and ivory, bu. Now as a seasoned 60yearold punk legend, jetts reputation as a musician, a mentor, an. Bad reputation 2018 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. Bad reputation shows how joan jett opened the doors for women to have a career in rock music. Joan jetts life and career certainly deserve a film to explore it in depth, but at a certain point, i found myself getting frustrated as a viewer. Unfortunately, bad reputation is flawed by its literalmindedness the arrangements pump along gamely yet rarely swing or soar and by some unresourceful material. Joan jett, billie joe armstrong, rodney bingenheimer, miley cyrus subscribe for more movie. Bad reputation govori o karijeri joan jett od ranih godina kad je bila suosnivacica benda the runaways do njezine prve suradnje s kennyjem lagunom, kao i o njezinoj trajnoj prisutnosti u popularnoj kulturi, u kojoj je zauvijek zasluzila polozaj medu pionirima rocka. Bad reputation is a 2018 american documentary film about the career of rock musician joan jett, directed by kevin kerslake and written by joel. Rock pioneer joan jett talks to variety about acting, attitude and new documentary bad reputation, playing at sundance. Over the course of 90 minutes, the new documentary bad reputation chronicles joan jetts rollercoaster life.
Watch this film and you will know no more about joan jett than you did before you watched it. At, jetts parents granted a wish by buying her an electric guitar and amp for christmas. This greatest hits collection also serves as a soundtrack to the documentary of the same name. Bad reputation music from the original motion picture lp. Please dont ever make another film, kevin kerslake.
Its a documentary about female rock pioneer joan jett. Directed by kevin kerslake, bad reputation is a rare look inside the life of an artist whos often guarded and protective about herself and her legacy. Watch bad reputation online stream full movie directv. But in its mood and feel, joan jetts first solo album is a determined retelling of what sometimes seems like the truest rock story there is. Bad reputation offers fans and novices a solidly entertaining overview of joan jetts trailblazing career, albeit one that might leave some viewers craving a. A pity, then, that this film about her is so repressed. And the filmmaker really should have watched the brilliant documentary, the punk singer, about one of his interviewees kathleen hanna, to see how a rock doc should be made. With angelique hennessy, jerad anderson, danielle noble, kristina conzen. A high school girl wrongly branded as the school slut embraces her bad reputation and takes revenge on the kids who have made her life a living hell.
Following the break up of the runaways, jett met songwriting partner and producer kenny. News, media and discussion regarding the joan jett documentary, bad reputation, and the world premiere screening at. The film, directed by prolific music video director kevin kerslake, charts joan jetts journey through rock history, including the founding of her band. There are times you will be screaming at your monitor. Bad reputation argues for joan jetts importance the. T he perfectly titled joan jett documentary, bad reputation, opens with a story the former joan larkin tells about her desire as a yearold for a sears electric guitar. B ecause shes frank about her professional work but also carefully protective of her private life, joan jett makes a risky subject for a probing documentary, and bad reputation often struggles to extract deeper thoughts from its subject about her wild career as a pioneering rock feminist. Jett says she wants to offer her fans a primal release. A new sundance documentary on joan jett, who shredded her way through rock n rolls glass ceiling and has the scars to prove it. The trailblazer turned 60 on september 22 and keeps on rocking. Directed by kevin kerslake, bad reputation made its world premiere at the 2018 sundance film festival. Bad reputation the backbone of hardrock legends the runaways, her nobull style blazed a trail for her peers and for generations of bands to come.
Now, with nobody believing her and no other recourse, michelle dolls herself up and uses her newfound bad reputation to slash her way through everybody whos ruined her life. Bad reputation is a 2018 american documentary film about the career of rock musician joan jett, directed by kevin kerslake and written by joel marcus. Watch bad reputation starring joan jett in this documentary on directv. And when that band blew apart, in fights and feuds and scandal, jett picked herself up and kept going. Joan jett in a photo that appears in kevin kerslakes new documentary about her, bad reputation. Bad reputation a joan jett documentary posts facebook. A journey through joan jetts life and career, from her early years as founder of the runaways and first collaborations with kenny laguna to her status as rock icon.
Late in bad reputation, kristen stewart, who plays joan jett in the runaways comments on how jett defies the expectation that a rock star should be a bit messy or unfocused and talks about jetts surprisingly nononsense determination. It felt to me like everyone was speaking for joan, and telling her story for her. Hardened by a lifetime of gigging for audiences great and small and long ago inured to the sexism that. Bad reputation roars through jetts 60 years like one of her songs, snarling and unsubtle. The cannes film festival on tuesday abandoned plans for a postponed 2020 edition in june or july, but. Bad reputation offers fans and novices a solidly entertaining overview of joan jett s trailblazing career, albeit one that might leave some viewers craving a. Bad reputation gives you a wild ride as jett and her close friends tell you how it really was in the burgeoning 70s punk scene and the rocky road to rock stardom decades on. Provided to youtube by holding account bad reputation joan jett cover junky death squad junky death squad. Bad reputation chronicles the life of joan jett, from her early teenage years as founding member of the runaways to her enduring presence over four decades later as a rock n roll icon. Bad reputation trailer 2018 joan jett documentary youtube. Check out our specific genre movie trailers playlists. Joan jett born joan marie larkin on september 22, 1958 in wynnewood, pennsylvania is an american rock singer and guitarist. Its pleasing to report thats not the case with bad reputation, a careerlong retrospective devoted to rock star joan jett, who comes across here every bit as funny, smart, selfaware and.
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