For me The Stooges opened doors to the possibilities of many things. I’m not saying this for the world to agree it’s just a personal thing. “All those bands were in a way revolutionary - MC5 very blatantly, politically, The Stooges very much in their attitude and embracing primitive stuff and noise and drone and The Velvets certainly were revolutionary in their music. But the bands that were the most important for me and my friends as teenagers were MC5, The Stooges and The Velvet Underground. “I was living in a middle class suburban neighbourhood in Akron Ohio and we listened to a lot of soul music and Otis Redding stuff like that. “I was attracted to their anarchistic tendencies, to the primal grind of their music and to the animalistic behaviour of their frontman,” Jarmusch says of Pop, who started in the late 60s with the band, churning out songs such as ‘I Wanna Be Your Dog’ and ‘Gimme Danger’. “I was very much an outsider, outside of the whole social thing.”Īs a teenager his musical tastes were decidedly underground and his favourite band was The Stooges from nearby industrial Michigan. Growing up in Akron, Ohio, Jarmusch was not good at sport and was sometimes bullied at school. He notes how they also take place in industrial settings and feature protagonists with working class ethics-the kinds of people he admires. “Both of these films are about choosing your own path and on some level they celebrate that,” Jarmusch says. Jim Jarmusch’s film about Iggy Pop is part of the documentary programme at Cork Film Film festival. The Stooges’ film is also part of the programme at the upcoming Cork Film Festival. The resulting documentary, Gimme Danger, premiered in Cannes last May, as did Jarmusch’s latest feature film, Paterson. I know how much you love The Stooges so one day you might want to make a film about the band. “About eight years ago Iggy said, ‘They’re gonna start making films about me, about The Stooges and about my work. The pair have been close since Pop, real name Jim Osterberg, appeared in Jarmusch’s 1995 film, Dead Man, alongside Johnny Depp. He says his friend Iggy Pop, 69, is similar.

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