With this punchy documentary, Jim Jarmusch makes a fairly persuasive case that the Stooges, fronted by snake-hipped rock legend Iggy Pop, were the greatest band of all time. The music certainly bears the theory out, and the archive performance footage has an energy that blasts away any doubts about the sound quality of the recordings. Segments of rough and ready animation fill in some of the gaps. You do, however, find yourself wishing that Iggy hadn’t rocked out quite so enthusiastically during the pivotal years – his anecdotes sometimes have a blurred quality that suggest he’s recounting a story that he heard about himself, rather than something he actually remembers.
