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Mayor of the Sunset Strip
Directed by
George Hickenlooper
R
2003
1h 34m
Documentary
,
Biography
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7.0
87%
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A look at the history of fame in the world through the eyes of pop star impresario, Rodney Bingenheimer.
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Cast of Mayor of the Sunset Strip
Rodney Bingenheimer
Self
Kim Fowley
Self
Exene Cervenka
Self
John Doe
Self
Courtney Love
Self
Alice Cooper
Self
Debbie Harry
Self
Neil Young
Self
George Wendt
Self
Pete Townshend
Self
Mick Jagger
Self
Iggy Pop
Self (archive footage)
David Johansen
Self
Poe
Self
Beck
Self
David Bowie
Self
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Self
Joan Jett
Self
Annabella Lwin
Self
Paul Reubens
Self
Tori Amos
Self
Neve Campbell
Self
Domenic Priore
Self - Author, 'Riot on the Sunset Strip'
Mayor of the Sunset Strip Ratings & Reviews
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Excellent (if sad) documentary profile.
Dallas Morning News
Jane Sumner
What gives this its weight and substance is that Mr. Hickenlooper came to see himself in the man whom Nancy Sinatra calls 'Peter Pan in the school of hard knocks.'
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Evokes what the Japanese call mono no aware, which refers to the impermanence of life and the bittersweet transience of things.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Jeff Strickler
Hickenlooper sees the movie as a character study, and it's an amusing one. But music buffs, in particular, likely will wish he had spent less time documenting his subject's quirky personality and more exploring his professional acumen.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Entertaining though ultimately sad documentary.
Detroit News
Tom Long
A sometimes sad, sometimes heartening look at what happens when the ultra-hip age.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
A sad little movie about a sad little man whom time has passed by.
Arizona Republic
Michael Senft
Power, control and fame are not the driving forces in [Bingenheimer's] life. He only wants to share the music he loves with as many people as possible.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
This crazy-quilted exploration of the fog of fame deserves an aesthetic that approximates a night of extreme partying.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
It's a funny-sad portrait of fame and its junkies, and of an era and its music.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Immensely engrossing.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
This engrossing work, at once compassionate and rigorous, comprehensive and succinct, would be the centerpiece of any festival for the way it illuminates the life and times of the enigmatic, diminutive Bingenheimer...
The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
Has a commercial reach that goes beyond local hero worship thanks in part to an all-star lineup of interviewees, including Cher, David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Gwen Stefani and Courtney Love, to name just a few confirmed Rod-heads.
Slate
David Edelstein
Creepily entertaining.
Washington Post
Richard Harrington
Feels like an elegy for an aging rock pixie.
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
While Hickenlooper never takes the cheap route of making Bingenheimer a figure of pity, he manages to capture the halo of sadness that hovers around the man.
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
Bouncy, informative and funny.
San Jose Mercury News
Brad Kava
Would you rather be hugely rich or fabulously famous? Mayor of the Sunset Strip, a biography of radio disc jockey Rodney Bingenheimer, is a chilling picture of what happens to those who make the second choice.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Hickenlooper does a nice job blending Bingenheimer's flashy past with his somewhat pathetic present, creating a genuinely compelling study in diminishing returns.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Hickenlooper is interested not just in chronicling the L.A. music scene, but in sympathetically presenting a man who has spent his life doing little but hanging out with celebrities.
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