Spare, rough around the edges and unsentimentally melancholy, Lech Kowalski's portrait of Ramones bassist Douglas Colvin — better known as Dee Dee Ramone — is drawn from an interview Kowalski shot in 1992. Kowalski arranged the session for
Born to Lose, a documentary about Johnny Thunders. Thunders, a member of both pioneering New York glam-punk band the New York Dolls and the Heartbreakers, succumbed to a fatal overdose in 1991; he and Dee Dee were dope buddies and musical rivals who ran in the same ever-widening circles that extended out from Manhattan's then-seedy Lower East Side. But the interview took on its own meandering life. Dee Dee, then do...
Released:
2003
Rated:
NR
Length:
62 mins