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Year: 1999

Directed by: Chuck Workman

Written by: Chuck Workman

Johnny Depp playing: Jack Kerouac

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Traces the Beats from Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac’s meeting in 1944 at Columbia University to the deaths of Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs in 1997. Three actors provide dramatic interpretations of the work of these three writers, and the film chronicles their friendships, their arrival into American consciousness, their travels, frequent parodies, Kerouac’s death, and Ginsberg’s politicization. Their movement connects with bebop, John Cage’s music, abstract expressionism, and living theater. In recent interviews, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Kesey, Ferlinghetti, Mailer, Jerry Garcia, Tom Hayden, Gary Snyder, Ed Sanders, and others measure the Beats’ meaning and impact.

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Year: 2007

Directed by: Julien Temple

Johnny Depp playing: Himself

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A documentary about the life of Joe Strummer of The Clash comprising archive footage of his life, and interviews with friends, family, and other celebrities.

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Year: 1992

Music by: The Lemonheads

Johnny Depp playing: Himself

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After croaking in his backyard, Ray is ushered into the offices of the afterlife where it is discovered that pertinent information to gain entrance into heaven is “incomplete.” So Ray is taken into an all-white interrogation room where he is questioned about his life, particularly his romantic relationships, by a series of people who have famous last names (Brezhnev, Streisand, Brando, Quayle, etc.).

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Johnny at a promotional event for Fox Network in 1987

Johnny at a promotional event for 21 Jump Street in November, 1987

Tom Petty and the Heartbrakers

Year: 2007

Directed by: Peter Bogdanovich

Johnny Depp playing: himself

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The work of Tom Petty is a uniquely-American blend of pop and rock that has made him one of the coolest guys in the South. With his faithful band The Heartbreakers behind him, Petty has been lighting up stages across the country for years. RUNNIN’ DOWN A DREAM captures 30 years of rock and roll history with never-before-seen footage, interviews and a recording of the celebrated 30th Anniversary Concert in Heartbreaker hometown Gainesville, Florida. Directed by famed filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich, this is a must for Petty fans everywhere.

This movie contains hours of never before seen footage and interviews with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers plus music from the storied rock band’s entire career. The movie features interviews with George Harrison, Eddie Vedder, Stevie Nicks, Dave Grohl, Jeff Lynne, Rick Rubin, Johnny Depp, Jackson Browne and more. Also 1 DVD of the celebrated 30th Anniversary Concert in Heartbreaker hometown, Gainesville Florida

USA 14 October 2007 (New York Film Festival),
USA 29 October 2007 (TV premiere)

• A Film by Peter Bogdanovich
• 4 disc set,

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Year: 2002

Directed by: Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe

Written by: Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe

Produced by: Rosa Bosch, Andrew J. Curtis, Lucy Darwin

Johnny Depp playing: Himself

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In August 2000, master filmmaker Terry Gilliam finally got his oppurtunity to create his dream film he laboured for a decade, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. Assembling his film crew, he prepares his production in what promises to be the biggest budgeted feature film using only European financing, although it is meagre compared to Hollywood standards. However for all his creativity and enthusiasm, the film is immediately plagued with an improbable series of disasters ranging from scheduling conflicts, budget cuts, studio and location problems and worse that threaten to doom the film.

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Year: 2002

Director: Jeff Wurtz

Johnny Depp playing: himself

Runtime: 50 min

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James Lipton interviews Johnny Depp (aired on September 8th, 2002)

Johnny Depp is one of the most versatile and intriguing actors working today. Launching his career as a teenage heartthrob, then moving into eccentric roles in films like Edward Scissorhands and What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, he has alternated between independent films like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and mainstream blockbusters like Finding Neverland, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, leading to the inescapable conclusion that his future is as bright and varied as his vivid, unbridled imagination. In this unforgettable 2002 interview, Depp gives the students of the Actors Studio a rare glimpse inside the method that brought inspiring characters, like the charismatic Don Juan DeMarco, gonzo journalist Raoul Duke, and eccentric filmmaker Ed Wood, to life.

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8 September 2002

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Year: 1991

Music by: Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

Johnny Depp playing: Eddie

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The music video is about Eddie (played by Johnny), a young man coming to Hollywood and becoming a star, but short time later becoming unimportant again, loosing his friends and ending in a tattoo studio. A story of a rising and falling star.

About Tom Petty

Tom Petty (born October 20, 1950 in Gainesville, Florida) is an American musician. He is a graduate of Gainesville High School. After Working with his early bands The Sundowner, The Epics, and Mudcrutch with ace drummer Randall Marsh, he began his recording career with Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers when the band broke onto the national music scene with their 1976 self-titled debut album.

Tom Petty rejoined with the Heartbreakers for the album “Into the Great Wide Open” in 1991. It was again produced by Jeff Lynne and includes the hit singles “Learning to Fly” and “Into the Great Wide Open”, the latter featuring Johnny Depp, Gabrielle Anwar and Faye Dunaway in the video.

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Year: 2008

Directed by: Alex Gibney

Written by: Hunter S.Thompson

Screen Story by: Alex Gibney

Music by: David Schwartz

Narreted by: Johnny Depp

Runtime: 118 minutes

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“Gonzo” is the definitive film biography of a mythic American figure, a man that Tom Wolfe called our “greatest comic writer,” whose suicide, by gunshot, led Rolling Stone Magazine, where Thompson began his career, to devote an entire issue (its best-selling ever) to the man that launched a thousand sips of bourbon, endless snorts of cocaine and a brash, irreverent, fearless style of journalism – named “gonzo” after an anarchic blues riff by James Booker.

Borrowing from Kris Kristofferson, Thompson was a “walking contradiction, partly truth, mostly fiction.” A die-hard member of the NRA, he was also a coke-snorting, whiskey-swilling, acid-eating fiend. While his pen dripped with venom for crooked politicians, he surprised nervous visitors with the courtly manners and soft-spoken delivery of a Southern gentleman. Careening out of control in his personal life, Thompson also maintained a steel-eyed conviction about righting wrongs. Today, in a time, when “spin” has replaced the search for deeper meaning, Thompson remains an iconic crusader for truth, justice and a fiercely idealistic American way. Like Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, his book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (and the movie made from it) remains a wanderlust myth for generation after generation of American youth.

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