Almost Famous
Director: Cameron Crowe
2000 / 124min / 4K DCP
Before breaking into movies with his screenplay for Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Cameron Crowe was a teenage journalist with a regular byline in Rolling Stone magazine in the hedonistic early 1970s, and he draws from a deep well of memories of those pot-hazy days in his poignant-funny, semi-autobiographical Almost Famous, starring Patrick Fugit as a fresh-faced rock rag writer on the road with hesher idols Stillwater, Kate Hudson as road-warrior Stillwater superfan “Penny Lane,” and Philip Seymour Hoffman as an impassioned, opinionated, marvelously disheveled Lester Bangs.
“In Almost Famous, a loose, affectionate look back on his earlier career as a teenage music journalist, Mr. Crowe has devoted a whole movie to the love of rock 'n' roll. The soul he lays open—a sweet, forgiving and generous one—is his own … He may be the least cynical director working in Hollywood today.” —A.O. Scott, The New York Times
Distributor: Paramount
Introduction by Jon Caramanica and Joe Coscarelli of “Popcast” on Friday, October 16th
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