Tom Petty gets rockumentary treatment

Many a great director has tackled the rockumentary, including Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme and Jim Jarmusch. Now another icon will imbue a rock god with cinematic magic: Peter Bogdanovich, the director of the 1971 masterpiece The Last Picture Show and recent actor in The Sopranos, has created an epic film about the one, the only Tom Petty and his merry band of followers, the Heartbreakers.

Runnin’ Down a Dream: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers will be one of the final films shown at the prestigious New York Film Festival, and it features rare concert footage and archival material, as well as interviews with Stevie Nicks and Johnny Depp, among many others. The movie also boasts an extraordinary 253-minute runtime, which likely means that no detail of Petty’s career will be overlooked.

Related links:
TomPetty.com
Tom Petty on MySpace
New York Film Festival official site

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