{"id":503742,"date":"2022-10-25T05:38:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T02:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-personality-crisis-one-night-only-scorsese-does-david-johansen\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T05:38:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T02:38:03","slug":"watch-personality-crisis-one-night-only-scorsese-does-david-johansen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-personality-crisis-one-night-only-scorsese-does-david-johansen\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Personality Crisis: One Night Only&#8217;: Scorsese Does David Johansen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35751d32ff3\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35751d32ff3\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-personality-crisis-one-night-only-scorsese-does-david-johansen\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Personality_Crisis_One_Night_Only_Scorsese_Does_David_Johansen%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Personality Crisis: One Night Only&#8217;: Scorsese Does David Johansen&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-personality-crisis-one-night-only-scorsese-does-david-johansen\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Personality_Crisis_One_Night_Only_Scorsese_Does_David_Johansen%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Personality Crisis: One Night Only&#8217;: Scorsese Does David Johansen&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Personality_Crisis_One_Night_Only_Scorsese_Does_David_Johansen%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Personality Crisis: One Night Only&#8217;: Scorsese Does David Johansen&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Personality_Crisis_One_Night_Only_Scorsese_Does_David_Johansen%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Personality Crisis: One Night Only&#8217;: Scorsese Does David Johansen&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    A month from now, Martin Scorsese will turn 80, and the fact that he goes back that far has always given him a special angle on the rock \u2018n\u2019 roll world. From the start, he has been about looking at rock and watching it age \u2014 first in \u201cMean Streets,\u201d where part of the hypnotic rapture of the film\u2019s soundtrack (mostly rock and soul nuggets from the early-to-mid-\u201960s) is that it\u2019s a decade behind the film\u2019s era (the early \u201970s). \u201cThe Last Waltz,\u201d Scorsese\u2019s first rock doc, was an end-of-an-epoch elegy for the Band and the counterculture mystique the Band incarnated \u2014 though Scorsese, when he shot it, was just 34, and Robbie Robertson was 33. (They were already thinking like young old men.) \u201cShine a Light\u201d was about the hip-shake snakiness of the Rolling Stones\u2019 sixtysomething longevity, and \u201cPublic Speaking,\u201d while not a rock doc, treated Fran Lebowitz as a rock star of raconteurs \u2014 as well as one more subject, like the Band or the Stones, who synced up with Scorsese\u2019s mythologizing vantage on aging-yet-ageless boomer mavericks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    On that score, the time feels right for \u201cPersonality Crisis: One Night Only,\u201d a Scorsese documentary about David Johansen, the New York Doll turned Buster Poindexter turned timeless icon of guttersnipe hipsterdom. Johansen, born in 1950, is a mere spring chicken of 72, but he meshes perfectly with Scorsese\u2019s underlying rock \u2018n\u2019 roll obsession, which is to gaze at former bad-boy rebels as they get older and, in a slightly more stiff-jointed way, continue to channel the electrified spirit of their youth. Any parallel between these artists and Scorsese\u2019s own identity as the rock \u2018n\u2019 rolliest of film auteurs, still cracking the whip in his golden years, is strictly intentional.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    In \u201cPersonality Crisis,\u201d you could say that David Johansen has three identities. He\u2019s the flamboyantly trashy, lip-jutting, cross-dressing East Village punk-harlot lead singer of the Dolls (who came together in 1971), an American Mick Jagger with a more ramshackle edge. He\u2019s Buster Poindexter, the pompadoured and tuxedoed cabaret-nightclub alter ego with the Cheshire-cat grin who Johansen began <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>earing as in 1987, just in time for the ironic retro boom of the Reagan era. And then there\u2019s the offstage Johansen \u2014\u00a0the straight-shooter from Staten Island who grew up into a self-taught sophisticate, full of wry observations about the bohemian culture he has spent 50 years weaving in and out of.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Half the movie consists of a performance that Johansen gave as Buster Poindexter in January 2020, just before the pandemic. Standing onstage at the Caf\u00e9 Carlyle in New York City, surrounded by the club\u2019s posh painted murals of caf\u00e9 society (and by former downtown celebs like Debbie Harry and Penny Arcade, who are in the audience), Johansen, looking like a very louche Peter Dinklage, is now, you could argue, closer to the entertainer Buster always was at heart \u2014 a been-around-the-block tatty nightclub \u201clegend.\u201d The pompadour stands just as high, but now it feeds into longish coiffed hair, and he sports a John Waters mustache with a goatee, rose-tinted horn-rims, and a dark jacket with spangled flecks and a paisley handkerchief, not to mention that voice, which is halfway between a croon and a gangster\u2019s croak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    This is Johansen going Full Hipster \u2014 though you could say that in the movie, it\u2019s actually his fourth identity. The Buster of the \u201980s and \u201990s was a concocted showbiz dandy who performed old standards in a voice of put-on gravel. But in \u201cPersonality Crisis,\u201d Buster performs nothing but David Johansen songs, belting them out in a plaintive rasp, and his lounge-lizard persona is now a blending \u2014\u00a0we\u2019re watching Johansen play Buster as he channels Johansen, almost sloshing back and forth between the two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Scorsese will linger on one of Johansen\u2019s pattery reminiscences, which are funny and revealing. The singer describes the intimidation of meeting Arthur \u201cKiller\u201d Kane when he knocked on the door of Johansen\u2019s fifth-floor walk-up on the Hell\u2019s Angels block, and how the novelty hit \u201cHot Hot Hot\u201d became \u201cthe bane of my existence\u201d (though I suspect it\u2019s not the bane of his bank account). And he tells a great sprawling tale about how he bonded with Milo\u0161 Forman and <em>almost<\/em> launched a movie career by landing one of the lead roles in the 1979 big-screen version of \u201cHair\u201d \u2014 until Galt McDermot, one of the show\u2019s composers, squashed it all when he decided that Johansen couldn\u2019t sing. The patter will be followed by a number, and some of them are terrific, like \u201cMelody,\u201d the 1979 track that was always a standout Johansen song (it\u2019s a Motown knockoff that feels like it could be an actual Motown single), which the singer here slows to a melancholy ballad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Then the movie will jump back to Johansen\u2019s explosive heyday: clips of the Dolls, in all their ruffian majesty, performing on rock TV shows or at Max\u2019s Kansas City, or Johansen in the mid-\u201990s telling Conan O\u2019Brien what has to be the grossest anecdote about the formation of punk ever heard, or a good story about going off to make a record at Todd Rundgren\u2019s house (\u201cIt looked like a Cambodian drug lord\u2019s pagoda\u201d), or a section devoted to Johansen\u2019s love for the avant-garde musician Harry Smith or to his youthful days hanging out with the Ridiculous Theatrical Company (it was Charles Ludlum who showed up one day and said he was having a \u201cpersonality crisis\u201d), or a look at how Morrissey got his start as the teenage president of the Dolls\u2019 British fan club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    When I would see Buster Poindexter in the late \u201980s, my feeling was that a little of him went a long way. I still feel that way. Scorsese, who co-directed the documentary with David Tadeschi (the film\u2019s editor), keeps cutting back and forth between complete Buster numbers and clips from the past, but after a while the Buster nightclub mood feels like it\u2019s slowing the movie down. \u201cPersonality Crisis\u201d is two hours long and didn\u2019t need to be. The film engagingly indulges Scorsese\u2019s fan fixation on Buster Poindexter, yet the story of Johansen in the \u201970s and \u201980s could have been expanded. The downward drug spiral of Johnny Thunders may be ancient <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>, but it still feels like the film is giving it short shrift. Yet David Johansen is so winning, as a personality who seems to have transcended every crisis, that you watch this movie grateful to sink into his anecdotes of wised-up nostalgia, not to mention his spirit of life-is-a-make-believe-cabaret persistence. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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