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Director Floria Sigismondi in New York in February 2010. Sigismondi, who directed "The Runaways," has also made music videos, including one for David Bowie. Cherie Currie and Joan Jett, of the real-life Runaways, were also huge Bowie fans. The most striking thing about "The Runaways," a new film about the trailblazing bad-girl rock band from the 1970s that spawned Joan Jett, is how authentic it feels. The clubs are properly scuzzy. The dialogue is properly raunchy. The actors can properly sing. The hair is fried and feathered, the skin spotty from weeks of running on little but potato chips and estrogen. From the adrenaline rush of performing to the monotony of rehearsal, it's a vivid snapshot of life on the road for ambitious teenagers who are constantly told that rock and roll "is the sport of men." (And that's their own manager talking.) (Richard Perry/The New York Times)