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Apr 25, 2022 · By Simon Reynolds. April 25, 2022. Graphic by Callum Abbott, photos courtesy Everett Collection. From left: Sid and Nancy, We Are the Best!, and Times Square. In the ongoing explosion of rock...
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- The Decline of Western Civilization. Exene Cervenka, Billy Zoom, John Doe. 171 votes. Released: 1981. The Decline of Western Civilization is an American documentary film filmed through 1979 and 1980.
- Repo Man. Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton, Tracey Walter. 187 votes. Released: 1984. After being fired from his job, Los Angeles slacker and punk rocker Otto (Emilio Estevez) lands a gig working for an eccentric repossession agent named Bud (Harry Dean Stanton).
- Suburbia. Flea, Chris Pedersen, Derek O'Brien. 116 votes. Suburbia, also known as Rebel Streets and The Wild Side, is a 1984 film written and directed by Penelope Spheeris about suburban punks who run away from home.
- SLC Punk! Jason Segel, Matthew Lillard, Devon Sawa. 210 votes. is a 1998 American comedy-drama film written and directed by James Merendino. The film is about the young punk rock fan Steven "Stevo" Levy, a college graduate living in Salt Lake City.
Aug 19, 2021 · Punk music, with its rebellious spirit and lack of reverence for institutions, seems especially fraught as a subject and difficult to capture in mainstream filmmaking. It might be easier to come up with a list of five movies that are punk-rock in spirit without much involving the music itself.
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- 20 Glory Daze
- 19 SLC Punk!
- 18 What We Do Is Secret
- 17 CBGB
- 16 The Runaways
- 15 Times Square
- 14 Rock 'N' Roll High School
- 13 Gimme Danger
- 12 Suburbia
- 11 The Filth and The Fury
It would likely cost a studio a high eight-figure sum to assemble all the acting talent in Glory Daze today. With a cast featuring Ben Affleck, Sam Rockwell, Matt Damon, Brendan Fraser and Matthew McConaughey, the oft-forgotten film tells the story of a group of recent UC Santa Cruz grads, and their attempts to preserve their undergraduate lifestyl...
James Merendino's love letter to his Salt Lake City upbringing, SLC Punk!gives a glimpse into how punks reacted to their time and place in Mormon-dominated Utah, with the ragtag group rebelling against everything from local "rednecks" to their Reagan-loving parents. The film shows the contrast between outsider punk lifestyles and the prosperous 198...
What We Do is Secretis a biopic about the life of Punk icon Darby Crash, lead singer of one of the great Punk bands to come out of Los Angeles, The Germs. While the movie didn't hit big with audiences and critics, it's an earnest look at the life of Crash and other band members like Pat Smear, who went on to fame as a member of Nirvana and the Foo ...
There is no more storied club in Punk's history than CBGB, Lower Manhattan's grimy, urine-stained Shangri La, that was the first regular venue for seminal punk bands like Television, The New York Dolls, and The Ramones. The club's infamous owner Hilly Krystal is played by the always-great Alan Rickman. The film attempts to capture one of the most c...
One of Kristen Stewart's most underrated performances, as Joan Jett, The Runawaystells the origin story of the eponymous band, with Dakota Fanning bringing more acting talent to the role of Cherrie Currie. The band was extremely influential for female punks, even though Jett's later fame overshadowed their pervasive effect on the movement's West Co...
Times Square is a look at the New York City Punk scene of the early 80s, using it to backdrop a story about the way teenagers who suffer from mental illness are attracted to Punk Rock because of its alternative lifestyles and rebellious music. Tim Curry, of The Rocky Horror Picture Show gives an impressive performance as Johnny LaGuardia, a radio D...
Part musical comedy, part documentary and all fun, Rock 'n' Roll High School caught The Ramones at the peak of their powers. They had become one of the biggest bands in America, and despite their genre, embodied an Old School New York City vibe at a time when Wall of Sound inventor Phil Spector (himself the subject of several films and series) was ...
The Godfather of Punk, Iggy Pop helped found The Stooges, Punk's most important (and arguably earliest) band. Indie film legend Jim Jarmusch produced the documentary Gimme Dangerto call attention to the under-sung band that, despite their enormous influence saw an early end thanks to the heroin-addled lifestyles of Iggy Pop and the Asheton brothers...
No director has contributed more to documenting the music movements of the 80s and 90s than Penelope Spheeris, whose incredible documentaries make a nice companion to her first narrative film, Suburbia (also produced by Roger Corman, one of the few producers of the time to recognize Punk's importance). Spheeris' film is most remembered for its auth...
Julien Temple's 2000 film, The Filth and the Fury, is an effective document of The Sex Pistols meteoric rise to fame. Essentially a punk rock boy band, assembled by Malcolm McLaren to imbue the movement's style and attitudes, The Sex Pistols' bold criticism of the British government and monarchy and searing sound served as a high point for Punk. Th...
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- The Punk Singer. The Punk Singer is one of the most recognizable documentaries to come from the riot grrrl movement. Directed by Sini Anderson, the movie follows Bikini Kill frontwoman Kathleen Hanna as she unpacks where it all began, what inspired her and how the movement shifted as the ’90s came to a close.
- Afro-Punk. The Afro-Punk documentary epitomizes that there’s nothing more punk than being Black in America. James Spooner’s 66-minute movie highlights the Black punks who were and have been pivotal in the punk movement as a whole while ensuring viewers understand the racism that exists within it.
- Moxie. Amy Poehler’s Netflix original movie Moxie tells the story of a teenage girl as she navigates high school, the patriarchy and sexism. After she discovers her mother’s (portrayed by Poehler) collection of riot grrrl memorabilia, she sets out to dismantle the patriarchal structures oppressing her and her classmates.
- Queercore: How To Punk A Revolution. Nearly a decade before the riot grrrl movement began in Olympia, Washington, Bruce LaBruce and G.B. Jones ignited the queercore—previously known as “homocore”—movement in Toronto, Ontario.
May 26, 2016 · Punk music has always been a rebellious music genre that unconditionally supported insubordinate freedom and unique expressive style through its inimitable dress code and outrageous haircuts, whilst frequently championing anti-establishment beliefs.
Apr 12, 2021 · The punk world has also released more than just music - it's also filled with art and poetry, theater, and film. The following 10 movies tell stories about punks - some fictional, some based on reality - but all reveal the lives of punks, the music they play and listen to, and how they view the world around them.
