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Oh boy, this is the moment I've been waiting for all my life. Punk Films Films about punk rock, punk subculture or embody a DIY punk ethos. - Afro-Punk (2003) - Another State of Mind (1984) - A Band Called Death (2012) - Blank Generation (1980) - Border Radio (1987) - Christ: The Movie (1990) - Class of 1984 (1982) - Class of Nuke 'Em High (1986) - The Day the Country Died (2007) - Dead End Drive-In (1986) - The Decline of Western Civilization (1981) - The Decline of Western Civilization Part III (1998) - Decoder (1984) - The Great Rock 'n Roll Swindle (1980) - Green Room (2016) - Hype! (1996) - Jubilee (1981) - Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982) - Liquid Sky (1982) - The Lost Boys (1987) - No Skin Off My rear end (1991) - Out of the Blue (1980) - The Punk Singer (2013) - Repo Man (1984) - The Return of the Living Dead (1985) - Rude Boy (1980) - Sid & Nancy (1986) - SLC Punk (1998) - Suburbia (1983) - Summer of Sam (1999) - Straight to Hell (1987) - Terminal City Ricochet (1990) - There Is No Authority But Yourself (2006) - Times Square (1980) - We Are the Best! (2013) - We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen (2005) - You Weren't There: A History of Chicago Punk 1977 - 1984 (2007) No Wave Related to punk, No Wave was a DIY independent filmmaking movement prominent in the New York punk scene in the late 70s and early 80s. It gave rise to artists like Jim Jarmusch, Susan Seidelman, Lydia Lunch, Lizzie Borden and John Lurie. The movement also spun off the Cinema of Transgression, exemplified by filmmakers like Nick Zedd and Richard Kern. - Black Box (1979) - Blank City (2010) [Documentary about the movement, a great introduction] - The Blank Generation (1976) - Born in Flames (1983) - The Deadly Art of Survival (1979) - The Foreigner (1978) - Geek Maggot Bingo or the Freak from Suckweasel Mountain (1983) - Kidnapped (1978) - Men in Orbit (1979) - No J-ps At My Funeral (1980) [Feature length interview with an IRA member on the run] - Permanent Vacation (1980) - Police State (1987) - Rome '78 (1978) - She Had Her Gun All Ready (1978) - Smithereens (1982) - Stranger Than Paradise (1984) - Subway Riders (1981) - They Eat Scum (1979) - Underground U.S.A. (1980) - Unmade Beds (1976) - Variety (1983) - Vortex (1982) - Working Girls (1986) - You Are Not I (1981) By no means are either of these lists even close to exhaustive. I was going to get deeper into actual ideological leftist films but I'll come back and perhaps actually write a bit about some of this stuff. I can tell you about everything from Soviet cinema to Jean-Luc Godard to the Third Cinema movement to Koji Wakamatsu's leftist pornography to radical queer cinema -- it's a vast world out there.
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Blood Boils posted:Repo Man is the greatest punk film ever made, how has that not been stated yet?! Smh Weird way to spell Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains but ok.
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I think something to consider when conflating leftist cinema with punk cinema is that punk is very left-wing and anti-authoritarian, but also not always ideologically coherent. Something that reading up on the history through books like Please Kill Me or American Hardcore really dispelled is the idea that punk was born from a political consciousness. After all, much of the culture was created by snotty teenagers. However, as with all things, politics formed within it and the inherent counter cultural ethos lent it to left-wing political thinking. That was helped along by socialist bands like The Clash and the anarcho-punk movement in the UK, and bands like Dead Kennedys and MDC in the U.S. among many others. Nowadays, most current punks see a political ideology as part and parcel with punk for the most part, which is contrary to a lot of the early stuff which is how you end up with, like, Johnny Rotten being MAGA these days or Johnny Ramone loving Reagan. Through the films, this is also apparent. Return of the Living Dead is not on its face trying to be political (though you could certainly read an anti-chemical weapons/military industrial complex/yada yada yada message from it) but it is undoubtedly a punk film. Something like Green Room meanwhile is explicitly antifascist. Just something to keep in mind. Because the scope of Leftist Cinema is very broad and you're going to find all sorts of conflicting ideologies within it. Maoist Chinese operas like The Red Detachment of Women is a very different perspective than, say, American labor films like Harlan County USA and Salt of the Earth. Jean-Luc Godard's radical but academic "Read Theory" Dziga Vertov Group era films are wildly different from Born in Flames' down and dirty feminism or The Battle of Chile's on the ground/had to be smuggled out the country journalism.
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