As a musical form punk crashed and burned almost before it started, but it inspired a lot of films still worth watching.

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Ps). The below list actually began as five or six different lists (general documentaries, films about specific bands, films made by punks, performance films, films that were directly inspired by punk rock, films that inspired punk rock, etc.). That quickly became very confusing, so I thought "what the fuck?" and mashed them all together into one big list.

That list ran about 1. I am I was in no mood to take that on. So I chose a smaller number and lopped it off. I wasn’t able to include everything that belongs here, but you get the idea. No headphone jack on your new phone? Samsung's Bluetooth earbuds are on sale! Out of the Blue (1.

In the midst of that incoherent dissolute stretch when no one wanted to deal with him, Dennis Hopper still somehow managed to write, direct and co- star in this indie shaggy dog of a sort- of coming of age story inspired by Neil Young’s “Hey Hey, My My.” Linda Mans (from Terence Malick’s. Days of Heaven) stars as a tough- minded teenage girl in a small town whose dad (Hopper) is about to get out of prison, whose junkie mother is a waitress at a local diner and who, despite growing up in a flyspeck truck stop town in California has managed to develop a heavy New York accent. As she begins learning how to negotiate her way into the adult world she’s bored and frustrated and angry, and gets in some minor trouble as a result.

She also loves Elvis and the Sex Pistols, lecturing truckers about both endlessly over the CB. It’s a slow, dreary picture shot against a bleak gray landscape and not much happens until things turn ugly at the end. Everything about the film screams “late ‘7. I thought about it the more it seemed to parallel Easy Rider, but with an Elvis and Neil Young soundtrack. What makes it interesting in punk terms is its portrayal of the suburban/small town boredom and frustration that would lead so many kids her age to pick up that first Pistols album (or Ramones album, or Dead Kennedys album) in the years to come.

If only Mans was actress enough here to be able to speak even a single line with the slightest hint of conviction. Well, on the bright side at least it’s a little more coherent than The Last Movie. Blank Generation (1. Poet/musician Richard Hell of Television and the Voidoids, as well as the man credited with creating punk’s early fashion sense, stars essentially as himself in German cult director Ulli Lommel’s (Cocaine Cowboys) sort- of romance. Hell plays Billy, an East Village punk in 1.

Voidoids. When a beautiful French journalist begins documenting his career, they get involved. Trouble is, she already has another boyfriend in New York. None of that matters, and to be honest it’s all pretty tedious and uninteresting. What makes the film valuable is its portrait of the New York underground of the late ‘7. CBGB to the fading glamour of Warhol’s Factory. So you got your drugs and your music and your oddball characters (including cameos by Warhol and Marky Ramone) and plenty of location shooting around the sleazy edges of a New York that simply does not exist anymore.

And that, much more than Hell’s acting ability, is what makes the film worth watching. The Tin Drum (1. 97. When Volker Scholondorff’s Oscar- winning film played Green Bay for a week in ‘7. I went to see it every single night. Watch The Long Ships Online The Long Ships Full Movie Online.

I wasn’t exactly old enough by MPAA standards, but no one at the theater said a word, I’m guessing because four of those nights I was the only one in the theater. So what the hell makes a three- hour German film based on Gunter Grass’ Nobel Prize winning novel about life in Danzig during the early Nazi years so punk? Easy, just look at the core of the story. Oskar (David Bennent) is a young boy who at an early age becomes disgusted with the authority figures he encounters (teachers, preachers, doctors, parents) and the hypocrisy that seems to infest adult life in general.

The Nazis don’t really help matters. In protest he decides to remain a child forever. Although his mind continues to develop normally, he wills his body to stop growing at age three. Moreover, he arms himself with a tin drum which he bangs incessantly (much to the aggravation of the adults) and a scream that can literally shatter glass. With those two weapons at his disposal he wages his own war on society. In one particularly remarkable scene, Oskar hides under the bleachers and uses his drum to disrupt and dismantle a local Nazi party rally.