The Punk Rock Movie Details

An 8mm-blown-up-to-35mm record of the London punk scene just as it was exploding globally to irrevocably shake up the moribund music world. Filmed by Don Letts, the road manager for various Brit-punk bands (and who later joined Big Audio Dynamite), this technically haphazard chronicle covers all the bases — tiny hothouse venues, cramped recording studios, road tours, pogo rituals (featuring a young Shane McGowan), razor blade fashions and drug-taking. The Sex Pistols sing God Save the Queen, The Clash White Riot, Wayne County Cream in my Jeans and Siouxsie and the Banshees, Slaughter and the Dogs, X-Ray Spex, The Slits and The Heartbreakers also make appearances. Filmed mostly at London's Roxy Club, this is a simply presented but valuable history lesson which director Julien Temple used clips from in his Pistols documentary The Filth and the Fury.

The directness of the title sums it up sweetly: after nine years this still emerges as the most faithful and wittiest... read more on Time Out