Written by dorrk | 31 March 2015 |
That's the end of Punk Movies month. While there were only a couple that cracked what I consider the cream-of-the-crop, I'm happy to report that I really enjoyed more than half of the 21 movies on March's official PopGap watchlist, with only a few truly miserable failures. Here's how I rank the movies I watched this month:
For some reason almost completely unconnected to my actual life experience, "punk movies" resonate with me in a unique way. This is probably largely nostalgia for the punk-drenched b-movies I grew up watching in the 1980s. Flipping through the great book Destroy All Movies: the Complete Guide to Punks on Film brings up at least one movie every couple of pages that I watched multiple times on cable as a teenager, or caught clips of on USA network's Night Flight. My own brief flirtation with punk fashion and music as a 14-year-old never materialized into a dedicated lifestyle, but these movies allow me to momentarily revisit it vicariously.
Obviously there are still a lot of "punk movies" I haven't seen. Here are some of the titles that were recommended to me that I did not include in this month's list:
And the documentaries:
Finally, here's how I'd assimilate this month's movies into the overall list of 47 movies I've seen that I consider part of the "punk movies" family (this month's Popgap movies are marked with ):
I'll have a preview of April's movies in the next day or so.
Sources for this month's list:
The Destroy All Movies website
Den of Geek's 30 Must-See Punk Rock Movies
Village Voice's The 10 Best Punk Rock Movies