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Rude Boy
Why this pick
A raw hybrid of fiction and documentary built around the Clash, preserving the scruffy immediacy, street-level London texture, and live-performance energy of Don Letts’s punk chronicle.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1978 1h 26m GBR
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
Keep the feeling.
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Why this pick
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The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
Why this pick
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The Decline of Western Civilization
Why this pick
Its intimate interviews and ferocious club footage offer an equally unvarnished document of punk’s communal volatility—this time in Los Angeles rather than London.
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The Filth and the Fury
Why this pick
A more reflective but still brash return to the Sex Pistols story, using archival material and first-person testimony to retain punk’s antagonistic pulse without smoothing its contradictions.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Steve Strange
Himself
John Lydon
Himself
Joe Strummer
Himself
Mark Perry
Himself
Don Letts
Himself
Billy Idol
Himself
Siouxsie Sioux
Herself
Shane MacGowan
Himself