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Punk film is a type of film associated with the punk subculture. The punk subculture is based around Punk rock. It emerged from the larger Rock music scene in the mid-to-late-1970s in the United Kingdom, the United Many punk films have been made, and punk rock music videos and punk skate videos are common. This is a list of films related to the Punk subculture. 0-9 1991 The Year Punk Broke (1992 24 Hour Party People A music video is a Short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music most commonly a Song with lyrics A skate video is a movie about Skateboarding. In most skate videos skaters show their skills in sections called video parts but other formats such as montages are used and The use of stock footage typifies punk film. Stock footage, and similarly archive footage, library pictures and file footage are Film or Video Several famous groups have participated in movies, such as the Ramones in Rock 'n' Roll High School and the Sex Pistols in The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle. Rock 'n' Roll High School is a 1979 Musical comedy film produced by Roger Corman, directed by Allan Arkush, and featuring The Ramones The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle ( 1980) is a fictional "documentary" (a "mockumentary") film directed by Julien Temple and Some well-known punks have even had biopics made about them, such as Sid and Nancy, which tells the story of Sid Vicious (portrayed by Gary Oldman) and Nancy Spungen (portrayed by Chloe Webb). A biographical motion picture &mdash often shortened to biopic &mdash is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or people Sid and Nancy, originally titled Love Kills, is a 1986 Film directed by Alex Cox. John Simon Ritchie (born May 10, 1957, died February 2, 1979) better known as Sid Vicious, was an English Punk Gary Leonard Oldman (born 21 March 1958 is an English actor writer director, producer, Voice-over artist and occasional Musician who Nancy Laura Spungen (February 27 1958 – October 12 1978 was the American girlfriend of Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious. Chloe Webb (born 25 June 1956) is an American actress Webb was born in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York.

Original footage of punk bands is also often used in music documentaries. Numerous documentaries about specific punk bands include Westway to the World about The Clash, by punk filmmaker Don Letts. The Clash Westway to the World is a 2000 Documentary film about the British Punk rock band The Clash. Don Letts (born) is a British film director and musician He is credited as the man who through his DJing at clubs like The Roxy brought together punk and The seminal punk documentary is The Filth and the Fury, detailing the rise of the Sex Pistols. The Filth and the Fury is a 2000 Rockumentary film about the Sex Pistols directed by Julien Temple. In addition to the members of that band and its affiliates (Malcolm McLaren, Vivienne Westwood, Nancy Spungen, etc. Malcolm McLaren (born Malcolm Robert Andrew Edwards on January 22 1946 in London) is an English Impresario and musician Dame Vivienne Westwood, DBE, RDI, (born 8 April, 1941) is an English Fashion designer largely responsible for bringing Nancy Laura Spungen (February 27 1958 – October 12 1978 was the American girlfriend of Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious. ) it also features archival footage of Billy Idol, Sting, Shane McGowan, and a young teenaged girl who would grow up to be Siouxsie Sioux, among others. Billy Idol (born William Michael Albert Broad, 30 November 1955, Stanmore, Middlesex) is an English rock STING ( S equence T o and with' IN' G raphics is a free Web-based suite of programs for a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between protein sequence Shane Patrick Lysaght MacGowan (born 25 December 1957 is a musician and singer best known as the original singer and songwriter of The Pogues. Susan Janet Ballion One of the highlights of the movie is footage of the Sex Pistols playing "God Save the Queen" on a barge in the middle of the Thames during the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II, and their subsequent arrest. The Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II 's accession to the

The No Wave Cinema and Remodernist film movements owe much to punk aesthetics. No Wave Cinema was a Colab sponsored boom (1976-1985 in underground filmmaking on the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City. Remodernist film developed in the United States and the United Kingdom in the late 1990s and early 21st century and is related to the British art movement Stuckism Derek Jarman and Don Letts are notable punk filmmakers. Derek Jarman ( January 31 1942 – February 19 1994) was an English Film director, Stage designer Don Letts (born) is a British film director and musician He is credited as the man who through his DJing at clubs like The Roxy brought together punk and Many other films are associated with punk, such as 24 Hour Party People, which presents the evolution of punk rock into New Wave and Madchester. 24 Hour Party People is a 2002 Film about Manchester 's Popular music community from 1976 to 1997 and specifically about Factory Records New Wave is a Rock music genre that existed during the late 1970s and the 1980s Madchester was an Alternative rock genre that developed in Manchester, England, towards the end of the 1980s and into the early 1990s

The documentary film Afro-punk examines the role of African-Americans in the hardcore punk subculture. Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt in one fashion or another to " Document " reality Afro-punk (sometimes spelled Afropunk) refers to African Americans and other African American people in the Punk subculture. African Americans or Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa

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