Double Feature Intermission - LA Punk

Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child

In his short career, Jean-Michel Basquiat was a phenomenon. His dense, bebop-influenced neoexpressionist work emerged in the 1980s while minimalist art was the fad and as a successful...Read More

The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee Scratch Perry

The Upsetter tells the wild, weed-fueled story of Lee “Scratch” Perry — a visionary Jamaican musician, artist and all around madman — who burst upon the Kingston scene in the ‘50s wit...Read More

Pater Noster and the Mission of Light

Pater Noster and the Mission of Light tells the story of Max, a young record store clerk who stumbles upon a rare vinyl LP and is drawn into the world of a 1970s hippie commune. An in...Read More

Smithereens

SMITHEREENS is the story of Wren (Susan Berman), an 19 year old layabout from New Jersey who has come to Manhattan to promote herself to stardom in New York's waning punk music world....Read More

Desolation Center

Desolation Center is the previously untold story of a series of early 80s guerrilla music and art performance happenings in Southern California that are recognized to have inspired Bu...Read More

Style Wars

When director Tony Silver and co-producer Henry Chalfant delivered the broadcast version of their prize-winning film to PBS in 1983, the world received its first full immersion in the...Read More

Comedy's Dirtiest Dozen

This classic 1988 comedy concert film launched the careers of Tim Allen, Chris Rock and Jackie The Joke Man Martling. It also features the definitive performance of legendary Bill Hic...Read More

Life is Flashing Before Your Eyes

Animation by Vince Collins. Restored by Mark Toscano the Academy Film Archive. ”Cheery pop images and mellow lyrics" - Timothy Leary. NOTE: This video contains flashing images. Viewer...Read More

Minor Threat Live

Minor Threat played one of its last shows at Washington DC's 930 Club in June of 1983; they would only play once more in DC. Two years later, the tapes from the 930 show were edited t...Read More

Night Flight - Chrystabell & David Lynch Video Profile

American singer Chrystabell reunites with legendary director and musician David Lynch for “Cellophane Memories,”a haunting and atmospheric new collection of songs for Night Flight ind...Read More

Arise! The SubGenius Movie

The Church of the SubGenius recruitment movie, "Arise!," was written and edited to work as a documentary feature film, or as twenty separate stand-alone two-to-ten-minute excerpts. Ni...Read More

The Last Movie

Dennis Hopper’s radical, much-mythologized lost masterpiece – widely unseen for nearly 50 years until now in a new 4K Restoration! Consciously self-reflexive and co-written by Hopp...Read More

Rockers

Starring Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace and Richard "DirtyHarry" Hall, ROCKERS is a story of oppressed Jamaican musicians getting even with the "mafia types" in the business. Featuring Bu...Read More

Demons

From the minds of Dario Argento and Lamberto Bava comes the horrific Heavy Metal splatter film classic, DEMONS! A strange masked man offers tickets to a horror movie sneak preview at ...Read More

The Cure: Rock Case Studies '79-89

Featuring performance footage and commentary from musicians, fans and critics, this in-depth analysis of alternative rock band the Cure examines the influence of the unique group that...Read More

The Dicks From Texas

The Dicks started out as an Austin, Texas poster band in 1979 and once formed, took off like a hardcore rocket. The Dicks only released one 45 and two LP's and were the house band at ...Read More

Richard Lewis - Magical Misery Tour

Lewis' 1997 HBO stand up special was filmed at New York' s historic Bottom Line. The Los Angeles Times called it, "his best show ever."

Night Flight - Julee Cruise, Twin Geeks and More (As Aired)

This two-hour 1990 broadcast features Julee Cruise’s performance for David Lynch's “Industrial Symphony No. 1,” a Night Flight original Twin Peaks parody called "Twin Geeks" and an in...Read More