Punk the Capital: Building a Sound Movement

June. 29,2019      NR
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An in-depth exploration of a seminal moment in DC music history (circa 1976 to 1984) and the rise of harDCore. The film is made up of a mix of rare archive material, conversational interviews, and a collage editing style. Features early DC punk and hardcore bands like Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Slickee Boys, The Faith and more.

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Cathardincu
2019/06/29

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

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Limerculer
2019/06/30

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

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Twilightfa
2019/07/01

Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

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Glatpoti
2019/07/02

It is so daring, it is so ambitious, it is so thrilling and weird and pointed and powerful. I never knew where it was going.

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