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Shot as punk was cresting in 1978, then mangled and dumped by its studio in 1981, this long-lost cult movie was embraced by high-schoolers in the early days of cable but largely disappeared thereafter. Too bad: This rag-to-riches tale about the rise of a femme teen-punk trio (led by barely pubescent Diane Lane and Laura Dern with skunk hairdos) anticipated riot-grrl chic (and commercially co-opted punk cred) by a decade. Sloppily directed by record mogul Lou Adler (Up in Smoke) and pseudonymously written by Nancy Dowd (Slap Shot)--a screenwriter who should've had a much longer filmography--it's an amazing artifact studded with cameos by Sex Pistols Steve Jones and Paul Cook, The Clash's Paul Simonon, The Tubes' Fee Waybill as a hilariously washed-up cock rocker and more. It's new on DVD, as are this summer's blockbuster Iron Man, the wrenching romantic comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Julian Schnabel's concert film Lou Reed's Berlin, a new special edition of Harry Kumel's elegant 1971 vampire shocker Daughters of Darkness and the Criterion release of Yasujiro Ozu's valedictory 1963 film An Autumn Afternoon.
Sept. 30-Oct. 6, 2008
Sept. 30-Oct. 6, 2008
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