video killed the radio star

back to the eighties

[filmstruck]

We’ve added 7 seminal punk films to the service this week including Penelope Spheeris’ THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION and Susan Siedleman’s SMITHEREENS. To keep the punk spirit alive we’ve also curated a playlist on Spotify for your listening displeasure: 

All the Young Punks (New Boots & Contracts) – The Clash

I Love Livin’ In the City – Fear

Wild In the Streets – Circle Jerks

Manimal – Germs

Love In A Void – Siouxsie and the Banshees

Ignorance – Diacritical

Another World – Richard Hell

Rudie Can’t Fail – The Clash

Moody – ESG

Devious Woman – Singers & Players

The Boy With The Perpetual Nervousness – The Feelies

Stand And Deliver – Adam & The Ants

Right to Work – Chelsea

Live Fast Die Young – Circle Jerks

Paranoia Paradise – Jayne County

Shut Down [Annihilation Man] – Germs

The Kid With the Replaceable Head – Richard Hell

Loveless Love – The Feelies

Problem Child – Toyah

Kings Of The Wild Frontier – Adam & The Ants

Punk Rules - A Spotify Playlist

[oldfilmsflicker]

Baby Boom, 1987 (dir. Charles Shyer)

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RIP GLENN FREY

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YOU REMIND ME OF THE BABE

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Paul Atreides: I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.

Movie Quote of the Day – Dune, 1984 (dir. David Lynch)

[rottentomatoes]

How Did Critics React to Back to the Future's 2015?

Oct. 21, 2015 is nigh upon us, and many of the innovations imagined in Back to the Future Part II -- from tablet computers to video conferencing -- have come to pass. Sure, not every prediction came true; Jaws 19 has yet to be released, teenagers aren't pulling their pants pockets inside out, and the Cubs still haven't won the World Series (though they're in the National League Championship Series at the moment). We couldn't help but wonder: what did film critics of 1989 think of the futuristic Hill Valley? We dug deep into the archives to find out.

[rottentomatoes]

Happy National Dessert Day!

[oldfilmsflicker]

Caleb Colton: What the fuck is goin’ on? Severen: It ain’t what’s goin’ on, son. It’s what’s comin’ off. Your face. Clean off.

Movie Quote of the Day – Near Dark, 1987 (dir. Kathryn Bigelow)

[rottentomatoes]

Does Grease 2 Deserve Cult Status? Nathan Rabin makes the case.

[oldfilmsflicker]

Grease 2 was directed by a woman. also it rules. 

[backtotheeighties]

Community closing

For various reasons that I do not wish to go into I am retiring it next week. If you are interested in taking it over please let me know before Monday (8/24) and I will turn it/them over to you. 

Let me know. Thanks.

[filmandimage]

1980 | THE SHINING | Stanley Kubrick

[maddsmcgee]

David Byrne dancing with a lamp during “This Must Be The Place.”

Stop Making Sense (1984)

[oldfilmsflicker]

Happy Birthday Martha Coolidge! 

[classichorrorblog]

Evil Dead II (1987)

Directed by Sam Raimi

The lone survivor of an onslaught holds up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack.

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Chloe Webb and Gary Oldman on the set of “Sid & Nancy” (1986)

[giarnese]