Inspired by Steven Blush's book "American Hardcore: A tribal history" Paul Rachman's feature documentary debut is a chronicle of the underground hardcore punk years from 1979 to 1986. Interviews and rare live footage from artists such as Black Flag, Bad Brains, Minor Threat, SS Decontrol and the Dead Kennedys.... (Full plot summary below)
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Inspired by Steven Blush's book "American Hardcore: A tribal history" Paul Rachman's feature documentary debut is a chronicle of the underground hardcore punk years from 1979 to 1986. Interviews and rare live footage from artists such as Black Flag, Bad Brains, Minor Threat, SS Decontrol and the Dead Kennedys.
Leave your thoughts about American Hardcore.
| Entertainment WeeklyGregory KirschlingAmerican Hardcore is illuminating nostalgia, stuffed with all the right tattooed talking heads (like Black Flag's Henry Rollins), plus grim-looking concert footage of wailing skinny guys. |
| CinematicalJames RocchiPunk rock was never about sonic perfection: It was (and is) about emotional intensity, and American Hardcore has that in van loads, and delivers with onetwothreefour! power. |
| San Diego Union-TribuneDavid ElliottYou can come away feeling bruised and half-deaf. |
| Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAmerican Hardcore encapsulates a largely forgotten (by the mainstream, that is) moment in maximum rock & roll history. |
| EricDSnider.comEric D. SniderThe movie preaches to the choir, and bores everyone else. |
| Arizona Daily StarPhil Villarreal"American Hardcore" harkens back to the time when punk rockers were actual punks, not whining, prefabricated MTV pretty boys. |
| Milwaukee Journal SentinelPaul KosidowskiRachman's concert footage confirms that the music was unique: bruising, chaotic and blisteringly electric. |
| ReelerMichelle OrangeRachman's chronicle suffers not from a shortage of authentic footage of ready-made hardcore shows, complete with (completely necessary) subtitled lyrics, or doughy, balding, talking heads still bragging about the thrown punches and peed-on chicks of yeste |
| Film Journal InternationalMatthew SmithStruggles under the weight of its own ambition. |
| Jam! MoviesSherri WoodA brilliant grassroots take on the humble beginnings and eventual demise of a musical movement that ultimately had far more impact than it would have ever imagined. |
