The Decline of Western Civilization
The Decline of Western Civilization

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The Los Angeles punk music scene circa 1980 is the focus of this film. With Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Catholic Discipline, Circle Jerks, Fear, Germs, and X.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Decline of Western Civilization:

Eugene Tatu
Alice Bag
Claude Bessy
Dinah Cancer
Exene Cervenka
Lorna Doom

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The Los Angeles punk music scene circa 1980 is the focus of this film. With Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Catholic Discipline, Circle Jerks, Fear, Germs, and X.

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Rolling Stone - 10/10 by David FearThe performance footage alone makes this worthy of study by musicologists and historians. There are too many great scenes to mention.
Japan Times - 10/10 by Giovanni FazioThis was the first time anyone had seen a mosh pit on-screen, and Spheeris somehow gets right in the scrum, capturing a blur of flailing bodies.
Slate - 10/10 by Jack HamiltonThe Decline of Western Civilization is the finest cinematic distillation of punk ever made, not simply as music but as ethos. Featuring performances by X, the Germs, Black Flag, and the Circle Jerks, the film is frantic, caustic, electric, imbued with all the rage and love of a pogoing teen throwing punches at his friends.
Washington Post - 10/10 by Richard HarringtonA movie so pungent and filled with sweaty intensity that you can practically smell the rank body odour of the film's subjects as they hurl their bodies against each other in a frenzy of aggression or perform as if in a trance, soaked with perspiration.
Flavorwire - 9/10 by Jason BaileySpheeris doesn't stand at the remove some documentarians do; you feel like you're in the scene, at those shows, and in those rooms.
Radio Times - 8/10 by Robert SellersThis is the first in a trilogy of rock documentaries made by Spheeris that, viewed today, seem like valuable cultural documents. But your granny won't like it.
New York Times - 8/10 by Janet MaslinA shrewd and engrossing documentary even for audiences who have absolutely no patience for the music it includes.
Chicago Reader - 8/10 by J.R. JonesThe live sets by X, Black Flag, the Circle Jerks, the Germs, and Fear, recorded between December 1979 and May 1980, still thunder after all these years; unfortunately so do the scene's racism, queer baiting, and utter despair.
ColeSmithey.com - 7/10 by Cole SmitheyYou can't put a price on a filmic document such as this one.
Variety - 6/10 by Variety StaffA bracing, stimulating and technically superb close-up look at the LA punk scene, pic is pitched at a perfect distance to allow for simultaneous engagement in the music and spectacle, and for rueful contemplation of what it all might mean.

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