Kid finds a lost tape in the attic; turns out its his dad's totally brilliant punk band that nobody ever talked about. Excavating an unearthed bit of lost American musical genius: A BAND CALLED DEATH is a documentary about an unlikely DIY punk band in Detroit that you probably never heard of.
"Joy and redemption aren't exactly punk mantras, but A Band Called Death might just give your heart a thrashing" - Robert Abele, LA Times
Martin Scorcese called WAKE IN FRIGHT "a deeply -- and I mean deeply -- unsettling
and disturbing movie. I saw it when it premiered at Cannes in 1971, and
it left me speechless. Visually, dramatically, atmospherically and
psychologically, it's beautifully calibrated and it gets under your skin
one encounter at a time..."
Long considered "Australia's great lost film," the restored print screened at last year's Fantastic Fest and got a re-release through Drafthouse. If you can't see it on the big screen, at least turn out all the lights.
WRONG
Director Quentin Dupieux made an assured debut a few years back with RUBBER, the story of a telekinetic rubber tire that likes to blows things up (also available on Netflix.) Fans of his unhinged and hallucinatory style (of which I am one) will look forward to WRONG, which is, ostensibly, about a man looking for his dog. Let's see how that turns out.
More info, as well as handy links to the Netflix page where you can save these to your queue, are on the Drafthouse Films site.
Yes! I just watched Wrong. A Band Called Death is great too.
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