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This month’s cultfilm is a punk western - yes, a PUNK… WESTERN… - called
STRAIGHT TO HELL (Alex Cox, 1987). Such a rare combination which we
happily celebrate with a punk / western curation at the WPB! With music by
Dutch punk legends The Ex and The Rondos, books from the punk scene and
plenty of movies! For instance: Richard Kern’s Hardcore collection (with Lydia
Lunch, Henry Rollins, The Butthole Surfers to name a few), a well-
recommended documentary on the American hardcore scene, and the filth
and the fury of the Sex Pistols… All this blended together with some dust-
blazed ‘western’ classics – from Sergio Leone to Robert Rodriguez. Most
important of all, we have a great Alex Cox-trilogy to enjoy in our ever
comfortable pink DISPLAY…

DON’T MISS! PLAYING THIS WEEK:

Repo Man (Alex Cox, 1984): The life of a repo man is pretty intense! The
famous SF punk action comedy, with a great soundtrack featuring Iggy
amongst others (“I’m looking for the joke with a microscope!”) gave Alex Cox
instant cult status. Back in the nineties he tried to make follow-up Waldo’s
Hawaiian Holiday, which ended up as a fun graphic novel, and back in 2009
he made the rarely screened Repo Chick on the low budget of $180.000.
Despite some laughs, nothing can top the original!

Sid and Nancy (Alex Cox, 1986): Although Johnny Rotten didn’t like it ("Did
the movie get anything right?" to which he replied: "Maybe the name Sid."),
Sid and Nancy is still regarded as one of the finest rock-and- roll movies in the
world. A punk rock’s Romeo and Juliet, as Roger Ebert mentions, following
the demise of Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen…

Revengers Tragedy (Alex Cox, 2002): Despite the success of the first
movies, Alex Cox glided into obscurity, never reaching the box-office success
he might have deserved. He never stopped making movies though. Based on
the 1606 play of the same name, Revengers Tragedy relocates its Italian
setting to a futuristic version of Liverpool in the year 2011, following the
aftermath of a natural disaster which has destroyed the southern half of Great
Britain. The city is a dystopia in which society is collapsing and where
vendettas and the crude exercise of power are the norm. With a soundtrack
by Chumbawamba!