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Break out your mohawk glue. New book Destroy All Movies! The Complete Guide to Punks on Film catalogs cinema's punk nightmares, from real rockers to post-apocalyptic sci-fi freaks.
Editors Zack Carlson and Bryan Connolly watched more than 20,000 great and terrible movies in five years, boiling the results into an exhaustive, 600-page compilation from Fantagraphics that catches classics like The Road Warrior (above) and obscurities like Raymond Pettibon's Sir Drone in its sneering dragnet.
Featuring interviews with luminaries like Repo Man director Alex Cox, Fugazi's Ian Mackaye and proto-punker Richard Hell, Destroy All Movies!, due in stores for $35 this month, is probably the last word on punks, and perhaps even post-punks, on the screen.
Carlson and Connolly are setting off on a signing and screening tour, starting Tuesday in New Mexico and wrapping Nov. 19 in San Francisco. We've taken the liberty of showing off in this gallery a fistful of the most notorious entries, as well as flicks that Carlson and Connolly couldn't help but highlight. Got your own favorites? Spit them out in the comments section below.
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The Road Warrior (1981)
Australian director George Miller's sequel to Mad Max made a superstar out of Mel Gibson, redefined DIY action cinema, and brought dystopian punks into the mainstream. A stone-cold sci-fi classic that still has very much to say about gas and the apocalypse, The Road Warrior sits atop crossover punk cinema.Images courtesy Fantagraphics. Follow us on Twitter: @morphizm and @theunderwire.
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