Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC

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Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC

2022

1h 20m

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Music

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Filmmaker Danny Garcia examines the history of the renowned nightclub Max's Kansas City and the New York City rock scene of the 1970s.

Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

It’s another film to leave you sighing over New York’s lost 70s heyday of gritty reality and creativity and danger.

Rated: 4/5

Aug 4, 2022

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Owen Gleiberman

Variety

A raw inside slice of punk nostalgia and punk history.

Jul 25, 2022

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

The first documentary about Max’s Kansas City.

Rated: B+

Aug 20, 2022

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Chris Barsanti

PopMatters

...a solid and necessary addition to the underground music documentary canon.

Aug 10, 2022

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Nick Hasted

The Arts Desk

If you were hankering to time-travel back to those golden punk nights, this gives a good idea of how ordinary, even plain awful, they could be. There’s something dispiriting, and chastening, about a film too cheap to feed our fantasies.

Rated: 2/5

Aug 8, 2022

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Alistair Harkness

Scotsman

Though the film could have benefitted from tighter editing and more journalistic rigour, it’s also a treasure-trove of archival footage, including the last ever show of Sid Vicious.

Rated: 3/5

Aug 4, 2022

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Synopsis

Filmmaker Danny Garcia examines the history of the renowned nightclub Max's Kansas City and the New York City rock scene of the 1970s.

Director: Danny Garcia
Producer: Danny Garcia, Michael Kniseley, Cesar Mendez, Nick Reynolds, Mike Schnapp
Screenwriter: Danny Garcia
Production Co: Chip Baker Films
Genre: Documentary, Music
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 20m

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