Punks and Poseurs: A Journey Through the Los Angeles Underground poster

Punks and Poseurs: A Journey Through the Los Angeles Underground

0.0(0)19851h 0m1

At its core, “Punks and Poseurs” is a narration-free concert film, but it’s cut with terrific interview footage that explores the changing nature of punk, from insider and outsider perspectives. There’s a lot of great footage with writer/performers Pleasant Gehman and Iris Berry, torpedoing the influx into the music scene of neophyte phonies who just didn’t get it, explaining title of the program. (After this first aired in 1985, a bunch of the new waver/Durannie chicks at my high school—which is to say all the girls who were trying their suburban Ohio best to look like Gehman and Berry—started calling everyone “poseurs,” which was pretty funny.) There’s also a hilarious interview with employees at a store called “Poseur,” which sold punk fashions and accessories—people had to get that shit somewhere before Hot Topic forever banished punk to the mall, no? Also keep an eye out for the kid giving a primer on how to fashion liberty spikes with Knox gelatine.

Share WhatsApp Telegram
Status
Released
Budget
—
Box office
—
Language
English

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Produced in

United States of America

Videos

No extra videos are listed for this title yet.

Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TVNR1 Jan 1985

Frequently asked questions

Punks and Poseurs: A Journey Through the Los Angeles Underground was released on 1 January 1985.

Member reviews

Sign in to rate and review. Browsing stays free and open.

Sign in

Member comments

0

Sign in to post a comment. Browsing stays free and open.

Sign in

More like this