Lydia Lunch — Actor (23)
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Kiss Napoleon Goodbye (1990)
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Babeth Mondini actor: Henry Rollins / Lydia Lunch …
Punk icons Lydia Lunch and Henry Rollins star in this cult drama about a pregnant pianist named Hedda whose marriage to husband Neal (Don Bajema) hits the skids with the sudden appearance of a mysterious stranger.
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Mondo New York (1988)
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Harvey Keith actor: Joey Arias / Rick Aviles …
A young woman wanders around New York City and stumbles across a number of strange characters and settings that represent the "underground" areas of the city. She sees stand up comedy in Central Park, a prostitution auction, a voodoo ceremony, an S&M club, and a number of very interesting performance artists. These are just a few of the sights and sounds of New York that she encounters.
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Punking Out (1978)
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Maggi Carson / Juliusz Kossakowski … actor: Stiv Bators / Cheetah Chrome …
The film documents the beginning of the punk rock movement in New York City at CBGB's, a punk night club, and the lifestyle that revolves around this scene. It presents a sometimes shocking look at the attitudes and motivations behind the movement through interviews with outspoken club-goers and band members of the Ramones, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, and the Dead Boys.
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Black Box (1979)
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Scott B / Beth B actor: Bob Mason / Lydia Lunch …
other title: 黑盒子
An innocent youth is abducted and dragged down into a dystopian nightmare where teenage Lydia Lunch throws him into the Black Box.
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Raw Nerves: A Lacanian Thriller (1980)
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Manuel DeLanda actor: Gerald M. Kline / M. Patrick Hughes …
other title: Raw Nerves
A noir mostly set in a bathroom stall and stairwell. A private dick trapped in a tight spot. A narrator searching for a way out of the story.
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Beauty Becomes the Beast (1979)
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Vivienne Dick actor: Adele Bertei / Lydia Lunch …
Beauty Becomes the Beast describes a random access world mediated by TV images and shards of popular culture. The film features a powerful performance by Lydia Lunch regressing from adulthood to childhood, hinting at a sexually abusive past. It concerns itself with the position of woman as subject and the way women experience patriarchal law and the heterosexual order.
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Rome '78 (1978)
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Jamie Nares actor: David McDermott / Eric Mitchell …
Nares mocks up Ancient Rome by shooting in faux-classical sites including Tribeca's American Thread Building, where a decrepit penthouse loft with a peeling-paint dome serves as an echoey stand-in for the imperial palace. The latter location required ingenuity: Posing as potential renters, Nares and associates asked the manager to show them the apartment, then unlocked the windows on the way out; a few hours later, they broke back into the space, full cast and crew in tow, to shoot the necessary scenes.
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She Had Her Gun All Ready (1978)
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Vivienne Dick actor: Pat Place / Lydia Lunch
other title: 她的枪已经准备好
Two women – one passive and resigned, the other aggressive and domineering – interact in various locations in New York city. The film explores the dynamic between them before ending with a showdown at the roller-coaster on Coney Island.
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Thanatopsis (1991)
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Beth B actor: Lydia Lunch
Beth B, in collaboration with legendary downtown performance artist/musician Lydia Lunch, creates a chilling yet poetic vision of despairing nihilism -- literally, a "meditation on death." In this noirishly rendered narrative, a woman negotiates the banalities of life.
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The Offenders (1980)
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Beth B / Scott B actor: Scott B / Kirsten Bates …
A punk savage satire about a kidnapping.
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Llik Your Idols (2007)
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Angélique Bosio actor: Richard Hell / Richard Kern …
Discover the New York underground scene during the 80s and throw yourself into an exciting, anarchic and repulsive world that you won't forget.
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The Wild World of Lydia Lunch (1983)
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Nick Zedd actor: Lydia Lunch / Nick Zedd
Shot entirely in Ireland and England on film stolen by Nick Zedd, the movie offers a rare glimpse into the unique private world of Lydia Lunch; The footage "narrated" by a break-up cassette sent from Lunch to Zedd.
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Vortex (1982)
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Scott B / Beth B actor: James Russo / Lydia Lunch …
A film noirish atmosphere is created to show detective Lunch (a popular underground musician and poet) plow her way through the plans of a corporate businessman who seeks government defense contracts through real "corporate wars" and the manipulation of politicians.
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Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism (2009)
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Virginie Despentes actor: Norma Jean Almodovar / Maria Beatty …
other title: Mutantes
Mutantes sheds light on a feminism that was little talked about in France. This documentary comprises of a series of interviews conducted in the USA, Paris and Barcelona, and documents from the archives about the political action of sex workers, queer activists and post-pornographic performances.
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The Right Side of My Brain (1984)
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Richard Kern actor: Lydia Lunch / Henry Rollins …
Lydia Lunch and Richard Kern's first collaborative effort, The Right Side of My Brain, is a glimpse into the world of unsatiable female lust, narrated by Lydia Lunch. The film was initially dismissed and dismayed by critics such as J. Hoberman, but the criticism of The Right Side of My Brain received only pushed the two to go one step further with Fingered (1986).
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Barbecue Death Squad From Hell (1986)
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Michael Nesmith actor: Penn Jillette / Lydia Lunch …
Lydia Lunch and Penn & Teller jazz up the Jenkins' family picnic home movie, turning it into a backyard SOV slasher.
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Submit to Me Now (1987)
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Richard Kern actor: Lung Leg / Amy Turner …
Oddballs dancing, leering at camera, guy shaving a nontraditional part of his body and man ripping his own throat out, woman stabbing herself to death.