Unavailable on home video for many years (except perhaps as a grainy, nth-generation VHS bootleg), Penelope Spheeris' seminal document of the young 1979-1980 Los Angeles punk scene includes chaotic live performances by now-legendary groups like Black Flag (with short-lived lead singer Ron "Chavo Pederast" Reyes), X (giving themselves stick-and-poke tattoos) and the Germs (whose unpredictable lead singer Darby Crash would commit suicide before the film's release) interwoven with talking-head interviews with teenage punks and, most entertainingly, older club owners trying very hard to describe a growing form of music they were clearly unprepared for. The footage of Fear's confrontational set would later grab the attention of John Belushi, who snagged the band a 1981 appearance on Saturday Night Live (and resulted in $20,000 in damage to the studio). - Tom Fritsche

The third (and seemingly final) installment in Penelope Spheeris' Los Angeles music trilogy, THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION III follows not the punk acts of Los Angeles from 1996-1997 but their homeless teenaged fans. Musician interviews in this DECLINE are fewer but include interesting musings from Keith Morris from the Circle Jerks and Flea (credited as the "ex-bass player of Fear"). DECLINE III lives up to its title as Spheeris explores every facet of the gutter-punk life, from their damaged upbringings (nearly all were abused or neglected as children) to the self-destructive lives they lead on society's fringe (alcoholism, homelessness and run-ins with skinheads, among others). - Tom Fritsche

The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years is a documentary film directed by Penelope Spheeris about the Los Angeles heavy metal scene from 1986 to 1988.

An ecology of signs lurking amid seductive 16mm travel footage echoes with post-colonial reverberations in Ana Vaz's deceptively corrosive, award-winning Occidente

年届退休又已离婚的托尼过着安逸自在的生活，某天接获通知大学时期女友的母亲过世，前女友的母亲在遗嘱里头留给托尼一本神秘的日记，而那本日记竟属于托尼昔日好友亚德利恩。　　前女友薇洛妮卡跟托尼分手后，曾跟亚德利恩发展出热烈情愫，而当年亚德利恩向托尼坦承两人恋情时，托尼写了封祝福的信回覆，但没过多久，亚德利恩竟因不明原因离奇自杀身亡。这段刻苦铭心的三角恋情，竟就发生过什么无法挽回的插曲，而如今收到日记的托尼，又该如何面对许久不见的前女友薇洛妮卡，以及消逝在回忆里等待重新被翻出的惊人秘密……

年届退休又已离婚的托尼过着安逸自在的生活，某天接获通知大学时期女友的母亲过世，前女友的母亲在遗嘱里头留给托尼一本神秘的日记，而那本日记竟属于托尼昔日好友亚德利恩。　　前女友薇洛妮卡跟托尼分手后，曾跟亚德利恩发展出热烈情愫，而当年亚德利恩向托尼坦承两人恋情时，托尼写了封祝福的信回覆，但没过多久，亚德利恩竟因不明原因离奇自杀身亡。这段刻苦铭心的三角恋情，竟就发生过什么无法挽回的插曲，而如今收到日记的托尼，又该如何面对许久不见的前女友薇洛妮卡，以及消逝在回忆里等待重新被翻出的惊人秘密……

Tamara, an edgy feminist philosopher, rediscovers a past she thought she had left behind.

A young couple struggles to make ends meet, the woman works as a nurse and the young man starts robbing homes and paying visits to lonely housewives.

Tamara, an edgy feminist philosopher, rediscovers a past she thought she had left behind.

In this short film, Simone Massi takes his inspiration from scenes of wars that really happened - from World War II to the refugee camps of the 6-Day War, from the attack on the Mostar bridge to the cars set on fire in the war in Syria - to tell what they all have in common. 　　“The suffering of civilians is the only truth of any war, and Simone Massi shows it to us starkly. After so many images of the victims about their tragedy, Gino’s words open the horizon to a possible alternative: abolishing war is an urgent necessity. In this film, there is everything Gino has done and thought in his life against the logic of violence,” says Simonetta Gola, Communications Director of Emergency.