Ushers to Ashes: Alternative 80s

80s Arthouse Cinema: Repo Man


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1984. Newspaper columnists were playing Spot the Orwellian Overtone. Hawke in Australia but Thatcher in Britain and Reagan in America. A young filmmaker fresh from the U.K. punk scene found a new one in L.A. which only gave him ideas.  The result is Repo Man, a powerful bird-flip to the powers that be, the rise of the religious right and the insult of trickle down economics. Oh, and it's also bloody funny.

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Ushers to Ashes: Alternative 80sBy GDC and PJ