What We Do Is Secret

Il rockumentary sugli idoli suicidi del rock continua...è la volta dei Germs, punk band di Los Angeles con vita breve quanto quella dei Sex Pistols e con degli evidenti parallelismi. Si parla di fottuto punk rock senza note sensate e suonate in maniera decente e di un progetto quinquennale per entrare nella storia. Grossman fa il suo sporco lavoro integrando bene musica (tanta) e vita privata [...] Vai alla recensione »

What We Do Is Secret" doesn't ask you to like Darby Crash of the seminal L.A. punk band the Germs. Which makes sense. If asked why he mutilated himself onstage or incited riots at shows, he'd probably answer with a gleeful one-fingered salute on his roller coaster to hell. First-time writer-director Rodger Grossman bangs out a visceral, energized biopic that captures the vibrant idiocy of punked-out [...] Vai alla recensione »

DARBY CRASH, singer of the Germs and the most polarizing figure on the 1970s Hollywood punk scene, would tell anyone within earshot that his days were numbered. In 1975, at the age of 17, he devised a five-year plan for achieving immortality: form a band, collect a following, release one album, then commit suicide. The band started as a dare; T-shirts were made before any songs were learned.

“All I want is beer and damage,” asserts Darby Crash (played by Shane West), the punk-rock flameout and frontman of the Germs, near the beginning of Rodger Grossman’s adoring biopic, “What We Do Is Secret.” What Crash really wanted, however, was posthumous adulation, and Mr. Grossman does his best to oblige. Focusing on the five years between the singer’s banishment from high school and his heroin-assiste [...] Vai alla recensione »