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Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk

2017

Documentary, Self: Billie Joe Armstrong, Iggy Pop, Miranda July ...

Documentary A documentary spanning over 30 years of the California Bay Area's punk music history with a central focus on the emergence of Berkeley's inspiring 924 Gilman Street music collective.

	Author	Review
United States	Monica Castillo The New York Times	"[Redford] shows enthusiasm for his subject but offers little context for newcomers to West Coast punk music (...) Not every scar earned at a concert deserves to be immortalized in a documentary."	NEU
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"An exhaustive oral history of this chapter in punk's evolution (...) It also has value to all connoisseurs of punk culture"	POS
United States	Dennis Harvey Variety	"Redford’s film channels and sustains the energy of restless youth while communicating the distinctive qualities of a community (...) All this should by any rights get monotonous stretched over 158 minutes. But somehow it doesn’t"	POS
United States	Mick LaSalle San Francisco Chronicle	"If you love East Bay Punk, then go see 'Turn It Around' (...) But if you don’t, this is not the movie to introduce you to the scene."	NEU
United States	Glenn Kenny rogerebert.com	"In the end the movie makes its case but it takes a lot of familiar stuff to get there (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU

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