Thurston Moore Movies

  • 2025
    Pavements

    Pavements

    Pavements

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    Documentary about the American indie band Pavement, which combines scripts with documentary images of the band and a musical mise-en-scene composed...

    Pavements
  • 2021
    The Sparks Brothers

    The Sparks Brothers

    The Sparks Brothers

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    Take a musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with brothers Ron & Russell Mael, celebrating the inspiring legacy of Sparks: your...

    The Sparks Brothers
  • 2018
    Desolation Center

    Desolation Center

    Desolation Center

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    The untold story of a series of Reagan-era guerrilla punk and industrial desert happenings in Southern California that are now recognized as the...

    Desolation Center
  • 2002
    Demonlover

    Demonlover

    Demonlover

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    A French corporation goes head-to-head with an American web media company for the rights to a 3-D manga pornography studio, resulting in a power...

    Demonlover
  • 2009
    Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB

    Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB

    Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB

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    An East Village performance space fought against the Bowery homeless shelter who threatened to shut them down. Some of the most iconic figures in...

    Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
  • 1995
    Heavy

    Heavy

    Heavy

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    Victor is a cook who works in a greasy roadside restaurant owned by his mother, Dolly. It's just the two of them, a waitress named Delores, and a...

    Heavy
  • 2010
    Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child

    Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child

    Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child

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    A thoughtful portrait of a renowned artist, this documentary shines the spotlight on New York City painter Jean-Michel Basquiat. Featuring extensive...

    Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
  • 2024
    Scala!!!

    Scala!!!

    Scala!!!

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    This feature-length big screen documentary tells the riotous inside story of the infamous sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll repertory cinema which...

    Scala!!!
  • 2025
    Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt

    Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt

    Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt

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    Follows the story of the groundbreaking Texas-based art-punk band founded by frontman Gibby Haynes and guitarist Paul Leary.

    Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
  • 2010
    William S. Burroughs: A Man Within

    William S. Burroughs: A Man Within

    William S. Burroughs: A Man Within

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    A riveting and emotional journey into the world of writer William S. Burroughs, a man considered as cold as an iceberg on a winter night.

    William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
  • 2008
    I Need That Record!

    I Need That Record!

    I Need That Record!

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    Guerilla filmmaker Brendan Toller unleashes I NEED THAT RECORD! THE DEATH (OR POSSIBLE SURVIVAL) OF THE INDEPENDENT RECORD STORE, "an elegy for a...

    I Need That Record!
  • 2019
    Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine

    Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine

    Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine

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    Explores the seminal music magazine from its 1969 launch in Detroit to the untimely death of its publisher Barry Kramer in 1981.

    Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine
  • 2007
    365 Day Project

    365 Day Project

    365 Day Project

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    This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007...

    365 Day Project
  • 1992
    1991: The Year Punk Broke

    1991: The Year Punk Broke

    1991: The Year Punk Broke

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    David Markey's documentary of life on the road with Sonic Youth and Nirvana during their tour of Europe in late 1991. Also featuring live...

    1991: The Year Punk Broke
  • 1994
    Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos

    Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos

    Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos

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    Documentary that gives a voice to the percentage of youth that were outcasts/non-conformists in the 90's. Interviews many famous musicians and other...

    Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos
  • 2021
    Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché

    Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché

    Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché

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    The death of punk icon and X-Ray Spex front-woman Poly Styrene sends her daughter on a journey through her mother's archives in this intimate...

    Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
  • 2003
    Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)

    Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)

    Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)

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    Filmed April 12, 2003 at a benefit concert held at and for The Anthology Film Archives, the international center for the preservation, study, and...

    Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
  • 2011
    Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard

    Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard

    Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard

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    From myth to legend Rowland Howard appeared on the early Melbourne punk scene like a phantom out of Kafkaesque Prague or Bram Stoker’s Dracula....

    Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
  • 1991
    Notebook

    Notebook

    Notebook

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    Early Lee Ranaldo short film with spoken word narration. Utilizes some of the same Sonic Youth tour footage as the ‘TeenAge Riot’ video.

    Notebook
  • 2011
    Blank City

    Blank City

    Blank City

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    In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come from comfort, and it was precisely those dire...

    Blank City