Kill Your Idols
New York No Wave and those who followed...
New York No Wave and those who followed...
Documentary, Music
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2004
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A 2004 documentary on thirty years of alternative rock 'n roll in NYC.Documenting the history from the genuine authenticity of No Wave to the current generation of would be icons and true innovators seeing to represent New York City in the 21st century
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Rated:
N/A
Runtime:
75 min
Release date:
8 Apr 2004
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination total
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
Kill Your Idols then takes a misguided swerve into the current downtown New York rock scene, so that it can spend more time preaching about the anarchy of the good old days than it does revealing them.
– Owen Gleiberman,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 Jul 2006
rotten:
The documentary enters more dubious territory when it tries to present today's more consumer-friendly post-punkers (like the Strokes and Yeah Yeah Yeahs) as some sort of successors.
– Lou Lumenick,
New York Post,
7 Jul 2006
fresh:
...an atonal love letter to a single corner of the culture - one built, in the words of singer Lydia Lunch, on 'beauty and truth and filth.'
– Elizabeth Weitzman,
New York Daily News,
7 Jul 2006
rotten:
S. A. Crary's music documentary examines New York's No Wave scene of the late 1970's an offshoot of punk, the anti-New Wave.
– Manohla Dargis,
New York Times,
6 Jul 2006
fresh:
Crary takes the usual talking- heads- and- archival- footage approach, which isn't really a problem, though the film's whirlwind approach is.
– Keith Phipps,
AV Club,
6 Jul 2006