D.O.A.: A Rite of Passage

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082226/

NOTE This release was originally  recorded off a broadcast on channel 4
    in England in 1998

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Good buddy of mine sent me is mastertape ( or what we can call it)
recorded VHS tape...a fuji 180 nomal VHS tape,
I preserved this tape for over 24 years,
and made a fresh run on my SAMSUNG sv-665x  6 head Hi Fi stereo VCR
recorded into MYGICA MKV card,i edited out the commercials with AVIDEMUX
and here we are.....  

THIS VERSION IS NOT EDITED OUT AS THE DVD VERSION

Directed by Lech Kowalski
Written by Lech Kowalski, Chris Salewicz
Produced by Tom Forcade, Lech Kowalski, Mike...
Starring

   Sex Pistols
   Generation X
   The Rich Kids
   Joe Strummer
   Nancy Spungen

Edited by Val Kuklowsky
Music by Sex Pistols
Distributed by Tom Norman Films (US theatrical)
Harmony Vision (US VHS)
Release date



Cast (in alphabetical order)

   Stiv Bators as himself (The Dead Boys)
   Terry Chimes as himself (The Clash)
   The Clash as themselves
   Paul Cook as himself (Sex Pistols)
   The Dead Boys as themselves
   Generation X as themselves
   Jonathan Guinness as himself
   Topper Headon as himself (The Clash)
   Billy Idol as himself (Generation X)
   Tony James as himself (Generation X)
   Mick Jones as himself (The Clash)
   Steve Jones as himself (Sex Pistols)
   John Lydon as himself (Johnny Rotten)
   Glen Matlock as himself (The Rich Kids)
   Gene October as himself (Generation X)
   Augustus Pablo as himself
   Bernard Brooke Partridge as himself - Council Member
   Rich Kids as themselves
   Heidi Robinson as herself - Tour Manager
   Sex Pistols as themselves
   Sham 69 as themselves
   Paul Simonon as himself (The Clash)
   Nancy Spungen as herself
   Joe Strummer as himself (The Clash)
   Terry Sylvester as himself
   Terry and the Idiots as themselves
   Sid Vicious as himself
   Mary Whitehouse as herself - Anti-Smut Crusader
   X-Ray Spex as themselves



   September 12, 1980 (TIFF)

Running time
95 min.
Country United States
Language English

D.O.A.: A Right of Passage is a 1980 rockumentary film directed by Lech Kowalski (his premiere film as a director) about the origin of punk rock. The rockumentary takes interview and concert footage of some of punk rock's earliest bands of the late 1970s scene. It features live performances by the Sex Pistols, The Dead Boys, Generation X (with Billy Idol), The Rich Kids, X-Ray Spex, and Sham 69, with additional music from The Clash, Iggy Pop, and Augustus Pablo.[1][2]
Plot

The film centers around the Sex Pistols 1978 tour of the United States which ended with the group breaking up. The tour was the only one the group played in the U.S. during their original run. Film director Lech Kowalski followed them with handheld cameras through the clubs and bars of their seven-city Southern tour. Mixing this with footage of other contemporary bands, trends in the fashion capitals, and punks of all shapes and colors, Kowalski created a grainy, stained snapshot of a movement at its peak,[3] showing how certain authority figures saw the movement as a threat.[2]

It features interview footage (including the famous interview of Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen in bed), and behind the scenes shots from the tour as well as interviews with audience members who had strong and widely varied reactions to the group.[4]

The majority of the material surrounds the Pistols tour as well but it also included other performances by first wave Punk acts such as The Dead Boys and Generation X with Billy Idol.[2][3][4]

This indie film was shot mostly in bars and clubs on 16mm film, and documented early years of punk from both in front of and behind the stage.[2]

The film's poster is featured prominently in one scene of the 1981 film Neighbors. D.O.A. also featured in The Filth and the Fury, a 2000 rockumentary film about the Sex Pistols directed by Julien Temple, and in the 2002 television series Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s.[4]
Release

The film premiered at the 1980 Festival of Festivals,[5] before having its commercial premiere on April 10, 1981 at the Waverly Theater in New York City.

The DVD was released in Japan in 2003. However it is released in Region 0.

In 2017, the film was released on Blu-ray as the inaugural release of the MVD Rewind Collection. On this edition, music has been rescored. The original Iggy Pop studio recordings of "Nightclubbing" and "Lust For Life" have been swapped out for live versions of the same songs. The film's end credits, which previously featured Augustus Pablo's "AP Special," now features a generic reggae instrumental.

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