The Punk Singer (2013)
A look at the life of activist, musician, and cultural icon Kathleen Hanna, who formed the punk band Bikini Kill and pioneered the "riot grrrl" movement of the 1990s. (imdb)
Cast and Information
Directed By: Sini Anderson
Starring: Kathleen Hanna
Genres: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA
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The Punk Singer belongs to 9 collections
1. Female Directors (collaborative: moderated by djross - 90 stars)
2. Music documentary (collaborative: moderated by djross - 11 stars)
3. Musician / Composer (collaborative: moderated by djross - 5 stars)
4. 50 Essential Feminist Films (public: Nroo - 3 stars)
5. Crowdfunded (collaborative: moderated by Ag0stoMesmer - 2 stars)
6. Women Directors (public: drh - 1 star)
7. New Releases 2013 (public: fartblaster)
8. Tom's 2013 Movie List (public: tomwalsh)
9. Tom's Movies (public: tomwalsh)
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| Apr 28, 2021 | dalat | 73 33rd |
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good music, wonderful editing, good story, below-average story-telling.
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| May 25, 2019 |  |
Anomaly | 77 66th |
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Fairly boilerplate retelling of Kathleen Hanna's musical career and activism, that coasts by pretty smoothly on the greatness of aforementioned music. A bit more depth into her views and their evolution would have been nice (though thankfully this was made prior to Le Tigre's embarrassing reunion, I probably couldn't have handled that). Despite any shallowness I still quite enjoyed this, though I may be biased, since I can listen to Hanna's voice all day.
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| Jan 19, 2015 |  |
jenner1407 | 89 95th |
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Four words: Fuck Yeah, Kathleen Hanna!
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| Jan 19, 2015 |  |
Hofschneider | 88 88th |
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This isn't a movie, that pushes the documentary to new highs, but Kathleen Hanna deserves every fucking face time she gets.
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| Oct 26, 2014 |  |
Moribunny | 68 70th |
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Hanna is a great artist, and the documentary gives the viewer a good sense of that.
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| Oct 25, 2014 |  |
AFlickering | 2 18th |
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there are few things more incongruous than a tame, conventional, fawning talking heads documentary about a revolutionary feminist punk band. speaking of incongruity, hanna's whole "i don't give a shit what people think *whines about what people think for entire movie*" thing is pretty annoying. most of my favorite musicians are people i'd prob hate to hang out with though, and that's ok. bikini kill is pretty wild; do yourselves a favour and go listen to them instead of watching this.
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| Aug 14, 2014 |  |
lisa- | 3 30th |
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about kathleen hanna, important member of the riot grrrl scene. fine enough for what it is, pretty standard documentary though. i must admit, i raised my eyebrows *just a wee bit* when the first wave was mentioned with all the legal triumphs et cetera, and then they moved straight on to the third wave.
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| Jul 03, 2014 |  |
fenixdown | 73 46th |
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That's one tough lady!
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| Jan 02, 2014 |  |
Superargo | 63 50th |
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Cool. Informative. Talking head-y, though. I nodded off a time or two, truth be told.
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| Dec 14, 2013 |  |
sidehacker | 70 53rd |
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Touching and important, but never really breaks the mold from being a typical talking heads+found footage type of documentary. It's too bad, because it seems to have moments that drift away from that (Kathleen talking about the importance of a girl's bedroom as space for creativity comes to mind) but it always ends up returning to something more conventional in cinematic terms. That's not really the point, of course. Just watch it.
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| Dec 11, 2013 | tomwalsh | 58 40th |
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Straight-ahead documentary about Kathleen Hanna. If you don't know who that is, there's probably no reason to see this movie. But, if you, like me, want revolution, girl-style, now... then this will definitely hold your interest.
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| Average Percentile 57.4% from 114 Ratings |  |