Lunch will be on the frontlines with a microphone in one hand and flashing a middle finger with the other as long as misogyny persists.Д¤8 HILLS Why is now the right time to release your biopic? It also builds an excellent case for her rightful rage against the patriarchy. Her biopic-featuring classic archival footage, recent performances with her current band Retrovirus, and interviews with collaborators and colleagues like Thurston Moore, Donita Sparks, and Nicolas Jaar-takes viewers through the traumas and tribulations that have shaped this singular indie artist. Early retirement is not in the cards for the vibrant performer, whoвЂ™s collaborated with the likes of Nick Cave, Henry Rollins, Exene Cervenka, and Marc Almond over her 43-year-strong career when thereвЂ™s still so much work to be done. Her Facebook tagline says: вЂњLydia Lunch is passionate, confrontational, and bold,вЂќ and at 62, she shows no signs of slowing down. They both have big mouths, but what are they applying all of that to?вЂќ More political, honest, original-are the biggest parts lacking in the two aforementioned singers. вЂњExcuse me, two albums in a career that long-get off. вЂњWhat has she fucking done for us lately?вЂќ Lunch asked 48 Hills in a recent interview. Love-who the former Teenage Jesus and the Jerks and Big Sexy Noise frontwoman has publicly accused of ripping off her look-is particularly abhorrent to her. вЂњHow we have devolved from Medusa to Madonna, from Kali to Courtney Love, from Durga to Uma ThurmanвЂ¦ I donвЂ™t get it. вЂњWe used to be warriorsвЂ¦ women,вЂќ the artist says in her new Beth B-directed biopic, Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over (out Friday along with a same-titled companion book). So the No Wave icon, spoken-word star, actress, author, and visual artist wonders why so-called feminist icons like Courtney Love, Madonna, and Uma Thurman havenвЂ™t done their part to further women. вЂњIf you canвЂ™t take it for 20 mins,вЂќ she says, вЂњtry living it for 20 or 40 years.Lydia Lunch brashly battled the patriarchy out of the box. She demands you walk a mile in her stilettos. (Also romping through the movieвЂ™s dark escapades: A young, whippet-thin Henry Rollins.) It blurred the line between sex, addiction and violence in the most uncomfortable ways, and by design: Lunch wanted to give you a peek into her mindset. Both Lydia and her co-conspirator Kern are given space to unpack their controversial 1985 short Right Side of My Brain, an autobiographical homage to Repulsion that features Lunch fellating her then-boyfriend, Scraping Foetus Off the WheelвЂ™s Jim Thirlwell. You feel like youвЂ™ve been sandblasted afterward. Instead, the filmmaker foregrounds and leans in to it. Some documentarians might have tempered LunchвЂ™s harrowing recounting of being molested by her father, or to borrow one of LunchвЂ™s phrases, relegated her вЂњtravelogue of sexual horror and repercussionsвЂќ to the background noise of a Horror City nostalgia tour.

All hail the Queen of the Underground!Д«ut Beth is one of the few people brave enough and/or willing to make a film that matches LydiaвЂ™s modus operandi of attack, which is: Raw. Her status as royalty is rightfully, respectfully, if not comprehensively given its due. LydiaвЂ™s noise-skronk band Retrovirus, which played songs from numerous past Lunch projects and collaborations, get lots of screen time on and off stage. Snippets of past work and recent-ish performances attest to a legacy of mastering the art of short, sharp, shrieking shocks and speaking truth to everybody.

The War Is Never Over trots out a lot of вЂњtypicalвЂќ music-doc staples, from grainy footage of old bands (Suicide, DNA, the Contortions) to famous-fans-and-peers interviewees (Thurston Moore, Carla Bozulich, L7вЂ™s Donita Sparks, Richard Kern). They are not counterparts, but kindred spirits. Who else but Beth B could have done justice to LydiaвЂ™s story? This veteran New York filmmaker has been in the exact same trenches that Lunch first raged and stomped through in the warzone of late Seventies LES - described as being вЂњlike a cancerous mouth that had its molars ripped outвЂќ - and theyвЂ™ve worked together since No Wave Day Zero.

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