Imagine Russian emigrants in the basement of a New York tenement, 1913. Irving and Jack Schott make coats and sell them door-to-door. But Irving is not just another tailor. In 1925, this guy with a…
Motorcycle Gang (1994), a noir about violent bikers
The most violent film from the TV series about the Rebellious Highway is perhaps the Motorcycle Gang (Motorcycle Gang, 1994). Actually, director John Milius is known for filming military dramas, a bias towards right-wing extremism…
The Dragstrip Girl (1994): A grisly romance
Starting the Rebel Highway project, producer Lou Arkoff wondered: "What if Rebel Without Cause was filmed today? He would definitely be darker, sexier and more dangerous." So the movie Dragstrip Girl (Dragstrip Girl, 1994) is…
Hey Good Lookin’ (1982) – if only Salvador…
The full moon is a time of strange, cozy nightmares, sometimes taking on cinematic forms. Animation is the freest and craziest of these forms. I would call Ralph Bakshi one of the craziest and most…
Psychos (2015), a film not about the subculture…
The film Psychos (2015) by Alexei Kitaytsev is a film about a youth gang, about a counterculture with an acute social political subtext. It is positioned as an anti-fascist cinema. Representatives of the psychobilly subculture…
The Outsiders (1983) – briolinschiki through the eyes…
Interesting fact: Rumble Fish and The Outsiders were filmed "back to back" - that is, somewhat roughly speaking, Francis Ford Coppola shot these two films simultaneously in 1982. Like the Fighting Fish, The Outsiders is…
The Wanderers (1979) – A movie about guys…
The Wanderers 1979... Frankly, I tried very hard to dodge writing this article. First of all, due to the fact that the second administrator of this site already has quite a good short article on…
Jailbreakers (1994), a film from the Rebel Highway…
Jailbreakers (Jailbreakers, 1994) directed by William Friedkin is a good movie about very bad guys greasers. Jailbreakers is one of a series of films for television Rebel Highway. If you believe IMDB, then he is…
Rumble Fish (1983) is a stylish film adaptation…
I have one film that I personally could not understand - the Fighting Fish of 1983. From Francis Ford Coppola, the director of the Godfather, by the way. The synopsis says that this is 'a…
The Loveless, a biker movie starring Willem Dafoe
Let me introduce you to the movie Without Love (The Loveless) of 1981. The second role of Willem Dafoe, his first major, and at the same time the first film in which he is mentioned…
The Lords of Flatbush, about rebels and causes
The Lords Of Flatbush of 74 is the first film in which Sylvester Stallone had a role with words and, as stated by Sly in an interview in 2006, Richard Gere is still offended by…