Special event

The Clash Day: Rude Boy

Wednesday, February 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM

Celebrate International Clash Day with the part-fiction part-documentary RUDE BOY, screening one night only on February 5th at Pop's Art Theater!

Tickets coming soon at www.popsarttheater.com
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEM5N8RgfNE
Jack Hazan and David Mingay’s Rude Boy follows on the heels of Metrograph favorite A Bigger Splash, their intimate observation of painter David Hockney’s artistic and personal struggles. Once again merging documentary and fiction, Rude Boy follows roughneck Ray Gange as he drops his Soho sex-shop job to roadie for The Clash—the most fiery, revolutionary rock ’n’ roll band of the era, seen in this film at the dizzying peak of their powers. Ray, a difficult, sometimes reactionary subject and a foil to the band’s idealism, plays observer to The Clash’s legendary 1978 Rock Against Racism concert in London’s Victoria Park and their studio recording of Give ’Em Enough Rope. Set against a background of riots, racist and anti-racist demos, and police hostility towards Black British youth, this unforgettable, absorbing film portraits a UK on the brink of Thatcherism, and a moment when subcultural shock troops met those of a rising right wing in the streets.

1980 | 133 min. | R | UK
Dir. Raoul Peck