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October 1980 (USA)
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Nada, a beautiful French journalist on assignment in New York, records the life and work of an up and coming punk rock star...
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more like "Bland Generation," but...
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(Credited cast) | Carole Bouquet | ... | Nada |
| Richard Hell | ... | Billy |
| Ulli Lommel | ... | Hoffritz |
| Suzanna Love | ... | Lizzy |
| Howard Grant | ... | Jack |
| Ben Weiner | ... | Kellerman |
| Andy Warhol | ... | Himself |
| Robert Madero | ... | Harry (as Bob Madero) |
| Bill Milling | ... | Jonathan Marlowe |
| David Pinnock | ... | Bobby Butler |
| Frank J. Butler | ... | Bobby's Father (as J. Frank Butler) |
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| Ivan Julian | ... | Member of The Voidoids |
| Robert Quine | ... | Member of The Voidoids |
| Marky Ramone | ... | Himself (as Mark Bell) |
| Walter Steading | ... | Violin player |
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Director Ulli Lommel 's first film in USA and also the first of his films produced by Andy Warhol.
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Featured in Fassbinder in Hollywood (2002)
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..."Blank Generation" is at least worth a look if you enjoy Richard Hell's music. I love his stuff, personally, so the few live performances in the film are definite highlights. Other than that, it's a pretty boring love/hate story between Hell and French ex-Bond Girl Carole Bouquet (sp? oh well...).
Hell is no actor, and neither is anyone else in the movie. In fact, all the acting flat out sucks. One scene which actually shows a little promise is the one between Billy (Hell) and Nada (Bouquet) as they drive along in his car trying to decide what to do on a dreary New York Friday afternoon. After Billy changes his mind three or four times, Nada freaks out and throws him out of the car. That's about it. Even that scene is more comic than anything -- so if that was the intention, great, but if the director was trying to coax some drama out of the script there, well, he failed. Even Hell is almost cracking a smile during the scene.
Still... the live performances ("Liars Beware," "Blank Generation" and "Love Comes in Spurts") are hot stuff. Too bad there are only three live numbers in "Blank Generation", and a little snippet of Hell "recording" "New Pleasures" is sort of goofy, but cool. So unless you're a big Hell fan, or want to see the barely five minute long Andy Warhol interview sequence, skip it.