Big Screen Classics
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE FABULOUS STAINS
Directed by Lou Adler
USA, 1982, 1h 27min, DCP
AFS Cinema
6406 N I-35 Suite 3100 Austin, TX, 78752
Showtimes
Thu, Aug 14
Pricing
$13.50 evening / $11 matinee (available M-F for shows before 6 PM)
$4 discounts for AFS MAKE & WATCH members. Free for LOVE & Impact Circle members.
Discounts for AISD educators and local high school & college students are available at the box office with a valid school ID.
“We watched LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE FABULOUS STAINS and we were like, ‘We want to be that.”
—Kathleen Hanna
“The wonder of LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE FABULOUS STAINS is not its putative prescience. Rather, it’s the brilliant, endlessly quotable writing; the performances (Lane in particular turns in a masterful portrait of articulate teen-girl anger); and the way it manages to cast perfectly so many tropes of the time.”
—The Austin Chronicle
“The crown jewel in the girl punk film canon, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE FABULOUS STAINS defined what ‘not putting out’ meant to a generation of disaffected youth.”
—TIFF
Diane Lane, Laura Dern, and Marin Kanter transform from misfits to punk icons, battling a cynical music industry and rival bands — including The Looters, led by Ray Winstone. With members of The Clash and The Sex Pistols, this cult classic, once lost to late-night cable, remains a rebellious anthem.
