Ah, punk rock. Director Paul Rachman and screenwriter Steven Blush explore the history of punk rock from 1980-1986 in their documentary American Hardcore, which features interviews with a veritabe who's who of the hardcore scene. Cinematical's James Rocchi sat down with Rachman and Blush at the Toronto International Film Festival to talk about their film. You can download the full video here (76.6MB, 12 minutes) or watch it over on Netscape, where there's an interesting discussion of the film and punk rock going on. Dive on in, hardcore fans.

While most of Hollywood's big shots are likely up in Toronto for the film festival, producer Brian Grazer is reportedly hanging around NYC for Fashion Week. According to Radar, he was in Bryant Park on Sunday taking in the shows of Diane von Furstenberg and Naeem Khan, and sources say he wasn't there to merely check out the new collections. Grazer may also be doing some research for a new film about Vivienne Westwood, the designer who helped pioneer the punk look in the late '70s with then-husband Malcolm McLaren. At this time we can only speculate as to whether the project will be a biopic or a documentary -- Grazer recently spotlighted '70s decadence with the doc Inside Deep Throat -- or even if it has anything to do with the punk movement at all. But, considering Grazer's own hair could be compared to Sid Vicious', I can only hope that he's curious about how safety pins and torn clothes were given their fashionable beginning.

In the event the film is a dramatic telling of her younger days, I can imagine a few actresses in the role, including Toni Collette, Kim Gordon, and my personal choice, Cara Seymour. Then, Grazer could have Judi Dench or Maggie Smith as the older Westwood. I'd love to see either one of them take on the hair and wardrobe for the part.

[via Hollywood Wiretap]

I could not resist a feature film about conjoined twins who are pressed into forming a Seventies rock band. And when I agreed to see it, I didn't yet know that Brothers of the Head was directed by the guys who made Lost in La Mancha, Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe, and was adapted from a Brian Aldiss novel by Tony Grisoni, who co-scripted Tideland, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and the unfinished Don Quixote movie with Terry Gilliam. It sounded overall like my kind of movie, and I was not disappointed.

Brothers of the Head is a documentary-style narrative (the term "mockumentary" doesn't fit this movie) about Tom and Barry Howe, conjoined twins who were raised by a father and older sister on a remote coastal area of Britain. In their late teens, they are discovered by a music-industry impresario, who practically buys the boys from their father to front a rock band. He isolates them in a huge Oxfordshire mansion with other musicians and eventually they transform into sullen, angry, brutally attractive rockers. The impresario obviously had something genteel and clean-cut in mind, but the twins' music is edgy and raw, early punk rock.