A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

As many of you might already know, Major Conflict guitarist and sometime vocalist Dito Montiel (not to mention the other labels which fit into his CV: early 80's NYHC personality, Gutterboy founding member, Allen Ginsberg protoge, and Calvin Klein model) published a semi-autobiographical book by the name of A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints a few years ago about the people in his early/mid '80s Astoria neighborhood that affected his life. This book wound being pretty successful and the past few years he's been working on turning into a movie.

Well, the result of that labor is about to be unreleased to the public, that is, if you missed the screening at the Sundance Film festival, where Dito walked away with a pretty respectable prize. As Jim Testa and Bill Wilson have already indicated, A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints comes out Friday, September 29th in Los Angeles and New York City. Where, exactly? From Dito himself:


THIS FRIDAY the movie opens in Los Angeles & New York at these locations: In Manhattan it's at the ANGELIKA on HOUSTON & MERCER, LINCOLN SQUARE 12 at BROADWAY & 68th street & EMPIRE 25 at 42nd street & 8th avenue.
In Los Angeles it's at the SUNSET 5 in West Hollywood (323-848-3500), Laemmle's Monica in Santa Monica (310-394-9741) & in West LA Landmark Pavillion Cinemas (310-281-8223)

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I have to admit, I have yet to read the book, but it's definitely on the agenda. I will say, though, that I am more interested in seeing this movie than the recent American Hardcore documentary. Even though the '80's hardcore scene is NOT the manifest topic of Dito's movie, I have a feeling some of the spirit of NYHC will be a little better represented than in the aforementioned documentary...

Now Wendy Eager of Guillotine fame just needs to publish her book!