Product Details

• Actors: Henry Rollins
• Directors: Paul J. Morra
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Ifc
• DVD Release Date: June 5, 2007
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000OCY7JY
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #25,828 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Henry Rollins: Uncut from NYC" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

(Television) A performance from Henry Rollins' Spoken Word Tour, featuring humorous, commentary on politics, pop culture and his favorite exploits from 25 years on the road.

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars More from Henry's Never Ending Stream of Contentiousness, September 15, 2007

By	Dave Id (Flagstaff, Arizona) - See all my reviews

Once again, Henry Rollins doesn't just get in your face, but he's all over it. His never ending stream of contentiousness is captured for an evening once again for his 2006 DVD. HenRoll's got some great stories that I could listen to him tell over and over, just like you would for a good buddy recanting the war stories from the good old days.

A lot of these spoken word/talking shows seem interchangeable to me, where if you like one, you'll like the next -- and I do like them. Not as many bonus features as "Up for It" had; but ironically, there was a featurette of cut clips from the Uncut performance... wha? Oh well, stuff like that just happens sometimes.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Uncut laughter, July 18, 2007

By	Jens Kaae Kapper "Jens Kapper" (Denmark) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This show is one of Henry's best so far. With the same gripping intensity and humor as "shock and awe" he delivers one sharp-edged obeservation after the other. With fire and intensity he has created a show worth remembering.

4.0 out of 5 stars Not his best material, but worth watching again and again, October 11, 2009

By	Timothy Freeman (Utica, NY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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If angry, nihilistic punk rock grew up and broke out of its anti-social niche of non-conformity and joined the trendy attire wearing, coffee klatch gossiping, restaurant hopping, Whole Foods shopping, globe trotting, book inhaling world of current 'It-ness,' we would get something that looks and sounds a lot like the post-Black Flag/Rollins Band Henry Rollins. Ever the contrarian, Henry 2.0 channels his rage and indignation into spoken-word keen observations about every type of conceivable pet-peevish thing that irks the hell out of him. Henry admits that he is an angry man but says his urge to rip apart every stupid thing he hates with colorful words and sentences also motivates him to keep living, travelling, reading, learning, seeing, smelling, eating, tasting and breathing. In "Uncut from NYC" Rollins takes us on a tour of the Trans Siberian Railway, he delineates and laments the humanoid creatures popping up across the land which he calls Wal-Martians, and he fires hard-edged insults at the republicans and the Bush administration. Henry delivers his insights unfiltered, they are as raw and free as the thoughts in his head, and this is what makes his spoken word performances so funny and entertaining to watch. We all have ideas and images in our head that are blunt, immature, or vague, but decorum requires that we dress them up, make them less obvious, and inflate or trim them before we let our mouths utter them. But a good stand-up comic will fire away in a stream of consciousness style and let all the grotesque and obvious things that we all think on a daily basis fly out of her and fill up the air with reasuring reason. Rollins' smart and unabashed quick-wittedness makes him very adept at this, and he brings his experience as a punk rock musician to the stage in the form of his huffing and puffing body language (I swear, at least once while watching this I thought HenRollins was going to hyperventilate and pass out). Henry Rollins says what we all know we know but are too afraid to say for fear of looking like a simpleton, and if you disagree with him it is only because the truth hurts.

"Henry Rollins: Uncut from NYC" does not contain the comic's best material, but he still delivers his commentaries in the usual Rollins-esque style of entertainingly angst-fueled, exasperated-at-all-the-weak-minded-stupidity-of-the-world-ness. Buy it today or get it as a gift for that open-mindedly angry person in your life.