We’re thrilled to announce that Bad Attitude has been selected for the Mill Valley Film Festival this October 7-17, 2021. Bad Attitude will stream throughout the festival and have one in-person screening.

BAD ATTITUDE: THE ART OF SPAIN RODRIGUEZ

MIND THE GAP / ¡VIVA EL CINE! / LAUGH / DOCS

US 2021, 71 min Director Susan Stern

Described by R. Crumb as a “working-class Latino crossed with left-wing radical crossed with crazy artist,” Zap Comix mainstay Spain Rodriguez was among those who revolutionized a hitherto disrespected, even demonized art form in the underground comics wave of the late 1960s. Their work was transgressive, provocative, sometimes offensive—and in real life, this swaggering Buffalo, NY, biker-gang member turned San Francisco counterculture celebrity didn’t fall so far from the outrageous page. Though famed for the Trashman comix and other cult faves, his beautifully rendered illustrations also encompassed everything from Sherlock Holmes stories to a Che Guevara biography. In this fond yet questioning documentary, Rodriguez’s filmmaker widow Susan Stern interviews ex-girlfriends, colleagues, and buddies to measure a life lived large, as well as an artistic legacy that remains dazzling if often wildly at odds with today’s cultural norms. –Dennis Harvey

THURSDAY, OCT. 14
We will be joined in person by director Susan Stern and associate producer Victoria B. Fender for an onstage conversation.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16
We will be joined in person by associate producer Victoria B. Fender and composer B. Quincy Griffin for an onstage conversation.