X-Ray Spex inspired generations of future Riot Grrrls and Afro punks, but they might otherwise be largely forgotten if it weren’t for “Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché,” a new documentary co ...

While Bell and Sng are clearly thrilled with the reception, it’s the fact that the film has been able to introduce Poly Styrene’s world—in all its weird, wonderful, viscerally thrilling ...

Ruth Negga narrates the film along with Bell, with an uncanny rendition of Poly Styrene’s speaking voice. Born Marianne Elliot-Said, the groundbreaking musician grew up in London’s tough ...

A new documentary explores her impact. By Jenn Pelly Poly Styrene beams out from the screen, smile wide, braces cemented across her teeth. In most images of first-wave punk musicians, their eyes ...

Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché' documentary explores the life of late X-Ray Spex frontwoman Poly Styrene, with her daughter co-directing and narrating. By Joe Lynch Executive Digital Director For a ...

Ahem, Neil and Joni. Poly Styrene’s voice — a siren of joy and alarm — reaches into the millennium with a lesson for us all in the documentary Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché. This bio-doc ...

Celeste Bell, the daughter of X-Ray Spex singer Poly Styrene, opens her documentary “Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliche” with a simple question: Was her punk rock icon mother a good parent?

But as Bell adds: “Poly Styrene had to die so that Marianne Elliott could survive.” How she got to that point, and the various rebirths that followed, is all unpacked in the film, narrated by ...

“My mother was a punk rock icon,” Celeste Bell intones offscreen as her mum watches herself on a wall of televisions in the first few seconds of her unique and affecting new documentary, Poly ...

A new documentary surrounding the life of X-Ray Spex’s Poly Styrene has been announced. Titled Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché, director Paul Sng has set up an IndieGoGo campaign for the film ...

Currently crowdfunding on IndieGoGo is Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché, a documentary about one of punk’s most powerful, important players. As a mixed race woman, hers is a story often erased from ...

New documentary Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché looks and the life of the late singer of iconic UK punk band X-Ray Spex. Here’s the synopsis: Poly Styrene was the first woman of colour in the UK to ...