I still love the unreleased stuff. YouTube has made this all the more accessible. Instead of sending $25 in the mail for a 6 hour VHS or plunking down $50 at a record show for a "Smile" bootleg like in the naughties. It's mostly there. I guess I'll wait forever for the "Day the Clown Cried" though.
One movie I really wanted to see was "Born To Lose: The Last Rock And Roll Movie" by Lech Kowalski. His "DOA" is the punk rock movie in my opinion. Very easily streamed on Amazon Prime these days. I've waited for an official release since I bought the "Stations of The Cross" Johnny Thunders Cassette on ROIR in the 80's. Johnny became an obsession of mine during the Bam Bam Club years when I bought those ROIR cassettes, heard LAMF, and read the Nina Antoine book. I rooted for Johnny to get it together like Frankie in "The Man With The Golden Arm". You'd hear those flashes of brilliance on his many bootlegs. He wasn't together enough to cash in on Glam Metal. All those bands ripped the Dolls minus the Ballz. David Jo wisely became Buster Poindexter and avoided the whole mess.
While it's been on YouTube awhile, I found a cut on DVD at the local thrift shop. It was put out by Shocking Video who apparently no longer exist. No one wants to physically release questionable legal items anymore I guess. Kowalski himself will admit, he never did quite get it right. There are currently 5 different cuts out there on YouTube. I prefer the shorter 1 hour and 40-minute deal on this DVD. It starts with a tremendous montage featuring a live performance of Jayne County. There's a bunch of the footage that he put out as "Hey Hey is DEE DEE Home" and the "Stations of the Cross" stuff. The Dolls period is well chronicled but now redundant since "All Dolled Up" was released on DVD.
Danny Garcia's "Looking For Johnny" also make an official release redundant (again on Prime). The various cuts of "Born To Lose" present the disgusting side of the man and his addiction. The rollercoaster ride of his music. It magnifies what Ian Hunter sang all those years ago. "Rock and Roll's a loser's game. It mesmerizes and i can't explain. The reasons for the sights or the sounds."