An audience full of black leather jackets at a Sundance screening is nothing new. But when you cover those jackets with chains, metal studs and Dead Kennedys patches, and top off the look with an old-school mohawk haircut (not the "faux-hawks" favored by posers), you have an audience like Sundance hasn't seen before.

    The Salt Lake City screening Saturday night of "American Hardcore," a documentary about the history of the American hardcore punk scene of the early '80s, brought out old punk rockers with their children, young punks wanting to learn about the past and old Salt Lake City scenesters like Brad Collins, former owner of Raunch Records.

    In the post-screening Q&A session, director Paul Rachman and writer Steven Blush said how important it was for them to show their movie in Salt Lake City, where part of the scene dissected in the film thrived back in the day.

    "I always liked this town," Blush said, recalling a trip to Utah with a band called No Trend. "I knew it had a real serious subculture going. That's why it was important to show the film here (in Salt Lake City) and not just to those [expletive] up the hill [in Park City]."

    During a lull in the questions from the audience, Blush came up with one of the best filmmaker comments I've heard in a while.

    "We're under contractual obligation to do this, so you have to ask questions or we're going to go out drinking," Blush said.