In the late 1970s, New York was a mess. Garbage was piling up, rats were everywhere — in other words, it was the perfect time to make art in cheap lofts and create disruptive social movements like no-wave cinema and punk rock. This was the backdrop against which Lizzie Borden set her micro-budget dystopian feminist movie “ Born in Flames ,” which was released in 1983 after five years of scrappy guerrilla production on the streets of Manhattan.

For those who might not have caught “Born in Flames” at a retrospective screening — or for those who saw it back in the ’80s and don’t remember how far ahead of its time it was — the Criterion Collection is releasing the restored film on Blu-Ray Tuesday with a commentary track from the director and cast members, an interview with Borden and as h

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