Underground U.S.A. (1980) — drama film. Directed by Eric Mitchell. Starring Patti Astor, Rene Ricard, Tom Wright, Eric Mitchell.
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A meta-cinematic exploration of No Wave production, stylistic influences, and cult legacy.
Drama · 4.8/10 · 85 min · 1980
The Sunset Blvd. of underground cinema, and a suitably ambivalent retrospect on the star-game casualties of New York's upper depths, with Patti Astor statuesquely hysterical as a 20-year-old Norma Desmond, made up to recall Edie Sedgwick and surrounded by Warhol's lost children. We've been here before, but without the hindsight: a camera cruise along a hustler's meat-rack, kitchen-talk over cold canned spaghetti, Taylor Mead grimacing in a spastic dance, the silent stud a sullenly passive observer. Mitchell's ear for campy native wit and eye for figures in a loft-scape happily keep at bay the otherwise contagious NY ennui.
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