Underground U.S.A. 1980
4/10 by 5 users
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.
- Released: 1980-11-06
- Runtime: 85 minutes
- Genre: Drama
- Stars: Patti Astor, Rene Ricard, Tom Wright, Eric Mitchell, Jackie Curtis
- Director: Eric Mitchell, Eric Mitchell, Tom DiCillo, Walter Steding, Eric Mitchell
