Downtown 81 (1981)
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Downtown 81 (1981)
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DVD Details
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 24, 2020
- Originally Released: 2020
- Label: Metrograph Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Featured: | Jean-Michel Basquiat | |
Directed by | Edo Bertoglio | |
Music by | Melle Mel, Vincent Gallo, John Lurie, Lydia Lunch & Kenny Burrell | |
Screenwriting by | Glenn O'Brien | |
Executive Production by | Michael Zilkha |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3.5/5 --
An intermittently electric movie that plays like a hybrid concert documentary, genre parody and art film fairy tale.
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Dare Daniel
Rating: 3/4 --
This time capsule of bohemian New York distorts its representation of the city for reasons more loving than lazy.
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Slant Magazine
Its bygone-ness still abuzz with creativity and movement, "Downtown 81" is a celluloid scrapbook that we can all be thankful for in helping capture the rumble before takeoff.
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Los Angeles Times
Rating: 3/5 --
Although Basquiat is effortlessly charismatic, he isn't given much to do; the film leans heavily on narration, much of which crosses the line separating poetic from pretentious.
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The Dissolve
A crudely poetic inventory of the people and places about to rock pop culture.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Rating: C+ --
A fascinating if fragmented, dreamlike look at the downtown art-music-fashion scene of a yeasty, creative era.
Dallas Morning News
Viewers of 'Downtown 81' become de facto archaeologists. We peer into long-since-shuttered clubs, and gaze at rubble-filled lower Manhattan blocks where a Whole Foods or Capital One bank may now stand.
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4Columns
Product Description:
This film is just as much a tribute to New York's Lower East Side in the 1980s--a grimy, crazy, bohemian "paradise" where drug-peddling street junkies, super models, post-punk rockers, and hustlers in stretch limousines all stand on equal ground--as it is about the artist Jean Michel Basquiat. The film follows 19-year-old Basquiat during a 24-hour period as he wanders the streets aimlessly. Reciting poetry in voice over, Basquait sprays graffiti art on alleyway walls, flirts with beautiful women he sees on the street, charms a rich collector into buying one of his paintings for $500, smokes joints, and drifts from club to club all night long. In fact, the second half of the film takes place almost entirely in smokey clubs, and unrolls like a rock video capturing some excellent, unmistakably '80s, rock performances. Debbie Harry of Blondie, and bands DNA, Tuxedo Moon, and the Plastics all make appearances. Basquiat died in 1991 at age 29. The film was shot 10 years prior, in 1981, under the title "New York Beat," but the production was left unfinished until 2000, when its title was changed to DOWNTOWN 81. In 2001, it received a theatrical release in New York City.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 74,297
- UPC: 738329244521
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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