• Nov 06, 1980
  • 85 min
  • Full-HD

Underground U.S.A. (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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New Line Cinema

Patti Astor

Vickie

Rene Ricard

Kenneth

Tom Wright

Frank

Eric Mitchell

Victor

Jackie Curtis

The Room-mate

Cookie Mueller

The Barmaid

Taylor Mead

The Uncle

John Lurie

Jack Smith

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