Underground U.S.A.
1980 · ★ 4.5 · Dir. Eric Mitchell
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 min
- Language
- EN
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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
