Exhibit A is the New York Noise: Tales From the No Wave series at Northwest Film Forum. Three examples of the "No Wave" underground filmmaking movement, plus the Seattle premiere of the documentary "Blank City".
I just got back from seeing Amos Poe's "Unmade Beds" ~ a story set in Paris but shot quite obviously in New York City. The film starts with a woman reading a synopsis of the film in french. Even with this loose "narrative" it's hard to follow the plot, which is sort of about a photographer and sometime gangster but mostly about smoking as many cigarettes as humanly possible. Debbie Harry has an all too brief cameo at the beginning, the acting is wooden, and the sound mixing is frightful...and the whole damned thing is gorgeous.
I'd like to see "Blank City", but if time only allows for one more film this week, it'll have to be "Downtown 81", featuring Jean-Michel Basquiat (and Debbie Harry again). And Fab Five Freddie! I've been fascinated by Jean-Michel Basquiat ever since I read an article about him in Vanity Fair (don't judge!) in 1987, a year before he died. I can't miss the opportunity to see him on the screen, even if he's just guiding the viewer through Manhattan in an endless stream of randomness.
"Unmade Beds" has 2 screenings tomorrow 8/16, "Downtown 81" plays 8/17-8/18, and "Blank City" is playing in the big theater through 8/18.
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| can you believe this is Steve Buscemi? ME EITHER. | (from Blank City) |
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