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Mar 14, 2001 · Downtown 81: Directed by Edo Bertoglio. With Jean Michel Basquiat, Richard Weigand, Cyndy Schneidau, Millie Schneidau. After being released from the hospital, the artist Jean Michel Basquiat wanders around Manhattan trying to sell art to make money and find a place to stay.
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- Comedy, Drama, Music
- Edo Bertoglio
- 2001-03-14
It is a rare real-life snapshot of an ultra-hip subculture of post-punk era Manhattan. Starring renowned artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and featuring such East Village artists as James Chance, Amos Poe, Walter Steding, Tav Falco and Elliott Murphy, the film is a bizarre elliptical urban fairy tale.
The ambling, freewheeling Downtown 81 follows Jean through the city's still-untamed streets, incidentally picking up the incredible diversity of cultural activity then happening...
The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets carrying a painting he hopes to sell, encountering friends, whose lives (and performances) we peek into.
Oct 4, 2019 · Left incomplete due to money problems and assembled for release in 2000, Downtown 81, which follows Basquiat trying to move a painting while hustling for a place to sleep, became a window on a...
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- 165.8K
- Metrograph
Jul 13, 2001 · "Downtown 81" is a feature film starring the legendary American artist Jean Michel Basquiat (1960-1988.) Basquiat was a 19 year old painter, graffiti artist, poet and musician when he...
- Drama
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Dec 5, 2019 · A fairy tale with color and music is one way to categorize director Edo Bertoglio’s and writer Glenn O’Brien’s New York New Wave time capsule “Downtown 81,” starring the late, great Jean-Michel...
