Underground U.S.A.
Underground U.S.A.
85 minutes
1980
HD
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.
Genres Drama
Stars Patti Astor, Rene Ricard, Tom Wright, Eric Mitchell, Jackie Curtis
Directors Eric Mitchell, Tom DiCillo, Eric Mitchell, Eric Mitchell, Walter Steding
Underground U.S.A.