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Underground U.S.A. is a 1980 feature-length underground film directed by Eric Mitchell and starring Patti Astor, Rene Ricard, Jackie Curtis, Cookie Mueller, Tom Wright, John Lurie, and Taylor Mead. Future director Jim Jarmusch was the sound recordist on this film.
Underground U.S.A.: Directed by Eric Mitchell. With Patti Astor, Rene Ricard, Tom Wright, Eric Mitchell. An older woman (Astor) looks for love with younger men in a take-off of Sunset Boulevard.
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- Drama
- Eric Mitchell
- 1980-05
Directed by Eric Mitchell. The end of a superstar. 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.
- Eric Mitchell
- New Line Cinema
Overview. 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.
May 19, 2014 · 6.5K views 9 years ago. Rene Ricard as Kenneth, Patti Astor as Vicky and Eric Mitchell as Victor in UNDERGROUND USA 1980, 16mm, written and directed by Eric Mitchell. Cinematography by Tom di...
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Nov 2, 2018 · Underground U.S.A. is well acted and handsomely shot, but never redeems the comic potential of its first twenty minutes, inexorably going vague over the punk-underground art-world milieu that it sets out to lampoon.
Tom Wright Cast. Tom DiCillo Cinematography. Walter Steding Music. Jim White Music. J.P. Roland-Levy Editing. Critics reviews. The “underground” of the title refers not to crime but to the half-hidden world of two-bit hustlers, “artistic” poseurs, aberrant lifestyles and shattered dreams.
