New on Blu-ray: DOWNTOWN 81 (2000) Starring Jean Michel Basquiat

Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Resolution: 1080p
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Region: Region A/1

Product Description: In 1981, writer and Warhol associate Glenn O’Brien, Swiss photographer Edo Bertoglio, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, a graffiti innovator and noise music artist who’d just begun to exhibit his paintings, hit the streets of lower Manhattan to make a movie about the bombed out bohemia that they knew, with a script by O’Brien, Bertoglio directing, and Basquiat, a naturally compelling presence, starring. 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 lost world of life on the margins and crazy creative ferment. Featuring John Lurie, Fab Five Freddy, and Debbie Harry, with musical performances by DNA, James White and the Blacks, and Kid Creole and the Coconuts—and Manhattan in all its mangy glory.

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Director: Edo Bertoglio

Starring: Jean Michel Basquiat, John Lurie, Richard Weigand

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical

Runtime: 72 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: English

Studio: Kino Lorber

Home Video Release Date: March 24, 2020