Underground USA (1980)

The Sunset Blvd of underground cinema and a suitably ambivalent retrospect on the stargame casualties of New Yorks upper depths with Patti Astor statuesquely hysterical as a 20yearold Norma Desmond made up to recall Edie Sedgwick and surrounded by Warhols lost children Weve been here before but without the hindsight a camera cruise along a hustlers meatrack kitchentalk over cold canned spaghetti Taylor Mead grimacing in a spastic dance the silent stud a sullenly passive observer Mitchells ear for campy native wit and eye for figures in a loftscape happily keep at bay the otherwise contagious NY ennui