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Monday, 6 January 2025
DOWNTOWN 81
In 1981, writer Glenn O’Brien, Swiss photographer Edo Bertoglio, and Jean-Michel Basquiat hit the streets of lower Manhattan to make a movie about the bombed out bohemia that they knew. Left incomplete due to money problems and assembled for release in 2000, Downtown 81 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.
