Underground U.S.A.

Underground U.S.A. (1980)

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. 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.

Date of release
1980-11-06
TMDB
4.8 / 10 (6)
Runtime
1h 25m
Genres
Drama
Director
Eric Mitchell

Casting

Interesting facts

Underground U.S.A. is a 1980 American No Wave underground film directed by Eric Mitchell starring Patti Astor, Rene Ricard, Jackie Curtis, Cookie Mueller, Steve Mass, Tom Wright, Ronnie Cutrone, John Lurie, David Armstrong, and Taylor Mead. Tom DiCillo was the director of photography. Set design was by sculptor Jedd Garet. Future director Jim Jarmusch was the sound recordist. The film, made for $25,000 with the assistance of Colab's No wave cinema project, was shot in the Mudd Club and Lower East Side apartment interiors. Underground U.S.A. was Eric Mitchell's third no wave film and the first to be shot in 16 mm film.

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