Alphabet City
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Director: Amos Poe
1985 / 84min / 35mm
A squalid slab of vintage ’80s Downtown grottiness, Poe’s features a leather-jacketed, Pontiac Firebird-driving Vincent Spano as a heroin dealer who decides to turn his back on the dope game when his gangster overlords command him to burn down the tenement building where his mother and sister live—but soon discovers his bosses aren’t going to let him walk away without a fight. Shot by DP Oliver Wood in the scuzzy-glamorous style he would later perfect on Miami Vice, with a score courtesy Chic’s Nile Rodgers, Alphabet City is a seedy snapshot of Avenue A looking worse—and better—than it ever did.
Introduction and Q&A from director Amos Poe on Saturday, July 29th and Thursday, August 10th
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