No Picnic (1986)
1h 26m
Running Time
January 17, 1986Release Date
Plot.
A cinematic love letter to a pre-gentrification New York City
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
Clare Bauman
The Fan
David Brisbin
Mac
Steve Buscemi
Dead Pimp
Luis Guzmán
Arroyo
Philip Hartman
Director
Richard Hell
Irate Tenant
Doris Kornish
Producer
David Murray Jaffe
Big Pig Manager
Details.
Release DateJanuary 17, 1986
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 26m
Filming LocationsNew York City, United States of America
Genres
Wiki.
No Picnic is a film written and directed by Philip Hartman. It was filmed in black and white at New York in 1985 and was released the next year, in the Sundance Film Festival, where it won Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic. Described as "a cinematic love letter to a pre-gentrified New York", the film captures the East Village of the 1980s. Providing the soundtrack are such performers as "The Raunch Hands", Lenny Kaye, Charles Mingus, Fela Kuti, Richard Hell and "Student Teachers". It stars Richard Hell, Judith Malina, Luis Guzmán and Steve Buscemi.