Blank City (2011)
1h 34m
Running Time
April 6, 2011Release Date
Blank City (2011)
1h 34m
Running Time
April 6, 2011Release Date
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Plot.
In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come from comfort, and it was precisely those dire circumstances that inspired artists like Jim Jarmusch, Lizzy Borden, and Amos Poe to produce some of their best works. Taking their cues from punk rock and new wave music, these young maverick filmmakers confronted viewers with a stark reality that stood in powerful contrast to the escapist product being churned out by Hollywood.
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Cast & Crew.
Amos Poe
Actor
Ann Magnuson
Actress
Becky Johnston
Actress
Beth B
Actress
Bette Gordon
Actress
Casandra Stark
Actress
Charlie Ahearn
Actor
Daze
Actor
Debbie Harry
Self
Fab 5 Freddy
Self
Eric Mitchell
Actor
Glenn O'Brien
Self
Celine Danhier
Director
James Chance
Self
Vanessa Roworth
Producer
Aviva Wishnow
Producer
James Nares
Self
Jim Jarmusch
Self
Ryo Murakami
Cinematographer
J.G. Thirlwell
Self
Peter Szollosi
Cinematographer
John Lurie
Self
John Waters
Self
Kembra Pfahler
Self
Lizzie Borden
Self
Lung Leg
Self
Lydia Lunch
Self
Manuel DeLanda
Self
Maripol
Self
Michael McClard
Self
Michael Oblowitz
Self
Nick Zedd
Self
Pat Place
Self
Patti Astor
Self
Richard Kern
Self
Sara Driver
Self
Scott B
Self
Steve Buscemi
Self
Susan Seidelman
Self
Tessa Hughes-Freeland
Self
Thurston Moore
Self
Tommy Turner
Self
Vivienne Dick
Self
Holly Adams
Nymph
Vincent Gallo
Self (archive footage)
David Rutsala
Self
Jack Sargeant
Self
Annette Chaisson
Makeup Artist
Eve-Laure Wrembel
Makeup Artist
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Blank City is a 2010 documentary directed by Celine Danhier about the punk rock scene in the late 1970s in the center of New York City, where an independent film wave Do it yourself known as the No Wave Cinema movement lived. The director, Danhier, commented in an interview: "If you google "No Wave Filmmakers" you don't get a lot of results. In Wikipedia it has only a couple of paragraphs. It's crazy, because it was the beginning of the independent film movement. Those filmmakers were geniuses and created some of the boldest movies of their generation, so I had to do something about it and show those tapes."