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New York…The Way It Was…When It Was
Legendary painter, graffiti artist, poet and musician Jean- Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) was only 19 years old when he played the lead in Downtown 81, a striking "lost" film that chronicles the explosive early - '80s Manhattan art and music scene.Completed and theatrically released two decades later, it's the story of a charismatic artist who attempts to sell a painting amidst the rappers, junkies, strippers, models and art-world matriarches of a pre-Giuliani Lower East Side.This vividly entertaining slice of life is also a fabulous showcase for the music of Kid Creole and the Coconuts, Tuxedomoon, The Plastics, DNA, The Lounge Lizards, and Basquiat's own band, Gray.
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