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.
Credits
Underground U.S.A. Cast
| Name |
Character |
|
John Lurie
He was 27, now 71 years old
|
as Jack Smith |
|
Tom Wright
He was 27, 49 years old when he died
|
as Frank |
|
Jackie Curtis
She was 33, 38 years old when she died
|
as The Room-mate |
|
Cookie Mueller
She was 31, 40 years old when she died
|
as The Barmaid |
|
Patti Astor
She was 30, now 74 years old
|
as Vickie |
|
Taylor Mead
He was 55, 88 years old when he died
|
as The Uncle |
Underground U.S.A. Crew
| Name |
Department |
|
Tom DiCillo as Cinematography. He was 27 (now 70) years old
|
Crew |
