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Downtown '81 (2001)
Directed by Edo Bertoglio
Overview
The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets carrying a painting he hopes to sell, encountering friends, whose lives (and performances) we peek into.
Length 72 minutes
Actors
Jean-Michel Basquiat | Saul Williams | Anna Shroeder | Debbie Harry | Giorgio Giomelsky | Coati Mundi | Debi Mazar | George Quinones | Walter Steding | Steven Brown | Eszter Balint | Kid Creole | Fab 5 Freddy | Arto Lindsay | John Lurie | Michael Holman | Ted Bafaloukos | Elliott Murphy | Amos Poe | 'Lee' George Quinones | Chris Stein | Kool Kyle | Cookie Mueller | Richard Weigand | Bradley Field