New in Theaters:
Blank City
“It was like our lives were movies,” says one of the filmmakers profiled by Danhier early in the documentary, and it’s easy to see why. As the director stitches together grainy black-and-white footage of New York from the late 1970s, she slips in blips from the work of avant-punk filmmakers like Amos Poe and Eric Mitchell and sets it all to a pulsating metallic and arrhythmic soundtrack. The sensation is one of danger, bleak beauty, and possibility—anarchic freedom amidst the rubble…
Blank City is playing now in limited release. You can read the full review at Film Journal International.
