Metrograph: Alphabet City Heading Back to the Big Screen
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Posted July 25, 2023 10:29 PM by Webmaster
Metrograph will be screening Amos Poe's Alphabet City (1984) in 35mm on July 28, 29, and 31. The July 29 screening will feature an introduction by director Poe as well as a Q&A session. Metrograph is located at 7 Ludlow Street in New York City.
In 2020, Fun City Editions released Alphabet City on Blu-ray. You can see our listing and review of the Blu-ray here.
Official description: A squalid slab of vintage '80s Downtown grottiness, Poe's features a leather-jacketed, Pontiac Firebird-driving Vincent Spano as a heroin dealer who decides to turn his back on the dope game when his gangster overlords command him to burn down the tenement building where his mother and sister live—but soon discovers his bosses aren't going to let him walk away without a fight. Shot by DP Oliver Wood in the scuzzy-glamorous style he would later perfect on Miami Vice, with a score courtesy Chic's Nile Rodgers, Alphabet City is a seedy snapshot of Avenue A looking worse—and better—than it ever did.
In 2020, Fun City Editions released Alphabet City on Blu-ray. You can see our listing and review of the Blu-ray here.
Official description: A squalid slab of vintage '80s Downtown grottiness, Poe's features a leather-jacketed, Pontiac Firebird-driving Vincent Spano as a heroin dealer who decides to turn his back on the dope game when his gangster overlords command him to burn down the tenement building where his mother and sister live—but soon discovers his bosses aren't going to let him walk away without a fight. Shot by DP Oliver Wood in the scuzzy-glamorous style he would later perfect on Miami Vice, with a score courtesy Chic's Nile Rodgers, Alphabet City is a seedy snapshot of Avenue A looking worse—and better—than it ever did.
