Blank City (2010) on Netflix
NR20101h 34mDocumentary
In the late 1970s, downtown Manhattan is infested with rats, crippled by crime and cheap. Drawing on the punk and new wave around them, young filmmakers turn their cameras on their city.
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In the years before Ronald Reagan takes office, downtown Manhattan is infested with rats, crippled by crime, cheap and nasty, and it is where America leaves its immigrants, its poor people and its artists. A documentary returns to that place and time, when filmmaking grew alongside music, art and fashion, fed by drugs, dares, fads and feuds. Young directors working in a do-it-yourself spirit borrow the energy of punk rock and new wave, and what they put on screen is a harsh reality, standing against the escape Hollywood offers. The filmmakers make some of their best work in those dire circumstances.
