Downtown 81 (1981) aka New York Beat Movie

Legendary painter, graffiti artist, poet and musician JeanMichel Basquiat (19601988) was only 19 years old when he played the lead in DOWNTOWN 81, a striking lost film that chronicles the explosive early 80s Manhattan art and music scene. Completed and theatrically released two decades later, it s the story of a charismatic artist who attempts to sell a painting amidst the rappers, junkies, strippers, models and artworld matriarchs of a preGiuliani Lower East Side. This vividly entertaining slice of