The Way It Was
Among the canonical pictures of my youth were the New York No Wave films of the 1980s, with my favorite being Eric Mitchell’s Underground U.S.A., a sardonic reworking of Sunset Blvd. starring gallerist Patti Astor. I saw it first on a New York public television station, then programmed it at my campus film club. As for Mitchell, I spot him around from time to time, usually at Anthology Film Archives, where I bumped into him last spring at a screening of another No Wave classic, Michael Oblowitz’s King Blank. He told me that he was in the process of restoring […]
by Eric Mitchell on Dec 22, 2025
