LES Heritage Film Series: the Eighties, Pt. 2
Date and Time
June 19, 2012
Location
Event Details
Showing films the third Tuesday of every month. This FREE series will offer feature-length films shot on location in lower Manhattan on 16mm, VHS, and DVD formats.
2nd part in the series:
Permanent Vacation
(1980, 75 min., 16mm)
(1980, 75 min., 16mm)
Jim Jarmusch direct his first feature: 16-year-old Aloysious Christopher Parker searches for meaning as he wanders a Lower East Side landscape of blind alleys, rubble-filled lots, and abandoned buildings. Along the way he meets his schizophrenic mother, a possibly psychotic war veteran, an hysterical Spanish-speaking Ophelia, and a junkie who recounts the sad life of Charlie Parker.
Starring Chris Parker, Leila Gastil and John Lurie. With music by John Lurie.
Starring Chris Parker, Leila Gastil and John Lurie. With music by John Lurie.