downtown 81 trailer

[Aujanel]

LOL to the person that said he's kid cudi, i thought they looked alike too

[WakingParadise97]

should be in the criterion collection. who agrees?

[hoopalicious420]

art is those fun wall decorations my mom puts up in the front hall

[GoomBayeTV]

dats kid cudi

[onlyeyesabove]

@GoomBayeTV 20 years from now no one will know who kid cudi is, basquiat wont be forgotten as long as there is history

[nora8brian]

SAMO is alive.(in you)

[Thehow5]

Fidel Nadal bring me here

[SOLACEBOY]

Jean-Michel Basquiat , Debbie Harry / Blondie @ 0:48, Andy Warhol.

These artist where always heros to me and I love them.

[ggg33312]

does this film actually have JM Basquiat in it, or is it about JM Basquiat, and played by someone else?

[sixxteenbits]

@ggg33312 That is the real Basquiat, playing himself.

[SubliminalMinded2011]

@sixxteenbits the voice-over was done by Saul Williams. Saul had to fill in the audio for Basquiat.

That happened because there was a sound issue, which was discovered after production.

[RISQUE1963]

I thought this film was awesome. It captures the NY scene of '81: early hip hop and punk scene, underground parties, NY before gentrification, when starving artists could actually afford to live there. It really did seem like a magical time.

[flysocietyDC8]

kid cudi!!

[JayFlyyTV]

Kid Cudi looks like this guy

[joselito54]

@JayFlyyTV he is Kid Cudi xD

[fasolplanetarium]

A lot of people forget that aside from being a film, Downtown 81 is an important documentation of a lot of the New Wave(and No Wave) art movements that were particular to New York in the late 70's and early 80's. Most of the original audio was lost, and thus some of the voice-overs sound a bit awkward, though I think that it makes the film what it is.

[fasolplanetarium]

@fasolplanetarium And if you're fixated on how shitty you think this film is, you need to extract yourself from the narrow-minded worldview that everything has to be good or bad. This film is unequivocally good if anything because of its historical importance. It's a lot better than all that boring Twilight bullshit, that's for sure.

[lmako09]

damn artists,, stealing tax money,

[intertoto]

Man i wish i were around during the 80`s in New York.I´m Gonna Buy This Movie!

[Eatdearplease444]

bes5t movie eer like i wish i lived in this era

[vikbarcelos1970]

Basquiat was a great Artist ! Love Him !!!

[go2class]

this is a f**n classic i love it..it's such a good eclectic visual. I lvoe it

[MicahBuzan]

that music sounds amazing

[stnegrvearthuit]

yes, he's the real basquiat :)

[GoneAgainGone]

Want to see it! Is he really J.M.Basquiat? I saw another good movie about him, with David Bowie playing Andy Warhol

[cdb655]

@GoneAgainGone That movie is about Basquait...

[Debutante24]

@GoneAgainGone

He's the real Basquiat, but they had to dub over his voice since the film was damaged.

[onlyeyesabove]

@GoneAgainGone yea its basquiat, this is before he was even famous

[PieceofMindmusic]

one of my fav movie of all time. every high school art class should be made to watch this and write an essay on it.

[Auntkekebaby]

Tuxedomoon!, Liquid Liquid...

[MaghoxFr]

I made a short video on Basquiat check it out!!!!

[15millo]

its' all bout fidel nadal' punk ARGENTINAA

[MaghoxFr]

hice un video de Basquiat, miralo si podés, gracias loco

[KhrizTv]

save that for twitter!

[ginasty]

can someone please tell me name of the song in this movie when they're at the strip club?

[Sandford28]

Liquid Liquid - Cavern

[skam1]

one of the classics!!! :)

[samo1743]

what is the song at the 0:13?

[djmrbrown00]

dillinger cocaine in my brain

[funkberto]

The Sonf at the 0:46:

"CAVERN" BY LIQUID LIQUID

After re- interpreted in Melle Mel's "WHITE LINES".

[Mmilie]

Lovelovelove!!!!

[MondoBeno]

This movie was like a long walk through all the alternative scenes in early 1980's New York.

The only part the news ever showed you were the drugs, muggings, burned buildings, and dirty streets. But there were also thriving artistic projects going on at the time.

[yuta9301988]

I have not seen this yet. but sound tracks are sp dope..

[Thrillhouse5000]

what's that reggae song playing at like 1.13? what band is that?

[modifiedcontent]

@Thrillhouse5000, somewhat bizarrely, a real eye-opener to me: Kid Creole and the Coconuts!

[BRIisFINEart]

Who's to say what is and isn't art--

What is beautiful?

Who says art HAS to be beautiful?

...Its expression. I hate when people try to limit the art movement. Its ignorant and biased... hypocritical.

[FeedMoi]

@BRIisFINEart and i hate hypocrites like you... you're labeling art as an expression and overrating it. No one is saying art has to be beautiful... stop trying to be so different and innovative.

[RangoDurango]

@BRIisFINEart im going to use your words next time i write a song, writers block is a killer

[southofmidnight]

What are you talking about? There's no such thing as Art

[myveryoldengland]

@BRIisFINEart It's not people which can say what is beauiful, i agree, but the beauty exists and that's the reason why i want to live, beauty speaks about herself, i lmean that she can be obvious, a wedding is beautiful, the birth and the death are beautiful, love for family is beautiful, works of Raphaël, Botticelli, Basquiat are beautiful, beauty is everywhere makes us dreamt

[Funkyrican1]

Classic!

[cerberusplayground]

to the film student that said this film was pointless,

i graduated from the london film school and i have to say that this movie is art for the fact that not everything in life is a start to finnish story. the story was about how people in ny have shit to do but do shit..... maybee not you type of film but dont knok it cuzu dont understand. sometimes u have to stop being a film student and be a human.

chad ross

[Robert88ization]

@cerberusplayground for your lack of spelling, intelligence and way you carry your self with arguments, id have to say you have still a long way until u go out of pre-school.

on the note of this "documentary", its interesting. but that´s all it is. will be, has been. will become.

[sukifunk]

to "dsplkey" -- we don't have to TRY to tell you that you don't understand art... you tell us that JUST FINE yourself by your ignorant rants.

Just because you're a "film student" DOESN'T MEAN YOU KNOW SHIT. The only thing bollix and fucking boring is YOU and the teeny tiny idealistic box your mind inhabits.

Just because you wish you could be an artist doesn't mean that you have to tear down others WHO ACTUALLY ARE.

Really--piss off!

[MattyStevensonBishop]

@dspikey big deal you're a film student, what does that prove other than you have the $ to go to college??

[dspikey]

I was taken to see this at an underground film festival last year, was sold out, everyone except my class of ten left halfway through. everyone walked out, this is a bullshit plotless film about bull fucking shit, it makes no sense its boring boring boring and incredibly meaningless

[linomeoli]

actually untrue...We never did the voiceover, even when jean michel was alive.Everything was cut off, but Saul Willams did a great channeling, and everyone else came back to do ADR, audio voice replacement. This adds an eerie feel to it and the color and the sound was preserved digitally for ever.

[Chrisburns1982]

This movie is great!

[CampHazzard]

I want his unwanted hair. I love this movie so much!!!

[sonicmoremusic]

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT was 19 years old when he was cast in Downtown 81. His twentieth birthday came during the shooting of the film.

[underwhiteclouds]

Origin Of Cotton by AE.

NEW YORK CITY, 1981.

BELIEVE.

[JJ77TTUU4]

great film man

[bupobm]

so true

[EscargoTouChaud]

Is this the real Basquiat? Is it a documentary? I'll see it anyway, and I'll tell my best friend who adores Basquiat to see it too!

[ricardobs]

Yep, that is really basquiat. But unfortunately the sound of that movie was lost, so they had to do it again. But basquiat died, so another guy did his voice.

[linomeoli]

actually untrue...We never did the voiceover, even when jean michel was alive.Everything was cut off, but Saul Willams did a great channeling, and everyone else came back to do ADR, audio voice replacement. This adds an eerie feel to it and the solor and the sound was preserved digitally for ever.

[kaguth]

So the voice was all ADR by saul williams? Was that just the narration or was everything ADR?

[linomeoli]

no its not a documentary, its a musical odyssey. its on nextflix . Its stars the real Basquiat. A true classic that everyone should see.