Country: USA
Year: 1980
Duration: 120'


Biography

film director

Amos Poe

Amos Poe (Tel Aviv, Israel, 1950) is considered one of the founders of No Wave Cinema. Films of his belonging to this movement include the documentary Night Lunch (co-directed with Ivan Král, 1975), his first feature film Unmade Beds (1976), The Blank Generation (1976), The Foreigner (1978) and Subway Rider (1981). In 1984 he directed Alphabet City, still his most famous movie.

FILMOGRAFIA

Amos Poe:
Unmade Beds (1976), The Foreigner (1978), Subway Rider (1981), Alphabet City (id., 1984), Triple Bogey on a Par Five Hole (1991), Dead Weekend (tv, 1995), Frogs for Snakes (Delitti d’autore, 1998), Just an American Boy (doc., 2003), Empire II (2007), La commedia di Amos Poe (2010), A Walk in the Park (doc., 2012), Happiness Is a Warm Gun (2015).

Amos Poe, Ivan Král:
Night Lunch (doc., 1975), The Blank Generation (doc., 1976).

Cast

& Credits

Regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura: Amos Poe.
Aiutoregisti: Felix Kutlik e L. Smith.
Director of photography: Johanna Heer (16mm, colore).
Aiuto operatore: Bob Brady.
Sound: Peter Downsborough.
Musiche: Robert Fripp, Ivan Kral, John Lurie, The Lounge Lizards (prodotti da Chris Stein).
Editor: Orlando Gallini, Johanna Heer, Amos Poe.
Mixage: Elisha Birnbaum e Sound One.
Trucco: Claudia Porcelli.
Fotografo di scena: Jack Zaloga.
Caposquadra tecnici: Bob Brady, J. Mc Nulty, A. Sachs.
Acconciature: Mary Lou Green.
Art director: Ross Bleckner, Sarah Charlesworth, Duncan Harmah.
Neon: Philip Hazard.
Negativi: Ron Vitello e Match Cut Inc.
Colore: TVC.
Cast and characters: Susan Tyrrell (Eleanor Langley), Robbie Coltrane (Fritz Langley), John Lurie e Amos Poe (Ant Zindo), Cookie Mueller (Penelope Trasher), Chariene Kaleina (Clare Smith), Leigh Tyler (Susannah El Quijote), Glenn O' Brien (il poliziotto Isherwood), Bill Rice (Mr. Golldstone), Babs Egan (la camerieraa), Emily Star Poe (ColaMarie Smith), Lindzee Smith (the Mugger), Emilio Cubero (il poeta), Chris Kosburg (l'amante), Tom Wright (On the Waterfront), Henry Benvenuti (the Super), Johanna Heer (Maitre D), Paul Ricci (the Bodega Man), Ed Buck (the Vulture), Lance Loud (primo cliente), Tony Shafrazi (secondo cliente), Jane d'Petes (la donna del bar), Nina Gaidarova (vicina del piano di sopra), Mark De Muro, Stanley Moss, Cynthia Yee, Felix Kudik, Sky Vermont, Andy Mashkow e Jack Zaloga (le vittime).
Production company: Johanna Heer e Amos Poe (Hep Pictures, New York).
Assistenti alla produzione: Robin Romano, Vadim Kovalenko, Andy Maslikow, Judy Hammond, Steve Kaplan e Lorne Smith.
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