The Way It Is

Apr 4, 1986

1h 20m

★ 0.0

Overview

A group of actors in the East Village of New York City have been rehearsing for a play when the lead actress in the play turns up dead.

Genres

Comedy

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Cast

Willy / Raphael

Steve Buscemi

Victor / Heurtebise

Vincent Gallo

Hank / Azrael

Mark Boone Junior

Marc / Orphee

Kai Eric

Eurydices

Boris Major

Vera / The Grim Reaper

Jessica Stutchbury

Rockets

Rockets Redglare

Aglaonice

Edwige Bellmore

Eurydices' boyfriend

Danny Rosen

The Undertaker

Eric Mitchell

In this ostensible murder mystery, the genre elements are merely a pretext for the series of haunting (if inconclusive and only mildly erotic) homo-social encounters he stages. Starting with the familiar premise of the absent woman, so popular with Downtown filmmakers, Vogl drains his storytelling of any hints of noir stylization. Instead of nighttime scenes, slick streets, and dark alleys, he shoots documentary-style on the nondescript, sunlit streets of Brooklyn, Manhattan, and City Island in a manner that casually references the art-film angst of Michelangelo Antonioni.

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The Trap Door

Sep 1, 1980

A Nietzschian parable on the fate of innocence, THE TRAP DOOR follows the mishaps of Jeremy (John Ahearn) as he is fired by his boss (Jenny Holzer), gets laughed out of court by Judge Gary Indiana, loses his girlfriend to sleazy Richard Prince, is hustled by prospective employer (Bill Rice) and mauled by predatory bird-women. Finally, he seeks the help of a shrink (the legendary Jack Smith) who turns out to be the most demented of all.

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The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

Mar 13, 1985

Nan Goldin's slide show “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” converted, mixed and screened as a film by the artist, portraying the American underground culture, the no wave scene, post-Stonewall gay subculture, among others.

5.5

Vortex

Sep 1, 1982

A film noirish atmosphere is created to show detective Lunch (a popular underground musician and poet) plow her way through the plans of a corporate businessman who seeks government defense contracts through real "corporate wars" and the manipulation of politicians.

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How to Fly

Jan 1, 1981

With HOW TO FLY, Bowes abandoned plot entirely, finding other forms of structure. He wanted to show that stories do not have to obsessively organize and explain data, and that television’s hundreds of simultaneous, fragmented narratives – news, fiction, commercials, sports, etc. – had prepared audiences for this new type of structure. — Charles Ruas

3.3

Visiting Desire

Nov 19, 1996

Complete strangers meet in a room to act out their sexual desires.

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PINK MOVIE

Mar 29, 2025

A teen is locked in a room with a monitor lizard

4.8

The Right Side of My Brain

Apr 9, 1984

Lydia Lunch and Richard Kern's first collaborative effort, The Right Side of My Brain, is a glimpse into the world of unsatiable female lust, narrated by Lydia Lunch. The film was initially dismissed and dismayed by critics such as J. Hoberman, but the criticism of The Right Side of My Brain received only pushed the two to go one step further with Fingered (1986).

4.8

Vincent Gallo as Flying Christ

Feb 1, 1981

No overview available.

0.0

Destruction

Jan 1, 1984

The aftermath of an experience with Heroin causes a man to destroy anything within his path.

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Arto Lindsay, Forgive the Beauty: The Love Factory

Nov 1, 2004

In the void created ad hoc to throw us into desperation, fear, shock, the torment of an infinite present, Arto Lindsay sings with words, silences and small gestures of/with/for/about love, a force that is so violent that nothing will ever be the same again.

4.2

The Gun Is Loaded

Dec 16, 1989

At the end of the Reagan years, rocker and confrontational performance artist Lydia Lunch launches a broadside. From a formal podium, she attacks the white male power structure of the US. Next she takes on her parents. Then, the volume lowered and the background the streets of New York, she lets us know what she thinks of life, of herself, and of us, anyone who's watching or listening. Life is depression, despair, and death. She's the girl next door gone bad. And us? Compliant sheep. Lunch lays out a challenge.

0.0

John Zorn's Naked City

Apr 9, 1992

John Zorn's live performance of Naked City's self-titled album at The Marquee Club in New York City, 1992.

5.0

Road Rant: A Week on the Road with Lydia Lunch

Jan 1, 2012

The X-rated cartoon animations of Emmy award winning director/animator Merrill Aldighieri add a comical edge to this intense documentary with Lydia Lunch, a second collaboration after their first success, ""The Gun is Loaded."" Highlights from 5 concerts are accompanied by a live music score performed by composer JOE BUDENHOLZER & horn player TERRY EDWARDS (from MADNESS) during their travels to MARSEILLE, LYON, EVREUX, & NANTES. Bonus clips include rare on-the road interview footage with Lydia and composer Joe B., and an exclusive reading done at the Père Lachaise Cemetary.

7.0

Put More Blood Into the Music

Aug 6, 1988

PBS produced documentary in two parts: the first is dedicated to saxophonist and composer John Zorn; the second is about Sonic Youth at the height of their powers in 1988.

0.0

Lydia Lunch: Video Hysterie: 1978 - 2006

Jan 1, 2008

This fascinating and retrospective look at the music of the outspoken and multitalented Lydia Lunch represents every stage of her varied career, with featured songs such as "I Woke Up Screaming" from her Teenage Jesus and the Jerks days. Other songs spanning the decades in this collection include "Freud in Flop," "Sorry for Behaving So Badly," "Dead River," "Solo Mystico," "Summon," "Violence Is the Sport of God" and many more.