[Photo by Dave on 7th]
The low-budget adaption of the Eleanor Henderson novel "Ten Thousand Saints" started principal photography in the East Village back in January. To date, the filmmakers have turned part of First Avenue into Avenue D and recreated part of tent city in Tompkins Square Park to tell this straight-edge coming-of-age story set in the 1980s East Village.
Now, on Thursday, crews will be filming scenes depicting the Tompkins Square Park Riots of 1988… these carefully worded letters recently arrived on East Seventh Street and around the Park …
Crews will be filming from roughly 2 p.m. … till 3 a.m. Per the sign: "Given the sensitivity of filming late hours in a residential community, we are making our best efforts to film quietly after 10 p.m on Thursday, May 1 into Friday May 2."
Wow, a quiet riot. (Sorry.)
The husband-wife team of Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini direct. They directed the 2003 Harvey Pekar film "American Splendor" with Paul Giamatti.
How cool! I'm going to be there to watch this.
ReplyDelete"Real life true events" is not carefully worded.
ReplyDeleteI heard this is going to be a musical comedy!
American Splendor was one of the best films I have ever seen. I hope this one is just as good.
ReplyDeleteI'd suggest dressing the part and trying to be an extra for the filming. I've walked onto sets more than once and ended up in scenes, without planning to do so. So if you want to be in the scene....
ReplyDeleteOh goodie.
ReplyDeleteQuestions: How do you film the Tompkins Square Riot quietly? And when will they turn this into a Broadway Musical?
ReplyDeleteThe east village is riot loud on Thursday nights already. I bet no one would have noticed.
ReplyDeleteTell them to call damn kids bass player he was poster boy on cover of post.
ReplyDeleteWho will play Clayton?
ReplyDeleteAnd in the role of Clayton Patterson, Tyne Daly.
ReplyDeleteWhat will this do for us? Only make thigs worse. Thanks filmakers. 24 hr. a day nostalgia.
ReplyDeleteI would guess "riot" sounds will be added in post-production, although there might be some loud voices. Has anyone read the book and can they tell us if it is bias to one side or the other?
ReplyDeleteI slept through the first riot so I can hardly wait.
ReplyDelete"….to tell this straight-edge coming-of-age story…"
That is fucking funny.
Clayton will play Clayton.
ReplyDeleteThe TSP Riot was performed live at midnight on a hot summer night with a cast of hundreds, not in the middle of the afternoon with a few dozen clueless re-enactors.
ReplyDeleteI wonder who their technical adviser is, if they bothered to get one.
Anyway, there's nothing like the REAL THING, baby....
Oh how original. Another trendy and obvious obcession with our neighborhood. You and everyone else. Get a life. Exploitation is the new integrity.
ReplyDeleteChris Flash, the sheet says they are arriving at 2 p.m. and shooting until 3 a.m. They will likely start shooting after dark, but they obviously have to get there hours ahead to set up.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if they're gonna try to get the actors all riled up beforehand by telling them Empire Biscuits is closed.
ReplyDeleteDuring the riot helicopters were flying so low that they made my building shake. It felt like they were landing on the roof. No internet or NY1 to tell me what was happening, but I knew it was bad.
ReplyDeleteOh goodie! I'll be back that night! NO BISCUITS NO PEACE!
ReplyDeleteEV Grieve doesn't like Missing Foundation or something?
ReplyDeleteI know Matt Taibi is nothing like his asshole father Mike who scapegoated Missing Foundation i.e. blamed them for the riot. I just thought it'd be funny if Matt played his dad in this movie - lighten up : )
I'm shocked no one has mentioned the Memorial Day '91 riot. Is there any video footage of that one? I remember walking past the park with a friend earlier that day, just like I walked past it hours before the first riot went down.
Neithermorenoless.blogspot.com has a May 2007 entry about the second riot I can't post the link of for some strange reason so here it is:
neithermorenorless.blogspot.com/2007/05/memorial-day-1991.html
I remember walking by a July '91 protest of the park curfew with a friend.
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Will mr. Penley, and the zippies be able to advise on the movie
ReplyDeleteI hope we're going to be clear here--it was a police riot.
ReplyDeleteIt was a riot riot.
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The Police had the upper hand the whole time. Like the feakin KGB. You could be standing right next to someone, talking to them, and they would Vanish. The Police had undercover cops in with the Rioters and they would just make people disappear. Scary !!!
ReplyDeleteThey were like the KGB. Those police had that under control from the beginning. They had undercover cops in with the Rioters. You could be standing right next to someone, talking to them and they would just vanish. The cops just made people disappear. Scary!!!!!
ReplyDeletereenactment of a riot? riot today, tomorrow, and on and on make noise, be loud. riots aren't games, nor spectator events. riot every day til its right. this could take awhile, especially as it gets richer and richer people around here. disturb them. I worked across the street then, came back out later. riot and make noise. reenactment is not a cutie.
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