The film is playing tomorrow at 5:15 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. and Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. The Metrograph is at 7 Ludlow St. between Canal and Hester. Details here.
Monday, April 24, 2017
'The Story of a Junkie' at the Metrograph this week
The film is playing tomorrow at 5:15 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. and Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. The Metrograph is at 7 Ludlow St. between Canal and Hester. Details here.
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Spaceman! I remember ... ah forget it. The big painting of his head on the building was cool though.
ReplyDeleteThis film is ugly, but it is the REAL New York drug scene of that time. Definitely not for today's faint-hearted!!
ReplyDeleteThe big painting of his head on the building was cool though.
ReplyDeleteI was always pissed they covered it over.
Back when Junkies were everywhere as were Car-fires and torched buildings...The Glory days
ReplyDeleteCan't wait. I look forward to seeing the EV as the dirty, decrepit, poor, wonderful, varied, REAL neighborhood that it used to be, instead of the bland, suburban, cookie cutter, vapid Millennial frat playground it has become. The Glory Days indeed. How I miss them.
ReplyDeleteWow Spacely knew where the good was
ReplyDeleteQ: Did John live on St. Marks btw 2nd/3rd in the early 80s? Anyone? Anybody know?
ReplyDeleteI saw too much of this back in the day, it was miserable stepping over addicts to get into my apartment. There were a lot great things to remember about that time this part of it I rather forget.
ReplyDelete@8:29 AM - Yeah I think he was shacking up on that block in '81 which was when I met him. But memory is understandably fuzzy.
ReplyDeleteThere have been others, and the more recent ones are even more pathetic in my esteem, but Spacely is definitely in the archives of "Famous Junkies of LES Land" - which was what he wanted. That and drugs.
If I remember John lived on St Marks in the 80s; First Ave and 7th around 1989-90; then Ludlow St with his girlfriend until he passed away.
ReplyDelete48 less people (almost all POC) were killed last year in the East Village than in 1991.
ReplyDeleteJust some perspective.
...magnificent real-life junkie wreck John Spacely (the self-described "Mayor of Saint Marks Place")...
ReplyDeletereally, this is a movie about a person of interest?
there are many movies that show the old lower east side and greenwich village: the buildings, the people, the street life, the stores and the stories that do not glorify the junkies and not so fascinating underbelly of the city in those days.