A return to 'Alphabet City' at Metrograph

At 19, they gave Johnny the streets and everything on it. Tonight they want it all back! 

You have three chances to see the cult-y classic-ish "Alphabet City" from 1984 on a big screen at Metrograph this coming Friday, Saturday and Monday. 

Here's the Metrograph description of Amos Poe's crime drama, filmed in and around the East Village... 

A squalid slab of vintage '80s Downtown grottiness, Poe's features a leather-jacketed, Pontiac Firebird-driving Vincent Spano as a heroin dealer who decides to turn his back on the dope game when his gangster overlords command him to burn down the tenement building where his mother and sister live — but soon discovers his bosses aren't going to let him walk away without a fight. 

Shot by DP Oliver Wood in the scuzzy-glamorous style he would later perfect on 'Miami Vice,' with a score courtesy of Chic's Nile Rodgers, 'Alphabet City' is a seedy snapshot of Avenue A looking worse — and better — than it ever did. 

Behold...

 

And Poe will be at the theater for an introduction and Q&A during Saturday night's screening. 

Tickets, right this way. 

Metrograph is at 7 Ludlow St., just above Canal.