Watch List Digest 6/8/24

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This week I went down the memory hole with two films that evoke the vanished New York City of my 1980s youth.

One Good Film: “Liquid Sky”

Holy Pyramid Club: “Liquid Sky” (1982, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 1/2) has surfaced on the Criterion Channel like a day-glo nitrous gas bubble from another era, and, as the film is unavailable anywhere else at this writing, I advise you to have a look.

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One Good Film: “The Nomi Song”

Further time-tunneling into New Wave New York, courtesy of a lost interplanetary androgyne (no, not Bowie) and one of the author’s favorite reviews.

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