DVD Release Date: May 29, 2012
Price: DVD $24.95
Studio: Microcinema
Janell Shirtcliff is one of the denizens of Dirty Old Town.
Dirty Old Town is a 2010 independent comedy-drama set in downtown New York City.
Revolving around the city’s Lower East Side, the film focuses (loosely) on a merchant (William Leroy, playing a fictionalized version of himself) who has 72 hours to pay his rent. Facing extinction, his ramshackle tent of antiquities lures a troop of misfits, freaks and renegades—classic downtown New Yorkers holding on to the pre-gentrification days of the area—who scramble about as the closing hour draws nigh.
A bizarre “love letter” of sorts to the fast-fading days of downtown bohemia, Dirty Old Town embodies a free-form, improvisational style (though still a narrative).
The film is directed by Jenner Furst and Daniel B. Levin, who reportedly made the movie for under $10,000, shot it in two days and edited it in two months.
Price: DVD $24.95
Studio: Microcinema
Janell Shirtcliff is one of the denizens of Dirty Old Town.
Dirty Old Town is a 2010 independent comedy-drama set in downtown New York City.
Revolving around the city’s Lower East Side, the film focuses (loosely) on a merchant (William Leroy, playing a fictionalized version of himself) who has 72 hours to pay his rent. Facing extinction, his ramshackle tent of antiquities lures a troop of misfits, freaks and renegades—classic downtown New Yorkers holding on to the pre-gentrification days of the area—who scramble about as the closing hour draws nigh.
A bizarre “love letter” of sorts to the fast-fading days of downtown bohemia, Dirty Old Town embodies a free-form, improvisational style (though still a narrative).
The film is directed by Jenner Furst and Daniel B. Levin, who reportedly made the movie for under $10,000, shot it in two days and edited it in two months.
- 5/11/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
It's the end of an era at Houston and Bowery.
For nearly three decades, an unassuming tent full of antiques has sat at this unofficial crossroads of downtown Manhattan, luring in passersby from New York's former skid row. And on Friday night, its current caretaker, Billy Leroy, will pull the plug on his colorful big top.
Leroy, who took over the space in 2003, has become something of a local legend -- and an outspoken defender of "the old New York." In recent years, his Billy's Antiques & Props increasingly began to stand out on a block now inhabited by Whole Foods Market and high-end retailers like Rag & Bone. It's also what made locals appreciate it that much more, in a city that takes pride in its independent retailers and sees them disappearing one by one.
Times do indeed change, however, and Leroy (who is set to star in the Travel Channel...
For nearly three decades, an unassuming tent full of antiques has sat at this unofficial crossroads of downtown Manhattan, luring in passersby from New York's former skid row. And on Friday night, its current caretaker, Billy Leroy, will pull the plug on his colorful big top.
Leroy, who took over the space in 2003, has become something of a local legend -- and an outspoken defender of "the old New York." In recent years, his Billy's Antiques & Props increasingly began to stand out on a block now inhabited by Whole Foods Market and high-end retailers like Rag & Bone. It's also what made locals appreciate it that much more, in a city that takes pride in its independent retailers and sees them disappearing one by one.
Times do indeed change, however, and Leroy (who is set to star in the Travel Channel...
- 3/9/2012
- by Rod Kurtz
- Huffington Post
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