Movies: Rockets Redglare

A portrait of Rockets Redglare, the morbidly obese fixture of New York's underground until his death in 2001. Rockets was the sometimes bodyguard/drug dealer of Sid Vicious and Jean Michel Basquiat, as well as a talented stand-up comic and character ...

This is a dark story of a caring movie maker who struggles to make it and also struggles with his demons and obsessions....

After a family tragedy, a young woman finds herself homeless and living on the streets of New York....

A troubled young woman hooks up with a money-crazed televangelist and becomes a rich, heavy-metal Christian rock star....

P.K., a former movie star now reduced to working as a stripper in a Las Vegas nightclub, is desperate for a comeback, and thinks she could make one if she could only get a big-name star to appear in a movie with her. She relates all these problems, a...

Chelsea on the Rocks celebrates the personalities and artistic voices that have emerged from New York’s legendary Chelsea Hotel. Once considered an untouchable, impenetrable tower for writers, artists, musicians and mavericks, it has been recently cl...

A courier who represents Moroccan dissidents arrives in Washington with secret documents....

A trio of stepbrothers accompany their paralysed father on a jaunt to Normandy where the old boy saw combat and romantic action during the war....

Third-rate doo-wop singers making a comeback hook up with a campy manager who books them to perform in drag....

A Super-8 movie based on the case of grandmother murderess Velma Barfield who was executed for murdering her husband. It was described by Tessa Hughes-Freeland in "The Underground Film Bulletin #4" as "A murderess's last testament, explicating her vi...

A group of actors in the East Village of New York City have been rehearsing for a play when the lead actress in the play turns up dead....

In Nick Zedd's mock docu-drama Police State, he puts his own body on the line to illustrate his belief that “freedom is an illusion.” A black comedy-satire / protest film featuring Rockets Redglare....

Loosely based on an infamous 1984 Long Island murder case involving Satan-worshiping, teenage drug freaks (Knights of the Black Circle), David Wojnarowicz and Tommy Turner’s Where Evil Dwells is a low-budget D.I.Y. movie that walks the jagged lines b...

A slice of downtown New York City life (filmed partially on location at Katz' Deli)....

A Vermont farmer searches New York City for his dream girl, with his gay neighbor as his guide....