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.
“We knew we were going to make a film, it was going to be improv,” co-director Furst told The Villager newspaper in a July, 2010 interview. “The goal was to make art with nothing, no money. And that’s the message — you don’t have to have $10 million or $15 million to make an independent film.”
The unrated Dirty Old Town has popped up at festivals and in a couple of New York theaters over the past couple of years and will have a one-day theatrical release at Brooklyn’s BAM Cinematek several days before it is issued on disc.
No bonus features have been announced for the DVD.
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