Storefront Hitchcock
1998 American film by Jonathan Demme / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Storefront Hitchcock is a 1998 American concert film featuring Robyn Hitchcock and directed by Jonathan Demme. It was conceived as "a document not a documentary",[1] and the performance was shot in New York City in December 1996, in an abandoned used clothing store on 14th Street.[2] Over the course of the performance, simple props and set pieces are varied, such as a bare lightbulb and a tomato sculpture, and occasionally a passerby on the street glances in.[3]
Storefront Hitchcock | |
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Directed by | Jonathan Demme |
Produced by | Peter Saraf |
Starring | Robyn Hitchcock |
Edited by | Andy Keir |
Music by | Robyn Hitchcock |
Production company | |
Distributed by | MGM Distribution Co. (United States) United International Pictures (international) |
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Running time | 77 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Demme met Hitchcock after he attended a live show and offered to direct a live performance video for a song, which was then revised to be a full concert.[4] Demme was inspired to film in the storefront setting by a Hungarian theatre group, Squat Theatre, who operated in New York City in the 1970s and 80s and typically performed in a storefront against a large plate glass window facing the street.[4]
Demme subsequently cast Hitchcock in small roles in two other films, The Manchurian Candidate and Rachel Getting Married, and used one of his songs in The Truth About Charlie.[5]