Trash

Savage 1970s New York sets the stage for Joe and Holly Woodlawn’s brutal day of hustle and bustle. Trash screens from an original UK distribution print.

  • Director

    Paul Morrissey

  • With

    Joe Dallesandro, Holly Woodlawn, Jane Forth

  • USA 1970. 110min

  • 35mm

  • Certificate

    18

  • A BFI National Archive print

Dreamy Joe Dallesandro once again steps before Paul Morrissey’s camera for a bleak tale laced with dark humour and acute tenderness. Over the course of a single day, heroin addict Joe and his trans girlfriend Holly Woodlawn struggle with the harsh grind of 1970s New York street life. Trash screens from an original UK distribution print.

Contains scenes of drug use.

The screening of Trash on Thursday 9 April will be introduced by Jaye Hudson of TGirlsonFilm.

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