Rhythm Thief

Shot in stark 16mm black-and-white, RHYTHM THIEF sardonically follows the neo-noir fate of Simon (Jason Andrews), an urban loner who surreptitiously tape-records rock concerts and sells the cassettes on the sidewalks of New York's Lower East Side.

Not surprisingly, Simon is beaten up and receives death threats from an all-girl punk band (led by Cynthia Sley, of the Bush Tetras, billed in the credits as herself), who stalk Simon through alleys and into his bleak tenement. Simon has slightly gentler relations with two other women, hostile "Ludlow Street chick" Cyd (Kimberly Flynn), who bursts in for quick, angry bouts of purgative sex, and waiflike Marty (Eddie Da...