No Picnic: 4K restoration of Philip Hartman's 1980s East Village "artifact" returns to Film Forum

Philip Hartman’s NO PICNIC (1986), a priceless artifact of New York’s pre-gentrification East Village, starring David Brisbin, Myoshin, Anne D'Agnillo and Luis Guzmán, with appearances by Steve Buscemi, Richard Hell, and other fixtures of the Downtown music and art scenes (Rafik, Bleecker Bob), will run in a new 4K restoration at Film Forum from Friday, April 17 through Thursday, April 23. Hartman’s neo-noir comedy follows down-and-out jukebox operator Macabee Cohn, played with deadpan melancholy by Brisbin, who wanders the cheap tenements, dive bars, and derelict streets of the East Village in search of a mysterious woman in a striped dress. NO PICNIC premiered at the 1986 Sundance Film Festival, where Peter Hutton won the Best Cinematography prize for his gorgeously evocative black-and-white imagery, working with Emmy Award–winning director Mike Spiller as assistant cameraman, animator Lewis Klahr as boom operator, Christine Vachon as assistant sound editor, with