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Candy Mountain

1987

Synopsis

New York City, 1980s. A struggling musician named Julius has fallen on hard times. He cooks up a get-rich-quick scheme: to track down the legendary, elusive guitar maker, Elmore Silk. Meant to be a simple journey upstate, Julius stumbles down a long, winding road full of dead-ends and wrong turns.

Editorial

Strumming along to the syncopated rhythms of ‘80s America, Robert Frank and Rudy Wurlitzer’s cult film reckons with scraggy countercultural myths of the road. Gathering an alternative hit parade of faces—Jim Jarmusch! Bulle Ogier!—this rough diamond of independent cinema gleams in a new restoration.

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