QUIET CITY
Quiet City +
Dance Party, USA
2 films
by Aaron Katz
In Quiet City, Katz’s deceptively simple drama that
has been called “a Terrence Malick
film for the new lost generation” (The Austin
Chronicle), we meet twentysomething Jamie
(Erin Fisher) as she arrives in New York to visit a
friend who never shows. On an empty sub-
way platform, she crosses paths with a kindly
stranger named Charlie (Cris Lankenau), and
an unlikely connection is formed over the next 24
hours through city parks, abandoned
apartments, and art galleries in the heart of
industrial Brooklyn.
Then in his impressionistic and tenderly
heartbreaking debut, Dance Party, USA—
hailed as “one of the best films of the year” (The New
York Sun)—apathetic teens Jes-
sica (Anna Kavan) and Gus (Cole Pennsinger) share a
fleeting moment at a Fourth of July
party in Portland, but their relationship grows
closer and more complex after Gus confronts
her with a troubling secret.
Quiet City (2007): 78 minutes,
Color, Stereo, Optional English Subtitles, Anamorphic
1.78:1
Dance Party, USA (2006): 65 minutes,
Color, Stereo, Optional English Subtitles, 1.85:1
