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Border Radio (1987)
Before carving out a niche as one of the most distinct voices in nineties American cinema, Allison Anders made her debut, alongside codirectors and fellow UCLA film school students Kurt Voss and Dean Lent, with 1987’s Border Radio. A low-key, semi-improvised postpunk diary that took four years to complete, Border Radio features legendary rocker Chris D., of the Flesh Eaters, as a singer/songwriter who has stolen loot from a club and gone missing, leaving his wife (Luanna Anders), a no-nonsense rock journalist, to track him down with the help of his friends (John Doe of the band X; Chris Shearer). With its sprawling Southern Californian and Mexican landscapes, captured in evocative 16mm black and white, Border Radio is a singular, DIY memento of the indie film explosion in America.
Updated May 11 2020
Cast
Devon Anderson
Jack
Chris D.
Jeff
Luanna Anders
Luanna
Chris Shearer
Chris
Dave Alvin
Dave
Texacala Jones
Babysitter
Crew
Allison Anders
Director
Kurt Voss
Director
Dean Lent
Director
Dean Lent
Cinematography
Dean Lent
Music
