A cinematic love letter to a pre-gentrification New York City. Philip Hartman’s No Picnic is a priceless artifact of New York’s pre-gentrification East Village that follows down-and-out jukebox operator Macabee Cohn, played with deadpan melancholy by David 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. This neo-noir comedy features appearances by Steve Buscemi, Richard Hell, Luis Guzmán, and other fixtures of the Downtown music and art scenes.

“A forgotten eighties NYC movie is back, scuzzier and better than ever. No Picnic captures New York’s boho hipster Lower East Side on the edge of Reagan-era gentrification — and a new restoration just saved it from obscurity.” – David Fear, Rolling Stone.

“A priceless artifact… gorgeously evocative.” – Museum of Modern Art.