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REEL GENIUS. The filmmaker Amos Poe, a No Wave pioneer whose gritty, DIY films helped define New York’s punk scene in the mid- and late ’70s, died December 25 at 76 following a battle with cancer, Reuters reports. His seminal works—including The Blank Generation (1975), Unmade Beds (1976), and Subway Riders (1979–80)—broke through the formalism of earlier generations of Downtown filmmakers, offering a mix of humor, off-kilter tenderness, and keen-eyed observation of a moment defined as much by economic decay as by guerrilla freedoms. Often made with amateur actors on minimal budgets, Poe’s films moved with an energy that mirrored the underground he traversed: densely composed, taut sequences of people forced into motion.

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