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Liquid Sky
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0698140568315
Format: Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
Label: Mti Home Video
Languages: English (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: Mti Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Mti Home Video
Release Date: November 16, 1999
Running Time: 114 minutes
Studio: Mti Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: April 15, 1983
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Editorial Review:
This 1983 science fiction oddity, set in the subterranean world of heroin addicts, performance artists, and androgynous models in New York's East Village, became a staple of the midnight movie circuit and college campus film societies. A tiny UFO lands on the roof of a grungy penthouse apartment inhabited by androgynous model Anne Carlisle and her drug-dealing lover Paula E. Sheppard (the former child star of Alice, Sweet Alice). As explained with deadpan gravity by hilariously naive alien hunter Otto Von Wernherr, the UFOs congregate in areas of intense heroin concentration and feed off the highs of addicts. This alien has found a better high: orgasms. Russian émigré Slava Tsukerman's punk sci-fi feature takes the alien in alienation seriously, charting the mental disintegration of Carlisle as every sexual partner dies in climax and she turns herself into a heroine-chic angel of death. Easily the strangest to come out of the New York indie explosion of the early '80s, this low budget classic is talky and overlong at almost two hours, but remains an imaginative use of bargain-basement effects (heat aura photography, stop motion animation) for a tale of a most unusual alien encounter. Tsukerman co-composed the minimalist electronic score (in the Laurie Anderson vein). Carlisle, who cowrote the film, also appears as a surly gay male model. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - delay
I,m from Montevideo, Uruguay, today is February 12th and the DVD is still on the way (????), I payed it last week but I don't get it yet.
Rating:  - Punk rockers and UFOs
A very quirky movie about the punk rock scene in New York in the 80s. A flying saucer thrown in for good measure.
Rating:  - wonderfully special and brave still
this film is gripping and stunning. the director made some very brave choices and manages with the few effects and little finance he had to create an intense experience. in the end it's all up to one's fantasy and imagination and not the budget!!
Rating:  - Wha? huh? oh.
Other reviews for this movie led me to believe that it was going to be something amazing, something I have never seen before, something that I would either love or hate. It was none of these things. It was weird, that's for sure, but it was hardly interesting. The soundtrack alone was enough to make me want to watch the movie muted. But then all I would have been left with would have been the visuals, and I couldn't do that to myself. The lens tricks were disorienting and the color scheme was ... Read More
Rating: - Sky's Gone Out
Brilliant C movie at it's finest! Manhattan in the days of the New Romantic era, what could be more depressing? Death by orgasm controlled by alien life form, how insane is that? The fashion is the best with the perfect musical score to go with it. Margaret and Jimmy, what a perfect couple, yet they're the same person!
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