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Summary: Underground Sci-Fi
Review: "Liquid Sky" (1982 - 114 minutes), film written, produced and directed by the Russian director Slava Tsukerman, can be considered a classic underground cinema full of fantastic realism. Liquid Sky means "heroin" in the New York slang of that time. This is a scientific fiction movie whose scene is the world of the fashion and the heavy drugs in Manhattan.
The plot seems comic but the result is surprising: a flying saucer lands on the penthouse's roof of a famous model called Margareth [the actress Anne Carlisle], who also interprets the androgynous model Jimmy. A very small alien creature hidden in a spaceship of the size and format of a little signature TV antenna, captures the energies of the place, earning force through a substance produced in the human brain at the moment of orgasm. So, the extraterrestrial exterminates one by one, the partners of the model. These events are followed by a German astrophysicist that also researches Ufology.
The film presents a savage sense of humor and an elaborated visual technique through blown up colors, fluorescent makeup, melting forms, many neon and ultraviolet lights.
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Summary: Could be Better as a Documentary
Review: Aliens land in a small spaceship outside of a New Wave model's apartment. Since the aliens feed off of chemicals that are produced in the brain during orgasm, male visitors to the apartment keep dropping dead. The performances are great and you occassionally get interesting psychedelic POV shots of what the aliens see, much along the lines of Wolfen or Predator. However, the premise is not very well developed until towards the end of the film and appears only to exist as an excuse to make a movie about the New Wave.Where the film gets interesting is in its look at the early 1980s New Wave subculture before it got watered down through commercialism and got swallowed up into pop culture (can anyone say Flock of Seagulls?). There is lots of interesting music and shots of club scenes and strange fashions. But what takes away from its power is that it is too contrived. Most of the shots, fashions, dialogue, etc., are planned out. For example, people stand around posing for a supposedly unseen camera (which also interferes with its flow as a fictional story). It would have been more interesting if the director (this was his first film after defecting to the U.S.) just threw out any scripts and made a documentary on the New Wave subculture. Nevertheless, it is a great snapshot of an interesting movement which I was too young to experience except at the periphery. It does all seem quite tacky now, but at least there was a great spirit of creativity and individualism which is still exciting to view.
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Summary: An important study of its own time
Review: An enjoyable mix of humor and sci-fi with a perverserly fun view of new wave life on drugs in the early eighties. It is a bit slow, but that might just be the heroin or the low budget. I enjoy it most for the documentation of fashion and design for that period in time and it works as a thorough reference document for early eaighties proto-punk/new wave style.
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Summary: Everyone wants to be a performance artist
Review: An extremely thin premise stretched across a tight budget...that's what you are, baby. Yet this movie gives us valuable insights as to what the early 80's "New Wave" culture was like, and along the way we are treated to bad acting and fluorescent paint and a clunky script and lesbians and little tiny aliens and a woman rather obviously playing both a "boy" and "girl" part. Nonetheless, Liquid Sky will remain with you, even though you did not live in Greenwich Village at the time and missed the whole party. I still quote lines from this film, and it reminds me of our shared experience of the 80's past in a way that its imitators like "Valley Girl" do not.
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Summary: Everyone wants to be a performance artist
Review: An extremely thin premise stretched across a tight budget...that's what you are, baby. Yet this movie gives us valuable insights as to what the early 80's "New Wave" culture was like, and along the way we are treated to bad acting and fluorescent paint and a clunky script and lesbians and little tiny aliens and a woman rather obviously playing both a "boy" and "girl" part. Nonetheless, Liquid Sky will remain with you, even though you did not live in Greenwich Village at the time and missed the whole party. I still quote lines from this film, and it reminds me of our shared experience of the 80's past in a way that its imitators like "Valley Girl" do not.
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Summary: Thank God it's not "Vanilla Sky."
Review: An oddball, stylish sci-fi tragicomedy that found a following in the cult movie circuit. The story is somewhat absurd and concerns aliens who visit Manhattan in search of drugs. They murder by remote control while their victims are having sex and extract drugs from their bodies. Curiously strange, it delves surrealistically into the new-wave drug/rock scene. Anne Carlisle is especially good playing a dual role - one male, one female.
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Summary: Worst Looking DVD I have ever seen
Review: Fantastic movie made completely unwatchable. Ever-present extreme digital artifacts. Avoid this DVD at all costs.
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Summary: I'm from Conneticut
Review: Heroin sheik meets the killer orgasm. With aliens to boot!
One of those movies, that you see just to say you've seen it. I've seen it!
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Summary: This is one of the most F'ed up movies you will ever see
Review: I believe my title above explains it all.
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Summary: read the book
Review: I can't say the movie is exceptional, the 5-star rating is actually for the book, based on the screenplay. I think that with any book you can be more imaginative with the characters physical appearence and the movie was just plain corney compared with the book. There's way more insight into what Margeret is feeling in the book is really weird it just jumps around so much but I read it in a day so go get it!
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