Liquid Sky (Slava Tsukerman, US 1982, 112 min.)
Margaret (Anne Carlisle) is a fashion model with dreams of stardom, whose alter ego and rival, Jimmy (also Carlisle), abuses and takes advantage of her to satisfy his rampant drug addiction. Unknown to them, tiny, invisible aliens have landed on the roof above the squalor in which they live and begin killing anyone Margaret has sex with to feed on their pleasure giving neurotransmitters. All the while, a German scientist attempts to capture and study them.
Liquid Sky has been hailed as an underground masterpiece of avant-garde science fiction filmmaking set against the visual majesty of New York's early 80s New Wave scene, filled with arresting cinematography by Yuri Neyman and electrified by an acclaimed original soundtrack.
Featuring the hit single, "Me & My Rhythm Box"
Reviews:
“The funniest, craziest, dirtiest, most perversely beautiful science-fiction movie ever made.”
--David Denby, New York Magazine
“Fascinatingly repellent, technically dazzling!”
--Harper Barnes, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Genuinely startling! The right audiences are bound to appreciate the originality, the color, rage, nonchalance, sly humor, and ferocious fashion sense.”
--Janet Maslin, New York Times
“Dazzling, shocking, funny and disturbing… If Matisse and Carl Orff had lived in the electronic/space age, they might have produced the kind of magical sight and sound that makes the $400,000 production look like a million bucks.”
--Judy Stone, San Francisco Chronicle
“There’s never been a better evocation of the so-called punk/New Wave ethic or a more concise explanation of what it’s all about—part rebellion against middle-class values, part thrill-seeking, and part aesthetic imperative that demands that every waking moment be lived as art.”
--Robert W. Butler, The Kansas City Star
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