The great hero of the 1982 cult film Liquid Sky is Anne Carlisle: Carlisle co-wrote the screenplay, plays both the male and female fashion model leads in the film, and even authored the movie’s novelization. The flick actually did well on the festival circuit after debuting in Montreal, and according to Wikipedia it was the most successful independent film of that year. Of course, 1982 was seven years before 1989′s Sex, Lies and Videotape kicked off a new wave of indie film mania. This flick came out too early and it never really got the attention it deserved, which is actually hard to believe once you know what it’s about. Here’s what The Awl had to say about this uniquely bizarre film…
Liquid Sky is one of the most visually ambitious films ever made about fashion, heroin, New Wave clubs, UFO saucers, ordering Chinese food and having them put it on your tab, the Empire State Building, androgyny, neon and tin foil. The 1982 cult classic may be the perfect embodiment of camp. Unlike contemporary low-budget cinema, which prizes an aesthetic of apathy, Liquid Sky makes its efforts visible.
I can’t possibly top that introduction. Come for the drugs and bisexuality, stay for the amazing synthesizer score and the dazzling, go-for-broke visual style. Here’s Liquid Sky (NSFW)…
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