{"id":87193,"date":"2022-09-11T10:04:24","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T17:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=87193"},"modified":"2022-09-25T08:38:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T15:38:50","slug":"liquid-sky-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=87193","title":{"rendered":"Liquid Sky (1982)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Everybody wants euphoria. What&#8217;s wrong with that?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Poster-210x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-87194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Poster-210x300.png 210w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Poster-89x128.png 89w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Poster-189x270.png 189w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Poster.png 667w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nAn androgynous model (Anne Carlisle) with a drug-dealing girlfriend (Paula Sheppard) suddenly realizes that her sexual encounters are resulting in death for her partners &#8212; including her former professor Owen (Bob Brady) and a soap star (Stanley Knapp) who rapes her; meanwhile, a German scientist (Otto von Wernherr) joins the shrimp-loving mother (Susan Doukas) of a gay model (also Anne Carlisle) in monitoring a UFO that has landed nearby and may be responsible for the rash of deaths.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alcoholism and Drug Addiction<\/li>\n<li>Aliens<\/li>\n<li>Gender Bending<\/li>\n<li>New York City<\/li>\n<li>Revenge<\/li>\n<li>Science Fiction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nPeary doesn&#8217;t review this highly successful indie cult film in his <em>GFTFF<\/em>, but does discuss it in his <em>Cult Movies 3<\/em> book, which I&#8217;ll cite from here. He notes that it &#8220;premiered in April 1983, exactly 10 years after [director] Slava Tsukerman and his wife and collaborator Nina Kerova left Russia,&#8221; where Tsukerman &#8220;began directing films&#8230; in 1958.&#8221; (Since he &#8220;studied quantum mechanics, mathematics, and physics, he chose to make science-related documentaries and shorts&#8230; because they came under less government scrutiny than features.&#8221;) Tsukerman and Kerova emigrated from the Soviet Union to Jerusalem in 1973, and eventually &#8220;came to New York to secure financing&#8221; for a film Tsukerman was trying to make &#8212; then ended up staying. Apparently he &#8220;immersed himself in New York&#8217;s decadent youth culture&#8221; and met Anne Carlisle, an art student, model, and &#8220;member of the avant-garde [New Wave] club scene&#8221; who stars as both Margaret (the main protagonist) and Jimmy in the film. She helped co-write the new screenplay that turned into <em>Liquid Sky<\/em>, which was privately funded for $500,000) by a real estate developer. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Carlisle9.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Carlisle9-1024x560.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"350\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-87224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Carlisle9-1024x560.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Carlisle9-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Carlisle9-128x70.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Carlisle9-768x420.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Carlisle9-494x270.png 494w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Carlisle9.png 1289w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What an origin story! The resulting film is &#8220;a bizarre blend of science fiction, social satire, and the underground-experimental film,&#8221; all of which made it &#8220;an ideal midnight movie: weird costumes, hair, and makeup&#8221;: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Face2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Face2-1024x558.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"349\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-87202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Face2-1024x558.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Face2-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Face2-128x70.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Face2-768x418.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Face2-496x270.png 496w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Face2.png 1291w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; &#8220;pulsating music (played on the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fairlight_CMI\">Fairlight Computer Musical Instrument<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harvestworks.org\/oct-26-equitable-technology-for-artists-public-meeting\/\">New York&#8217;s Public Access Synthesizer Studio<\/a>); off-the-wall scenic design (Margaret&#8217;s  garish penthouse is lit by neon signs on the walls)&#8221;: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Neon-Signs.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Neon-Signs-1024x553.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"346\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-87219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Neon-Signs-1024x553.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Neon-Signs-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Neon-Signs-128x69.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Neon-Signs-768x415.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Neon-Signs-500x270.png 500w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Neon-Signs.png 1297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; &#8220;special effects; a story involving sex and drugs; and a nonconformist lead character in the throes of an identity crisis.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-How-Do-You-Know.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-How-Do-You-Know-1024x551.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"344\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-87201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-How-Do-You-Know-1024x551.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-How-Do-You-Know-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-How-Do-You-Know-128x69.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-How-Do-You-Know-768x414.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-How-Do-You-Know-501x270.png 501w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-How-Do-You-Know.png 1298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the distribution company CineVista &#8220;wisely chose to distribute it as a regular feature&#8221; and &#8220;it became a modern commercial success in New York, Boston, and L.A. in a second run.&#8221; It also &#8220;immediately attracted a repeat audience, particularly at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IFC_Center\">the Waverly<\/a> in New York&#8217;s Greenwich Village&#8221; &#8212; and &#8220;ironically, its most devoted fans were from the specific New Wave-punk subculture that is mercilessly ridiculed in the picture.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Poetry.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Poetry-1024x559.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"349\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-87213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Poetry-1024x559.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Poetry-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Poetry-128x70.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Poetry-768x419.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Poetry-494x270.png 494w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Poetry.png 1291w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Peary asserts that the point Tsukerman &#8220;wanted to make is that New Wavers who use hard drugs and have sex without worrying about transmittable diseases are on a death trip.&#8221; (On that note, this film was released just before the AIDS pandemic began &#8212; and <a href=\"https:\/\/podtail.com\/podcast\/classic-american-movies\/cult-classics-with-chris-ep-1-anne-carlisle-liquid\/\">its star, Carlisle, ended up leaving the acting industry to train as an art therapist in response to this crisis.<\/a>) Peary notes that the hedonist characters in this film &#8220;court death&#8221; and &#8220;so want to achieve sensual euphoria (the film&#8217;s title is junkie slang for heroin ecstasy) that they overlook the risks involved;&#8221; they &#8220;are smart people who have stopped thinking.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>How does an alien spacecraft play a part in all this? Well, the alien (who we never see) &#8220;absorbs a heroin-like substance that is created in the brain at the moment of orgasm,&#8221; which we view through the alien&#8217;s eyes. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Heroin-Needle.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Heroin-Needle-1024x555.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"347\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-87203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Heroin-Needle-1024x555.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Heroin-Needle-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Heroin-Needle-128x69.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Heroin-Needle-768x417.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Heroin-Needle-498x270.png 498w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Heroin-Needle.png 1285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Peary writes that ultimately, &#8220;the alien serves as an avenging angel for Margaret, killing all those who sexually use and physically abuse her, and finally becomes her <em>deus ex machina<\/em>, rescuing and liberating her from her trapped, hopeless existence.&#8221; (This is &#8220;a rare film in which being abducted by an alien seems like a great choice for the protagonist.&#8221;) Noting that &#8220;we can deduce what happened to Margaret in her past,&#8221; Peary postulates that she &#8220;rebelled against her traditional upbringing&#8221;: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Traditional.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Traditional-1024x549.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"343\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-87211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Traditional-1024x549.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Traditional-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Traditional-128x69.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Traditional-768x412.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Traditional-503x270.png 503w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Traditional.png 1303w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; &#8220;and, asserting her independence, came to New York to make it as an actress and model,&#8221; mingling &#8220;with those on the fringes of respectability&#8221; &#8212; however, she &#8220;was disappointed to discover that &#8220;even among these &#8216;enlightened&#8217; people, she was still expected to act in a certain way.&#8221; Once she &#8220;ventured into the more extreme New Wave-punk life-style,&#8221; she was once again molded to &#8220;become like everyone else in the scene &#8212; she took drugs, took a lesbian lover, featured an androgynous look, became a &#8216;mean bitch&#8217;&#8230; and became the symbol of the life-style,&#8221; much like &#8220;an Edie Sedgwick figure, bored and drugged out of her mind, surrounded by an uncaring, pretentious art crowd&#8230; which she knows will drop her as soon as her star fades.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Models.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Models-1024x554.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"346\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-87205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Models-1024x554.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Models-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Models-128x69.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Models-768x416.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Models-499x270.png 499w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Models.png 1295w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, &#8220;what distinguishes Margaret from the vile people she associates with&#8221; is that &#8220;she realizes&#8230; it has all gone wrong.&#8221; While &#8220;New Wavers may have fled the roles that society set up for them&#8230; they have fallen into equally confining, impersonal roles&#8221;; and though &#8220;they believe their every act is an expression of free will, they have fallen into traps as deep as those in the outside world.&#8221; In essence, &#8220;Margaret figures out that being fashionable is just as restrictive as being traditional, that being androgynous eradicates one&#8217;s identity, that men at all levels of society want to demean and control women, and that women who hate women, as does Adrian [Sheppard], can be just as destructive to her as men who hate women.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Alice-Anne.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Alice-Anne-1024x567.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"354\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-87204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Alice-Anne-1024x567.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Alice-Anne-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Alice-Anne-128x71.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Alice-Anne-768x425.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Alice-Anne-488x270.png 488w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Alice-Anne-1038x576.png 1038w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Alice-Anne.png 1263w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Peary points out that &#8220;besides the interesting themes, there is much appealing in the film,&#8221; including &#8220;superb&#8221; performances by Carlisle, impressive cinematography and special effects by Yuri Neyman (particularly &#8220;the other-worldly shots of the New York skyline, with the Empire State Building spire looking like a giant syringe&#8221;), &#8220;imaginative&#8221; direction by Tsukerman,&#8221; and a script by Tsukerman, Carlisle, and Kerova that &#8220;is witty and&#8230; poignant.&#8221; Meanwhile, &#8220;the amusing scenes with Johann [von Wernherr]&#8221; &#8212; a &#8220;completely incompetent hero&#8221; &#8212; &#8220;will delight all fans of sci-fi and horror movies.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Multiple.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Multiple-1024x559.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"349\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-87209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Multiple-1024x559.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Multiple-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Multiple-128x70.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Multiple-768x419.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Multiple-495x270.png 495w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Multiple.png 1295w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Peary concludes his essay by noting that while he thinks &#8220;the film wears out long before the alien departs,&#8221; he does &#8220;enjoy <em>Liquid Sky<\/em>.&#8221; However, &#8220;it&#8217;s not that easy to recommend,&#8221; for several reasons, including the fact that &#8220;everyone who has sex in it is destroyed,&#8221; and &#8220;despite the abundance of humor, it&#8217;s a mean film, with ugly characters, ugly language, and ugly images.&#8221; It most definitely &#8220;becomes disturbing watching Margaret repeatedly slapped in the face by various men, even if Carlisle&#8217;s also playing one of them, Jimmy.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Carlisle-Both.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Carlisle-Both-1024x558.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"349\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-87217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Carlisle-Both-1024x558.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Carlisle-Both-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Carlisle-Both-128x70.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Carlisle-Both-768x418.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Carlisle-Both-496x270.png 496w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Carlisle-Both.png 1283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m essentially in agreement with Peary&#8217;s take on this film. I didn&#8217;t expect to get as caught up in it as I did, and appreciate that it&#8217;s so polished for an experimental film (which makes sense given Tsukerman&#8217;s prior decades of experience with filmmaking) &#8212; however, it&#8217;s filled with many distressing, hard-to-watch scenes. It&#8217;s especially unnerving seeing Sheppard &#8212; star of <a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1260\"><em>Alice, Sweet Alice<\/em> (1977)<\/a> &#8212; in her second and only other film role playing such an unrepentant bastard. With that said, film fanatics will surely want to check this unique film out once, even if it&#8217;s disturbing in many ways. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Notable Performances, Qualities, and Moments:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anne Carlisle as Margaret and Jimmy<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Carlisle6.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Carlisle6-1024x558.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"349\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-87221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Carlisle6-1024x558.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Carlisle6-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Carlisle6-128x70.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Carlisle6-768x418.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Carlisle6-496x270.png 496w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Carlisle6.png 1287w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Yuri Neyman&#8217;s cinematography and special effects<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Face-Makeup.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Face-Makeup-1024x559.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"349\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-87215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Face-Makeup-1024x559.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Face-Makeup-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Face-Makeup-128x70.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Face-Makeup-768x419.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Face-Makeup-495x270.png 495w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Face-Makeup.png 1285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Marina Levikova&#8217;s production and costume design<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Halo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Halo-1024x560.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"350\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-87216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Halo-1024x560.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Halo-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Halo-128x70.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Halo-768x420.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Halo-494x270.png 494w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liquid-Sky-Halo.png 1275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nYes, as a funky cult favorite. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cult Movie<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0085852\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moriareviews.com\/sciencefiction\/liquid-sky-1982.htm\">Moria Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1983\/07\/22\/movies\/liquid-sky-high-fashion-and-a-ufo.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Everybody wants euphoria. What&#8217;s wrong with that?&#8221; Synopsis: An androgynous model (Anne Carlisle) with a drug-dealing girlfriend (Paula Sheppard) suddenly realizes that her sexual encounters are resulting in death for her partners &#8212; including her former professor Owen (Bob Brady) and a soap star (Stanley Knapp) who rapes her; meanwhile, a German scientist (Otto von Wernherr) joins the shrimp-loving mother (Susan Doukas) of a gay model (also Anne Carlisle) in monitoring a UFO that has landed nearby and may be&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=87193\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87193"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87652,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87193\/revisions\/87652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}