they drive by night is a 1938 british black-and-white , crime thriller , directed by arthur b. woods starring emlyn williams as ' shorty ' , an ex-con , ernest thesiger as hoover , an ex-schoolteacher , and ronald shiner as charlie , the café proprietor .

it was produced by warner bros. - first national productions .

the film is based on the novel of the same name by james curtis .

the picture is sometimes confused with the 1940 american film , they drive by night , based on the novel the long haul by a. i. bezzerides and featuring george raft and humphrey bogart .

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they drive by night ( 1938 film ) <EOT> they - drive - by - night - 1938 . mp4 ( 375mb - 720x522 ipad / mobile ) they - drive - by - night - 1938 . wmv ( 741mb - 720x514 for computers )

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this is the 1938 british movie they drive by night , not the 1940 raoul walsh one with the same title . walsh’s film is a searing drama about truck drivers . woods’ film is a crime thriller that isn’t really about truck drivers at all , which is maybe part of the trouble with it .

they drive by night ( d . arthur woods , 1939 ) was made as a quota film by warner brothers at teddington , which had been bought and modernised by the studio in the early thirties . the fruits of these improvements show , particularly in the atmospheric soundtrack and the fluid cinematography by basil emmott .

they drive by night is a 1940 black - and - white film noir starring george raft , ann sheridan , ida lupino , and humphrey bogart , and directed by raoul walsh . the picture involves a pair of embattled truck drivers and was released in the uk under the title the road to frisco . the film was based on a . i . bezzerides ‘ 1938 novel long haul , which was later reprinted under the title they drive by night to capitalize on the success of the film . part of the film’s plot ( that of ida lupino’s character murdering her husband by carbon monoxide poisoning ) was borrowed from another warner bros . film , bordertown ( 1935 ) .

they drive by night is a 1940 black - and - white film noir starring george raft , ann sheridan , ida lupino , and humphrey bogart , and directed by raoul walsh . the picture involves a pair of embattled truck drivers and was released in the uk under the title the road to frisco . the film was based on a . i . bezzerides ' 1938 novel long haul , which was later reprinted under the title they drive by night to capitalize on the success of the film . [ 2 ] part of the film ' s plot ( that of ida lupino ' s character murdering her husband by carbon monoxide poisoning ) was borrowed from another warner bros . film , bordertown ( 1935 ) .

variety quotes from weekly variety . 16 feb 1938 . 129 : 10 . 15 .

as they pause by the fire , we cut to the circus in the nearby town .

“half social - realist drama about truckers , half women’s genre melodrama about a neurotic rich wife who murders her husband and makes a play for another man” , as robert sklar explains , even for a raoul walsh movie they drive by night is hard to define .

released in december , 1938 : a demented killer is strangling dance hall girls , and a hapless ex - con is accused and chased by the police .

the film began production in september 1937 and continued until january 1938 , with its premiere coming on february 18 , just over a month after shooting wrapped .

when the film was released , the new york times film critic , bosley crowther , gave the film a positive review , writing , “but for fanciers of hard - boiled cinema , they drive by night still offers an entertaining ride . as mr . raft modestly remarks of his breed , ‘we’re tougher than any truck ever come off an assembly line . ’ that goes for the picture , too . ”

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fun fact : one million dollars in 1938 money is about sixteen million in 2015 cash . so it’s a big deal .

when the film was released , the new york times film critic , bosley crowther , gave the film a positive review , writing , " but for fanciers of hard - boiled cinema , they drive by night still offers an entertaining ride . as mr . raft modestly remarks of his breed , ' we ' re tougher than any truck ever come off an assembly line . ' that goes for the picture , too . " [ 6 ]

the turning point came with " the light that failed , " in which she forcefully played a vengeful prostitute who betrays an artist going blind ( ronald colman ) . that performance and her next one , as a demented murderer in " they drive by night , " won her a long - term contract at warner brothers .

the beginning of the 1940s in hollywood sees the loosening of genre conventions as different movie formats began to interbreed . in particular a kind of gangster - flick meanness began to shove its way into regular drama , eventually producing the style we now call film noir . they drive by night is an odd little transition movie from this period , one of those awkward little steps in an evolutionary process .

they drive by night shows the realities of life for women scraping by selling sex , whether on drummond street , lisle street or the great north road . they are the victims of abuse , poverty , sexual assault , murder . while the novel is a fast - paced , exciting read that stands out for its use of language and its shifting locations , it is much more , the author’s subtle social commentary adding another , deeper layer to the story . john king

of course the device of slightly barmy yet beautiful women bumping off their husbands would become something of a film noir staple . but here is where they drive by night shows its primitiveness alongside later noirs . raft resists lupino like a saint , and stays true to goody - goody anne sheridan ( and on the subject of sheridan , why is she suddenly transformed from smooth - talking floozy to prim housewife - in - waiting ? ) over the next two decades fred macmurray , orson welles and even jimmy stewart would be getting suckered in by the “wrong kind of woman” and being dragged down to a sorry end . and perhaps this is the final flaw in they drive by night . in pictures like this , we don’t want perfect morals and cosy endings . we want the hero to take the bait hook , line and sinker .

ridiculously , i’ve never watched hell drivers , though i have a copy here . i think that one would make a good double with the us they drive , or with jules dassin’s thieves’ highway .

despite his politicised criticism of the justice system , his anger at the way he saw the legal machine working for the rich in a capitalist system , curtis avoids preaching in his novels . his ideas act as props for his sentences , fuel the energy of his narratives . they drive by night is packed with observation and sense of place – whether london or the major roads of the north . it is also full of his trademark use of slang and working - class dialogue . as jonathan meades shows in his introduction to the new london classics edition , they drive by night is a dream come true for anyone interested in this sort of language . while curtis captures the speech of ordinary men and women , by moving into the margins of society he is able to record its more outrageous use . this ability alone makes james curtis a true cult author .

sources : bazin , andré . orson welles : a critical view . foreword by françois truffaut ; profile by jean cocteau ; translated from the french by jonathan rosenbaum . new york : harper & row , 1978 .

it was after the release of bringing up baby that the independent theatre owners of america included hepburn on a list of actors they called “box office poison . ” the list , published in the independent film journal in may 1938 , also included such legends as joan crawford , fred astaire , and greta garbo .

in the course of more than 50 films , miss lupino was a spiteful cockney in " the light that failed " ( 1939 ) , a crazed wife in " they drive by night " ( 1940 ) , a loyal girlfriend in " high sierra " ( 1941 ) , an escaped convict in " the sea wolf " ( 1941 ) and a steely murderer in " ladies in retirement " ( 1941 ) .

after holiday was released in june 1938 , audiences had to wait about eighteen months before seeing grant and hepburn in their fourth and final film , the philadelphia story ( 1941 ) . i wish that grant and hepburn had made more films together . it always looks as though they are having a marvelous time onscreen .

runyonesque broadway gamblers turn patriotic when they stumble onto a cell of nazi saboteurs .

in they drive by night shorty recognises molly from the caffs on the edgware road , and this busy street leading into central london seems to have been similar to the tottenham court road of the day , full of wide boys and chisellers . the edgware road is more upmarket these days , though still known for its middle eastern food , the greasy spoons of curtis’s time replaced by eateries dealing in cheap meze , felafel and coffee . curtis wouldn’t have minded . spaghetti was still considered exotic in the thirties .

david and susan head off into the night to try and catch baby before the zoo does . george ran off while they were on the phone , so david keeps an eye out for the terrier , too .

when this film was released in early 1938 , variety called bringing up baby “the most frantic and whirligig of recent film funnies” with “general ludicrous hullaballoo . ” ( its “whirligig” nature is due to the fact that the movie contains all the conventions and tropes of screwball comedy bundled into 102 minutes of nonstop nuttiness . )

the locations mentioned in they drive by night will interest london lovers , both for the fact they can be identified today and also for the way in which they have changed since the thirties . drummond street , where alice lives and dies , is now lined with south indian diners in a somers town that is largely asian . but it isn’t hard to imagine the area in the thirties , when it housed a different population – transient , verging on criminality perhaps , a short walk into soho or camden town , the old boozers full of characters from patrick hamilton’s trilogy twenty thousand streets under the sky , which was based around a local pub .

the promoter immediately shifts his sights to a rival tennis player , and millie is rebuffed by her husband and her daughter . the final shot of the film shows millie at night , alone , sitting in the now empty bleachers of the championship tennis court , her plans for vicarious stardom smashed .

but aunt elizabeth and major applegate stumble on baby first as they stroll around the house .

not to be confused with either nicholas ray ' s melancholic 1949 crime tale they live by night or raoul walsh ' s 1940 action - melodrama ( which borrowed only its title ) , this british thriller concerns one flawed man ' s attempts at clearing his name . they drive by night stars emlyn williams as shorty , a just - released convict eager to reunite with his girlfriend - - whom he finds strangled to death when he reaches her apartment . certain the police won ' t look favorably upon him should he report the dead body , shorty enlists the help of ex - girlfriend molly ( anna konstam ) in an attempt to find the real killer , amidst the intrusions of walter hoover ( ernst thesiger ) , a creepy forensic criminologist who might know more than he lets on . ~ michael hastings , rovi

as mentioned above , i’m not really sure how one would classify this film since there is humor , film noir , soap opera , straight drama and romance all in it . the combination makes the film interesting and recommended .

“ south of the chocolate mountains : scattered impressions of the hitch - hiker ” bright lights film journal essay on lupino’s film the hitch - hiker .

they drive by night shifts between the claustrophobic streets of central london and the open roads of the north , the urban screwsman hitching rides on lorries driven by hardened working men , discovering a petrol - soaked world of roadside caffs and travelling tarts searching for a lift and a ‘present’ . shorty is soon the subject of a police manhunt and endures several adventures , along the way meeting up with molly , an old friend from their time as ‘chavvies’ on the edgware road . he saves her from being raped by a couple of ‘gutter crawlers’ , beating the men to a pulp for their assault , his actions in direct contrast to the plans of the real killer back in london .

thank you ! i love grant in his comedies , too . thanks for stopping by !

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miss lupino is survived by a daughter , bridget duff , and a sister , rita lupino .

living in the quieter neighbourhood of clapham junction , but operating around the west end , alice’s killer is becoming more and more deranged . mental ramblings reveal his identity , though he refers to himself as the lone wolf and sees his psychopathic behaviour as a form of cleansing . he is wiping the scum from the streets , eliminating prostitutes so they won’t pester decent citizens for money . this is social cleansing by the cleansing flame , a mask for his failure , perversion and class prejudice . he strikes again and they drive by night turns full circle . the streetwalker queenie glimpses the killer . the police keep hunting shorty , but drag in the victim’s pimp big harry and accuse him of this latest murder . the hangman’s noose awaits one of these men .

this film won best director and actor at the 1956 asian film festival famas awards for best actor , picture , story , editing , and sound . [ ↩ ]

they stumble through the woods with a butterfly net and a croquet mallet , the classic leopard hunting tools .

they stop to dry off , and of course susan sets fire to one of david’s socks . typical .

when aunt elizabeth realizes that susan is not actually at home , she and major applegate go down to the jail . but the constable doesn’t believe that they are who they say they are either , so he locks them up ! gogarty ends up in a cell , too , and soon everyone is collected behind bars .

yes , the urban sceneries of metro manila are well - depicted in this film like the case of “victory joe” on war - torn manila and in other film retros .

brothers paul and joe fabrini run a trucking business in california mainly shipping fruit from farms to the markets in los angeles . they struggle to make ends meet in the face of corrupt businessmen and intense competition . they are forced into driving long hours and one night pick - up waitress cassie hartley who ' s just quit her job at a truck stop . the three of them witness the death of a mutual acquaintance when he falls asleep at the wheel . this has a profound effect on paul and joe and they become determined to find a way to make the business pay so they can quit .

just before the boys pull into haig ' s truck stop there is a night scene of the truck on the highway with two cars behind it , and a road marker showing . after they leave haig ' s the same scene is shown again with only a cloud slightly different .

the bigamist was the last of lupino’s films under her rko deal , which was not renewed . for the first time , lupino appeared in a film that she directed . the production is surrounded by considerable irony , inasmuch as it was joan fontaine’s involvement with collier young ( and lupino’s corresponding association with actor howard duff ) that precipitated the divorce between lupino and young . young and fontaine were then married , as were lupino and duff . the film was distributed by the filmakers group after rko passed on the complete film . without the necessary national distribution mechanism afforded by a major studio , the film failed to obtain adequate bookings and the filmakers went out of business .

established in 1938 , lvn was among the big three studios whose output accounted for 65 % of the films produced from 1946 to 1960 , a period roughly coextensive with the golden age of filipino filmmaking . 6 the commercially profitable star vehicles crafted by executive producer doña sisang 7 at lvn were an admixture of nationalism , commercialism , and escapism . director lamberto avellana recalls her saying , “why remind audiences of their hardship ? ” 8 studio era escapism was most often achieved by predictable happy endings . yet in gregorio fernandez’s 1955 melodrama higit sa lahat [ above all ] 9 , the obligatory narrative resolution is undermined by the film’s trenchant critique of postwar materialism .

it is possible that author james curtis served time in prison . much of his life remains shrouded in mystery , but his descriptions of life behind bars , his knowledge of procedure , suggest this is more than speculation . it is safe to say that he didn’t trust the justice system . his non - fiction work , a guide to british liberties , published as part of the fact series in september , 1937 , is clear evidence of this , but it is in his fiction where his beliefs are more flamboyantly revealed , novels such as they drive by night and the gilt kid being obvious examples .

and that’s not all that’s wrong with the story . they drive by night sets itself up , quite promisingly , as a gritty action drama about the lives of bottom - rung truckers . then , halfway through , the plot is hijacked by lupino and turned into some femme - fatale murder wotsit , and all the business about trying to scrape a meagre profit and stay awake on long hauls ( not to mention bogart’s character ) is forgotten . it’s not that this is confusing , as both parts are fairly straightforward , it’s just that neither of them is fully developed . each bit looks like half a movie , the first one trailing off into nothing , the second boiled down into forty minutes of clichés .

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with the headline : ida lupino , film actress and director , is dead at 77 .

unexpectedly , the “kung ako’y mahal mo” was an enjoyable and well - polished film by dr . gregorio fernandez – the father of merly fernandez ( of “uhaw” fame ) and the late rudy fernandez .

she was married to ( and divorced from ) the actor louis hayward ( 1938 to 1945 ) as well as mr . young ( 1948 to 1951 ) . she and howard duff were married in 1951 and divorced in 1983 . he died in 1990 .

fun fact : virginia walker was the first actress that howard hawks signed to a personal contract . he “loaned” her to rko to play miss swallow . she married hawks’ brother william ( bill ) just a few months after making this movie in june 1938 .

unfortunately , he wasn’t vindicated until decades later , and was instead punished for the film . hawks’ refusal to listen to rko executives , the film’s lackluster box office , and the damnable fact that bringing up baby went $ 306 , 000 over budget and forty days behind schedule , made rko so mad that they removed him from gunga din ( 1939 ) , and gave the film to director george stevens .

ida lupino’s first big break came in william wellman’s 1940 production of the light that failed , a role that lupino fought for over the objections of wellman , co - star ronald colman , and her advisors , who assured her that the unsympathetic cockney girl she played in the film would alienate audiences . instead , lupino walked away with the film and emerged as a major star as the year drew to a close . signing with warner brothers , lupino commanded star billing in such gritty classics as they drive by night ( raoul walsh , 1940 ) , high sierra ( walsh , 1941 ) , the sea wolf ( michael curtiz , 1941 ) , and ladies in retirement ( charles vidor , 1941 ) . in 1943 , ida lupino received the best actress award from the new york film critics association for her work in the hard way , but , in truth , she was becoming disenchanted with her career as an actress .

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evans , peter william . carol reed . british film makers . manchester university press , 2005 .

warner brothers were not confident of the film ' s commercial potential , and after having gained an american certificate ( minus a shot of a book entitled ' sex in relation to society ' in hoover ' s collection ) they told the censors that they couldn ' t get a negative out of britain , and were therefore not planning a us release .

barbara scharres , “ida lupino” , the film center gazette , 16 . 2 , p . 4 .

an american tanker is sunk by a german u - boat and the survivors spend eleven days at sea on a raft . they ' re next assigned to the liberty ship " sea witch " bound for murmansk through the sub - stalked north atlantic .

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and then it’s back to leopard hunting ! they see baby on the roof of a house , so they do what any normal person would do , and begin singing baby’s favorite song to get him to come down . george is there , too , so he contributes to the serenade . i love this moment because susan and david seem to forget why they are singing and instead focus on harmonizing !

one night after homely and portly ed drinks himself into a stupor , forcing lana to drive , she parks in the garage . ed is too drunk to walk , and walsh holds the shot on lupino’s eyes as lana begins to think through the plot of her husband’s “accidental” death . never overplayed by lupino as she leaves the motor idling and exits the garage , walsh provides the film’s greatest shot as he tracks her walking from the garage in a moment of horror and guilt as the doors close behind her , announcing the garage as a gas chamber for her unconscious spouse . in this scene , walsh gives us a femme fatale that is equally impulsive , real , and terrifying .

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once grant was cast , bringing up baby became the second of four films starring cary grant and katharine hepburn . their first was sylvia scarlett ( 1935 ) , followed by bringing up baby and holiday , which they started filming just eight days after baby premiered .

shorty lays down to sleep and the mother cat approaches him but the scene cuts off . later in the film molly and shorty are joined by the mysterious walter hoover ( ernest thesiger ) who states that he believes in shorty’s innocence . this is because hoover is the real killer and shorty suspects this . while they are talking , the mama cat appears at hoover’s feet .

i did not know that about night must fall ! it makes sense that there’s a personal connection behind it . i read a murder is arranged and thought it a bit bland , but nmf is electric stuff .

a loose adaptation of a . i . bezzerides’s terrific pulp novel long haul ( 1938 ) , about brothers hauling loads between los angeles and san francisco , the film was scripted by jerry wald and richard macaulay — the writing team behind the roaring twenties ( raoul walsh , 1939 ) and manpower ( raoul walsh , 1941 ) . wald would later co - produce a number of walsh’s movies at warner bros . including background to danger ( 1943 ) , objective , burma ! ( 1945 ) , and one sunday afternoon ( 1948 ) .

five patriotic convicts are helped to escape imprisonment in devil ' s island so they can fight for occupied free french forces against the nazis .

david tries to make her understand that she is driving his car , but his efforts are useless , as we knew they would be .

susan is also upset that they hit the truck in the first place , though she neatly sidesteps any culpability . as she tells david :

susan hurries to tell david not to call the zoo–she doesn’t want them to take aunt elizabeth’s leopard away ! but she’s too late . the zoo’s staff is already out searching for baby , and david told them they can keep the cat if they find him ! oh dear !

dorothy arzner was the only woman director working in the hollywood film industry in the early 1940s ; her last film , first comes courage ( 1943 ) was a powerfully feminist production starring merle oberon as norwegian freedom fighter , working undercover . the film retains arzner’s individual stamp , although columbia took the film out of her hands as the end of production neared when she fell ill , and brought in director charles vidor to complete the project , who just three years later would score his biggest success with gilda ( 1946 ) . after first comes courage , columbia terminated arzner’s contract , and from 1943 to 1949 there was not a single film directed by a woman made in hollywood .

the theatrical trailer of classic raoul walsh ' s classic noir film with bogart and george raft . . . .

i love this film and am jealous of the quality of the copy you’ve got . mine is just awful .

they drive out to boopy’s house , but he’s asleep . so susan grabs a handful of pebbles and throws them at his bedroom window to wake him up . she doesn’t think the first flurry did it , so she grabs a bigger rock and hurls it towards the window , where it hits boopy right in the forehead . he’s knocked out , so david and susan hightail it out of there .

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in a jarring plot shift and performance , this film demonstrates the way that walsh often used his female actors to subvert his stories and genres by often taking them into much darker and complex places than anyone ( especially the men ) thought possible .

lvn is an acronym for the surnames of its three founders : narcisa buencamino vda de leon , carmen villongco , and eleuterio navoa , jr . tiongson writes , “the 1950s and early 1960s have been described by many writers as the golden age of the filipino film… [ because ] most of the films churned out by the big three studios of this period – sampaguita pictures , lvn , and premiere productions… achieved a higher level of technological expertise and artistry in filmmaking . ” nicanor tiongson , “the filipino film industry , ” east - west film journal 6 . 2 ( 1992 ) : 29 . [ ↩ ]

vivian sobchack , “lounge time : postwar crises and the chronotope of film noir” refiguring american film genres : history and theory ed . nick browne ( university of california press , 1998 ) 130 , 157 - 159 . [ ↩ ]

they had a great time offscreen , too . in her autobiography me : stories of my life , hepburn remembers in her typical blunt fashion how much fun she and grant had making bringing up baby : “cary was so funny on this picture . he was fatter , and at this point his boiling energy was at its peak . we would laugh from morning to night . ”

not wanted ( 1949 ) . credited to elmer clifton , but lupino directed all or virtually all of this film .

williams cast himself as the kind of guy he went for . as i trust you know night must fall was inspired by williams’s discovery that an ex - boyfriend had become a serial killer . his interest in the moors muders ( beyond belife is really something ) shows his interest in murderers didn’t wane . thus he’s somewhere between patricia highsmith and dennis cooper in literary iconography .

then the drivers from the circus arrive and ask for the constable’s help in tracking down their dangerous leopard . they’ve barely had time to tell their story when baby wanders in . the circus guys realize that baby isn’t the leopard they were transporting , which means that there are two different cats loose in connecticut !

the review aggregator rotten tomatoes reported that 94 % of critics gave the film a positive review , based on 17 reviews .

on dangerous ground ( 1952 ) . lupino directed certain scenes during director nicholas ray’s absence from the film due to illness .

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welles , orson ; bogdanovich , peter . this is orson welles . edited by jonathan rosenbaum . new york : da capo press , 1998 .

the director is raoul walsh , which is a bit of a mixed omen . although walsh was a fine craftsman , no studio ever gave him a really important project since the big trail in 1930 and nearly all his later pictures smack of potboiler . still , a good man with a bad movie . in they drive by night he keeps his camera close to the action to elicit a feeling of intensity and restlessness . he doesn’t over - emphasise interiors and doesn’t clutter shots with props or shadows , but still the atmosphere is cramped with the way actors all seem to huddle together , filling the frame . he uses wider , open shots for emphasis at important moments in the same way another director might use a close - up . still , the story lacks the free - spirited romanticism that inspired walsh’s most memorable moments .

susan , meanwhile , is upset that they had to pay for the birds that baby ate . she thinks they should have run away , instead . but david responds with these sage words : “when a man is wrestling a leopard in the middle of the pond , he is in no position to run ! ”

susan and david have to cross a small stream to get to the animals , but susan assures david that it’s shallow , and they stride boldly across . but just two steps in , and the water is over their heads . susan sputters : “the riverbeds changed ! ” as they swim back to the bank .

many are the ads for player’s cigarettes in this film ! i won’t reproduce them all or you will be hypnotised into craving the smooth smoke doctors recommend , and i don’t want that on my conscience . the items offered by charlie’s include teas , you will note . for a hard - boiled crime drama , this film shows quite a lot of tea being drunk . it’s an odd effect .

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all i want to know is , how do movie companies come up with the title for movies ? give me a break - they drive by night - doesn ' t that sound like a movie about working class truck drivers , and their adventures on the road ? nothing could be further from the plot of this intense thriller . does it suggest a story about a demented killer ? does the name suggest that there will be dancing girls at the center of the story ? does it suggest that our killer will make the hairs on the back of our neck stand at attention when he is on the screen ? i got none of this from the name of the movie , but it holds all of this and more . i dare say that this is one of the finest thrillers to ever come out of the wonderful isle of britain - and it would have made suspense master hitchcock jealous if he watched it and knew that he didn ' t make this film .

david returns to mr . peabody and they try to restart their game . but david leaves the lawyer a second time when he sees susan attempting to drive off in his car ! i say “attempting” because she’s struggling to pull out of the parking space without demolishing the bumpers on david’s car and the one parked next to it . david yells , “i’ll be with you in a minute , mr . peabody ! ” and runs to the parking lot .

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" angels with dirty faces " has become a favorite bogart film by default ; it has been shown so often and has served as the prime source of material for countless satirists and impressionists it is the familiar tale of two young boys who grow up to be on opposing sides of the fieldone a gangster ( james cagney ) and the other a priest , ( pat o ' brien ) . the story was obviously sentimental its saving virtues were the performances by the leads , clever and suave , energetic direction by michael curtiz , and a good music score by max steiner bogart had little , and certainly nothing new , to do as he played cagney ' s lawyer - turned - nightclub - owner who double - crosses him

ida lupino , an earthy , intelligent movie actress who created a luminous gallery of worldly wise villainesses , gangster ' s molls and hand - wringing neurotics , died on thursday night at her home in burbank , calif . she was 77 years old .

ronnie scheib , “ida lupino : auteuress” , film comment , 16 ( january , 1980 ) , pp . 54 - 64 .

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the presence of warner brothers ( along with other american involvement in the industry at the time ) begins to account for this , but the film was also the product of a film industry that was unsure of its future audience as it approached the second world war .

crowther , bosley . the new york times , film review , july 27 , 1940 . last accessed : february 27 , 2011 .

if you don’t enjoy absurd , nonsensical exchanges like this one , you may not love this film…it’s basically 102 minutes of such screwiness .

my favorite part of this film is when susan says she was born on the side of a hill . i love your screenshots 🙂

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gogarty is understandably terrified and runs into the house babbling about a leopard . everyone assumes he is just drunk , but of course david and susan know better . they run to the barn to check on baby and are horrified when they see the empty stall . david tries to calm a hysterical susan , but it doesn’t work very well :

the doubling continues throughout the film : susan drives away with david riding on the running board twice , she steals two different cars , and the pair end up beneath a bedroom window at two different houses . there are two nearly identical purses , two confused phone calls with alice , two missed appointments with mr . peabody , and of course two leopards ! even miss swallow and susan could be considered doubles . they look alike , though they are the complete opposites in personality .

the leading role went to george raft , which was as good a way as any of sticking some gangland atmosphere into the picture . raft can’t act though , at least not very well , being at turns jittery and wooden – very much the poor man’s cagney . he should have gone into musicals like cagney did , as he was a very good dancer . raft is supported by humphrey bogart , who was at the time just on the cusp of becoming a major star , although no - one knew it at the time . it looks very odd to see him next to raft , a bit like spotting elvis presley in somebody’s backing band , since although he is rarely centre - stage he has fantastic presence , always on the verge of upstaging . they drive by night also features one of the earliest big parts for ida lupino , and i regret to say she is at her most hysterically bad . admittedly bits of her performance look ok , but to see the whole thing shows it to be very forced and calculated , lacking in any kind of natural flow .

well yes ! although that one’s a bit long for double - billing . at the eiff screening the audience staggered out , drained , looking older than when they went in .

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also known as : murder on the run warner brothers - first national productions starring : emlyn williams , ernest thesiger , anna konstam directed by : arthur b . woods

traipsing through the woods at night presents many opportunities for slapstick , and hawks and his stars hit them all . for example , susan gets whacked in the face by branches as she follows david through a thicket . when she asks if maybe she should go first , david answers chivalrously that she’d better not because she might get hurt . she thanks him and then takes a tremendous thwack in the face from branches he releases as he walks on .

according to tcm , this scene was inspired by a real - life incident . cary grant was at the metropolitan museum of art seated next to the manager of the museum and his wife in a theater . at one point , grant stood up to let the wife walk by . he noticed that his fly was unzipped , so he unobtrusively zipped it up just as the woman passed him . but he accidentally zipped part of her dress into his fly , and the zipper stuck ! grant and the woman had to walk in lockstep to the manager’s office to get some pliers . grant told hawks about the incident , and they added it to the film .

the review aggregator rotten tomatoes reported that 94 % of critics gave the film a positive review , based on 17 reviews . " [ 7 ]

to the film ! on april 10 , 1937 , collier’s weekly published a short story by hagar wilde entitled “bringing up baby . ” ( oddly enough , “stage to lordsburg” the story upon which stagecoach ( 1939 ) was based , appeared in the same issue ! ) you can read wilde’s story here –it’s delightful .

it’s also intriguing because sometimes people i recommend it to today don’t “get it . ” they come back to me with confusion and faint exhaustion in their eyes , and say “it was just so weird . ” i think most of their reaction is due to the genre of the film . we don’t have screwball ( in the classical sense ) anymore , and bringing up baby is about as screwball as they come . so if you’re expecting a typical romantic comedy , this movie will knock you for a loop .

grabbing a bus out of london — the conductor is “billy hartnell” , future film star ( brighton rock ) and tv’s first dr . who — our emlyn winds up at the first of the film’s several transport cafes , where camp coffee is on offer but the long distance drivers inexplicably prefer tea . it was at “greasy spoons” like this that anthony “puffin” asquith , top film director and son of the prime minister , would moonlight , helping out in the kitchen in order to pick up truckers . emlyn is himself picked up by a trucker , and after numerous adventures , ends up — at another cafe .

as one might expect , the table’s occupant is bewildered by this stranger’s presence . but susan introduces herself without a hint of embarrassment . she isn’t constrained by society’s rules , and we like her for it . this is one way that the film sets up susan as miss swallow’s opposite . remember how miss swallow chastised david for using slang , and otherwise stretching the rules of polite society ? well , susan breaks more conventions than she upholds , and she has a wonderful time doing it .

a world war ii u - boat crew are stranded in northern canada . to avoid internment , they must make their way to the border and get into the still - neutral usa .

i love this scene because both susan and david get to be the heroes at different times . it’s not just david rescuing susan or the other way around . they’re a good pair .

lupino’s first production company was named emerald productions . ida lupino had been married from 1938 to 1945 to actor louis hayward , but , shortly after her divorce from hayward , lupino met and fell in love with production executive collier young , who was then working for columbia pictures . ida lupino and collier young were married in 1948 , and , shortly thereafter , lupino , young and anson bond ( owner of bond’s clothing ) formed emerald productions . shortly thereafter , bond decided that film production was too risky and his share of the partnership was bought out by screenwriter malvin wald . with this change in partnership , emerald productions became simply the filmakers , and ida lupino was ready to realize her dream as a director of theatrical motion pictures .

lucy ann stewart , ida lupino as a film director , 1949 - 1953 : an auteur approach ( new york : arno press , 1980 ) .

the adam’s rib connection is wonderful , thank you ! that makes the additions to wilde’s story make more sense . i’m glad you enjoyed my review ! thanks for stopping by !

susan and david eventually spot baby and george . the animals are wrestling in a clearing , but it appears to be a friendly bout . i’m not sure how they were able to film that scene with confidence , as it really is asta and nissa rolling around and pawing at each other . if nissa got mad…but everything turned out okay .

david says that he can’t wait to celebrate , but miss swallow crushes his hopes of a honeymoon . now that the intercostal clavicle has been found , she insists that they come straight back to the museum after they are married so that david can get on with his work . the completion of the brontosaurus is much too important to delay for such a minor event as their marriage .

he’s thinking ( he could be a model for rodin’s “the thinker” ) about where the bone in his hand fits in the skeleton . he’s called back to earth by the arrival of a telegram announcing some very happy news . the museum’s expedition in utah has finally found the brontosaurus’ intercostal clavicle ! david is thrilled because it’s the last bone they need to complete the fossil !

after being released from prison , notorious thief roy earle is hired by his old boss to help a group of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery of a california resort .

it is also worth noting that the hitch - hiker was made by lupino and the filmakers company after her divorce from collier young , and represents a return to the director’s chair after a two - year hiatus . though filming of the hitch - hiker went smoothly , and all seemed well on the surface ( collier young even appeared in a cameo within the film as a sleeping “mexican peon” ) , there is an atmosphere of real violence in the film – not only in the subject matter , but also in lupino’s relentless pacing , hyperkinetic camera set - ups , and her intense use of oppressive close - ups to heighten the film’s suspense .


liquid sky is an independent american science fiction film .

it debuted at the montreal film festival in august 1982 and was well received at several film festivals thereafter .

it was produced with a budget of $ 500,000 .

it became the most successful independent film of 1983 grossing $ 1.7 million in the first several months of release .

the film is seen as heavily influencing a club scene that emerged in the early 2000s in brooklyn , berlin , paris , and london called electroclash .

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liquid sky <EOT> how to use liquid sky / what is liquid sky | s . c . production |

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i performed my first ceremony at liquid sky estate , a few miles south of half moon bay on a bluff overlooking the pacific ocean .

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what is liquid sky 2 going to be about ? i can tell you it’s about margaret coming back from outer space today , and what’s happening here .

knowingly kitsch , liquid sky uses the most basic effects and featuring music and fashion that were cutting edge at the time , it now looks fashionably retro .

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the average wedding cost at liquid sky estate is estimated at between $ 6 , 000 and $ 7 , 510 for a ceremony only for 100 guests .

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liquid sky is one of the forerunners of the quirky american independent movement that exchanged substance for style , and , love it or hate it , is a true original .

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a terrific update to this interview : after publication , director slava tsukerman clarified that , in liquid sky 2 , the brilliant anne carlisle will return in the role of margaret .

cetrella is thrilled to offer our sister property , the liquid sky ocean front estate , as the california coast ' s premiere destination venue . liquid sky is a 30 - acre private estate located along scenic highway one south of san francisco . the estate and ceremony site are perched on the bluff tops overlooking the magnificent pacific ocean providing stunning 180 degree views of the northern california coastline . in addition to the captivating setting , liquid sky offers complete privacy ; with nothing except meadows and ocean around you , the stunning natural elements accentuate the sense of occasion . liquid sky estate is available for stand alone ceremonies or a ceremony followed by a cocktail hour . you may combine your ceremony with a sit down reception at cetrella restaurant in downtown half moon bay for a complete event package . liquid sky is also available for private luncheons , dinner parties , wine tastings , overnight rentals & more . host the event of a lifetime !

these questions are at the heart of liquid sky , a group exhibition and the first installment in a series of projects organized by marc - olivier wahler about the elasticity of the real .

gorbachev watched it during the putsch . hipsters still flock to it . the director of ‘liquid sky , ’ which features aliens and addicts in ’80s new york , reveals how he made a cult classic .

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liquid sky can accommodate up to ten guests in five cabins , including an owner’s suite , two doubles and two twins . meanwhile , her crew quarters are large enough for a staff of nine people .

where is it now ? places you’d expect least of all , like germany and the czech republic . i think every year in leipzig they have thousands of people in make - up and all that , for a big event . the most commercially successful countries for liquid sky were germany and japan . a japanese distributor told me that no film influenced a generation like liquid sky did , it changed a generation .

at the liquid sky property there is a large indoor facility for the bridal party’s use which includes a full - sized deck on the roof with a 360 degree view of the ocean and the surrounding countryside .

tsukerman , who’s now an affable man in his mid - 70s , came to new york from the soviet union , by way of israel , seven years before making liquid sky . ( he is the director of 42 other films , including the documentary stalin’s wife and the narrative film perestroika . ) in a way particular to the new york experience , liquid sky takes the perspective of both a knowing insider and a hapless observer of new wave culture . he and his audience are just as deserving of admission to a junkie fashion shoot as margaret , the “uptight wasp” from connecticut turned alien host . and that’s what makes liquid sky a gotham classic worth revisiting .

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liquid sky is a sister property with cetrella restaurant . they state on the website that “…liquid sky estate is available for stand alone ceremonies or a ceremony followed by a cocktail hour . you may combine your ceremony with a sit down reception at cetrella restaurant in downtown half moon bay for a complete event package . ” the restaurant offers a mediterranean cuisine in half moon bay at the quiet end of the town and has an elegant , european atmosphere .

equipped with 1450hp cat engines for ocean cruising , liquid sky was designed by norway’s espen oeino , whose signature is found on some of the world ' s most high - profile yachts , including microsoft co - founder paul allen’s octopus .

it seems the fashion community is one that still has high regard for the movie . absolutely — it’s played at the fashion film festival , once in london and once in new york . and in the years after liquid sky , maria [ the costume designer ] and i would be walking down the street and see clothes in the window at bloomingdales that looked very much like what was in liquid sky . from the beginning , we were very conscious of our attempt to influence the world’s style . and you saw the same technique of influence with annie hall , which really influenced the style of the world . but there’s a sense of humor to the fashion in liquid sky , like everything in the film .

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most of the best sci - fi movies made today are done by people who studied stanley kubrick ' s classic sci - fi epic movie , 2001 : a space odyssey and liquid sky ! but only liquid sky was able to break free from the traditional sexual archetypes into a totally new realm of the senses , because in emotionally exploring sexual androgyny it actually restores one ' s desire for and appreciation of sentimentality in otherwise sexually exploratory relationships . at least that is what anne carlisle achieved with her performance .

capturing the manner and humor of a comic strip about punk culture , liquid sky is the brain product of slava tsukerman , a soviet emigre in ny ; like the aliens in his cult flick , he explores the exotic pleasures denied him in his native country .

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as i could easily tell from friday’s audience at the bam , this is a movie beloved by the stylish , fashion - conscious and achingly cool . being a fan of liquid sky carries the cachet of degenerate hipness to this day , 32 years after it was filmed .

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cüneyt okçu , shipyard manager and projects coordinator at cmb yachts , hinted at additional launches in 2018 , adding : “in line with our strategies , we will continue to work on projects , such as liquid sky , that will create excitement in the sector in future years . ”

if a sequel to liquid sky emerges out of the current work of carlisle and tsukerman , there will be a built - in audience . asking the young movie - goers at the screening at the bam what this 32 - year - old film meant to them , i was told that it liberated them to embrace their artistic leanings and even their sexuality . for at least one young woman with aqua - blue hair , liquid sky was what prompted her and gave her the courage to move to the big city from wisconsin . and this despite the morose speech given by the main character about the hardness of the new york life , which seems to include a lot of waiting on tables while waiting for your big break . but it’s still fabulous . maybe therein lies the ongoing appeal of liquid sky , captured in that infinite sunset .

the fascinatingly androgynous anne cowrote the 1983 cult film liquid sky , a sort of sci - fi / bohemia mashup set amidst the new york city new wave scene . the film started with some fashion show antics , and interestingly , anne played both the bisexual model margaret and her male rival , jimmy . she was sort of the love child of tilda swinton and annie lennox . anne also had edgy roles in desperately seeking susan and crocodile dundee . the last i heard , she was working in psychotherapy in florida , and a liquid sky sequel was being planned .

a detail that struck me is that apparently it’s not just the hip and fashionable who enjoy liquid sky . slava tsukerman told me that during the august putsch of 1991 , when gorbachev was held prisoner by kgb guards in the resort of foros , in the crimea , he was allowed to make an ‘entertainment’ order for himself and his wife raisa . so while the old guard was attempting to restore rigid communism in moscow , the kgb agents provided mikhail and raisa gorbachev with something to take their mind off things ; a few bottles of white and the film liquid sky .

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is this a comedy ? like with many a cult film , there is no concrete answer . slava explained that some early viewers thought that the humor was unintentional , and experienced the film earnestly , while now the culture has grown up enough to understand the sarcasm and dark humor of liquid sky . i’m inclined to agree ; the theatre was rollicking at some gory and vicious things at the screening , which were understood to be deliberate exaggerations and tongue in cheek . the referential and cynical style that rules today’s humor is better for enjoying liquid sky than the purist authenticity of the early punk 80’s .

the plot isn ' t the film ' s greatest asset , nor are its insights into margaret , larry and the brave new world of affectless androgyny that they inhabit . instead , it ' s the overall resourcefulness of mr . tsukerman and his talented colleagues that gives ' ' liquid sky ' ' its high style .

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“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 . ”

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liquid sky is a 30 - acre private estate located along scenic highway one south of san francisco . the estate and ceremony site are perched on the bluff tops overlooking the magnificent pacific ocean providing stunning 180 - degree views of the northern california coastline . surrounded by cypress and pine trees , wild flowers and native grasses , liquid sky offers dramatic beauty as you wind down the private driveway towards the house . ceremonies are performed on the front of the lawn , facing the ocean and the cliffs so that all can enjoy the lull of the crashing waves , the rugged coastline views and the gentle ocean breezes . the estate provides is one of the most romantic and secluded ceremony sites on the northern california coast .

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 . judgmental fashion reporters cackle straight into the camera . catwalk scenes take place in rooms both comically small and accurately sized to real new york spaces . and the slang - heavy dialogue , which the director slava tsukerman credits largely to the main actress and co - screenwriter anne carlisle , is bold and delightfully stilted :

i have to admit that what attracted me most about liquid sky was a specific scene : when margaret ( played by anne carlisle ) gets really intimate with adrian ( played by paula e . sheppard ) . the scene would have risked getting the movie an x rating if slava had not decided to release the movie as unrated . without a rating , the movie would only be shown to adults , but would avoid being labelled pornographic . after all ; liquid sky , though having a strong erotic art element to it , is by no means a porno . nevertheless : i , myself , would have wanted to be ravaged by both adrian and margaret ; as i am sure would many others who consider this movie to be especially memorable !

in contrast to all the weird quirky - ness , wildness , of almost everyone and everything in liquid sky ; the flying saucer , designed by gennady osmerkin , was the epitome of simplicity and perfectivity ! i consider the flying saucer worthy of being reproduced as a die - cast metal memorabilia and toy , fully equipped with its own lighting . even when i first saw it , i hoped to be able to own my own one .

liquid sky , directed by slava tsukerman ; screenplay by mr . tsukerman , anne carlisle and nina v . kerova ; director of photography - yuri neyman ; edited by sharyn leslie ross ; music by mr . tsukerman , brenda i . hutchinson and clive smith ; produced by mr . tsukerman ; released by cinevista . at the waverly theater , avenue of the americas and third street . running time : 112 minutes . this film is rated r .

okay , i ' m dating myself here : when i was in college , my best buds and i saw this movie repeatedly and began dressing like the characters . what a trippy experience . we bought the soundtrack - - in vinyl , no less , because there were no cds yet ! - - and wore it out . i can ' t give liquid sky a 10 because i feel like i have to save that for a film that leaves no doubt about its excellence . but this once shines , if for no other reason than that this mid - 40s woman still remembers it vividly from two decades ago . if liquid sky was digitally remastered for dvd , i ' d buy it in a second . i ' d be a little scared to watch it because i don ' t know how it would hold up after all these years . ( i have similar fears about watching pink floyd the wall again . )

in the exhibition liquid sky , twenty - four cars are overturned and meticulously parked , one next to the other . walking on the new floor , formed by the chassis , or through the upside - down interiors of the cars , we feel as though the world has been turned on its head . alone in the next room , lit like twilight ; a sleepwalker seems to be lost . the deafening buzz of a helicopter tears through the space every 15 minutes .

' ' liquid sky , ' ' which takes its title from a term for heroin , revolves around an actress named anne carlisle , who plays two roles . sometimes she is larry , a handsome male model with a slicked - back hairdo and faint mustache . most of the time she is margaret , who was once a brunette from connecticut , but is now a mirthless , holloweyed beauty with coloring , or rather a lack of same , resembling andy warhol ' s .

there is some humor to ' ' liquid sky ' ' ( as when a visiting german astrophysicist , having traveled to new york in search of the u . f . o , wonders , ' ' how can i study the behavior of this creature if it ' s on private property ? ' ' ) . but this isn ' t quite a comedy , since its wit is so very dry , and since there is such a lot of viciousness to accompany the droll touches .

carlisle , who played both a nefarious male role and a tragic female one in the film , was at the screening , looking amazing and unaged . it turns out that lately tsukerman has been working with ann on the script for a sequel . he noted that with the recent popularity for all things 80’s and the frequency of remakes , it has been offered to him to re - do liquid sky with modern cgi and better lighting . he would like 3d ; tsukerman believes the medium would be good for the film .

and , just to help keep things in perspective , here are just a few legendary new york city artists who watched liquid sky : jean - michel basquiat . keith haring . andy warhol . kenny scharf . marcia resnick . quentin crisp . woody allen . sinead o ' connor . kurt vonnegut jr . isaac asimov . ray bradbury . all are people i have met and known in person . many have since departed . one wonders what subconscious impact the movie may have had on their lives , thoughts , and creations .

apparently . at the bam screening , most shades of hair color that are chromatically possible were in evidence . some of the audience were people who had been at the 1983 premier , now in their 80’s . but many had not even been born in 1983 . i asked a particularly dashing fellow why he was there , and he explained that the film influenced him as a 13 year old to aspire to be an artist . he was 13 about 20 years ago , so i also questioned how he knew about liquid sky at all , since this was before the long tail of the internet appeared . he told me the same thing that tsukerman said earlier when i asked a similar question . word of mouth . old vhs tapes passed around , watched on vcr’s when parents were not home . that is how liquid sky survived the period between its release and the rise of the web . when tsukerman first searched for the references to the film , in the days of netscape , five million results showed up . only spielberg films had as many .

i asked tsukerman how an immigrant from the soviet union , who came to the united states after a stay in israel , ended up making the film that epitomized the new wave punk ethos and is beloved for that reason to this day . he started out in documentaries , and filmed many features and other films on russian topics , dealing with the end of the soviet union and karamzin’s poor liza , to name just a few examples . but until his current plans come to fruition , liquid sky is his singular contribution to the cult genre .

liquid sky ' s music and sound - track is also very unique , and was mostly " composed " and produced by slava tsukerman , clive smith and brenda hutchinson played on the keyboard of the fairlight cmi . almost all of it was totally original , but also included interpretations of baroque composer marin marais ' s sonnerie de ste - geneviève du mont - de - paris , carl orff ' s trionfo di afrodite , and anthony philip heinrich ' s laurel waltz . combined they formed a series of ominous - sounding dissonant arrangements and nightmarish trances .

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“what connection can there possibly be between ufos and heroin ? ” asks a character in slava tsukerman’s cult classic from 1982 , liquid sky . it’s not really a question i pondered myself during my own years of addiction , but apparently enough people find it intriguing to attend screening after screening , in many countries , wearing makeup and outfits in homage to the specific style of the film , for the last 31 years . before attending friday’s screening at the bam , i had a long talk with the director at his manhattan apartment , where part of the movie was filmed back in those dark and distant 80’s .

liquid sky was a catalyst . few understand its true significance , but future historians will surely credit it as being an emotionally powerful exploration of the mystery of emotional sensualism and part of an effort to liberate humanity from senseless dissonances . will the world become the day after tomorrow + mad max + waterworld + the hunger games , etc . , or will the world become a place where we all truly have our rights respected and where robots , computers , and other technologies truly serve us all , liberating us from the horrors of modern - day slavery , new poverty , and a final era of horrific wars over mismanaged resources ?

at the time you made the movie , did you consider yourself a new yorker ? i think so . but most new yorkers are people from different places . that’s one of the quintessential qualities of new york , being an international place . but it has many sides which , after the release of liquid sky , i could see were known very well all over the world . things that make it a global center of culture . like , cbgb was a center of world music , and every japanese singer dreamed of coming here to see cbgbs . while for us , it was a small room where people drink beer and listen to singers .

slava tsukerman is a soviet emigre who has lived in new york city since 1976 , apparently long enough for him to get the lay of the land . mr . tsukerman ' s ' ' liquid sky , ' ' which opens today at the waverly , presents a vision of the city that is genuinely startling . his film , with a heroine who is sometimes a hero and who is apt to show up in a red corset with matching red - and - blond skunk hairdo , can hardly be for everyone . but the right audiences are bound to appreciate the originality displayed here , not to mention the color , rage , nonchalance , sly humor and ferocious fashion sense .

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one of the things that also makes liquid sky so unique is how anne carlisle managed to play both main characters , the androgynous male character of jimmy ' the junkie ' ( drug addict ) and margaret the exotic erotic bisexual fashion model whose childhood innocence was obviously lost as a result of big city life after moving from the connecticut country - side ! anne ' s sophisticated emotional performance , in both characters , is truly worthy of an oscar ! my initial impression was that jimmy and margaret were twins . this effect was achieved by yuri neyman , asc’s use of long forgotten special effects techniques of the 1920s - 30s which included operation of the special camera " debri–parvo l " designed in 1925 .

liquid sky is a sci - fi art film that seems to be about a simple story of substance abuse , sexual abuse , sexual desire , sex , more substance abuse , more sex , death by micro - aliens seeking endorphins from people who have achieved orgasm , more substance abuse , more sex , more deaths . and it is full of bisexuality , lesbian intimacy , and heterosexual acts and desires . but none of that has anything to do with what the movie is really about ! because the movie is not really about anything at all . it ' s just a movie meant to evoke certain subjective emotional responses to situations which are realistic , but which become surrealistic . the main characters are margaret , jimmy , and adrian .

but by 1983 , at least in new york city , and soon enough , thereafter in london , berlin , and tokyo , among the subcultural new wave , electro - pop , and progressive punk , avant - garde music and arts scene " liquid sky " became known as the title of one of thee most culturally influential avant - garde independent sci - fi art movies . with its fashion and make - up style , which became the basis for the electroclash subculture , and its quirky weird alternative exploration of human sexuality and political nonconformity , its socio - psychological impact significantly defined much of the rest of the 1980s high - end avant - garde culture , art , intellectual life and . . . yes . . . politics too .

was it your intention to portray them accurately as people , or where they representations of an idea ? no , they are pretty accurate . they are accurate to the last extent , i think . anne considered it very personal even after shooting — she was living in this apartment but she moved out because she couldn’t stay here for psychological reasons . and she wrote a novel after that , because she thought she knew more now about margaret than what was in the film . so she really identified herself completely . still identifies , because we’re now working on liquid sky 2 . but it’ll be very difficult for her , the fact that somebody else will play margaret . update : mr . tsukerman clarified that in fact , anne will return to reprise the role of margaret .

most movies are superficial in their overall impact , but liquid sky was and will always be emotionally catalytic in a way that is somehow subjectively unique for each person ! it ' s a movie that defies easy answers to complex personal questions about our relationship to the world around us , and towards our own selves . of course , some of you will read all this and think : " come on man ! it ' s just a totally wacky art movie , and you ' re ascribing all kinds of incredible nonsense to it for which there is no real basis ! it ' s just a freakin movie man ! " to which i can only say this : " you are right ! for you that is the truth ! but for others it is not . no one can force you to think differently ! "

however , computerized music was so new in 1982 that tsukerman had to reserve slots on a system called pass , which afforded him synthesizer time . he sang and plucked out the tunes he wanted computerized , and with the help of two young composers he managed to create the music that has survived in the public ear to reappear in today’s hits . in particular , the genre of electroclash , of which fischerspooner are the best known exponents , is aesthetically influenced by tsukerman’s film and music . larry tee , who is so deeply involved with the genre that one can call him its overseer , has said that it was the look , feel and sound of liquid sky that informed his style . he also frequently spins electronic music with samples from the film . lady gaga has been accused of drawing her costume inspiration from the movie . did tsukerman , a soviet immigrant , expect this kind of legacy ?

saw this film today at the san francisco international film fest . slava ( the director ) was there in person , as was a " who ' s who " of the s . f . art / music / film / dance scene ( jon moritsugu , i am spoonbender , metallica , etc . ) . i think that most of you who don ' t like liquid sky have very little sense of irony and should just accept your force - fed hollywood movie fate . yeah , l . s . isn ' t f * * king ' alien ' ( or perfect ) but then again it had 1 / 50th the budget . also , it should be commended for the realistic approach to the subject matter alone . no one in hollywood would have ever made a real new wave urltoken many of you thought nicholas cage ' s " new wave " movie was great ? thought so .

tsukerman and i spoke in russian , so i’m somewhat paraphrasing , but he prepared me well for the spectacle of a liquid sky screening . the music is eerie and disturbing , and it is easy to imagine how revolutionary it sounded in 1983 . tsukerman explained that synthesizers were barely available at that time and he had a lot of trouble getting exactly what he wanted . brian eno was the first one invited to do the soundtrack ; after all , the film was intended as an homage to andy warhol . in fact , tsukerman noted that warhol agreed to star in a production they had planned that never came to fruition . but in any case , eno was not the appropriate composer for the score . tsukerman had conceptualized exactly what he wanted , and it was an electric , modern interpretation of symphonic music , specifically the fugues of carl orff , as well as some lesser - known 19th century compositions .

does the term “camp” apply ? a film like liquid sky , it’s consciously postmodern . that’s what people say now , it puts together a lot of different elements . they are consciously put there , and camp is just one of these elements . i wanted to put together all the myths of the time , and all the stylistic elements as well . and that’s why i was very impressed by new wave . they were punks , but according to themselves they weren’t punks , because it was so stylistic and complicated , and people don’t usually understand it was complicated . it combined everything : the american 50’s , kabuki , german styles . all of that was mixed together , but the people creating it probably did so unconsciously . but that style was the reflection of the complexity of the mentality of a new generation . so it’s not just camp — camp is one of many elements in the film . and that’s why it lives so long — a lot of camp films from that period , nobody remembers .

taking the incidental as subject matter , the work of hattan , leonard and françois , introduces a new preoccupation at the si : looking at what happens in the time and space “between” , so that this exhibition is portrayed as a sort of intermission . this theme of intermission or entr’acte will recur unexpectedly in the si’s programming this year , challenging the accepted notion of an exhibition having defined beginning and end points . the repetition and incidental beauty of the works in liquid concrete will serve as a kind of trailer , introducing the idea that exhibitions do not begin or end , but rather flow and linger .

lighting production hasn ' t developed as quickly as audio / midi software , and roumen had to do pioneering efforts to achieve his goals . without much knowledge of lighting , back in 2013 , he connected his computer board to a daw , creating some notable animations . with a firm belief in his art , and without any connections in the industry , he leaped forward , and by mid 2016 he officially began his business . in the first few months , he did lighting for weddings / festivals / raves / band gigs , and started a lighting production tv show . he believes that when one is true to their artistic expression , the sky is the limit .

remember ; the early 1980s was a time when america still had fresh memories of the vietnam war years ( 1955 to 1975 ) , america had just celebrated its bicentennial year ( 200th anniversary ) in 1976 , jimmy carter was denied a second term as a result of events in iran , and ronald reagan was talking about " the evil soviet empire " and joked " we begin bombing in five minutes " … scaring the heck out of many of us ! so : the early 1980s in new york city was a very special time for alternative culture , music , and arts ; with it came the first mass produced digital electronic devices , computers , and the new technology and the new sounds helped generate a whole new sense of futurism ( mtv , hbo , sony walkman , commodore 64 , delorean dmc 12 , etc . ) , and a desire for total freedom , for a clean start - over , a new era of possibilities ! the 1980s began with the subconscious effect of the magical number " 8 " , which mostly sub - consciously conveyed the infinity symbol for most ; and for those of us at the forefront of the new wave of futuristic wonderment ; the leminiscate ( symbol of infinity : ∞ ) gave the decade special meaning ! it was in that sense quite natural that something as surreal and quirky as liquid sky would arise out of the minds of some very bright - minded , hyper - creative people .

of the many , many bad films i ' ve watched and admired , this film is special . plan 9 from outer space ? the rocky horror picture show ? waterworld ? at least these films produce derisive laughter . it is with the utmost confidence that i can label liquid sky the worst film ever ! ! there are so many bad things about this film that it ' s easy to point to them and say they aren ' t so bad . but the movie isn ' t just a scene about a junkie model arguing with her male counterpart outside the door , or the bizarre scenes of lovers disintegrating so little alien voyeurs can harvest their hormones . on no . the movie is a whole , and the pervasive element of the film is self - indulgent yet apathetic self - examination . the culmination of the film , where margaret laments to a crowd of her " peers " about how the underground fashion scene forced her to abandon her identity and become androgynous , is gauranteed to drive sensitive viewers into smashing their skulls into the nearest concrete surface . tears , vomiting ( and subsequent dry heaves ) , cold sweat , and involuntary waste elimination are simply not enough to psycho - somatically purge your system of this film . massive , self - inflicted head injury is the only possible release . the only good thing that can be said about this movie is not that it ends ; if you ' ve watched for that long , it ' s too late for anyone to help you . the only good thing about this film is that the damned synthesizer music stops ! ! tabby

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so i was taught that i should come to new york , become an independent woman . and my prince would come , and he would be an agent , and he would get me a role , and i would make my living waiting on tables . i would wait — till thirty , till forty , till fifty . and i was taught that to be an actress , one should be fashionable , and to be fashionable is to be androgynous . and i am androgynous not less than david bowie himself . and they call me beautiful , and i kill with my cunt . isn’t it fashionable ? come on , who’s next ?

williamsburg’s spectacle theater screens the film this coming friday at 8 p . m . — with tsukerman in attendance .

you don’t think there are places like that today ? probably in the late 70s or 80s it was more active , more alive , more interesting . maybe it’s because we were there . but really , every big off - broadway production was a big world event . now , you wait for theater to come to the brooklyn academy of music . times square and 42nd street had whorehouses mixed with art galleries . my friend was living on 42nd street in a building occupied by whorehouses . all the prostitutes were his friends , they’d come to his loft if they needed to borrow something . that was new york life .

have changes in the city affected the reception of the movie ? it’s not only new york , because we’ve screened the movie all over the world — in siberia — but a lot of young people are coming . not just people who saw it in ’83 , for whom it’s nostalgia . it’s a bunch of young people , and i can’t figure out how they learned about the film , because it’s not advertised . not only is it not advertised , but i’ve taken really bad care in releasing the film , for many reasons . but it’s not easy to get the tape . maybe they go through the pirates ?

but the reaction is what’s important to me , and the reaction is raving . it’s better than it was in ’83 . in 1983 , one critic said all the laughs were non - intentional . it just happened , but the writers didn’t think it was funny . which is complete bullshit ! we never laughed more than the time when we were writing the script . today’s audience doesn’t have this doubt , they understand that from the first moment , it’s supposed to be funny .

you’ve said you became friends with the real life inspirations for the characters of jimmy and adrian — were you going to clubs with them and stuff ? yes , we did go to clubs from time to time . we were spending a lot of time with the girl here [ at the apartment ] , drinking scotch and improvising music together , it was fun . and though her character was very close to what’s in the script , when the boy and girl read the script , they were shocked . they didn’t recognize their portraits . which is natural , i think . and for many different reasons , i decided it was better not to try to push people who don’t like it to play it .

does it take place in new york ? yes . i had a lot of suggestions to shoot it elsewhere because it’d be much cheaper , but i think for most audiences around the world , it’s a quintessential new york story . so it would be wrong to move it out of new york . but in doing research for the subject , i discovered that the most outrageous nightlife moved from new york , it’s not in new york anymore .

was there a japanese influence to the film ? well , kabuki . and when the movie came out , i spoke with a japanese guy who said that because of the kabuki influence it would be hated by all the young japanese kids . because for them kabuki was for old people . but what do i know about japan ?

how was the reception in russia ? after perestroika happened , in 1989 they had a program called “sex in american film” in moscow . and the first day , one of the organizers of the program came to me and said , listen , there’s a club here that wants to show the film very much , would you permit them to borrow the print ? and i said , what kind of club ? he says , oh a film club , a club for film fans and film lovers . so he gave them the print , and we were going to the club after the screening to speak with the audience — it was sold out . and i asked the person out front who was in the club , and he said , oh , it’s some police and kgb . it was a police club ! and i thought , my goodness i’m going to go on stage now and speak with them , and they’ll lynch me ! but an audience member stood up and said , “listen , i read an interview where you said you thought russian audiences wouldn’t understand this film . but i don’t know how american audiences understand it — that’s about our life ! ” that’s a russian policeman .