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Ciao! Manhattan

Year:1972
Country:  USA
Language:English
Genre:Biography, Cult, Arthouse & Indie
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DirectorJohn Palmer
 David Weisman
Selected CastEdie Sedgwick as Susan Superstar
 Wesley Hayes as Butch
 Isabel Jewell as Mother


Notes

Uses B&W footage (real and acted) from the mid 1960s and (acted) colour footage from 1970/71.

On DVD & Blu-ray World

VHS

Ciao! Manhattan - Palace Classics - UK (1989)


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Comments and Reviews
 
albert
22nd Aug 2016
 I first saw this at London's Scala cinema and managed to miss the first 5 minutes including the disclaimer/tribute, making the experience all the more bewildering for me. It is a difficult and harrowing film to watch in part, the acting is fairly poor and the scenes of electroshock therapy and drug taking and abuse drag the film into exploitation territory, but when we zip back into the B&W footage all is forgiven. Youtube has no official trailers but is absolutely littered with people's crummy videos plundering the B&W footage and adding stolen music from The Doors and their ilk - please don't watch any of that stuff, it will spoil your enjoyment of this film.
An all-regions DVD from Plexifilm was available many years ago and has a great transfer and special features, I would recommend that if you watch the DVD to turn off the volume until the disclaimer at the start of the film has passed.

EDIT: now also available on Blu-ray/DVD in the UK.
 

 
albert
22nd Aug 2016
 Review
A mess but a glorious mess. The film takes some amazing 1960's B&W footage of Edie when she was Andy Warhol's Superstar and mixes it with 1970's acted footage of Edie playing Susan Superstar, casualty of an excessive wild life, disturbed, drugged, frequently drunk, slurring her words, looking a mess. You can read about Edie's tragic life and watching this film it is hard to separate the screenwriter's cruel fiction from the exploitative fact, especially when it reaches the final scene.

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