Ciao! Manhattan
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Ciao! Manhattan movie poster
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| Directed by | John Palmer David Weisman |
| Produced by | John Palmer David Weisman |
| Written by | John Palmer David Weisman |
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Edie Sedgwick Wesley Hayes Isabel Jewell Paul America Baby Jane Holzer Pat Hartley Jean Margouleff Viva Brigid Berlin Roger Vadim |
| Music by | Gino Piserchio |
| Cinematography | John Palmer Kjell Rostad |
| Edited by | Robert Farren |
| Distributed by | Maron Films (1973) Plexifilm (2002) |
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84 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Ciao! Manhattan is a 1972 American avant garde film starring Edie Sedgwick, one of Andy Warhol's Superstars. A scripted drama in which most of the actors play themselves, it centers on a character very closely based on Sedgwick, and deals with the pain of addiction and the lure of fame.
Written and directed by John Palmer and David Weisman, Ciao! Manhattan is the semi-biographical tale of 1960s counterculture icon Edie Sedgwick. The film follows young Susan Superstar (Sedgwick) through her tumultuous party years in Manhattan as one of Warhol's Superstars. Through actual audio recordings of Sedgwick's account of her time in Warhol's Factory in New York City, paired with clips from the original unfinished script started in 1967, Ciao! captures the complete deterioration of Sedgwick's fictional alter-ego. The striking similarities between Sedgwick and Susan's life story, especially when recounted by Sedgwick in the midst of drug-induced audio interviews, make the film's candid depiction of excess and celebrity especially haunting. The film is dedicated to the memory of Sedgwick and ends with the actual headlines announcing Sedgwick's (not Susan Superstar's) death, thus inseparably associating the fictional and the genuine figure.
Production of Ciao! Manhattan began on March 26, 1967, as a project of Factory regulars John Palmer, David Weisman, Genevieve Charbin, Chuck Wein, Bob Margouleff, Gino Piserchio, with supplemental roles and tasks fulfilled by various other hangers-on. The film originally followed the excessively hip lives of Midtown scenesters Sedgwick and fellow Warhol Superstar Paul America, as they lived life in the fast lane (literally speeding down the West Side Highway on massive amounts of amphetamine).
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