Product Description

Ciao! Manhattan parallels Andy Warhol Factory star Edie Sedgwick's glory days in the late 60's through her inevitable downfall and the tragic addiction that would take her life only weeks after filming wrapped in 1971. The DVD includes never-before-seen bonus footage of Edie, interviews, a photo gallery of Edie's life, and much more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #103415 in DVD
• Released on: 2002-11-12
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Black & White, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, German
• Running time: 84 minutes

Amazon.com
Fact and fiction collide in the cult classic Ciao! Manhattan, which was billed as "the film that wrote itself." The unexpectedly poignant tale is based on the life of "Superstar" Edie Sedgwick, who plays a drugged-out former model named Susan. In Southern California, she lives in her wealthy, pie-obsessed mother's swimming pool and recounts her glory days in Manhattan to a Houston drifter (Wesley Hayes). John Palmer and David Weisman began filming in New York in 1967 and kept shooting for the next five years, even as Sedgwick moved West, grew out her hair, got breast implants, and spent time at a variety of mental institutes. The 1970s present is in color; the 1960s flashbacks are in luminous black and white. John Phillips, Richie Havens, and others provide the period-perfect soundtrack. Confusing at times, but always entertaining, Ciao! Manhattan is a must for fans of Head, Trash, and all things weird, wiggy, and Warhol. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

Time Out
"Ciao! Manhattan is an odyssey through the myths of New York's Silver Sixties and its aftermath. It is a cross between Mondo Cane and Easy Rider, and all the shocks are there."

"The Citizen Kane of the the Drug Generation"

"CIAO! MANHATTAN is a cross between Mondo Cane and Easy Rider and all the shocks are there"

R. Mazzocco, New York Review of Books
"CIAO! MANHATTAN is a devastating chronicle a clef about the short, sad, raucous life of Edie Sedgwick...