Manhattan Love Suicides (1985)
- Directed by
- Richard Kern
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 35 min
- Rating
- 5.5 of 10 from 12 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This is a 1985 anthology of four short comedy films set in a rundown part of New York City during a time of high crime and drug use. The segments show people acting out in destructive and absurd ways.
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What happens
The Manhattan Love Suicides is a 1985 American underground comedy film series written, produced and directed by Richard Kern. It consists of four short films: Stray Dogs, Woman at the Wheel, Thrust in Me, and I Hate You Now. Shot in Manhattan's Lower East Side in the mid-1980s, a turbulent time when the HIV/AIDS epidemic was at its height, and poverty, crime, violence, prostitution and drug consumption were running rampant in New York City, Kern's anthology film is a part of the Cinema of Transgression movement (a term coined by Nick Zedd who also appears in the Woman at the Wheel and Thrust in Me segments). It was shot in Super 8mm film. The UK-based rock band The Manhattan Love Suicides took its name from the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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