EDIE SEDGWICK

This was the police record, report, on me, given to the police by father, written down as fact that I was homicidal, suicidal, threatening bodily harm to my sister and my mother, and that I ran around screaming naked. Well, the last part of it appealed to me, but... (laugh)

-- Edie

Edie Sedgwick couldn't be contained. Sometimes that meant she was elusive, other times it meant she got the joke better than anyone else in the room. She was an adventurer, an explorer of the future. Fueled by ghosts or demons from her past, she was the extraterrestrial girl on fire who streaked across the 60s cosmos to dazzle and enrapture, push the limits, and test the boundaries of everyone she crossed paths with in life. Yet she always remained just a tad beyond anyone's grasp.
For years now, countless young people coming of age have discovered Edie Sedgwick and felt a strangely compelling, deeply emotional, connection to her odyssey. Edie ad-libs a line of dialogue in Ciao! Manhattan that could as well have been her own sly way of prophesizing this latest predicament of hers: “The first 15 minutes takes ... a long time. But the second 15 minutes take ... forever!” Of course Edie was simply expressing how wiped-out she was feeling from sitting in the sauna while waiting for her “poke” at Doctor Feelgood's office (where the sequence was filmed in the Spring of '67), and Warhol's “famous for 15 minutes” quote really didn't surface until 1973. But this vital and seemingly perpetual need for knowing more about the real Edie - for examining why her story has now taken on such resonance for a new generation - has inspired Melissa Painter and me onto a quest that led to the creation of this new book and the feature documentary to follow, both entitled, Edie: Girl On Fire. A personal epiphany for me, while immersed in interviews and photos for the project, was the realization that I myself - like most everyone else in her life - only ever really got to know a small portion of the
eternal mystery that is Edie Sedgwick.

- David Weisman

The Fray - Over My Head

CIAO! MANHATTAN

Information on the availability of this film.
The above film has been made available in the USA and in the UK. The UK edition, published by Virgin Video and Palace Pictures, was available through mail-order at Virgin Megastores in the early nineties for a very short time. In the UK, a screening of this film was witnessed by the webmaster at the Scale Cinema in London, England. I am unaware of any other screenings of this film in the UK. Internet auction sites may still offer copies of the film on video for purchase through on-line auctions, but as with any on-line activity, great care needs to be taken when purchasing and to ensure that the tape format is compatible with the video system in your country.

Date de sortie en salle:
09 février 2007 (???)
Date de sortie en DVD:
19 juin 2007
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