Andy Warhol
Date of Birth: 06 Aug 1928
Country: USA
Biography: The son of Ruthenian immigrants, Andy Warhol studied art at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. He worked as an advertising designer before becoming, in effect, the Father of Pop Art with his silk-screened pictures of Campbell's Soup cans and distorted images of Marilyn Monroe. He started directing films in 1963, if "directing" is the right word - most of his early work simply consisted of pointing the camera at something (a man asleep, the Empire State Building) and leaving it running, often for hours. His films gradually grew more sophisticated, with scripts and soundtracks, although they were generally performed by members of the Warhol "factory" - assorted groupies with little acting talent.
Total Credits at Criticker: 32 (Actor), 58 (Director), 8 (Writer)
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Starring many of Warhol's superstars, Chelsea Girls takes place at the Chelsea Hotel, and follows the lives of several of the young women who live there. (paraphrased from wikipedia.org)
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Filmed on Fire Island, this two reel, 70 minute Warhol film covers the activities of the "Dial A Hustler" service, as an older man seeks a young hustler for a companion. (imdb)
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Static images that start moving in your mind (music as drug). (imdb)
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A single shot of the Empire State Building from early evening until nearly 3 am the next day. (imdb)
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A man and a woman live in a clothes-cabinet, literally; they contemplate leaving, but never do. For a time only their voices are heard, until they try to have some light, and open the door. The Woman takes an almost maternal role, they share a sandwich and a cigarette, discuss the contents of the closet, and then The Woman wonders if there is any sexual attraction between them. The Man is too shy for that, or to leave the closet. (imdb)
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Blow Job (1963) - Short Film
Andy Warhol directs a single 35-minute shot of a man's face to capture his facial expressions as he receives the sexual act depicted in the title. (imdb)
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Haircut (1963) - Short Film
Shot in slow motion, with tiny bits of stagy lighting that seem to crumble and flake like cookies, Billy Name gives one of his notorious haircuts--and Warhol turns it into a homoerotic performance, a dance of adoration and control, a triangle of looking and keeping-at-bay. (imdb)
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The couch at Andy Warhol's Factory was as famous in its own right as any of his Superstars. In Couch, visitors to the Factory were invited to "perform" on camera, seated on the old couch. Their many acts-both lascivious and mundane-are documented in a film that has come to be regarded as one of the most notorious of Warhol's early works. (imdb)
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Companion piece to Warhol's previous experiment, "The 13 Most Beautiful Women"
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Producer/director/cinematographer Andy Warhol presents an afternoon in a Manhattan apartment where Viva and Louis discuss social issues while lying in bed. Louis makes sexual advances and Viva giggles; they indulge in sexual foreplay and then intercourse. They talk about the Vietnam War, watch television, get dressed, eat, discuss Louis's unhappy marriage, and finally take a shower, more and more aware of the presence of a camera. (imdb)
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In the wild wild west, Ramona Alvarez and her perpetually stoned nurse run into five gay cowboys. The seven members of the party desire a handsome male drifter, except for the transvestite sheriff, who can't be bothered about anything but his outfit. All hot & bothered at this point, the cowboys rape Ramona, who subsequently has sex with the drifter and, in the afterglow of sex, wants to form a suicide pact with him. (imdb)
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Donna and Jane are two American hippies, searching for sex and romance in Paris but, mainly, rich husbands. Eventually, Donna finds a perfume industrialist, Michael, who wishes to marry her, providing she will accept sharing his special friendship with local gigolo Max. Drama ensues as Michael changes his mind when meeting Jane, but all is well that ends well. (imdb)
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Ondine is a gay man attempting to re-adjust his sexuality via various encounters with different women. After trying his luck with three women, Ondine becomes a background character in a sequence in which a group of Latin American men, calling themselves The Bananas, engage in a food fight. Ondine then engages in a wrestling match with Joe Dallesandro, who is married to Brigid Berlin. (imdb)
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Viva and Taylor Mead are a married couple renting an extra beach-house to a group of surfers sent to them by a Mr. Morrissey of La Jolla Realty. Their daughter, Ingrid Superstar, is pregnant and on the hunt for a husband. Mr. Mead, who is gay, tries to pawn her off to one of the surfers. Meanwhile, Viva wants a divorce from her boy-crazy hubby, who wants a surfer of his own. (imdb)
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Patrick Tilden stars as an inarticulate young hippie. His "parents" (played by Ondine and Brigid Berlin, who are probably no more than ten years older than Tilden) are worried about him. The family maid (Nico) tries to seduce him. His abrasive girlfriend (Andrea Feldman) argues with him. (imdb)
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At a New York City restaurant, the patrons are men, nude but for a G-string, waited on by one woman, also clad in a G-string (played by Viva) and a G-bestringed (bestrung?) waiter. Some of the "nude" patrons leave the establishment, their places taken by new customers, also nearly in the buff. There are numerous in-camera jump cuts (known as 'strobe cuts') and the camera weaves around a bit. The waiter and waitress move from table to table, talking to the customers. (imdb)
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Joe Spencer, a member of a motorcycle gang, is taking a shower. After his bout with personal hygiene, Joe encounters Andy Warhol's "superstars," who engage him in conversation. The superstars crack jokes he doesn't understand and continually correct his poor pronunciation in an attempt to deflate his machismo. In response to these provocations, Joe becomes more obscene and more boasting, but ultimately, he cannot compete with the put-downs. (imdb)
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Andy Warhol, played by Rene Ricard, invites a friend (Edie Sedgwick) over to his apartment one evening to discuss his career. As they talk, the truth about how Andy uses and then throws people away comes out. The woman (Edie Sedgwick) begins to come undone and reveals to Andy how he ruined her life with drugs and false promises of fame. (imdb)
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"Tub Girls" features Warhol superstar Viva lying in a bathtub with different people of both sexes, including Brigid Berlin (as Brigid Polk), who appeared fully clothed in the tub. (imdb)
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Outer and Inner Space (1966) - Short Film
Filmed in two thirty-three minute b/w segments with Warhol's Norelco camera, the film focuses on actress Edie Sedgwick. The two segments were spliced together on two separate reels of film creating a split screen with four close ups of the actress. Two of the images show Sedgwick speaking spontaneously into the camera, while the other two are of her speaking to someone off-screen, commenting on watching herself on television. (mediaartnet.org)
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Based on the life (and death) of actress Lupe Velez, it was the last film Edie Sedgwick made with Andy Warhol (excluding portions of '****') (imdb)
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Cherub-faced Ari is adorable but so hyperactive and wild he is virtually feral. Montez offers to read to him, sing to him and dance for him, but Ari is oblivious to her charms and more interested in alternately pretending to be a crocodile and a cowboy and shooting her with his toy gun (towards the end Montez finally snaps, "Can't you find something else to shoot at?"). Off-screen from behind the camera director Andy Warhol himself is frequently audible encouraging urging Ari to misbehave. (imdb)
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Egotistical faded star Hedy Lamarr visits a plastic surgeon to be transformed into the "14-year-old girl" she believes herself to be. She is then caught shoplifting by Mary Woronov and is put on trial, with Tavel as the judge and her five ex-husbands the jury. Hedy remains self-centered and detached throughout, posing and primping and bursting out renditions of "I Feel Pretty" and "Young at Heart." (imdb)
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This road movie represents Warhol's first attempt at making a narrative film, and bears very little resemblance to his subsequent films. The most striking aesthetic anomaly of this film-when compared to the rest of his work-is the constantly moving camera, which would end up on the tripod and rarely move in his later films. Starring Taylor Mead as Tarzan and Naomi Levine as Jane, the film demonstrates both Warhol's excitement with the medium and with Hollywood itself as he travels to Los Angeles (hcl.harvard.edu.com)
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Produced and directed by Andy Warhol, without the permission of DC Comics. It was screened only at his art exhibits. A fan of the Batman serials, Warhol's movie was a "homage" to the series, and is considered the first appearance of a blatantly campy Batman. (wikipedia)
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A film by Andy Warhol featuring Taylor Mead, consisting entirely of a shot of Mead's buttocks, and filmed at The Factory. Warhol came up with the idea for the film after reading a review in The Village Voice which said of his previous film Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of, that "... people don't want to see an hour and a half of Taylor Mead's ass". (wikipedia)
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In the style of a variety show, staged at the Factory. It features Gerard Malanga, dressed in a tuxedo, as the master of ceremonies, and who also does a poetry reading. Paul Swan, the famous turn of the century modern dancer, re-stages one of his old dances and ends up dancing with Jane Holzer. Jane leaves the film set after her part is done, while the others remain. Mario Montez sings If I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate and dances in drag, while the cameraman zooms frantically in and out. (warholstars.org)
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"Space" is 66 minutes, 2 reels, black and white. The first reel starts off in the guise of a standard narrative film, with a Warhol lackey spouting off the credits (it includes a "written by" credit) but the actors abandon the script immediately. Edie Sedgwick is most memorable in this film, mainly because Warhol, as in many of his other films, fetishizes Edie. By the second reel, the film has deteriorated into a sing-a-long. (imdb)
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Jean Harlow-lookalike Harlot (Mario Montez), Gerard Malanga, Philip Fagan, and Carol Koshinskie (with a cat) sit in a room eating bananas as the off-screen voices of Billy Name, Ronald Tavel, and Harry Fainlight discuss various topics. (imdb)
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Warhol wanted to put a real steed in a film, so he instructed Tavel to write a Western. In order to generate ideas, Tavel interviewed the film's featured players: art critic Gregory Battcock, French-Canadian runaway Larry Latreille, poet Dan Cassidy, and a bona fide sadist, Tosh Carillo, who, by day, worked as a florist. Tavel's efforts resulted in a scenario that parodied Western movie clichés, brought the genre's latent homoeroticism to the surface, and mixed in a few esoteric references. (studentgroups.ucla.eduz)
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Restaurant (1965) - Short Film
Restaurant (aka L'Avventura) (1965) is not the same film as Nude Restaurant which was shot in two versions in October 1967. The cast of the 1965 Restaurant included Edie Sedgwick, Ondine, Bibbe Hansen, Donald Lyons, Ed Hennessey, Dorothy Dean (who later became the door person at Max's), Ed Hood, Ann Reynolds, Gordon Baldwin, Sandy Kirkland and David Sulzberger. It was shot at the restaurant L'Avventura where Edie was a regular. (warholstars.org)
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Kitchen was filmed in the kitchen of Bud Wirtschafter, who was the sound man on several early Andy Warhol films. Although it was meant to be the vehicle that would propel Edie Sedgwick into stardom, she spent so much time going out every night and getting stoned that she had difficulty memorizing her lines. (imdb)
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A young, jobless woman stays in bed, reads, talks on the phone, smokes cigarettes, makes fresh coffee, and tries on some clothes from a large wardrobe. (imdb)
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Warhol, it is reported, had a brilliant stroke of invention. Ronald Tavel, the co-director, staged this absurdist romp about Castro and Che Guevara in a single crowded space, with all the actresses (it is an all-female cast) facing front. Tavel sits among them, telling them what to do and say. Warhol moved the camera from a head-on position to the side. He created the sadistic triangle that exists in all his movies. (imdb)
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Cars: Heartbeat City (1984) - Direct-to-Video
The Cars have always been on the cutting edge when it comes to music video. And the Heartbeat City video cassette, with songs from their off the band's most successful albums, is no exception. Andy Warhol's direction of Heartbeat City brings forth the fun of Disco into the new avenues of the early to mid 80's. (imdb)
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Sedgwick holds her own to Weins often pompous monologues/observations and co-star's obvious attempts for attention. Sedgwick can appear to be both, naive and intellectual. Gino is just a stand-by that looks beautiful in underwear, and Wein is a stupid smart-ass. Warhol is there to show and "produce" this work between the lovers. Gerard Malanga comes in to whisper something halfway during the film but, is not shown on camera. (imdb comments)
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Screen Test #1 (1965) - Short Film
Part of Warhol's four-part short film series in which he experiments with the medium.
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Screen Test #3 (1966) - Short Film
Part of Warhol's four-part short film series in which he experiments with the medium.
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Screen Test #4 (1966) - Short Film
Part of Warhol's four-part short film series in which he experiments with the medium.
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Screen Test #2 (1965) - Short Film
Part of Warhol's four-part short film series in which he experiments with the medium.
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Originally a twenty five hour film made up of shorter film segments. It consists of 83 reels each lasting approximately 33 minutes. A short story odyssey of film designed to be shown with two projectors playing simultaneously. (imdb)
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Screen Tests #25 (1966) - Short Film
The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong key light, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls of film at 24 frames per second. The resulting two-and-a-half-minute film reels were then screened in 'slow motion' at 16 frames per second.
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