Edie Sedgwick

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.

Warhol's strange interpretation of "A Clockwork Orange."

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)

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)

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)

"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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Andy Warhool screen test for Edie Sedgwick.

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)