Having already proven their bona fides with both 1986’s Evol and 1987’s Sister, Sonic Youth delivered their most cohesive, accessible album to date with their 1988 opus Daydream Nation. Originally inspired by the ferocity of hardcore punk, the cerebral art rock of acts like the Velvet Underground and Public Image Ltd., and the avant-garde compositions of Glenn Branca, the album saw the four New York bohos sweeten their no-wave edge with anthemic songwriting.
Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo’s detuned guitars strum plaintively and hypnotically as Daydream Nation slowly shakes itself awake on “Teen Age Riot.” Bassist-singer Kim Gordon channels the Stooges’s eerie chants on 1969’s “We Will Fall” and even cribs from its lyrics: “Spirit, desire/We will fall,” she mumbles before the song’s dual-guitar riff tears the track apart.
“Teen Age Riot” is an articulation of the alternative nation—which saw Dinosaur Jr.’s lead noisemaker, J Mascis,...
Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo’s detuned guitars strum plaintively and hypnotically as Daydream Nation slowly shakes itself awake on “Teen Age Riot.” Bassist-singer Kim Gordon channels the Stooges’s eerie chants on 1969’s “We Will Fall” and even cribs from its lyrics: “Spirit, desire/We will fall,” she mumbles before the song’s dual-guitar riff tears the track apart.
“Teen Age Riot” is an articulation of the alternative nation—which saw Dinosaur Jr.’s lead noisemaker, J Mascis,...
- 10/17/2023
- by Fred Barrett
- Slant Magazine
Describing the visual language of Todd Haynes’ documentary The Velvet Underground for Apple TV+, Haynes’ longtime cinematographer Edward Lachman contends that the director “found the visual metaphor for the art, the counterculture” of the New York underground during the ’60s.
This feature-length look at the influential band is a collage of archival material, including Andy Warhol’s silent video shorts known as Screen Tests of such band members as Lou Reed and John Cale. The historical content is presented in the split-screen style of his 1966 film Chelsea Girls, and is deftly combined with new interviews — including with band members Cale ...
This feature-length look at the influential band is a collage of archival material, including Andy Warhol’s silent video shorts known as Screen Tests of such band members as Lou Reed and John Cale. The historical content is presented in the split-screen style of his 1966 film Chelsea Girls, and is deftly combined with new interviews — including with band members Cale ...
- 11/13/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Describing the visual language of Todd Haynes’ documentary The Velvet Underground for Apple TV+, Haynes’ longtime cinematographer Edward Lachman contends that the director “found the visual metaphor for the art, the counterculture” of the New York underground during the ’60s.
This feature-length look at the influential band is a collage of archival material, including Andy Warhol’s silent video shorts known as Screen Tests of such band members as Lou Reed and John Cale. The historical content is presented in the split-screen style of his 1966 film Chelsea Girls, and is deftly combined with new interviews — including with band members Cale ...
This feature-length look at the influential band is a collage of archival material, including Andy Warhol’s silent video shorts known as Screen Tests of such band members as Lou Reed and John Cale. The historical content is presented in the split-screen style of his 1966 film Chelsea Girls, and is deftly combined with new interviews — including with band members Cale ...
- 11/13/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A brain hemorrhage claimed German musician Christa “Nico” Päffgen 30 years ago this Wednesday, but American cinema-goers can celebrate her legacy later this summer. Magnolia Pictures has released the first trailer for “Nico, 1988,” the third narrative film from Italian writer-director (and occasional documentarian) Susanna Nicchiarelli. “Nico, 1988” tracks the singer’s final year, during which she attempts to reconnect with her estranged son while distancing herself from past collaborations with Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground.
Denmark-born Trine Dyrholm, the Berlin Film Festival’s Silver Bear–winning actress from 2016 (“The Commune”), stars as the nicotine-fueled songstress. For Päffgen, life was difficult from the beginning: her family fled her hometown when she was a toddler to escape World War II bombings (and her enlisted father never recovered from his injuries). In the trailer, she totes a recorder across Europe, attempting to recapture the sound of the explosions.
The 93-minute biopic visits Nico’s earlier decades,...
Denmark-born Trine Dyrholm, the Berlin Film Festival’s Silver Bear–winning actress from 2016 (“The Commune”), stars as the nicotine-fueled songstress. For Päffgen, life was difficult from the beginning: her family fled her hometown when she was a toddler to escape World War II bombings (and her enlisted father never recovered from his injuries). In the trailer, she totes a recorder across Europe, attempting to recapture the sound of the explosions.
The 93-minute biopic visits Nico’s earlier decades,...
- 7/16/2018
- by Jenna Marotta
- Indiewire
Since any New York City cinephile has a nearly suffocating wealth of theatrical options, we figured it’d be best to compile some of the more worthwhile repertory showings into one handy list. Displayed below are a few of the city’s most reliable theaters and links to screenings of their weekend offerings — films you’re not likely to see in a theater again anytime soon, and many of which are, also, on 35mm. If you have a chance to attend any of these, we’re of the mind that it’s time extremely well-spent.
Bam
Films by Elaine May, Yvonne Rainer, and Shirley Clarke play under “A Different Picture: Women Filmmakers in the New Hollywood Era, 1967—1980.”
Metrograph
As an Emile de Antonio retro ends, four of Paul Schrader’s best films screen.
Quad Cinema
The long-longed-for Alan Rudolph retrospective continues and mustn’t be missed.
Museum of Modern Art...
Bam
Films by Elaine May, Yvonne Rainer, and Shirley Clarke play under “A Different Picture: Women Filmmakers in the New Hollywood Era, 1967—1980.”
Metrograph
As an Emile de Antonio retro ends, four of Paul Schrader’s best films screen.
Quad Cinema
The long-longed-for Alan Rudolph retrospective continues and mustn’t be missed.
Museum of Modern Art...
- 5/4/2018
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
by Jason Adams
Although I might have been hallucinating by the time, given the sheer length and purposeful boredom of the experience, I'm pretty sure there's a portion of Andy Warhol's four-hour double-projector experimental film Chelsea Girls where the Velvet Underground singer Nico just sits and cuts her bangs for twenty straight minutes on camera. It felt like twenty straight minutes, anyway. And that was my introduction to her. Catherine Deneuve heroin chic - too cool for anybody, herself included.
That's the baggage one drags into a bio-pic about the singer, and that's what Susanna Nicchiarelli's film called Nico, 1988 insists on clipping away like those bangs. It's right there in the title - this is 1988, twenty-two years after Underground, after Andy, and this is a fully fifty-year-old woman with dark brown hair and a debilitating drug habit who does not give a shit...
Although I might have been hallucinating by the time, given the sheer length and purposeful boredom of the experience, I'm pretty sure there's a portion of Andy Warhol's four-hour double-projector experimental film Chelsea Girls where the Velvet Underground singer Nico just sits and cuts her bangs for twenty straight minutes on camera. It felt like twenty straight minutes, anyway. And that was my introduction to her. Catherine Deneuve heroin chic - too cool for anybody, herself included.
That's the baggage one drags into a bio-pic about the singer, and that's what Susanna Nicchiarelli's film called Nico, 1988 insists on clipping away like those bangs. It's right there in the title - this is 1988, twenty-two years after Underground, after Andy, and this is a fully fifty-year-old woman with dark brown hair and a debilitating drug habit who does not give a shit...
- 4/26/2018
- by JA
- FilmExperience
What It Is: As someone who works in beauty, new products are constantly hitting my desk, which means my routine doesn’t ever stay the same for too long. But in an effort to live like Kim Kardashian, I swapped out everything — and I mean everything — in my regimen so I could mimic the Kkw Beauty mogul’s routine for a few weeks.
Who Tried It: Kaitlyn Frey, Style & Beauty Assistant and Kardashian superfan
Why We Tried It: I love the Kardashians, and I’m willing to try anything that makes me feel like like the 6th member of the KarJenner sister squad.
Who Tried It: Kaitlyn Frey, Style & Beauty Assistant and Kardashian superfan
Why We Tried It: I love the Kardashians, and I’m willing to try anything that makes me feel like like the 6th member of the KarJenner sister squad.
- 8/18/2017
- by Kaitlyn Frey
- PEOPLE.com
Andy Warhol by Marie Menken. Competed 1965.
Marie Menken made several films inspired by and starring artists she knew, such as Visual Variations on Noguchi (1945) and Arabesque for Kenneth Anger (1961). According to Warhol’s memoir Popism: The Warhol Sixties (written with Pat Hackett), in 1963 Warhol was brought by his friend Charles Henri Ford to a party hosted by Menken and her husband Willard Maas at the couple’s apartment in Brooklyn Heights. Warhol and Menken hit it off immediately and he would go on to cast her as an actress in his films, such as Chelsea Girls and The Life of Juanita Castro.
Close to the same time, Warhol was also introduced to Gerard Malanga, who would become Warhol’s main art assistant throughout the ’60s and who is featured prominently in this short film. In Popism, Warhol describes Menken and Maas as “sort of godparents” to Malanga.
Andy Warhol presents...
Marie Menken made several films inspired by and starring artists she knew, such as Visual Variations on Noguchi (1945) and Arabesque for Kenneth Anger (1961). According to Warhol’s memoir Popism: The Warhol Sixties (written with Pat Hackett), in 1963 Warhol was brought by his friend Charles Henri Ford to a party hosted by Menken and her husband Willard Maas at the couple’s apartment in Brooklyn Heights. Warhol and Menken hit it off immediately and he would go on to cast her as an actress in his films, such as Chelsea Girls and The Life of Juanita Castro.
Close to the same time, Warhol was also introduced to Gerard Malanga, who would become Warhol’s main art assistant throughout the ’60s and who is featured prominently in this short film. In Popism, Warhol describes Menken and Maas as “sort of godparents” to Malanga.
Andy Warhol presents...
- 7/29/2017
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Ring Twice for Miranda
Stage II at New York City Center Through April 16, 2017
During Ring Twice for Miranda, while witnessing the frequent long and drawn-out arguments scenes that pepper this play’s landscape, I was reminded of Andy Warhol’s Chelsea Girls. What kept your attention during that film’s interminable arguments among Warhol’s characters was hope of some kind of satisfying resolution. Playwright Alan Hruska is by trade a litigation lawyer, so he knows how to argue. Unfortunately his characters do not share his real life expertise. I kept saying to myself “come on, get on with it!” My impatience had me physically squirming much as I did when, eons ago, I first viewed Chelsea Girls! In addition, specters of the post-apocalyptic Spike Milligan/Richard Lester film collaboration The Bed Sitting Room floated about me. Absent from Miranda’s world was the clear social satire and whimsy which sustained Mr.
Stage II at New York City Center Through April 16, 2017
During Ring Twice for Miranda, while witnessing the frequent long and drawn-out arguments scenes that pepper this play’s landscape, I was reminded of Andy Warhol’s Chelsea Girls. What kept your attention during that film’s interminable arguments among Warhol’s characters was hope of some kind of satisfying resolution. Playwright Alan Hruska is by trade a litigation lawyer, so he knows how to argue. Unfortunately his characters do not share his real life expertise. I kept saying to myself “come on, get on with it!” My impatience had me physically squirming much as I did when, eons ago, I first viewed Chelsea Girls! In addition, specters of the post-apocalyptic Spike Milligan/Richard Lester film collaboration The Bed Sitting Room floated about me. Absent from Miranda’s world was the clear social satire and whimsy which sustained Mr.
- 2/15/2017
- by Jay Reisberg
- www.culturecatch.com
Since any New York City cinephile has a nearly suffocating wealth of theatrical options, we figured it’d be best to compile some of the more worthwhile repertory showings into one handy list. Displayed below are a few of the city’s most reliable theaters and links to screenings of their weekend offerings — films you’re not likely to see in a theater again anytime soon, and many of which are, also, on 35mm. If you have a chance to attend any of these, we’re of the mind that it’s time extremely well-spent.
Anthology Film Archives
Andy Warhol‘s rarely screened Chelsea Girls will have a 50th-anniversary screening introduced by Jonas Mekas.
Multiple shorts programs also screen this weekend.
Metrograph
A Park Chan-wook retrospective brings Oldboy and Joint Security Area on Saturday and Sunday, respectively, while a documentary about the making of Oldboy, Old Days, screens on the latter day.
Anthology Film Archives
Andy Warhol‘s rarely screened Chelsea Girls will have a 50th-anniversary screening introduced by Jonas Mekas.
Multiple shorts programs also screen this weekend.
Metrograph
A Park Chan-wook retrospective brings Oldboy and Joint Security Area on Saturday and Sunday, respectively, while a documentary about the making of Oldboy, Old Days, screens on the latter day.
- 9/30/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
This was a busy year at Tiff, where I was a juror for Fipresci, helping to award a prize for best premiere in the Discovery section. Not only did this mean that some other films had to take a back burner—sadly, I did not see Eduardo Williams’ The Human Surge—but my writing time was a bit compromised as well. Better late than never? That is for you, Gentle Reader, to decide.Austerlitz (Sergei Loznitsa, Germany)So basic in the telling—a record of several days’ worth of visitors mostly to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Oranienberg, Germany—Austerlitz is a film that in many ways exemplifies the critical theory of Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin. What is the net effect for humanity when, faced with the drive to remember the unfathomable, we employ the grossly inadequate tools at our disposal?Austerlitz takes its name from W. G. Sebald’s final novel.
- 9/20/2016
- MUBI
Let’s start with this obvious point: few cities need another repertory outlet less than New York City, which provides enough decent-to-outstanding options every week (or day) to fully occupy any caring customer. And so when a new theater, Metrograph, was announced this past August, the largely enthusiastic response — people taking note of a good location, a dedication to celluloid presentations and new independent releases, its strong selection of programmers, and other services (e.g. a restaurant and “cinema-dedicated bookshop”) — went hand-in-hand with some people’s skepticism, or at least a certain raising of the eyebrows. The question of necessity was premature, but such is the influx of available material that it should inevitably come up.
It’s safe to say their first selections silenced those skeptics. Metrograph’s slate is strong in a way that’s uncommon; one could say it’s exactly the sort that a cinephile with...
It’s safe to say their first selections silenced those skeptics. Metrograph’s slate is strong in a way that’s uncommon; one could say it’s exactly the sort that a cinephile with...
- 3/2/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Each weekend we highlight the best repertory programming that New York City has to offer, and it’s about to get even better. Opening on February 19th at 7 Ludlow Street on the Lower East Side is Metrograph, the city’s newest indie movie theater. Sporting two screens, they’ve announced their first slate, which includes retrospectives for Fassbinder, Wiseman, Eustache, and more, special programs such as an ode to the moviegoing experience, and new independent features that we’ve admired on the festival circuit (including Afternoon, Office 3D, and Measure of a Man).
Artistic and Programming Director Jacob Perlin says in a press release, “Jean Eustache in a Rocky t-shirt. This is the image we had in mind while making this first calendar. Great cinema is there, wherever you can find it. The dismissed film now recognized as a classic, the forgotten box-office hit newly resurrected, the high and the low,...
Artistic and Programming Director Jacob Perlin says in a press release, “Jean Eustache in a Rocky t-shirt. This is the image we had in mind while making this first calendar. Great cinema is there, wherever you can find it. The dismissed film now recognized as a classic, the forgotten box-office hit newly resurrected, the high and the low,...
- 1/20/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
This interview was originally published online by Sight & Sound. It is being re-published on the Notebook in conjunction with Albert Serra's Story of My Death playing on Mubi in most countries in the world through December 14, 2015.If new movie masterpieces are proclaimed at each and every major film festival each and every year, the notable absence of adventurous, exciting and otherwise transgressive cinema amongst those lauded should inspire us to question not only the terms we use to describe films but also the standards to which we hold them.Catalan filmmaker Albert Serra, a transcendental minimalist who wields his camera like only a handful of fellow feature-film digital adventurers – among them Pedro Costa, David Lynch and Michael Mann – is one of the few who produces work that truly creates a new encounter with the audience. His radically stripped-down, voluptuously shaggy adaptations of canonical writing – Cervantes in Honour of the Knights...
- 11/20/2015
- by Daniel Kasman
- MUBI
From the very opening of the Yves Saint Laurent biopic Saint Laurent, director Bertrand Bonello lays out his major thematic conflicts. In the first shot, we look down on an intricately designed floor of a hotel lobby, into which one inconsequential black-clad figure strays. In the second, we see a black-clad figure from behind, sitting on a bed, staring out a window at a foggy Parisian scene. The camera tracks in slowly on him, but does not cut to his face. Already we know that our subject is mysterious and that the movie will play with the notion of revealing his identity to us, but that we will never be able to understand him, possibly because this man moves through a material world of beautifully crafted physical artifice that has, thankfully, supplanted the unnecessary interior world of the artist. As Yves Saint Laurent himself says later in the film, he’s interested in the soul,...
- 10/8/2014
- by Doug Dibbern
- MUBI
This story first appeared in the Oct. 10 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Andy Warhol'S Chelsea Girls On Oct. 25, downtown L.A.'s Redcat arts center will host a special screening of Andy Warhol's and Paul Morrissey's Chelsea Girls, presented in its original dual-projector, split-screen setup. Filmed at Manhattan's famed Hotel Chelsea and Warhol's legendary Factory studio, this fascinating and invigorating audiovisual experiment is at once a primer on Warhol's troupe of talents (Nico, Brigid Berlin) and transgressives (Mario Montez, Eric Emerson) and a moving study of still lives. 631 W. 2nd St. See more 35
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- 10/4/2014
- by Jordan Cronk
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jamaica Inn: BBC One, 9pm
First of a three-part adaptation by Emma Frost of Daphne du Maurier's bleak romance. In 1821, Mary Yellan, a headstrong heroine, is forced to live with her aunt at Jamaica Inn in Cornwall following her mother's death. Danger and disaster await her on Bodmin Moor.
Her bullying uncle Joss is revealed to be a notorious smuggler, whose gang has control across the entire Cornish coastline. Life at the inn soon changes Mary as she begins to wonder whether she will change herself, surrounded by such immoral criminals. Even so, she cannot resist the charm of her uncle's enigmatic younger brother Jem.
Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This: ITV, 9pm
Feature-length drama exploring the life of much-treasured comedian Tommy Cooper, written by Simon Nye and starring David Threlfall (Frank Gallagher from Shameless). There is attention given to Cooper's practised incompetence with magic tricks,...
First of a three-part adaptation by Emma Frost of Daphne du Maurier's bleak romance. In 1821, Mary Yellan, a headstrong heroine, is forced to live with her aunt at Jamaica Inn in Cornwall following her mother's death. Danger and disaster await her on Bodmin Moor.
Her bullying uncle Joss is revealed to be a notorious smuggler, whose gang has control across the entire Cornish coastline. Life at the inn soon changes Mary as she begins to wonder whether she will change herself, surrounded by such immoral criminals. Even so, she cannot resist the charm of her uncle's enigmatic younger brother Jem.
Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This: ITV, 9pm
Feature-length drama exploring the life of much-treasured comedian Tommy Cooper, written by Simon Nye and starring David Threlfall (Frank Gallagher from Shameless). There is attention given to Cooper's practised incompetence with magic tricks,...
- 4/21/2014
- Digital Spy
When Andy Warhol made the switch from painting to filmmaking, he took popular culture by surprise. Warhol was hardly the first artist of his era to traverse media, but he was one of the most prominent and famed, a decidedly off-kilter celebrity who created a personality not fit for prime-time yet nonetheless held a continued presence in prime-time. But the most shocking thing about Warhol’s films was the ways in which they presented the exact opposite of his notorious artwork. Where Warhol’s paintings and prints explored the ubiquitous presence of major movie stars, his own films cast a troupe of eccentric outsiders deemed the alternate universe superstars of his own downtown “factory.” Where Warhol’s paintings created “original” works of glossy, mass-produced products familiar to everyone in a society inundated by advertising (e.g., the infamous Campbell’s soup can), his films were raw, deliberately unpolished, often unedited events that challenged the inherently manufactured nature...
- 11/7/2013
- by Landon Palmer
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Warhol's most famous movies – including Sleep, a five-hour film of his lover dozing – perfectly capture the avant garde New York of the Velvet Underground and the Chelsea hotel
This weekend the Ica will be showing new prints of some of Andy Warhol's most famous films – Sleep, Vinyl and Chelsea Girls. These consciously crude and raw films of the 1960s New York avant garde have been restored by MoMA and the Whitney Museum of American Art and the only surprise is that they're getting such a short outing at a single London cinema. A national release of some kind is called for, surely?
I say that, but I have never actually seen Chelsea Girls. And yet I feel as if I have watched it many times. I got to know and love it indirectly when I was 15, through a vinyl album by Nico that I bought at a record shop in Wrexham.
This weekend the Ica will be showing new prints of some of Andy Warhol's most famous films – Sleep, Vinyl and Chelsea Girls. These consciously crude and raw films of the 1960s New York avant garde have been restored by MoMA and the Whitney Museum of American Art and the only surprise is that they're getting such a short outing at a single London cinema. A national release of some kind is called for, surely?
I say that, but I have never actually seen Chelsea Girls. And yet I feel as if I have watched it many times. I got to know and love it indirectly when I was 15, through a vinyl album by Nico that I bought at a record shop in Wrexham.
- 4/4/2013
- by Jonathan Jones
- The Guardian - Film News
Ashley Benson looked so cool and glam at the ‘Spring Breakers’ premiere at the 2013 SXSW festival in Austin, Texas on March 10. Her makeup artist spills how to get Ashley’s exact look below!
Ashley Benson, 23, switched up the traditional black smokey eye for a cool blue look at the Spring Breakers premiere at the South By Southwest festival on March 10! Makeup artist Nico Guilis created Ashley’s premiere look and breaks it down for HollywoodLifers below!
Check out the exact products used to get Ashley’s premiere look below:
“With Ashley’s sexy cool new brown hair, I thought the makeup should really bring out those blue eyes and focus on her beautiful Jane Birkin-esque classic features. She is so naturally beautiful and with this hair I wanted to try something different,” Nico says.
Ashley Benson’s ‘Spring Breakers’ Premiere Makeup — Get The Look
“I used Chanel Vitalumiere Aqua...
Ashley Benson, 23, switched up the traditional black smokey eye for a cool blue look at the Spring Breakers premiere at the South By Southwest festival on March 10! Makeup artist Nico Guilis created Ashley’s premiere look and breaks it down for HollywoodLifers below!
Check out the exact products used to get Ashley’s premiere look below:
“With Ashley’s sexy cool new brown hair, I thought the makeup should really bring out those blue eyes and focus on her beautiful Jane Birkin-esque classic features. She is so naturally beautiful and with this hair I wanted to try something different,” Nico says.
Ashley Benson’s ‘Spring Breakers’ Premiere Makeup — Get The Look
“I used Chanel Vitalumiere Aqua...
- 3/11/2013
- by Dory Larrabee
- HollywoodLife
Review by Sam Moffitt
I love anything about Andy Warhol! I must say that right out of the gate, I love Andy Warhol! I have followed Warhol since the Sixties. Growing up near St. Louis, Missouri in the Sixties my family had a subscription to Life Magazine and they seemed to always be running articles about Op Art, Pop Art, the emerging youth and drug cultures and underground films made by people like the Kuchar Brothers, Jonas Mekas, Taylor Mead and Andy Warhol. It seemed like Warhol was in the news constantly, especially the question of whether his stuff was really art or even had any real value.
I read avidly about his ‘Factory’. in New York and his crew of strange underground people who helped him turn out art works, like….well like a factory!
I have three documentaries about Warhol himself, and have read every book by and about him I could find.
I love anything about Andy Warhol! I must say that right out of the gate, I love Andy Warhol! I have followed Warhol since the Sixties. Growing up near St. Louis, Missouri in the Sixties my family had a subscription to Life Magazine and they seemed to always be running articles about Op Art, Pop Art, the emerging youth and drug cultures and underground films made by people like the Kuchar Brothers, Jonas Mekas, Taylor Mead and Andy Warhol. It seemed like Warhol was in the news constantly, especially the question of whether his stuff was really art or even had any real value.
I read avidly about his ‘Factory’. in New York and his crew of strange underground people who helped him turn out art works, like….well like a factory!
I have three documentaries about Warhol himself, and have read every book by and about him I could find.
- 12/18/2012
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
As I mentioned in the preface to the first part of my Wavelengths preview (the one focusing on the short films), there are significant changes afoot in 2012. Until last year, the festival had a section known as Visions, which was the primary home for formally challenging cinema that nevertheless conformed to the basic tenets of arthouse and/or “festival” cinema (actors, scripting, 70+minute running time, and, once upon a time, 35mm presentation). This year, Wavelengths is both its former self, and it also contains the sort of work that Visions most likely would have housed. While in some respects this can seem to result in a kind of split personality for the section, it also means that Wavelengths, which has often been described as a sort of “festival within the festival,” has moved front and center. Films that would’ve occupied single slots in the older avant-Wavelengths model, like the...
- 9/12/2012
- MUBI
After much media hoopla about "Vertigo" toppling "Citizen Kane" in its poll, Sight and Sound magazine have now released the full version of its once a decade 'Top 250 greatest films of all time' poll results via its website. The site also includes full on links showcasing Top Tens of the hundreds of film industry professionals who participated in the project.
For those who don't want to bother with the individual lists and to save you a bunch of clicking, below is a copy of the full 250 films that made the lists and how many votes they got to be considered for their positions:
1 - Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958) [191 votes]
2 - Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941) [157 votes]
3 - Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953) [107 votes]
4 - La Règle du jeu (Renoir, 1939) [100 votes]
5 - Sunrise: a Song for Two Humans (Murnau, 1927) [93 votes]
6 - 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968) [90 votes]
7 - The Searchers (Ford, 1956) [78 votes]
8 - Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov, 1929) [68 votes]
9 - The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer,...
For those who don't want to bother with the individual lists and to save you a bunch of clicking, below is a copy of the full 250 films that made the lists and how many votes they got to be considered for their positions:
1 - Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958) [191 votes]
2 - Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941) [157 votes]
3 - Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953) [107 votes]
4 - La Règle du jeu (Renoir, 1939) [100 votes]
5 - Sunrise: a Song for Two Humans (Murnau, 1927) [93 votes]
6 - 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968) [90 votes]
7 - The Searchers (Ford, 1956) [78 votes]
8 - Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov, 1929) [68 votes]
9 - The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer,...
- 8/18/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Forget everything you think you know about Andy Warhol.
With the brilliant new book The Black Hole of the Camera: The Films of Andy Warhol, author J. J. Murphy obviously focuses in on the artist’s filmmaking career. However, Murphy may just be the first writer to integrate movies such as Couch, Eat, Empire, Lonesome Cowboys and The Chelsea Girls into the totality of Warhol’s artistic pursuits, i.e. silk screening, painting, filmmaking, videomaking, tape recording and photography.
This is, unbelievably, the first time in cinema scholarship such an endeavor has ever been undertaken. That may seem like a shame, particularly given Warhol’s enormous filmic output and his stature as one of the most important artists of the 20th century. Yet, it’s clear it’s been worth the wait for such an astute writer and Warhol film fan like Murphy to finally tackle the topic.
Previously, one...
With the brilliant new book The Black Hole of the Camera: The Films of Andy Warhol, author J. J. Murphy obviously focuses in on the artist’s filmmaking career. However, Murphy may just be the first writer to integrate movies such as Couch, Eat, Empire, Lonesome Cowboys and The Chelsea Girls into the totality of Warhol’s artistic pursuits, i.e. silk screening, painting, filmmaking, videomaking, tape recording and photography.
This is, unbelievably, the first time in cinema scholarship such an endeavor has ever been undertaken. That may seem like a shame, particularly given Warhol’s enormous filmic output and his stature as one of the most important artists of the 20th century. Yet, it’s clear it’s been worth the wait for such an astute writer and Warhol film fan like Murphy to finally tackle the topic.
Previously, one...
- 6/4/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Sotheby's to auction off trove of art treasures and memorabilia owned by the renowned playboy. Mark Brown, meets his son Rolf
Picture the scene. A ruggedly handsome, impeccably dressed man is enjoying a snack with his superstar wife, Brigitte Bardot, in St Tropez's Gorilla bar in the late spring of 1967. A pale, odd-looking white-haired man with a large entourage notices him and marches straight over, complaining that the Cannes film festival, of all places, has refused to screen his film because of its nudity. The man agrees to see the film, Chelsea Girls, and everyone bundles into speedboats and heads for the Carlton Hotel on La Croisette.
That chance meeting between the millionaire playboy Gunter Sachs and artist Andy Warhol had a profound effect on both men. For Sachs, a serious collector, it led to a sea change in his art buying; for Warhol it marked a vital first foothold in Europe.
Picture the scene. A ruggedly handsome, impeccably dressed man is enjoying a snack with his superstar wife, Brigitte Bardot, in St Tropez's Gorilla bar in the late spring of 1967. A pale, odd-looking white-haired man with a large entourage notices him and marches straight over, complaining that the Cannes film festival, of all places, has refused to screen his film because of its nudity. The man agrees to see the film, Chelsea Girls, and everyone bundles into speedboats and heads for the Carlton Hotel on La Croisette.
That chance meeting between the millionaire playboy Gunter Sachs and artist Andy Warhol had a profound effect on both men. For Sachs, a serious collector, it led to a sea change in his art buying; for Warhol it marked a vital first foothold in Europe.
- 5/7/2012
- by Mark Brown
- The Guardian - Film News
Andy Warhol, the insanely influential and iconic multimedia pop artist, was born on Aug. 6, 1928. He would have been 83 today. He passed away on Feb. 22, 1987 following complications due to gall bladder surgery, which really sucks because one gets the feeling that Andy would have totally loved and embraced the Internet and incorporated it into his work.
Warhol made the bulk of his films between 1963 and 1968 when he became notorious for shooting extremely long movies of monotonous tasks. Many of these movies were named after the task performed on camera, including Sleep, Eat, Kiss and Haircut.
But the most notorious of his static films is 1964′s Empire, a non-moving cinematic portrait of the spire of NYC’s Empire State Building that, when screened, runs for 8 hours. Empire was photographed by Jonas Mekas and the filming of which was named Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film’s sixth most outrageous moment in underground film history.
Warhol made the bulk of his films between 1963 and 1968 when he became notorious for shooting extremely long movies of monotonous tasks. Many of these movies were named after the task performed on camera, including Sleep, Eat, Kiss and Haircut.
But the most notorious of his static films is 1964′s Empire, a non-moving cinematic portrait of the spire of NYC’s Empire State Building that, when screened, runs for 8 hours. Empire was photographed by Jonas Mekas and the filming of which was named Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film’s sixth most outrageous moment in underground film history.
- 8/6/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Senses of Cinema editor Rolando Caputo introduces the new issue: "For some time now, Senses has wanted to publish an English language translation of Jean-Baptiste Thoret's seminal article, 'The Seventies Reloaded: (What does the cinema think about when it dreams of Baudrillard?),' first published in French in 2005. So, it has been some wait, but finally we've got our wish thanks to a translation by Daniel Fairfax that does full justice to the original. Thoret is both one of the most esteemed scholars on Baudrillard's writings (a long-term Editor-in-Chief of Panic, a French journal closely associated with Baudrillardian thought), and a specialist of the American cinema of the post-classical Hollywood period (author of Le Cinéma américain des années 70, 2006). Both strands come together in sticking fashion in 'The Seventies Reloaded.'"
Among the other highlights of Issue 59: Jiwei Xiao on Jia Zhangke, Peter Tonguette on King Vidor, Graham Daseler on...
Among the other highlights of Issue 59: Jiwei Xiao on Jia Zhangke, Peter Tonguette on King Vidor, Graham Daseler on...
- 6/28/2011
- MUBI
‘The haves vs. the chavs’: Made In Chelsea’s Caggie Dunlop’s response to criticism from The Only Way Is Essex’s Amy Childs
That was the headline Wednesday on the Daily Mail Online website. The article went to detail the Twitter war of words between Made in Chelsea’s Caggie Dunlop and Amy Childs, Lydia Bright and Harry Derbidge from the Only Way Is Essex. For all intents and purposes, it appeared that ‘Caggie’ was having a go at Amy for her comments saying that the Chelsea show was a pile of rubbish. Caggie’s response to the suggestion that the Chelsea girls would be better off with a fake tan and a vajazzle on Twitter was ‘Just seen @MissAmyChilds comments on us. She says we need a vajazzle. Darling, at least my vajazzle will have real diamonds!!’ To which Amy replied: ‘Haha, people are getting jel!’ This...
That was the headline Wednesday on the Daily Mail Online website. The article went to detail the Twitter war of words between Made in Chelsea’s Caggie Dunlop and Amy Childs, Lydia Bright and Harry Derbidge from the Only Way Is Essex. For all intents and purposes, it appeared that ‘Caggie’ was having a go at Amy for her comments saying that the Chelsea show was a pile of rubbish. Caggie’s response to the suggestion that the Chelsea girls would be better off with a fake tan and a vajazzle on Twitter was ‘Just seen @MissAmyChilds comments on us. She says we need a vajazzle. Darling, at least my vajazzle will have real diamonds!!’ To which Amy replied: ‘Haha, people are getting jel!’ This...
- 5/19/2011
- by Lisa McGarry
- Unreality
Are you wondering what that mishmash of colors above means? I present to you Movie Barcode. This tumblr takes every frame of a film, stretches it out and presents a single image. I stumbled upon the site today, but the after a quick search realized /Film picked it up a month ago. I still want to share it with Tfs readers, as I think there a few gems here. Above, in one of the most colorful pieces, is The Lion King. Below you can check out The Matrix and then a list with links of all of them. Head over to the site to also buy prints.
Æon Flux (2005)
127 Hours (2010)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
A Single Man (2009)
Alice in Wonderland (1951)
Amélie / Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain (2001)
American Beauty (1999)
Antichrist (2009)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Astro Boy (2009)
Babel (2006)
Bambi (1942)
Basic Instinct (1992)
Batman Begins (2005)
Black Swan (2010)
Brazil (1985)
Breathless / À bout de souffle...
Æon Flux (2005)
127 Hours (2010)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
A Single Man (2009)
Alice in Wonderland (1951)
Amélie / Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain (2001)
American Beauty (1999)
Antichrist (2009)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Astro Boy (2009)
Babel (2006)
Bambi (1942)
Basic Instinct (1992)
Batman Begins (2005)
Black Swan (2010)
Brazil (1985)
Breathless / À bout de souffle...
- 4/6/2011
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The Kills. Photograph by Edouard Plongeon.When Alison Mosshart and Jack White formed The Dead Weather in 2009, a nation of Chelsea Girls and Modern Gainsbourgs trembled at the prospect of no more Kills records. Co-founder and guitarist Jamie Hince’s relationship with Kate Moss (they’re now engaged) helped keep the group in our thoughts, but it was no substitute for a proper dose of creepy-chic retro cool. Four years since Midnight Boom, the duo has finally reunited for Blood Pressures, out April 5 on Domino. Here, Alison Mosshart talks about Hince, White, and why you will never see her looking mousy.
- 3/17/2011
- Vanity Fair
The series producer responsible for ITV2 hit The Only Way Is Essex will head the team behind new E4 show Chelsea Girls. Broadcast reports that the reality series will follow socialites and wealthy playboys who "mingle" with royals and enjoy their parents' wealth. Sarah Dillistone has been hired by Monkey Kingdom to executive produce the programme after her success with the ITV2 show which cataputed stars including Mark Wright and Amy Child to fame. Dillistone commented: "Joining Monkey offers me the chance to take all the experience I’ve gained in this genre and help create programmes I love. The huge appetite for shows like The Only Way Is Essex and The Hills (more)...
- 2/17/2011
- by By Ryan Love
- Digital Spy
In an effort to mix things up a bit, I’ve tried to do some searching to find random oldies, but goodies. I’ll try to keep doing this in the future so these weekly link roundups don’t start to get stale.
First, I dug up an interesting, older article by longtime underground film writer Fred Camper about the problems naming the avant-garde, experimental, underground, etc. He also comes up with a six-part “test” to determine if a film is underground or not. And, yes, there’s lots of hostility to the term “underground,” but, obviously, it’s what I personally go with. On the other hand, there’s this cute attempt at underground film history. Back in 2002, Gary Morris wrote an interesting appraisal of Andy Warhol’s Chelsea Girls for Bright Lights Film Journal. The Los Angeles Times reports that Charles Manson follower and convicted murderer Bobby Beausoleil,...
First, I dug up an interesting, older article by longtime underground film writer Fred Camper about the problems naming the avant-garde, experimental, underground, etc. He also comes up with a six-part “test” to determine if a film is underground or not. And, yes, there’s lots of hostility to the term “underground,” but, obviously, it’s what I personally go with. On the other hand, there’s this cute attempt at underground film history. Back in 2002, Gary Morris wrote an interesting appraisal of Andy Warhol’s Chelsea Girls for Bright Lights Film Journal. The Los Angeles Times reports that Charles Manson follower and convicted murderer Bobby Beausoleil,...
- 12/19/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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- 12/2/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Flaming Creatures midnight screening
Jonas Mekas’ Movie Journal: The Rise Of The New American Cinema 1959-1971 is essential reading for anybody interested in underground film. The book contains excerpts from the “Movie Journal” column Mekas wrote for the Village Voice alternative weekly newspaper for a dozen years. Also included in the book are a couple of movie posters and newspaper ads from that era, which I’ve scanned and uploaded to a photo gallery. If you click on each image in this post, it will take you to an embiggened version of it so you can look at them in better detail.
It’s tough for me to pick an absolute favorite poster out of the bunch, but I inserted the most striking above. It’s for a special midnight screening of Jack Smith’s classic Flaming Creatures. I’m guessing from the date on the poster and the year the film was completed,...
Jonas Mekas’ Movie Journal: The Rise Of The New American Cinema 1959-1971 is essential reading for anybody interested in underground film. The book contains excerpts from the “Movie Journal” column Mekas wrote for the Village Voice alternative weekly newspaper for a dozen years. Also included in the book are a couple of movie posters and newspaper ads from that era, which I’ve scanned and uploaded to a photo gallery. If you click on each image in this post, it will take you to an embiggened version of it so you can look at them in better detail.
It’s tough for me to pick an absolute favorite poster out of the bunch, but I inserted the most striking above. It’s for a special midnight screening of Jack Smith’s classic Flaming Creatures. I’m guessing from the date on the poster and the year the film was completed,...
- 11/23/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, Berwick-upon-Tweed
England's northernmost town exploits its tourist-friendly heritage for this imaginative festival, with a trail of film-based artworks commissioned for local landmarks as well as regular cinema screenings. The theme is Stagings, which means all manner of film-related art based around ideas of performance. So you'll find dance in the 14th-century Coxon's Tower and animation in the town hall prison cells, while film artist Guy Sherwin presents his ingenious projected pieces in the Holy Trinity Church. The screenings are also performance-themed, ranging from The Keystone Cut Ups, a live event colliding music, silent comedy and early avant garde cinema, to Malaysian drama Karaoke (you can guess what it's about), a Finnish rugby mockumentary and the Marx brothers' A Night At The Opera.
Various venues, Wed to 19 Sep, berwickfilm-artsfest.com
The Scoop Film Season, London
The holidays are over, the kids are back to school...
England's northernmost town exploits its tourist-friendly heritage for this imaginative festival, with a trail of film-based artworks commissioned for local landmarks as well as regular cinema screenings. The theme is Stagings, which means all manner of film-related art based around ideas of performance. So you'll find dance in the 14th-century Coxon's Tower and animation in the town hall prison cells, while film artist Guy Sherwin presents his ingenious projected pieces in the Holy Trinity Church. The screenings are also performance-themed, ranging from The Keystone Cut Ups, a live event colliding music, silent comedy and early avant garde cinema, to Malaysian drama Karaoke (you can guess what it's about), a Finnish rugby mockumentary and the Marx brothers' A Night At The Opera.
Various venues, Wed to 19 Sep, berwickfilm-artsfest.com
The Scoop Film Season, London
The holidays are over, the kids are back to school...
- 9/10/2010
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Something I have learned over the past couple of years, is that any and all age groups have their cinephiles, and honestly, the older the generation, the more passionate they are about film.
Proof of this statement, an 85-year-old man, Jonas Mekas, is currently working on a rather massive project, of converting his stock of 70,000 rare indies and classics from film to digital. The collection includes some one-of-a-kind pieces, as well as rare prints of the very first motion pictures ever filmed.
Mekas isn’t just a film fan however. The man has been known as the “godfather of independent film,” and has even worked next to Salvador Dali directing films. The collection is one of the largest in the world, and has the goal of putting the entire collection online, where viewers will be able to see 19th-century films by Thomas Edison or an experimental Andy Warhol film, called Chelsea Girls.
Proof of this statement, an 85-year-old man, Jonas Mekas, is currently working on a rather massive project, of converting his stock of 70,000 rare indies and classics from film to digital. The collection includes some one-of-a-kind pieces, as well as rare prints of the very first motion pictures ever filmed.
Mekas isn’t just a film fan however. The man has been known as the “godfather of independent film,” and has even worked next to Salvador Dali directing films. The collection is one of the largest in the world, and has the goal of putting the entire collection online, where viewers will be able to see 19th-century films by Thomas Edison or an experimental Andy Warhol film, called Chelsea Girls.
- 5/19/2010
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
First the history, then the list:
In 1969, Jerome Hill, P. Adams Sitney, Peter Kubelka, Stan Brakhage, and Jonas Mekas decided to open the world’s first museum devoted to film. Of course, a typical museum hangs its collections of artwork on the wall for visitors to walk up to and study. However, a film museum needs special considerations on how — and what, of course — to present its collection to the public.
Thus, for this film museum, first a film selection committee was formed that included James Broughton, Ken Kelman, Peter Kubelka, Jonas Mekas and P. Adams Sitney, plus, for a time, Stan Brakhage. This committee met over the course of several months to decide exactly what films would be collected and how they would be shown. The final selection of films would come to be called the The Essential Cinema Repertory.
The Essential Cinema Collection that the committee came up with consisted of about 330 films.
In 1969, Jerome Hill, P. Adams Sitney, Peter Kubelka, Stan Brakhage, and Jonas Mekas decided to open the world’s first museum devoted to film. Of course, a typical museum hangs its collections of artwork on the wall for visitors to walk up to and study. However, a film museum needs special considerations on how — and what, of course — to present its collection to the public.
Thus, for this film museum, first a film selection committee was formed that included James Broughton, Ken Kelman, Peter Kubelka, Jonas Mekas and P. Adams Sitney, plus, for a time, Stan Brakhage. This committee met over the course of several months to decide exactly what films would be collected and how they would be shown. The final selection of films would come to be called the The Essential Cinema Repertory.
The Essential Cinema Collection that the committee came up with consisted of about 330 films.
- 5/3/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Dennis Hopper's recent announcement of terminal cancer jump-started a long-overdue appreciation of his art and life. He got a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame last month (finally), and newspaper and blog appreciations are starting to pop up, focusing mainly on Hopper the performer. That makes sense: Hopper's career spanned a half-century's worth of theater, cinema, TV and recorded music; his list of collaborators stretches from Elizabeth Taylor and John Wayne through Kiefer Sutherland and Gorillaz.
Still, one hopes descriptions of Hopper's directorial career don't start and end with "Easy Rider." Hopper's 1969 debut is notable for its alternately ecstatic and lacerating portrait of the counterculture, the then-unusual use of pre-existing pop songs for its soundtrack, adventurous editing and its status as the first independently financed feature to become a mainstream smash. But there's more to his directorial résumé than philosophical bikers.
Although he directed just seven features ("Easy Rider,...
Still, one hopes descriptions of Hopper's directorial career don't start and end with "Easy Rider." Hopper's 1969 debut is notable for its alternately ecstatic and lacerating portrait of the counterculture, the then-unusual use of pre-existing pop songs for its soundtrack, adventurous editing and its status as the first independently financed feature to become a mainstream smash. But there's more to his directorial résumé than philosophical bikers.
Although he directed just seven features ("Easy Rider,...
- 4/11/2010
- by Matt Zoller Seitz
- ifc.com
The term “underground film” has never enjoyed a popular definition. Oh, some writers have attempted formal definitions, but I doubt there will ever be one that is popularly agreed upon. It’s not even a term that can be agreed upon to be used. But, it is used and I personally have billed this site “The Journal of Underground Film,” so I thought I’d give my general perception of what “underground film” might mean to contribute to an ongoing dialogue about it.
And I prefer to consider writing a post like this as contributing to a dialogue because I do not have any interest in trying to build a definition myself. However, what I can say is that “Underground film” is not a genre. Actually, what leads me to use the term “underground” is that it feels to me to be a catch-all for other genres.
Avant-garde, experimental, poem,...
And I prefer to consider writing a post like this as contributing to a dialogue because I do not have any interest in trying to build a definition myself. However, what I can say is that “Underground film” is not a genre. Actually, what leads me to use the term “underground” is that it feels to me to be a catch-all for other genres.
Avant-garde, experimental, poem,...
- 1/12/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Andy Warhol's film-making partner Paul Morrissey is recovering in hospital after he was hit by a truck on a New York street.
The 71-year-old Chelsea Girls and Trash director was struck by the rental U-Haul van as he crossed 86th street in Manhattan on 8 June.
A source tells the New York Post, "He's in a Manhattan rehabilitation facility. He can walk and talk but he may have lost some short term memory."
Friends claim Morrissey has been trying to keep his accident a secret to avoid worrying his 96-year-old mother.
A pal tells the Post, "He instructed friends to tell her he hadn't called her in five days because he had laryngitis."...
The 71-year-old Chelsea Girls and Trash director was struck by the rental U-Haul van as he crossed 86th street in Manhattan on 8 June.
A source tells the New York Post, "He's in a Manhattan rehabilitation facility. He can walk and talk but he may have lost some short term memory."
Friends claim Morrissey has been trying to keep his accident a secret to avoid worrying his 96-year-old mother.
A pal tells the Post, "He instructed friends to tell her he hadn't called her in five days because he had laryngitis."...
- 6/23/2009
- WENN
Did black magic and a curse play a role in the death of Ronald Tavel -- the Obie-winning playwright and Andy Warhol collaborator who mysteriously died aboard a Thailand-bound jet last week?
Tavel, 68, who was returning to his Bangkok home from an art conference in Berlin on March 23, "drank and over-drank and became dehydrated during the flight, and then his heart just stopped," a source told us.
Fellow playwright and friend Larry Myers says Tavel -- who penned the Obie-winning "Boy on the Straight-Back Chair" and "Bigfoot," and scripted Warhol's "Chelsea Girls" -- had been...
Tavel, 68, who was returning to his Bangkok home from an art conference in Berlin on March 23, "drank and over-drank and became dehydrated during the flight, and then his heart just stopped," a source told us.
Fellow playwright and friend Larry Myers says Tavel -- who penned the Obie-winning "Boy on the Straight-Back Chair" and "Bigfoot," and scripted Warhol's "Chelsea Girls" -- had been...
- 4/2/2009
- NYPost.com
In anticipation for my trip to New York City I will be counting down with some of my NYC movies (and even some that I don't like just for a change of pace). Hope you all enjoy.
I haven't seen Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey's Chelsea Girls, but felt like I wanted to include it, especially since I'll be taking a peak at the Chelsea Hotel while I'm over there.
I haven't seen Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey's Chelsea Girls, but felt like I wanted to include it, especially since I'll be taking a peak at the Chelsea Hotel while I'm over there.
- 3/25/2009
- by Kamikaze Camel
- Stale Popcorn
- Distributed by The Weinstein Company (Bob and Harvey, who had formerly founded Miramax which was later usurped bought by Disney, who eventually weeded out pursued an option to void the brothers’ contract, thus tightening their stranglehold furthering their conquest for world domination) and penned by Captain Mauzner (Wonderland), Factory Girl (a reference to Andy Warhol’s work-living space) will tell the tumultuous life of Edie Sedgwick, with Sienna Miller (Layer Cake) in the title role and Guy Pearce (L.A. Confidential) as Warhol, along with Hayden Christensen (Shattered Glass…say, wasn’t this guy supposed to do the whole world a big favor by quitting acting and becoming an architect or something?), Mena Suvari (American Beauty) and Jimmy Fallon (umm… Taxi?). A little background info on Factory Girl and who this film is about: an American socialite and heiress, Edie Sedgwick moved to New York in 1964 to pursue a modeling career.
- 1/26/2006
- IONCINEMA.com
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