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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: 33 (Actor), 58 (Director), 8 (Writer)
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Brillo Box (3 ¢ off) (2016) - TV Special
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A high-profiled documentary about Hergé and his major cartoon success, Tintin, based in part on previously unreleased archive tape footage. (imdb)
Happy Birthday to John (1997) - Short Film
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The first major profile of the American Pop Art cult leader after his death in 1987 covers the whole of his life and work through interviews, clips from his films, and conversations with his family and superstar friends. Andy Warhol, the son of poor Czech immigrants, grew up in the industrial slums of Pittsburgh while dreaming of Hollywood stars. He went on to become a star himself. (imdb)
The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1986) - Short Film
Screening of Nan Goldin's slideshow. It documents a portion of New York City's No wave music and art scene, the post-Stonewall gay subculture of the late 1970s and early 1980s, the heroin subculture of the Bowery neighborhood, and Goldin's personal family and love life (Wikipedia)
Cars: Heartbeat City (1984) - Direct-to-Video
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66 Scener Fra Amerika (1982) - Short Film
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The Shock of the New (1980) - TV Mini-Series
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Destn (Tom Sullivan) is the leader of a rock band on the brink of super-stardom. Until now they have juggled their music career with cocaine smuggling. The musicians, and their manager Raf (Jack Palance), wish to sever ties with organized-crime, leave the drug world behind and concentrate on music. However they are coerced into doing one last job for the Mob. They lose the $2 million of cocaine, and find themselves marked men unless they can fulfill their obligations. (imdb)
Andy Warhol: Re-Reproduction (1974) - Short Film
A kaleidoskopic image of Andy Warhol, presumably found footage from some interview, is slowed down and played over sudden bursts of white noise and Warhol's own distorted, delayed, voice. (imdb)
Mentally disturbed spinster Lise experiences a series of bizarre encounters in Rome as she searches for someone to murder her.
Warhol (1973) - TV Movie
David Bailey, self-taught photographer and one of the prime architects of the Swinging Sixties, broadened his horizons in the early 1970s by making high-profile documentaries for ATV. With his standing among the artistic community, Bailey was given unprecedented access to Pop Art legend Andy Warhol and his followers, in an attempt to penetrate behind the expressionless exterior of a man who was one of the most controversial figures of his generation.
A film by photographer Robert Frank on the Rolling Stone's 1972 American tour. Not released by the Stones because it contained scenes of drug use and groupie orgies.
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What's Happening? (1967) - TV Movie
An irreverent portrait of America of the 60s seen through the experiences of artists of the Beat Generation and Pop Art. The America of the Vietnam war, ploughed by contradictions and explosive social tensions but potentially saturated with expectations for the future. With: Andy Warhol, Allen Ginsberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Gregory Corso, Marie Benois and Leon Kraushar.
Static images that start moving in your mind (music as drug). (imdb)
Andy Warhol (1965) - Short Film
Andy Warhol is a lyrical exploration of Warhol's creative process by filmmaker, painter, and actress (Chelsea Girls) Marie Menken. Using a hand-held camera, Menken captures Warhol and his assistants, including Gerard Malanga, as they work at the Factory. The result is an intimate portrait of the artist in the process of creating some of his most famous works, including the Brillo boxes, the Jackie series, and the Flowers silkscreens. (eai.org/)
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)
Award Presentation to Andy Warhol (1964) - Short Film
In 1964 Film Culture magazine chose Andy Warhol for its annual Independent Film award. The plan was to show some of Andy's films and have Andy come on stage and hand him the award. Andy said, no, he didn't want a public presentation. So I decided to hand him the award at the Factory, film the occasion, and show the film at the Award Presentation show at the New Yorker Theater. (Jonas Mekas)
A single shot of the Empire State Building from early evening until nearly 3 am the next day. (imdb)
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)
The cast of "creatures," including Mario Montez and Tiny Tim, perform in a series of disjointed sequences that oscillate between trancelike impersonation and utterly reflexive self-parody.
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