The Velvet Underground
Todd Haynes’ The Velvet Underground (2021) is less a paint-by-numbers history of a band than it is a mapping of events and confluent cultural currents that, by kismet, intersected with… Read more »
Tag: Andy Warhol
Identikit
Elizabeth Taylor arrived on the set of director Giuseppe Patroni Griffi’s Identikit (1974) the day after her first divorce from Richard Burton was finalized. Taylor’s portrayal of Lise is an… Read more »
Heat
After the increasing successes of Flesh (1968), Trash (1970), and the underrated Women In Revolt (1971) Paul Morrissey’s films for producer Andy Warhol reached their zenith of mainstream acclaim with… Read more »
Vinyl
Andy Warhol’s film adaptation of Anthony Burgess’ novel A Clockwork Orange,Vinyl (1965), opens in a close-up just like Stanley Kubrick’s version. Vinyl begins with Gerald Malanga’s face filling the screen…. Read more »
Blank Generation
Blank Generation (1980) is Ulli Lommel’s unlikely love letter to the New York Punk scene. Along with Cocaine Cowboys (1979), Blank Generation marked the beginning of Lommel’s career as a… Read more »
Flesh
Kenny used to manage TLA video back before it shut its doors forever in 2010. In 2006 he held onto copies of Flesh, Trash and Heat for me, for about… Read more »
Lonesome Cowboys
“…a movie about a one-woman all-fag cowboy town“-Andy Warhol If the fifties represented a trend in subverting the Western genre by inverting the sexual politics of the day, enhancing the… Read more »
Imagine
John Lennon is known to most as the leader of The Beatles. In addition to being a songwriter, Lennon was a poet, a humorist, an illustrator and play-write. However, with his… Read more »
Basquiat
Recently I received as a gift ANDY WARHOL Polaroids 1958-1987, published by Taschen. It is a marvelous presentation of Warhol’s work, quite fascinating when one begins to compare these original… Read more »
