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Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film
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Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film is a four-hour documentary by Ric Burns about pop artist Andy Warhol.
The film is Burns' cinematic argument that Warhol was the greatest artist of the second half of the 20th century. (Picasso is credited with having that honor in the first half of the 20th century.)
Laurie Anderson narrates the movie.
In one segment, Burns compares Warhol's portraits of such celebrities as Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor with the icons of saints that Warhol saw in his boyhood Byzantine Catholic parish, where he spent many hours as a child.
Burns follows Warhol through his meteoric rise in New York's commercial art world during the s. Burns cites , the year Warhol first exhibited his soup can paintings in Los Angeles, as the turning point in Warhol's career.
Burns also describes in detail Valerie Solanas' near-fatal shooting of Warhol in
Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film debuted in early September with a two-week theatrical run in New York City at Film Forum that charged no admission. The movie was televised in the United States over two nights, September 20–21, , on PBS as part of its American Masters series.
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An Emmy and Peabody-winning public television series on the life and work of most influential American artist of the second half of the 20th century.
Produced by Steeplechase Films, directed by Ric Burns, and featuring an Emmy Award-winning script by James Sanders and Ric Burns, Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film is a two-part, four-hour portrait of the best-known and most influential American artist of the second half of the 20th century. Narrated by Laurie Anderson, the series—which also received a George Foster Peabody Award—was the first to explore the complete spectrum of Warhol’s artistic output, stretching five decades from the s to his untimely death in
The movie is an entirely absorbing, occasionally revelatory portrait of a brilliant talent driven to greatness by an inner chorus of demons and angels.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
Hypnotic, powerful and revealing.
New York magazine
A biography of Warhol himself, the series is also a portrait of the artist’s time and place: the smoky industrial Pittsburgh of his youth, but above all the glamorous New York of his adult career, from the early s to the late s. The city of his imagination and dreams as a young artist, New York became the setting and inspiration for his own transformative cultural impact, which extended far beyond his artwork to encompass the extraordinary studio environment he created—The Factory, on East 47th Street—which in turn became home to a pioneering mix of art, music, film, fashion, and style, defining the creative spirit of the city in his own time and beyond.
Watch Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film: Part 1, here. Part 2, here.
Awards
XXVe Festival International du Film Sur L’Art, Montreal, March
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction Writing for James Sanders and Ric Burns,
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Emmy Award Nomination for Outstanding Here is the Video Librarian Review: Video Librarian Review Go HERE to STREAM on KANOPY Purchase Personal DVD $ Purchase Academic Library DVD and Files Options This new trailer featuring the NEW CC 83 minute feature doc version will bring you up to date on "Andy Warhol''s Factory People" The Original Three-Hour Seriies is also available on DVD Produced by PGE in association with Zarafa Films, France Television and OvationTV, USA. Produced by Patrick Nagle and Yves Billon, Executive Producer Patrick Nagle Andy making "Nude Restaurant" with Viva and Taylor Mead. “Andy Warhol’s FACTORY PEOPLE”, tells the story of the 60’s Silver Factory that Andy founded in in an abandoned hat factory on East 47 Street in New York City. The Silver Factory lasted until when Andy gave up the lease and moved to the White Factory on Union Square. Shortly after moving in the Spring of ’68 Andy was shot by Valerie Solanas and this event bookends the period of time covered in “Factory People”. The idea of the film is to tell the real story of the culture, who was there with Andy, who participated in the work with Andy, and what really happened during this period…all without passing judgement on Andy, his work, his friends, and the people who were there at the time. The film takes and in-depth look at the lives and times of the people who hung out with Andy and “worked” at the Silver Factory during the Sixties, making it all click as a new counter-culture arose and began to exert its influence throughout the arts. Interviews in the Film include: Warhol Biographer, Victor Bokris. Silver Factory Creator and live-in photographer/gate keeper, Billy Name. Poet and original Warhol Silver Factory assistant, Gerard Malanga. Independent Film Maker/Archivist and Warhol supporter, Jonas
A Film by Emmy Award winner Catherine O’Sullivan Shorr, Edited by Vincent Vierron