Screenplay:
James SandersCinematography:
Buddy SquiresCast:
Laurie Anderson, Irving Blum, Salvador Dalí (a.f.), Candy Darling (a.f.), Bob Dylan, Dennis Hopper, Paul Morrissey, George Plimpton (a.f.), John Richardson (more)Plots(1)
Art historian Neil Printz simply calls him "a touchstone of the culture", whose significance far exceeds the boundaries of art history: "Andy Warhol is a touchstone of the culture we live in - a touchstone for the entire culture of the post-war period. I think he is probably the most important artist of the second half of the 20th century, maybe the most important artist of the 20th century. If we needed to find a visual form just to distill what it's like to have been alive in the last fifty years, the image would come somewhere from the corpus of Andy Warhol. We might fight over what image it is. We might think it's a painting of Marilyn Monroe, we might think it's a painting of a car crash or the atom bomb or a Campbell's soup can. But I think if we had to choose a painting, it would be a painting by Andy Warhol."
No artist of the last century was more in the spotlight than Warhol; nobody was able to stage-manage himself in such an inimitable fashion - and hardly any other artist left behind so many visual documents. This four-hour documentary makes use of these documents to reconstruct Andy Warhol's life and brilliant career as a proponent both of the world of art and culture and of an underground subculture. The extensive archive material also tells the story of American cultural history from the 1950s to the 1970s, when Warhol's 'factory' became the centre of American contemporary art and pop culture. Warhol's 'materials' comprised both his 'superstars' such as Edie Sedgwick, Viva and Candy Darling, but also included other celebrities such as Bob Dylan, Dennis Hopper and Susan Sontag. This film contains many hitherto unpublished original images of these and other icons of style.
(Berlinale)
Cast
Laurie Anderson
USA
Best movies:
The Rugrats Movie (1998)
Salvador Dalí (a.f.)
Spain
Candy Darling (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
The Death of Maria Malibran (1972)
Klute (1971)
Lady Liberty (1971)
Bob Dylan
USA
Best movies:
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
I'm Not There (2007) - a.f.
Steve Jobs (2015) - a.f.
Dennis Hopper
USA
Best movies:
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Paul Morrissey
USA
Best movies:
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Rich and Famous (1981)
George Plimpton (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
Good Will Hunting (1997)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2000) (series)
John Richardson
UK
Best movies:
Black Sunday (1960)
Torso (1973)
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970)
Edie Sedgwick (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
Chelsea Girls (1966)
Ciao Manhattan (1972)
Vinyl (1965)
Andy Warhol (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
Tootsie (1982)
The Driver's Seat (1974)
Detroit Rock City (1999) - a.f.
Holly Woodlawn
Puerto Rico
Best movies:
Twin Falls Idaho (1999)
Andy Warhol's Trash (1970)