Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film
by Ric Burns
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Actor: Candy Darling, Donna De Salvo, Irving Blum, Laurie Anderson, Salvador DalíDirector: Ric Burns
Brand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
Writer: Ric Burns
Producer: Alexis Zoullas
Producer: Daniel Wolf
Producer: Diane von Fürstenberg
Producer: Donald Rosenfeld
Producer: Heather Parks
Writer: James Sanders
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 240 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-11-21
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: PBS Paramount
Movie Reviews of Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film
Movie Review: Outstanding portrait of Warhol, 1960s, and art
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the best portrait of an artist I've ever seen. I was completely entralled by the film. Because Warhol was both tremendously inventive and horribly cruel, I alternately felt a sense of awe and disgust. Warhol's genius and callousness are both fleshed out. Despite the turbulent content of the film, I was simply exhilerated throughout.
Having watched this excellent film, I feel a greatly enriched appreciation for Warhol's art---a sense of what it said, how it worked, and how it became a cliche. (I was particularly ill-informed about Warhol's films, which were discussed in great detail.)
The Factory--where Warhol worked (but seldom played) and where transvestites, drifters, and creative spirits intermingled--is featured in healthy portions. This locale comes across as one of those rare places in history where the geist of a era is spatially concentrated. Here, in this one extraordinary place of production, Warhol and others fomented art and a vision of a post-Fordist world. This film is essential viewing (like the Weather Underground or Berkeley in the Sixties) for those who want to ingest and comprehend the paradigm shift of the "1960s."
Warhol's cruel indifference to the self-destruction of those around him is critically revealed. While some in the Factory drank and drugged themselves to death, Warhol passively watches, always remaining cool, detached, and voyeuristic.
The attempted homicide on Warhol, his commercialism, and his later years are all mentioned. I would fault the film for not showing Warhol speak on film more often, for not really considering his cooptation by capitalism, and for skipping over his influence in art and in popular society.
I must admit though, that the film is brilliantly executed, and well worth your time and nickel.
Summary of Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film
"He was the most American of artists and the most artistic of Americans," one man later said ? "so American in fact that he is almost invisible to us." ANDY WARHOL ? a riveting and often deeply moving film portrait of the most famous and famously controversial artist of the second half of the twentieth century ? is the first to explore the complete spectrum of Warhol's astonishing artistic output, stretching across five decades from the late 1940's to his untimely death in 1987. Combining powerful on-camera interviews and rare still and motion picture footage, it is also the first to put Warhol himself ? his humble family background and formative experiences in Pittsburgh, and his crucial apprenticeship as a commercial artist in New York ? back into the presentation of his life.Ric Burns' Andy Warhol is a four-hour pop-culture extravaganza that will retool what you think you know about the famed and oft-parodied soup-can painter. Delving deep into Andy's impoverished upbringing in Pittsburgh, the greatest success of Burns' film is its ability to delve deep behind the façade of Andy Warhol, Pop Celebrity. Featuring interviews with an array of confidants from art dealers to artists (but, alas, no Lou Reed), Burns' film portrays an extremely insecure man who lived with his mother through much of the Factory years and constantly seeked a measure of fame akin to the Hollywood starlets whose photographs he tore out of the pages of Depression-era movie mags. Andy Warhol succeeded in achieving that fame, and along the way redefined how we think of art and culture. This film may very well redefine what you think of the man. -- Kristian St. Clair
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