Andy WarholFilmography

The Feature

Actors: Michel Auder, Andy Warhol, Louis Waldon, Brigid Berlin, Alice Neel, Cindy Sherman, Viva

Synopsis: Filmmaker Michel Auder teams with Andrew Neel to construct this patchwork retrospective detailing 40 years in his own life and the lives of his closest friends. Assembled from over 5,000 hours of footage, the film offers viewers a glimpse into Auder's unique world. From conversations with Andy Warhol Read More

The Universe of Keith Haring

Synopsis: Artist and designer Keith Haring created work that bridged the gap between high art and pop culture during his short but influential career. Haring's simple outline drawings of characters without features were often loaded with meaning even if they seemed outwardly naïve, and while his canvases Read More

Beautiful Darling

Actors: Candy Darling

Synopsis: Born in a Long Island suburb in 1944, James Slattery immediately felt drawn to the feminine side of life - to such a degree that he established himself as one of the most iconic of all female impersonators, Candy Darling. As given life by Slattery, this young, sexy and alluring blonde actress Read More

Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film

Actors: Philip Bosco, Josh Hamilton, Robert Sean Leonard, Laurie Anderson, Jeff Koons, Andy Warhol

Synopsis: Documentary filmmaker Ric Burns explores the life and legacy of pop art's most beloved icon with this film that seeks to illuminate the public persona and creative complexity of painter, photographer, and filmmaker Andy Warhol. Host Laurie Anderson narrates as an erudite collection of curators Read More

Who Gets to Call It Art?

Actors: Frank Stella, Jasper Johns, Larry Poons, James Rosenquist

Synopsis: Henry Geldzahler was one of the most important figures in 20th Century American art, even though he was not an artist himself. Geldzahler was a collector and historian who helped establish the role of artists such as Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, George Segal, and Roy Lichtenstein within the canon Read More

Nico-Icon

Actors: Jackson Browne, Christa Paffgen

Synopsis: This German documentary offers a tragic profile of the notorious "death angel," Nico. Long after her death in 1988, the German model and entertainer has remained a darkly mysterious cult figure. She was born Christa Paffgen in Cologne and took her professional name from photographer Nico Read More

Imagine: John Lennon - The Definitive Film Portrait

Actors: Yoko Ono, John Lennon

Synopsis: The personal film archives of Yoko Ono were utilized for this feature-length documentary on the life of John Lennon. Predictably, it downplays Lennon's association with the Beatles and concentrates on his years with Ono. The film spends a lot of time recounting Lennon's anti-war activities Read More

Andy Warhol

Actors: Andy Warhol

Synopsis: A documentary featuring the founder of pop art. Andy Warhol is represented through his work and through interviews. ~ John Voorhees, All Movie Guide Read More

The Look

Actors: Julie Wolfe, Carol Alt, Kelly Emberg, Carrie Nygren

Synopsis: With top-name models like Carol Alt and Kelly Emberg, as well as the designer clothes they wear, this docudrama about the hardships of jet lag as the women travel from Rome, to Paris, to New York, to London is at least visually, if not mentally or emotionally engaging. The focus, in general, is on Read More

Portfolio

Synopsis: Famed fashion models share the various ways in which they clawed their way to the top of their field in this docudrama. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

L'Amour

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Max Delys, Jane Forth, Donna Jordan, Michael Sklar

Synopsis: Consensus opinion is that Paul Morrissey directed L'Amour on his own, despite Andy Warhol's name on the credits. This film has much more of a story than the other Andy Warhol Factory productions, but it takes the same casual approach to nudity and sex. In the story, two female tourists (Donna Jordan Read More

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Cocaine Cowboys

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Cocaine Cowboys is an odd, simply dreadful little film which tries to be chic and innovative but merely succeeds in being confusing and tiresome. The film purports to tell the story of a rock group that supports itself between gigs by selling cocaine. This side business gets them into trouble with Read More

Blank Generation

Synopsis: Richard Hell, one of the most important and influential figures in the late-'70s New York punk rock scene, stars in this gritty look at the underground art and music community, directed by German filmmaker Ulli Lommel. Billy (Hell) is an up-and-coming musician and poet who meets Nada (Carole Bouquet Read More

Andy Warhol's Bad

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Carroll Baker, Perry King, Susan Tyrrell, Stefania Casini, Cyrinda Foxe

Synopsis: The final film released under the Andy Warhol moniker (which Warhol executive produced) is a much more polished affair than Flesh, Trash or Heat, but preserves the oddball wit and eccentric flair that made those films so memorable. Directed by Warhol film editor Jed Johnson, Andy Warhol's Bad Read More

Underground and Emigrants

Actors: William S. Burroughs, Charles Ludlam

Synopsis: In this film, outspokenly homosexual filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim has documented his encounters with friends in the New York "underground" arts movement, the better-known of whom are William Burroughs (who says nothing for the camera), Andy Warhol (seen in the distance) and Fernando Arrabal (who Read More

The Driver's Seat

Synopsis: A beautiful but mysterious woman goes on a journey that has dangerous consequences for her and those around her in this offbeat, arty drama from Italian filmmaker Giuseppe Patroni Griffi. Lise (Elizabeth Taylor) is a woman edging into middle age who is nearing the end of her emotional rope. Read More

Blood for Dracula

Crew: Producer

Actors: Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier, Vittorio De Sica, Maxime McKendry, Arno Juerging

Synopsis: The second of two horror films shot in a single production term and bearing the name of pop-art icon Andy Warhol (whose participation pretty much ended with the use of his name), this film is slightly superior to its higher-profile predecessor, Andy Warhol's Frankenstein. Direction is credited to Warhol Read More

Cocksucker Blues

Actors: The Rolling Stones, Marshall Chess, Stevie Wonder, Andy Warhol, Truman Capote

Synopsis: The behind-the-scenes activities of the Rolling Stones on their 1972 American tour are the focus of this quasi-documentary film which has had limited showings due to a lawsuit brought by the band, doubtlessly on the advice of their lawyers. Thus, its official release date (if any) is open to Read More

Painters Painting

Synopsis: Painter's Painting offers a rare glimpse into the nascent American art movement that finally established America as a place where world-class art is produced. Emile de Antonio recognized his friends to be the center of this postwar movement, even when the New York art establishment thought of them Read More

Heat

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sylvia Miles, Joe Dallesandro

Synopsis: Heat is one of the more mainstream films produced by Andy Warhol's "Factory" and directed by Paul Morrissey. It is something of a send-up of Sunset Boulevard, with male beauty Joe Dallesandro in the William Holden part. In the film, Dallessandro seeks to advance his career by bedding anyone who is Read More

Women in Revolt

Crew: Producer

Actors: Candy Darling, Holly Woodlawn, Jackie Curtis

Synopsis: Andy Warhol produced this mordant satire of the women's movement, directed by Paul Morrissey and staring a trio of female impersonators. Candy (Candy Darling) is an aloof heiress caught in an unhappy relationship with her brother. Jackie (Jackie Curtis) is a virginal intellectual who believes that Read More

Diaries, Notes and Sketches

Actors: Dr. Timothy Leary, Jack Smith, Mario Montez

Synopsis: Underground filmmaker Jonas Mekas presents a collection of home movies, outtakes and unfinished projects. A picnic in Central Park with friends is shown, as are Allen Ginsberg and Norman Mailer in an anti-war protest march. John Lennon and Yoko Ono are shown in their celebrated honeymoon where Read More

Trash

Crew: Producer

Actors: Joe Dallesandro, Holly Woodlawn, Jane Forth, Michael Sklar, Geri Miller

Synopsis: This Andy Warhol production finds Joe Dallesandro as Joe, a lice-ridden impotent junkie who lives with Holly (Holly Woodlawn) in a Lower East Side slum in New York. Holly is a transvestite who spends time collecting trash, going to the Fillmore East, and cruising for sex. Joe is only interested in Read More

Dynamite Chicken

Actors: Joan Baez, John Lennon, Richard Pryor, Andy Warhol

Synopsis: This film contains a collection of commercials, interviews, and music featuring Joan Baez, Richard Pryor, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Lenny Bruce, Andy Warhol, and Allen Ginsberg. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Illiac Passion

Synopsis: This Big Apple underground art film is based on the classic Greek play Prometheus Bound and presents assorted characters, symbolizing Greek gods and their daily actions that signify the relationship between homosexuality and urban living. Andy Warhol and his Factory members populate the piece. Read More

Loves of Ondine

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Ondine, Viva, Joe Dallesandro, Pepper Davis

Synopsis: This characteristically offbeat, but tedious, Andy Warhol film was finished just before Warhol was seriously wounded by a gunshot wound inflicted by one of his disgruntled followers. It was released soon after Warhol's recovery. Though the film tends to be a muddled, haphazard collection of Read More

Ich Bin Ein Elefant, Madame

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Guenther Lueders, Peter Palitzsch

Synopsis: Rull (Wolfgang Schneider) is in his last year at a classical German state school. Believing all authority figures are repugnant, he engages in a series of bizarre behaviors. He literally acts like a bull in a china shop, alienates his friends, loses his girlfriend and infuriates his teachers. When Read More

Lonesome Cowboys

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Viva, Taylor Mead

Synopsis: This experimental western from cult icon Andy Warhol concerns nine people in a ghost town looking for love. A truly twisted improvisational comedy should have emerged, but Taylor Mead's shrill screeching and some annoying in-camera editing results in a fairly grating experience. Ramona Alvarez (Viva Read More

Blue Movie

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Producer

Actors: Louis Waldon

Synopsis: Viva and Louis Walden star in this Andy Warhol film. The two discuss social issues and cuddle in bed before copulating. They later shower together and prepare for the day in this boring film highlighted by a sex act that is strangely mechanical and devoid of eroticism. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Read More

The Queen

Actors: Jack Doroshow

Synopsis: Queen is a ribald hour-long documentary about a "Miss All-American Beauty" contest held in New York in 1967. So what, you say? Well, it happens that all the contestants are male transvestites -- and some of them are real knockouts. Alternately hilarious and depressing, Queen was considered the Read More

San Diego Surf

Crew: Director

Merce Cunningham's Rainforest

Crew: Set Designer

Actors: Carolyn Brown, Merce Cunningham, Barbara Lloyd, Sandra Neels, Albert Reid

Flesh

Crew: Producer

Actors: Joe Dallesandro, Geraldine Smith, John Christian, Barry Brown, Candy Darling

Synopsis: Flesh was filmmaker Paul Morrissey's first production for Andy Warhol. The story concerns a bisexual hustler (Joe Dallesandro) who does tricks so that he can pay for his wife's lover's abortion. The film made headlines when it was confiscated by the police during one of its earliest showings in Read More

Sunset Beach on Long Island

Crew: Director

The Chelsea Girls

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Ondine, Mary Might, International Velvet, Nico, Gerard Malanga, Ingrid Superstar

Synopsis: One of the first "underground" films of the 1960's to achieve a degree of mainstream acceptance (it was an actual hit in New York City, was well-received in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and was banned in Chicago and Boston), Andy Warhol's The Chelsea Girls offered a long, unblinking look into Read More

Tub Girls

Crew: Director

Batman Fights Dracula

Crew: Producer

Group One

Crew: Director

Imitation of Christ

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Brigid Polk, Ondine, Nico, Taylor Mead

Synopsis: The medieval writings of Thomas a Kempis supposedly are the inspiration behind this Andy Warhol film. A young son reflects on his place in the world. Brigid Polk is the young boy's mother, with Ondine as his father. Nico plays the maid and Taylor Mead place a homeless man in this lifeless feature. Read More

I, A Man

Crew: Director

Actors: Tom Baker, Cynthia May, Ingrid Superstar

Synopsis: Tom Baker is a blonde bisexual and the only man in this experimental exploitation film directed by Andy Warhol. He and his female co-stars are shown in various stages of nudity as Warhol continues his cinematic voyeurism. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

Bike Boy

Crew: Director

Actors: Ed Wiener, Ingrid Superstar

Synopsis: Joe Spencer plays the title character in this typical experimental film from Andy Warhol. Spencer is the object of sexual desire for several willing females, and Warhol continues his cinematic voyeurism with nudity from both genders. The end result is more tedious than erotically provocative. Read More

Four Stars

Crew: Director

Actors: International Velvet, Viva

Synopsis: Andy Warhol shows technical improvement in this experimental film with music by the Velvet Underground. He effectively blends multi-printed scenes in an effective display of psychedelic colors. Warhol continues his voyeuristic tendencies as the camera films two people making love. A rape scene is Read More

Nude Restaurant

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor

Actors: Taylor Mead, Viva

Synopsis: Viva make her film debut in this typical Andy Warhol exploitation film. She plays a waitress in a restaurant where, you guessed it, everyone is at least partially nude. Although she does not ignore the advances of men, they never get to have sex with her because of her incessant talking. All the Read More

The Velvet Underground and Nico

Crew: Cinematographer, Director

Actors: Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, Nico

Synopsis: This Andy Warhol art film was first released in 1966. It is his chronicle of the Velvet Underground jamming while blonde German model Nico sits on a stool. Unlike other Warhol art films, the camera becomes an active participant in the film as it zooms in, pans, and moves chaotically around the Read More

Mrs. Warhol

Crew: Cinematographer, Director

Actors: Julia Warhol

Synopsis: For this memorable color film, director Andy Warhol turned his camera on Julia Warhola, his own mother, whom he filmed in her small basement apartment. A tiny woman in a hair net and house dress, she looks uncannily like her son and talks constantly in an almost unintelligible, heavy Czech accent. Read More

Ari & Mario

Crew: Director

Actors: Mario Montez, Nico

Synopsis: In this sometimes hilarious color film directed by Andy Warhol, the German-born rock singer Nico hires drag queen Mario Montez to baby-sit her three-year-old son Ari. Dressed in a pale blue lounging outfit and adorned with a lot of makeup and costume jewelry, Mario runs into endless difficulties Read More

Bufferin

Crew: Director

Eating Too Fast

Crew: Director

Andy Warhol's Since

Crew: Director

50 Fantastics and 50 Personalities

Crew: Director

Closet

Crew: Director

Actors: Nico

Synopsis: Andy Warhol's short experimental feature Closet (1966) stars Nico and Randy Bourscheidt as a couple who live, full-time, in the titular location. The film opens outside of the closet, with the couple off-camera -- the muffled voices provide the only indication of their presence behind the door. As Read More

Camp

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Andy Warhol gathered together several performers and friends and had them each do a turn for this black-and-white feature: a sort of revue, hosted by Gerard Malanga. Paul Swan dances with Baby Jane Holzer. Mario Montez sings and dances to "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate". Mar-Mar Read More

Poor Little Rich Girl

Crew: Director

More Milk Yvette

Crew: Director

Match Girl

Beauty #2

Crew: Director

Outer and Inner Space

Crew: Director

Life of Juanita Castro

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Based on a Life magazine article in which Fidel Castro's sister, Juanita, denounced her brother, inspired by rumors that Castro's brother, Raul, was a transvestite, and that Castro himself had once appeared as an extra in an Esther Williams movie, The Life of Juanita Castro rewrites history as a Read More

Drunk

Crew: Director

Face

Crew: Director

Bitch

Crew: Director

My Hustler

Crew: Cinematographer, Director

Actors: Paul America, Ed Hood, Ed Wiener, The Sugar Plum Fairy, John McDermott, Jeanne Vieve, Joseph Campbell

Synopsis: The action in the first reel takes place at a bungalow on the beach at Fire Island. Ed Hood (the John) plays a bitchy, aging queen has ordered a blonde male hustler, Paul (Paul America) from a service called "Dial-a-Hustler." He is watching the hustler from the back porch of the bungalow, where he Read More

Hedy

Crew: Director

Horse

Crew: Director

Synopsis: By turns hilarious and shocking, Horse was Andy Warhol's first "Western" (the other being Lonesome Cowboys, made two years later). It was also the first of his films to use a script, though the performers didn't see it before shooting began, reading their lines off of cue cards. Horse stars three Read More

Kitchen

Crew: Director

Normal Love

Actors: Mario Montez, Diana Baccus, David Sachs, Angus MacLise, Beverly Grant

Synopsis: By 1965, Jack Smith was exhibiting versions of Normal Love, mixing his soundtracks live and often re-editing the film as it was being shown. After Smith's death, Jerry Tartaglia prepared this restored 105-minute version, which premiered in 1997. Although shot on backdated color-film stock and Read More

Andy Warhol

Actors: Andy Warhol

Synopsis: A day in the life of Andy Warhol, shot in documentary style and condensed into just 22 minutes (or 18, according to some sources) by filmmaker Marie Menken. ~ David Lewis, All Movie Guide Read More

13 Most Beautiful Boys

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This 16 mm, silent film shot in black-and-white was made a few months after Warhol's mural Thirteen Most Wanted Men was censored at the New York Pavilion at the New York World's Fair. These flat-on police mug shots were "fixes" that inspired a constant flow of similar portraiture on film Read More

Suicide

Crew: Director

Vinyl

Crew: Director

13 Most Beautiful Women

Crew: Director

Prison

Crew: Director

Paul Swan

Crew: Director

Space

Crew: Director

Restaurant

Crew: Director

Couch

Crew: Director

Eat

Crew: Director

Blow Job

Crew: Director

Taylor Mead's Ass

Crew: Director

Batman Dracula

Crew: Director

Henry Geldzahler

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The morning after he completed filming his eight-hour study of the Empire State Building, Empire, Andy Warhol used the same rented camera and two leftover 1200-foot film magazines to make this silent feature-length portrait of Henry Geldzahler. Geldzahler was at the time a curator at the Read More

Soap Opera

Crew: Director

Harlot

Crew: Director

Synopsis: With the exception of 1963's Tarzan and Jane Regained...Sort of, which used a soundtrack created by Taylor Mead, Harlot was Warhol's first foray into sound film. It stars a transvestite named Mario Montez (in honor of Hollywood star Maria Montez), who sits in full drag on a couch in Warhol's Read More

Empire

Crew: Director

Kiss

Crew: Director

Haircut #3

Crew: Director

Tarzan and Jane Regained...Sort Of

Crew: Director

Sleep

Crew: Director

Dance Movie

Crew: Director

Screen Tests [Film Series]

Crew: Director

Haircut #2

Crew: Director

Haircut #1

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This silent, grainy black-and-white film, shot at 24 frames per second and projected at 16 f.p.s., is one of the first of Warhol's early open-form, portraiture movies. In contrast to the scripted movies like Hedy the Shoplifter, or semi-directed films by Chuck Wein (My Hustler, Nude Restaurant Read More