Taylor MeadFilmography

Coffee and Cigarettes

Actors: Roberto Benigni, Steven Wright, Joie Lee, Cinqué Lee, Steve Buscemi

Synopsis: Jim Jarmusch's black-and-white feature Coffee and Cigarettes contains three vignettes originally released as short films along with separate yet somewhat related sketches. As the title suggests, most of the vignettes involve famous people smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee. The first, "Coffee Read More

Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis

Actors: Lily Tomlin, Jackie Curtis, Harvey Fierstein, John Vaccaro, Holly Woodlawn, Ellen Stewart

Synopsis: Directed by Craig B. Highberger and narrated by Lily Tomlin, Superstar in a Housedress offers a unique retrospective of the late avant-garde actor and female impersonator Jackie Curtis, who was discovered in the 1960s by experimental filmmaker Andy Warhol. In addition to rare clips of Curtis in Read More

Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story

Actors: Brigid Berlin, John Waters, Patricia Hearst, Paul Morrissey, Taylor Mead

Synopsis: Like Susanne Ofteringer's Nico-Icon (1995), Vincent Fremont's Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story chronicles the life of one of the more colorful and unforgettable women to emerge from Andy Warhol's menagerie of artists, actors, lost souls, and hangers-on. The daughter of wealthy, powerful Read More

Frogs For Snakes

Actors: Barbara Hershey, Robbie Coltrane, Harry Hamlin, Ian Hart, John Leguizamo

Synopsis: This "neo-noir comic thriller" from director Amos Poe focuses on struggling actress Eva (Barbara Hershey), a waitress who moonlights by making collections for her ex-husband, loan shark Al (Robbie Coltrane). Her day job is at a Lower Manhattan diner owned by Quint (Ian Hart). Others on the scene Read More

Last Supper

Actors: Zohra Lampert

Synopsis: In this independently produced, short, meandering, plot-deprived, experimental, improvisational film, apparently intended as avant-garde fare, a group of pretentious white intellectuals gather at a vacant lot in Harlem for a party for a non-appearing guest of honor, a writer. In addition to the Read More

Shadows in the City

Synopsis: Taking an avant-garde approach, experimental Russian painter turned director Ari Roussimoff creates an offbeat addition to the horror genre. Troubled, doomed Paul returns to his home in an oppressive and stylized Manhattan (filmed in black and white) after spending time with a traveling carnival. Read More

Buster's Bedroom

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Geraldine Chaplin, Valentina Cortese, Amanda Ooms

Synopsis: At one time, even the great Buster Keaton was a regular visitor of the mental health, alcoholic rehabilitation-center system. Since main-character Micha is obsessed with Keaton and everything that has to do with him, it is appropriate that after trying to pull a stunt on the public highways in Read More

Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

Synopsis: Fascinating documentary of artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol, combining rare footage with interviews with his friends and colleagues, including Dennis Hopper, David Hockney, Taylor Mead, and Sylvia Miles. ~ Nicole Gagne, All Movie Guide Read More

Underground USA

Actors: Patti Astor, Eric Mitchell, Rene Ricard, Tom Wright, Jackie Curtis

Synopsis: The "underground" of the title refers not to crime but to the half-hidden world of two-bit hustlers, "artistic" poseurs, aberrant lifestyles and shattered dreams. Small-time Manhattan opportunist Eric Mitchell latches onto Patti Astor, a once-popular movie star fallen into penury. He briefly lifts Read More

Union City

Actors: Dennis Lipscomb, Deborah Harry, Irina Maleeva, Everett McGill, Sam McMurray, Terina Lewis

Synopsis: Mark Reichart wrote and directed this disturbing tale of mounting paranoia, based on a story by Cornell Woolrich. Harlan (Dennis Lipscomb) is a New Jersey businessman who becomes obsessed with trying to catch the person who has been stealing sips from the milk bottle delivered to his doorstep Read More

Tally Brown, N.Y.

Actors: Tally Brown, Taylor Mead, Holly Woodlawn, Divine

Synopsis: Tally Brown was a star of New York underground films and a denizen of its underworld in the late 1960s -- about as far away as one could imagine as the destination for this classically trained opera and blues singer. In this documentary, Rosa von Praunheim relies on extensive interviews with Read More

Feedback

Actors: Bill Doukas, Taylor Mead, Lois Walden

Synopsis: "Careerism" is the villain in this Soviet "message" film. Careerism is a term which, in Soviet usage, has to do with bureaucratic obfuscation, and a "careerist" is an unprincipled back-stabbing opportunist, who will do absolutely anything to get ahead. The argument of this drama is that the Read More

Slice of Life or Sigh of Life

Synopsis: Michel Auder offers this video art. ~ All Movie Guide 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

Brand X

Synopsis: This satirical spoof on television commercials stars Taylor Mead, Sally Kirkland, Candy Darling, Tally Brown, Baby Jane Holzer, Sam Shepard, Frank Cavestani and 1960s radical Abbie Hoffman. Ultra Violet also appears and sings. Mead plays several roles including the President of the United States. Read More

Midnight Cowboy

Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Brenda Vaccaro

Synopsis: Based on a James Leo Herlihy novel, British director John Schlesinger's first American film dramatized the small hopes, dashed dreams, and unlikely friendship of two late '60s lost souls. Dreaming of an easy life as a fantasy cowboy stud, cheerful Texas rube Joe Buck (Jon Voight) heads to New York Read More

Wide Point

Actors: Taylor Mead

Synopsis: This underground feature uses seven screens and three soundtrack recorders in the filming of a group of people who mumble incoherently and appear in various stages of undress. As in John Chamberlain's The Secret Life Of Hernando Cortez, Taylor Mead is the star. This is a movie about a party. 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

The Secret Life of Hernando Cortez

Actors: Taylor Mead

Synopsis: Taylor Mead and Ultra Violet star in this independent production that features nudity and gymnastic sexual liaisons in a variety of places, including trees. Most likely this trashy underground film is of no interest to those other than naked-flesh fanatics. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

Lonesome Cowboys

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

Imitation of Christ

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

Nude Restaurant

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

Babo 73

Open the Door and See All the People

Actors: Maybelle Nash, Alec Wilder, Jeremiah Sullivan

Synopsis: Two 70 year old twin sisters are identical in every way except for their outlook on life. One gladly accepts her life as a grandmother working as a cashier in a grocery store. The other is an unhappy rich woman, superstitious and prone to complaining about imagined illness. Maybelle Nash plays the Read More

Hallelujah the Hills

Actors: Peter H. Beard, Martin Greenbaum, Sheila Finn, Peggy Steffans, Jerome Raphel

Synopsis: When two young men fall in love with the same woman, they each pursue her at different times of the year and in different settings. Written and directed by Adolfas Mekas, this is an interesting film technique in that it is right out of the 60s in poking fun at its own attempts at seriousness. Even Read More

Too Young, Too Immoral!

Actors: John Francis, Raymond A. Phelan, Taylor Mead

Synopsis: Too Young, Too Immoral proved to be too much for director, writer, actor, and editor Raymond A. Phelan who bowed in and quickly bowed out of his directorial career with this undistinguished drama about crime and drugs in the Big Apple. The story revolves around a young man who is a drug runner but Read More

The Flower Thief

Actors: Taylor Mead

Synopsis: This independent film by Ron Rice finds The Flower Thief (Taylor Mead) as a homosexual beatnik who walks around San Francisco. With a stolen flower, a teddy bear and an American flag, he gets into a series of misadventures that lead him up a hill before he descends in a children's wagon. Filmed in Read More