VivaFilmography

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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

The Man without a Face

Actors: Mel Gibson, Nick Stahl, Margaret Whitton, Fay Masterson, Gaby Hoffmann

Synopsis: Mel Gibson made his feature film directing debut with this drama, loosely based on the book by Isabel Holland, which combines elements from The Elephant Man, Mask, Scent of a Woman, and The Karate Kid in a study of the capacity for human trust and compassion. Gibson plays Justin McLeod, a former 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

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

Der Stand der Dinge

Actors: Patrick Bauchau, Isabelle Weingarten, Viva

Synopsis: Wim Wenders' The State of Things (Der Stand der Dinge) was financed by one of the director's chief mentors, Francis Ford Coppola. This highly autobiographical work concerns a shoestring movie producer and his ragtag crew. Stranded in the outer reaches of Portugal, the director doesn't even have Read More

For Your Eyes Only

Actors: Roger Moore, Carole Bouquet, Topol, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Julian Glover

Synopsis: For Your Eyes Only eschews the gimmickry and campiness of earlier James Bond films, concentrating instead on telling the story and maintaining suspense. Roger Moore is back as Secret Agent 007, this time on the trail of Soviet spies while he romances the beautiful Melina, played by Carole Bouquet. Richard Maibaum Read More

Forbidden Zone

Actors: Herve Villechaize, Susan Tyrrell, Marie-Pascale Elfman, Viva

Synopsis: Oingo Boingo fans and midnight movie mavens will love this bizarre black-and-white feature packed with music, madness, and members of the Elfman clan. The story revolves around the Hercules family, who live in a house that just happens to hide a secret entrance to the Sixth Dimension in the Read More

Flash Gordon

Actors: Sam Jones, Melody Anderson, Topol, Max von Sydow, Ornella Muti

Synopsis: Heroic earthling Flash Gordon saves the world from the nefarious Ming the Merciless in this lavish, intentionally campy adaptation of the famous sci-fi comic strip. The story is as basic as space operas get: Ming (Max von Sydow) has developed a plan to destroy the Earth, and Flash (Sam J. Jones) Read More

Ciao! Manhattan

Synopsis: Edie Sedgwick,1960s heroine of decadence, is exploited from beyond the grave in this clumsily pieced together film taken from two unfinished Sedgwick vehicles -- one by Chuck Wein from 1967 displaying Edie at her peak as a Warhol star, and the other from 1970 by David Weisman and John Palmer, made Read More

Play It Again, Sam

Actors: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Jerry Lacy, Susan Anspach

Synopsis: Herbert Ross directed this adaptation of Woody Allen's hit Broadway play concerning a shy film critic who has trouble with women. Woody Allen plays Allan Felix, a writer for Film Quarterly consumed by movies, particularly his favorite film of all time, Casablanca. At the start of the film, Allan's Read More

Necropolis

Actors: Viva, Tina Aumont, Pierre Clémenti, Paul Jabara, Carmelo Bene

Synopsis: This Italian avant-garde underground film features Viva, Tina Aumont, Pierre Clementi, and Carmelo Bene. Lengthy shots of stationary figures such as Frankenstein, Attila the Hun, Montezuma, and the Devil represent centuries of sublimation that have created civilization. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Read More

Cisco Pike

Actors: Hugh Romney

Synopsis: This crime-drama follows the exploits of a rock star who is finally freed from prison after being convicted of drug dealing. Though he wants to go straight, he is blackmailed by a crooked cop who forces him to sell marijuana. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Langlois

Actors: Lillian Gish, Ingrid Bergman, Jeanne Moreau, Simone Signoret, Catherine Deneuve

Synopsis: This documentary follows noted film archivist Henri Langlois as he returns to Paris. Over 60,000 prints exist in his Paris museum, with 15,000 in the United States and 6,000 in Russia. Ingrid Bergman, Lillian Gish, Jeanne Moreau, Simone Signoret, Catherine Denueve, Francois Truffaut, and Viva all 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

Lions Love

Actors: Viva, Jerome Ragni, James Rado, Shirley Clarke, Carlos Clarens

Synopsis: Agnes Varda directed this drama which combines formal dramatic structures with the openness of improvisational cinema verite. Independent filmmaker Shirley Clarke plays an avant-garde film director attempting to work with a major studio to finance her next project, in which she hopes to Read More

Keeping Busy

Synopsis: Experimental artist and Factory fixture Michel Auder takes his camera in hand once again, this time to chronicle Louis Waldon and Auder's own love interest at the time, Viva, as they traipse through Europe after filming their roles in Andy Warhol's Blue Movie. In quasi-documentary style, Auder Read More

The Swap

Actors: Robert De Niro, Jennifer Warren

Synopsis: A political filmmaker finds himself in Long Island for a weekend where he finds himself entangled with a high-living, jet set crowd. At first it is exciting, but soon he finds himself disillusioned by their shallowness. The film contains an early performance by Robert De Niro. Footage from Sam's Read More

Loves of Ondine

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

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

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

Four Stars

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

Bike Boy

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