All the stills on this site are from Andy's Screen Tests (1963-1966), on them you can see (in no particular order) Sterling Morrison, Piero Heliczer, and an unidentified girl. Here you can find the titles of all Andy's movies that I've seen, and short reviews of some. For a more comprehensive filmography, check out Stephen Koch's book "Stargazer" (I got my copy for 9$ at a used bookstore in St.Mark's Place) or the official site of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.
Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort Of" (1963)
Starring Taylor Mead, Naomi Levine, Dennis Hopper, and (sic!) Andy Warhol (for just a second there)
Kiss (1963)
Little scenes again of couples kissing, including three gay (one with Gerard again) and one of a white girl and a black guy. Everyone has a different style! Other actors:
Naomi Levine
Baby Jane Holzer
Ed Sanders
Sleep(1963)
The famous long movie picturing a man sleeping. Starring the poet John Giorno
Eat (1964)
One of his earliest movies, starring Robert Indiana and his cat.
The camera focuses on Robert, an underground poet, sitting in some kind of a rocking chair
eating raw mushrooms and occasionally looking out of a window. (the window is never seen, but
the light coming from the left side makes us certain it is there). Robert is wearing
a very old, black suede hat (evidently from the early twenties), a black denim shirt and a
sweater. Only his head and the top part of his chest are visible in the close-up. Sometimes he
looks at us and can't help laughing, sometimes he plays with the cat, offering it a mushroom,
but the cat doesn't want any (!). The film had no clear start and no ending.
Haircut(1963)
A good one starring Billy Name (giving the haircut).
The whole thing lasts for many hours, I only saw the night part.
Nothing moves in the frame except of the faults of the tape itslef, which showed
many scratches and white spots during the whole piece. It was the night part ( I
believe there's also a day one) and only the top, illuminated part of the
building was visible. The rest of the screen was pitch black, except for the
spots.
Couch, 1964. Gerard, Taylor, Ginsberg, Kerouac,... Ondine, Naomi Levine and some other enigmatic personalities who I still have to work out. Mixed-up scenes shot on and around the Factory couch. First scene -a nude girl is lying on the couch while a boy in dark glasses messing about with his motorbike ( a real impressive one, BTW).
Next -two guys sitting on the couch, Gerard down at their knees and a girl virtually suspended upside down from the back of the couch. The guys are all eating bananas. The girl has her eyes closed. Then there are various really wild gay scenes (not exactly sex, but you know, hugging and pretending) with nude Gerard as the star. And while he's busy playing with this other guy on the couch, someone sits in front and does various little things, until he stands up and dances like mad, and is joined by another guy, they all undress and dance naked. There are many short scenes like that which make up the movie.
Shoulder (1964)
Starring: Lucinda Child's shoulder.
Harlot (1964)
Soap Opera (1964)
Vinyl (1965)
The masterpiece adaptation of Anthony Burgess' "Clockwork Orange." Starring Gerard Malanga, Ondine, Edie Sedgwick.
Restaurant (1965)
Starring Edie Sedgwick, Ondine
Beauty #2 (1965)
Starring Edie Sedgwick, Gino Peserchio, and, off-screen, Chuck Wein.
Outer and Inner Space (1965)
Starring Edie.
aka 'The Shoplifter,' aka 'The 14 Year-old Girl.'
A black and white movie with the expressive force of a good color picture, great supporting role of Ingrid Superstar, and a really convincing performance in drag by Mario Montez, playing a woman who's been married five times and wants to look like a 14-year old girl, so she undergoes a beauty-enhancement operation. Also appearing: Gerard Malanga as one of the ex husbands and Mary Woronov as a policewoman. I think it was probably the first film that she appeared in (counting out the screen tests). Here the action is not so lazy as in 'More Milk Yvette,' at times it slows down and at times it accelerates, Mario sings a little but much less than in 'MMY.' He mostly 'looks' in that movie. According to IMDB Ronald Tavel, the script writer, also appears in this, but I have no idea what he looked like so I don't know... he might have been one of the ex husbands or maybe the judge or some guy who just sits there at the trial very mysteriously saying nothing at all, wearing a cap and dark shades. The beginning reminded me of 'Dr. Strangelove,' yeah, because of the surgeon's German accent...
(according to the festival catalogue shot in 1965, according to IMDB in '66, my guess would be late '64 or '65)
An improvised opera burlesuqe starring Mario Montez as Lana Turner, Paul Caruso (the harmonica player?) and Richard Schmidt (Lana's son?). Actually there are more people in it, there's a woman called Yvette who serves the other two, bringing them food and drink (hence More Milk Yvette :-), Lana's husband/lover Johnny who appears towards the end of the movie and a fat guy who gives them some instructions who appears even later. Mario sings a lot and changes his clothes all the time. There are some real sexy moments as Lana and her son eat a hamburger together... the harmonica player is cute too. Generally it's a bit odd, and stylistically belongs to the first period in Andy's filmography, with not much of a story and the emphasis on characters.
The Velvet Underground and Nico a.k.a. The Symphony of Sound (1966)
Bufferin (1966) a.k.a. Gerard Malanga reading poetry
The Chelsea Girls (1966)
A real funny movie with Brigid and Ondine playing a married couple (:-)), a handsome Patrick Tilden-Close playing their son, Nico reading 'Imitation of Christ' by Thomas a Kempis and looking good, and Taylor Mead being so funny like only he can. Funny conversations, much talk about the meaning of life, Brigid being really up-close and personal, Manhattan looking dreamy, in pale blue and green... and that's about it. Worth seeing.
It was just hilarious! I might change my mind (about the first point) tomorrow, but uh well (as Taylor Mead said in the movie)...
He was arguably the best caracter in the story, so funny as I've never seen anyone before, in a special way. But first some general information:
the film was in colour and with sound (not like all the others I've seen up till now), and it was actually full-length, or whatever you call it.
The cowboys were very twentieth century, but it just added to the effect, made it all the more crazy and upside down and all. Of course the best known one was the youngest, played by Little Joe Dallesandro, but the two other young ones were really cute too! There was one female caracter (Viva) and Taylor Mead, who played her "governess" (yes I'm serious, that's what they called him) and wore a big gold chain round his neck. Little Joe was mostly in shirts (indygo or later, checked red and black and a red bandana -which he got in the East...) Everything from the beginning on was hilarious, dialogues, the way people looked and talked (once Viva sang Christian chants in Latin, Kyrie Eleison and stuff, while encouraging one of the boys to make love :-) together with Aaamen at the end, which almost got us rolling on the floor laughing. Oh didn't they do in that film! There was twist and 'Moulin Rouge' kind of dancing (twist done by Joe and Taylor, totally out of the rhythm, to the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour), a sheriff in drag and a punch-up...
So who was who?
Julian Burroughs -Brother
Eric Emerson -Eric
Little Joe
Taylor Mead -governess
Viva -Ramona
"Andy Warhol Films Jack Smith Filming 'Normal Love'" (1963)
"Dance Movie" (1963)
"The Thirteen Most Beautiful Boys" (1965)
"Fifty Fantanstics and Fifty Personalities" (1965)
"Poor Little Rich Girl" (1965)
"Camp" (1965)
"Lupe" (1965)
"The Loves of Ondine" (1967)
IF ANYONE HAS ACCESS TO THOSE FILMS PLEASE CONTACT ME NOW! I HAVE STUFF TO TRADE. THANKX. HOPE YOU FOUND THIS INFORMATIVE. ROCK ON!