Andy Warhol
notum enim: Directing
dies natalis: 1928-08-06
Locus Natus: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Et ut: Andrew Warhola
The Shock of the New
A definitive eight part series on the rise and fall of the modern art movement presented by critic Robert Hughes.
release : 1980.09.21popularis : 0.752
The Velvet Underground
Experience the iconic rock band's legacy in the first major documentary to tell their story. Directed with the era’s avant-garde spirit by Todd...
release : 2021.10.15popularis : 9.256
Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film
Ric Burns unearths rarely seen footage and offers keen observations on the life and artistic influence of Andy Warhol. [Made for and aired on PBS's...
release : 2006.09.01popularis : 4.988
Bleu comme une orange
Documentary on the use of color and black and white in contemporary arts through nine artists. A “Cinéastes de notre temps”...
release : 1968.03.16popularis : 0.172
Andy Warhol
The first major profile of the American Pop Art cult leader after his death in 1987 covers the whole of his life and work through interviews, clips...
release : 1987.06.09popularis : 2.971
Persistence of Vision
A short documentary profile of the Anthology Film Archives, shot on the eve of the move to the historic 2nd Avenue Courthouse. Staff and patrons are...
release : 1984.01.01popularis : 2.44
The Cars: Heartbeat City
The Cars were on the cutting edge when it came to music videos. And this Heartbeat City video compilation, with songs from three of the band's most...
release : 1984.09.01popularis : 1.352
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
The quixotic journey of Nam June Paik, one of the most famous Asian artists of the 20th century, who revolutionized the use of technology as an...
release : 2023.03.24popularis : 4.855
David Bowie & The Story of Ziggy Stardust
BBC documentary telling the story of how David Bowie arrived at one of the most iconic creations in pop history - Ziggy Stardust - with contributions...
release : 2012.06.22popularis : 4.996
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
A riveting and emotional journey into the world of writer William S. Burroughs, a man considered as cold as an iceberg on a winter night.
release : 2010.11.05popularis : 8.393
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
"On John's 31st birthday, Yoko held an art exhibit, "This Is Not Here", at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, N.Y.. The show was taped and aired...
release : 1972.05.11popularis : 3.134
Take Your Pills
In a hypercompetitive world, drugs like Adderall offer students, athletes, coders and others a way to do more -- faster and better. But at what cost?
release : 2018.03.09popularis : 11.817
David Bowie: Five Years
Featuring a wealth of previously unseen archive, this film looks at how Bowie continually evolved: from Ziggy Stardust to the Soul Star of Young...
release : 2013.05.25popularis : 4.998
L'Amour Fou
This documentary examines the life and work of the late fashion designer Yves Saint-Laurent, recounting how a frail prodigy prone to bouts of...
release : 2010.09.22popularis : 4.817
The Velvet Underground and Nico: A Symphony of Sound
The film depicts a rehearsal of The Velvet Underground including Nico, and is essentially one long loose improvisation.
release : 1966.02.08popularis : 1.991
66 Scenes from America
As a visual narrative it is reminiscent of a pile of postcards from a journey, which indeed is what the film is. It consists of a series of lengthy...
release : 1982.03.27popularis : 2.666
Identikit
Lise, a mentally disturbed spinster, experiences a series of bizarre encounters while in Rome as she searches for someone who will murder her.
release : 1974.05.20popularis : 6.329
Andy Warhol's America
A pioneering artist and cultural icon. His work is a history of 20th-century America. A country reinventing itself - as seen through the legendary...
release : 2022.01.06popularis : 1.152
A Night with Lou Reed
A Lou Reed concert at the Bottom Line in New York City, 1983. Tracklist: Sweet Jane, I'm Waiting For The Man, Martial Law, Don't Talk To Me About...
release : 1983.09.27popularis : 4.467
Velvet Underground: Under Review
Velvet Underground Under Review is a 75 minute film reviewing the music and career of one of rock musics most influential collectives; a band which...
release : 2006.04.25popularis : 1.731
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.
release : 1986.02.22popularis : 3.084
Andy Warhol - The American Dream
Andy Warhol's answer to the question of where he comes from is well known: "From nowhere". His parents emigrated to the USA during the monarchy and...
release : 2023.06.22popularis : 3.231
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol is a lyrical exploration of Warhol's creative process by filmmaker, painter, and actress Marie Menken. Using a hand-held camera, Menken...
release : 1965.09.10popularis : 1.87
Beautiful Darling
James Rasin's documentary “Beautiful Darling” honors American Transgender actress and best-known Warhol Superstar, Candy Darling, and her...
release : 2010.04.02popularis : 4.518
WWE: Hulk Hogan: The Ultimate Anthology
The best and most memorable matches from Hulk Hogan's career.
release : 2006.10.17popularis : 4.536
This Side of Paradise: Fragments of An Unfinished Biography
Unpredictably, as most of my life’s key events have been, for a period of several years of late sixties and early seventies, I had the fortune...
release : 1999.10.12popularis : 3.93
Happy Birthday to John
On October 9th, 1972 an exhibition of John Lennon/Yoko Ono's art, designed by the Master of the Fluxus movement, George Maciunas, opened at the...
release : 1997.10.09popularis : 2.936
Walt Disney: One Man's Dream
Various entertainers and artists look at how Walt Disney influenced these areas through his work in a variety of fields.
release : 1981.12.12popularis : 1.358
Cocaine Cowboys
A rock band is on the brink of super-stardom. Until now they've juggled their music career with cocaine smuggling. The musicians and their manager...
release : 1979.10.05popularis : 9.163
Curious: The Velvet Underground in Europe
Spotlights the Velvet Underground's 1993 reunion tour of Europe, interspersing footage of the band's Paris concert and interviews with the members of...
release : 1993.12.01popularis : 1.266
Andy Warhol
With a rambling, unstructured style that echoes Andy Warhol’s own approach to filmmaking, this documentary profiles his career, showing him to...
release : 1972.01.02popularis : 2.57
Mondo Hollywoodland
Homage to the cult classic “Mondo Hollywood”, a groovy mushrooms dealer and a man from the 5th dimension journey through Hollywood to...
release : 2021.08.03popularis : 3.154
Andy Warhol: Life and Death
A documentary about the famed artist.
release : 2007.04.10popularis : 0.252
Dirt
Two nuns take a bath, then meet a sailor on the Staten Island Ferry.
release : 1965.09.25popularis : 2.436
Underground New York
A rare behind-the-scenes view of the exploding New York “underground” in the late sixities, a turbulent time and place that was to change...
release : 1968.01.01popularis : 1.312
The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
Nan Goldin's slide show “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” converted, mixed and screened as a film by the artist, portraying the American...
release : 1985.01.01popularis : 1.857
Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes - Episode 1
Episode one of Warhol's MTV talk show featuring interviews with artists, including Robin Leach, Jerry Hall, Andy Warhol, Debbie Harry, the Pyramid...
release : 1985.01.01popularis : 1.039
Tally Brown, New York
Tally Brown, New York is a 1979 documentary film directed, written and produced by Rosa von Praunheim. The film is about the singing and acting...
release : 1979.05.04popularis : 1.787
Underground and Emigrants
In this film, outspokenly homosexual filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim has documented his encounters with friends in the New York "underground" arts...
release : 1976.10.25popularis : 3.165
Tootsie
When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego – Dorothy Michaels – in order to land a part in a...
release : 1982.12.17popularis : 13.538
Public Speaking
A feature-length documentary starring Fran Lebowitz, a writer known for her unique take on modern life. The film weaves together extemporaneous...
release : 2010.11.22popularis : 3.931
Mickey: The Story of a Mouse
Mickey Mouse is one of the most enduring symbols in our history. Those three simple circles take on meaning for virtually everyone on the planet. So...
release : 2022.03.19popularis : 22.613
Vies et morts d'Andy Warhol
Icon of pop art, Andy Warhol has marked the 20th century. This film pays tribute to him with the exceptional participation of Ultraviolet,...
release : 2005.11.25popularis : 0.559
Detroit Rock City
In 1978, a Kiss concert was an epoch-making event. For the three teen fans in Detroit Rock City getting tickets to the sold-out show becomes the...
release : 1999.08.13popularis : 9.522
Horse
Warhol plunked a horse named Mighty Byrd in the middle of the Factory for this dark, homoerotic take on the classic oater that later anticipates his...
release : 1965.08.28popularis : 1.085
Imagine
A surreal, half-fiction, half real life footage of a day in the life of John lennon and Yoko Ono, composed to music from John's historic 'Imagine'...
release : 1972.12.23popularis : 2.405
Grimace
Produced over several years between 1962 and 1967, Grimaces shows the faces of over a hundred artists, gallery owners and critics grimacing to the...
release : 1967.01.01popularis : 0.483
Chelsea Hotel
This TV documentary shows some of the colourful residents of and people connected with the New York Chelsea Hotel. Some highlights include Andy...
release : 1981.01.03popularis : 0.92
The Queen
In 1967, New York City is host to the Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant. This documentary takes a look behind the scenes, transporting the viewer...
release : 1968.06.17popularis : 3.822
The New Cinema
Between the French La Nouvelle Vague and the Italian Neorealismo, Europe had been undergoing a continuous cinema transformation since the 1950s,...
release : 1968.01.01popularis : 3.888
Andy Warhol : Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man
One of the most important films in Malanga's body of work is his series of movie portraits of Andy Warhol from 1964-65. Comprised of seven individual...
release : 1965.06.09popularis : 1.393
Andy Warhol: Re-Reproduction
A kaleidoskopic image of Andy Warhol, presumably found footage from some interview, is slowed down and played over sudden pangs of screeching white...
release : 1974.01.01popularis : 0.728
Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of
Shot during Warhol's cross-county trip to Los Angeles during his second exhibition at the Ferus - the same trip during which he filmed the footage...
release : 1964.02.18popularis : 1.24
Carol Doda Topless at the Condor
On a fateful San Francisco night in the early 60s, Condor nightclub performer Carol Doda was lowered to the stage on a floating piano, topless. Word...
release : 2024.03.22popularis : 3.484
Andy Warhol, Fluorescent
A documentary on the legendary creator and victim of pop art. Warhol, revolutionary and controversial, was never afraid to break the mold and reshape...
release : 2016.12.31popularis : 1.733
Normal Love
The feature length Normal Love is Jack Smith’s follow up to his now legendary film Flaming Creatures. This vivid, full-color homage to B-movies...
release : 1963.01.01popularis : 6.371
Warhol
David Bailey, self-taught photographer and one of the prime architects of the Swinging Sixties, broadened his horizons in the early 1970s by making...
release : 1973.03.27popularis : 0.625
Andy Warhol and His Clan
The film explores the personality of Andy Warhol, through his work in painting and film and through the opinions of his 'superstars'.
release : 1970.01.31popularis : 0.299
Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread
Penn Jillette and Teller are called upon to display their unique brand of humor to save civilization from strange extraterrestrial beings who have...
release : 1987.03.18popularis : 0.63
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
Ernie Anderson narrates this look at the making of Richard Donner's blockbuster 1978 film. Behind-the-scenes footage, as well as scenes from the...
release : 1980.01.01popularis : 4.203
End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones
A years-in-the-making documentary on the legendary punk band the Ramones. Through a mixture of archival footage, archival and new interviews with all...
release : 2003.01.19popularis : 6.927
The Illiac Passion
Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds...
release : 1967.12.30popularis : 1.768
Nelson Sullivan
Nelson Sullivan, a videographer in Manhattan circa 1983 to 1989, documented a large chunk of the final six years of his life, capturing his days and...
release : 1989.07.03popularis : 1.302
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely...
release : 2000.11.05popularis : 7.963
I Don't Know Which Tree It Comes From that Fragrance
In his latest film, Mekas shares what he describes as “a valentine to Yoko Ono,” done in his signature diaristic style. Mixing the...
release : 2017.09.01popularis : 4.885
Birth of a Nation
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
release : 1997.08.06popularis : 4.019
Basquiat: Rage to Riches
This film tells Jean-Michel's story through exclusive interviews with his two sisters Lisane and Jeanine, who have never before agreed to be...
release : 2017.10.07popularis : 3.512
Velvet Underground's First Public Appearance
Velvet Underground's first public appearance.
release : 1966.07.03popularis : 0.752
Andy Makes a Movie
This pop movie about Warhol includes appearances by Henry Geldzahler, Edie Sedgwick and The Velvet Underground.
release : 1967.02.22popularis : 0.877
That Summer
Albert and David Maysles' classic GREY GARDENS immortalized the estate of Edith and Little Edie Beale, relatives of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, who...
release : 2017.09.01popularis : 1.926
Tintin and I
Why do the comic-strip Adventures of Tintin, about an intrepid boy reporter, continue to fascinate us decades after their publication? "Tintin and I"...
release : 2004.01.16popularis : 2.508
Andre the Giant
An ambitious and wide-ranging documentary exploring Andre’s upbringing in France, his celebrated career in WWE, and his forays in the...
release : 2018.04.10popularis : 10.391
It Came from Kuchar
It Came from Kuchar is the definitive, feature documentary about the legendary, underground filmmaking twins, the Kuchar brothers. George and Mike...
release : 2009.09.22popularis : 3.593
The Velvet Underground: Psychiatrist's Convention, NYC, 1966
The Velvet Underground's first public appearance, filmed in Super 8 at a Psychiatrist's Convention, at the Delmonico Hotel, New York, January 14,...
release : 1966.01.14popularis : 1.676
Award Presentation to Andy Warhol
In 1964 Film Culture magazine chose Andy Warhol for its annual Independent Film award. The plan was to show some of Andy's films and have Andy come...
release : 1965.09.03popularis : 1.028
Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol
In 1969 Michel Auder began a series of video diaries that chronicled the art scene in downtown New York. In Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol, Auder...
release : 1976.01.01popularis : 2.084
Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties
Documentary on Andy Warhol's cinema of the sixties, made for Channel 4 in association with The Factory, MOMA and the Whitney Museum of Art and in...
release : 1989.01.01popularis : 0.742
The Feature
The Feature does not reconcile fact and fiction; instead, it blurs the definitions seemingly represented by the film’s two clearly demarcated...
release : 2008.11.28popularis : 0.638
Poem Posters
... with real-life portraits of Jayne Mansfield, Frak O'Hara, Ruth Ford, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, William...
release : 1967.05.19popularis : 1.809
Lions Love
Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie about actors and Hollywood.
release : 1969.10.12popularis : 5.68
Superartist
Documentarians Juan Drago and Bruce Torbet follow a surprisingly relaxed and open Andy Warhol, at the peak of his powers in 1965 and 1966, around his...
release : 1967.01.01popularis : 1.47
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's...
release : 2007.04.11popularis : 4.388
Danny Says
DANNY SAYS is a documentary unveiling the amazing journey of Danny Fields. Fields has played a pivotal role in music and culture with seminal acts...
release : 2015.03.18popularis : 2.238
In the Fabulous Underground
A documentary about Anton Perich, brilliant Croatian artist, naturalized New Yorker. He worked as photographer at Andy Warhol's Interview Magazine...
release : 2012.07.31popularis : 0.614
Taylor & Ultra: On the 60s, The Factory, and Being a Warhol Superstar
Warhol Superstar Ultra Violet (Isabelle Colin Dufresne) and Lower East Side Icon Taylor Mead (Poet/Actor/Artist) share their stories of Manhattan in...
release : 2016.04.14popularis : 1.133
Edie: Girl on Fire
Model, film star, muse, socialite, icon. Edie Sedgwick was the very first "it" girl of the Andy Warhol Factory scene. The arc of her life traced the...
release : 2010.01.01popularis : 1.28
Full Circle: Before They Were Famous
An astonishing journey of the images taken by William John Kennedy in the early 60's of Robert Indiana, Andy Warhol with their iconic works.
release : 2010.12.03popularis : 1.593
Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture
Andy Warhol, one of the most influential artists of the 20th century (who also coined the immortal catchphrase "In the future, everyone will be...
release : 2001.01.27popularis : 2.389
Con Artist
A docu-comedy feature film about a once-famous millionaire "business artist" forced to confront his own legendarily obnoxious behavior, while trying...
release : 2010.11.12popularis : 1.6
Jonas in the Desert
Not a documentary in the strictest sense of the word. Rather, it is a journey through the world of the artist Jonas Mekas - one of the exponents of...
release : 1994.01.01popularis : 2.692
Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks
This compilation of Gerard Malanga's short films consists of a collection of extremely rare footage and film portraits providing candid and...
release : 1964.01.01popularis : 1.092
TV Party
From 1978 to 1982, Glenn O'Brien hosted a New York city public access cable TV show called TV Party. Co-hosted by Chris Stein, from Blondie, and...
release : 2005.08.03popularis : 1.408
Joan of Arc
The story of Joan of Arc as applied to the present revolution in arts and more. The Gothic is applied to the War in Vietnam. The film is experimental...
release : 1967.12.26popularis : 2.381
Notes on Marie Menken
A look at avant-garde filmmaker Marie Menken.
release : 2006.04.20popularis : 1.923
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
A thoughtful portrait of a renowned artist, this documentary shines the spotlight on New York City painter Jean-Michel Basquiat. Featuring extensive...
release : 2010.01.25popularis : 3.291
John Cale: An Exploration of His Life & Music
Follows John Cale, a Welsh musician and producer, who founded the legendary 60s and 70s NY rock band - the Velvet Underground, with Lou Reed. Cale...
release : 1998.12.18popularis : 3.311
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
Iconic American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol is the subject of this documentary, which looks at both his life and his influence on pop culture....
release : 1990.07.18popularis : 4.363
Who Gets to Call It Art?
Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Henry Geldzahler reflects on the 1960s pop art scene in New York.
release : 2006.02.01popularis : 0.887
End of the Art World
This is the debut documentary made by Alexis Krasilovsky, author of "Women Behind The Camera" (Praeger, 1997). Shot on 16mm in 1971, the film covers...
release : 1971.06.01popularis : 1.044
American Art in the 1960s
During this critical decade in American life, artists built on the styles of the 1950s. An explosion of artistic energy produced Pop Art, Minimalism,...
release : 1972.01.01popularis : 2.256
The Universe of Keith Haring
A portrait of New York artist Keith Haring. The film looks to Haring as an artistic role model for his preternatural talent, of course, but also for...
release : 2008.04.01popularis : 4.551
Cocksucker Blues
This fly-on-the-wall documentary follows the Rolling Stones on their 1972 North American Tour, their first return to the States since the tragedy at...
release : 1972.07.26popularis : 2.92
Blank Generation
Nada, a beautiful French journalist on assignment in New York, records the life and work of an up and coming punk rock star, Billy. Soon she enters...
release : 1980.10.02popularis : 2.539
Donald Duck's 50th Birthday
Donald is shown in both animated and costumed form, interacting with emcee Dick Van Dyke and other cast members. The film not only shows Donald's...
release : 1984.11.13popularis : 1.856
Andy Warhol + Roy Lichtenstein
This program profiles Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, two of pop art's greatest icons. Back-to-back interviews highlight their differences. The...
release : 1966.03.08popularis : 2.785
The Cool School
How LA Learned to Love Modern Art. A lesson in how a few renegade artists built an art scene from scratch.
release : 2008.03.07popularis : 0.901
Roy Lichtenstein
In conversation with Roy Lichtenstein, critic Lawrence Alloway places Pop Art on a continuum of twentieth-century art that includes collage, Dada,...
release : 1975.01.01popularis : 1.715
Halston
From Iowa to Studio 54, this investigation into the rags-to-riches story of America’s first superstar designer uncovers the cautionary tale of...
release : 2019.06.07popularis : 2.314
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.
release : 1968.03.01popularis : 4.161
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections
This intimate portrait of Andy Warhol pulls together a unique library of material shot by New York film legend Jonas Mekas. Spanning from 1963 to...
release : 1990.06.01popularis : 4.5
Empire
A single static wide shot of the Empire State Building from early evening until nearly 3 am the next day.
release : 1965.03.06popularis : 9.129
Uncle Howard
When Howard Brookner lost his life to AIDS in 1989, the 35-year-old director had completed two feature documentaries and was in post-production on...
release : 2017.03.10popularis : 2.073
Model
MODEL shows male and female models at work on TV commercials, fashion shows, magazine covers, and advertising for a variety of products, including...
release : 1981.09.16popularis : 1.204
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
Legendary and controversial attorney Roy Cohn was a power broker in the rough and tumble world of New York City business and politics. Senator Joseph...
release : 2019.09.29popularis : 3.699
Studio 54
Studio 54 was the epicenter of 70s hedonism - a place that not only redefined the nightclub, but also came to symbolize an entire era. Its co-owners,...
release : 2018.06.15popularis : 6.968
Painters Painting
Painters Painting: The New York Art Scene 1940-1970 is a 1972 documentary directed by Emile de Antonio. It covers American art movements from...
release : 1973.03.19popularis : 1.922
The South Bank Show: Velvet Underground
Season 9 episode 23 of The South Bank Show, highlighing the velvet underground
release : 1986.04.25popularis : 0.07