Andy Warhol (1988)

Warhol :The king of pop art

This is A great documentary film on the life of pop artist Andy Warhol.It goes from his very humble beginnings to king of the pop art world.The film keeps you totally involved in the story of his life.This is a film for any serious art student, lover of art or documentary film addict. If you like or hate Any's work this film is for you. August 30, 2007

this 1989 video was the first major profile of Warhol after his death in February 1987

this videotape runs 79 minutes. it was part of the London Weekend Television "South Bank Show".
my local library had it sitting on their shelf.
this is a good basic documentary introduction to the life of Andy Warhol(originally Warhola).
for a complete, full-blown documentary,the PBS produced "Andy Warhol-A Documentary Film" which came out in 2006 is the thing to get.
but, as i say, this little videotape will serve as a good foundation.
some of the highlights for me with this video is a glimpse of his film "Kitchen", about 30 seconds long.
another, from "Chelsea Girls", the "Pope Ondine" segment, Ondine slapping a girl around like a brat. she warns him in a gently stern voice "don't touch me" and he WACKS her again! i wish she went balistic on him!
an interview with brigid berlin shows her mocking her mother's horror after just coming from seeing her 'bohemian' daughter in "Chelsea Girls".
there are plenty of newsreals of Andy being interviewed
and Andy is always true to form, that is, squirling his way around every question, ducking, dodging, mimicking the interviewer, very reluctant to give a serious answer.
but so entertaining!
there are good discussions about his art, how it evolved, the public's and critic's reactions to it..his own 'thoughts' about it.
February 24, 2007

exploding plastic ineffable

This documentary on the life of andy warhol was produced and broadcast in the uk months after his death in 1987 and was probably the first attempt to collate and assess his ouevre in a critical way.
Saying that, it is not quite the exegesis that a art-historicist would accept as contingently expositional, but for those without any such pretensions it is a more than adequate foot-in-the-door into one of the first true artistic formulators of the (post)modern epoch.
The documentary covers his early impoverished life in what can only be described in material terms as slum-dwelling; his new york ascendency; his artistic impact on pop-art; the detritus of an artistic milieu escaping conformist post-war/consumer america; his shooting; his celebrity; and his lasting statement on the western-driven commercialisation of culture within a capital economy.
It is a very fine documentary for anyone with an interest in the icon who coined the iconic phrase: "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." January 14, 2007

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