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Lonesome Cowboys 1968 star_border 5.2
Five lonesome cowboys get all hot and bothered at home on the range after confronting Ramona Alvarez and her nurse.

Four Stars 1967 star_border 2
Photographed entirely in color, Four Stars was projected in its complete length of nearly 25 hours (allowing for projection overlap of the 35-minute reels) only once, at the Film-Makers' Cinematheque in New York City. The imagery in the film is dense, wearying and beautiful, but ultimately hard to decipher, for, in contrast to his earlier, and more famous film Chelsea Girls, made in 1966, Warhol insisted that two reels be screened simultaneously on top of each other on a single screen, rather than side-by-side. The film's title is a pun on the rating system used by critics to rank films, with "four stars" being the highest rating. From Wikipedia.

The Nude Restaurant 1967 star_border 6.7
At a New York City restaurant, the patrons are men, nude but for a G-string, waited on by one woman, also clad in a G-string and a G-bestringed waiter.

Screen Test: Jackie 1967
Andy Warhol directs The Factory regular Louisa "Jackie" Foster for a screen test.

Tub Girls 1967
"Tub Girls" features Warhol superstar Viva lying in a bathtub with different people of both sexes, including Brigid Berlin (as Brigid Polk), who appeared fully clothed in the tub.

The Velvet Underground Tarot Cards 1966
Documents each member of The Velvet Underground having their cards read at a big apartment party. The tarot reader is continually interrupted in her readings by the chaos created by the characters around her.

Moe Gets Tied Up 1966
Or "Moe in Bondage" - The "Moe" of the title is the Velvet Underground's drummer, Maureen Tucker, whose band-mates have tied her to a chair and are now hanging around nibbling on sandwiches and pieces of fruit.

Hedy 1966
Egotistical faded star Hedy Lamarr visits a plastic surgeon to be transformed into the "14-year-old girl" she believes herself to be. She is then caught shoplifting by Mary Woronov and is put on trial, with Tavel as the judge and her five ex-husbands the jury. Hedy remains self-centered and detached throughout, posing and primping and bursting out renditions of "I Feel Pretty" and "Young at Heart."

The Velvet Underground and Nico: A Symphony of Sound 1966 star_border 6.5
The film depicts a rehearsal of The Velvet Underground including Nico, and is essentially one long loose improvisation.

Screen Test: Lou Reed (Coke) 1966 star_border 6
Andy directs Lou Reed drinking a Coke.

Screen Test: Helmut 1966 star_border 3.6
Screen Test: Helmut, by Andy Warhol, is a five minute silent black and white continuous close-up of a young man’s face. The face remains deathly still other than the occasional blink or involuntary bat of his eyelash. The film is slowed down to about 24-frames per-second to capture these slight movements a bit better, but other than this and the choppy fade-in’s and out’s at the beginning and end respectively, nothing changes throughout the film.

Beauty #2 1965 star_border 7.2
The movie has a fixed point of view showing a bed with two characters on it, Sedgwick and Piserchio. Chuck Wein is heard speaking but is just out of view. Sedgwick is wearing a lace bra and panties, and Piserchio, wearing only jockey shorts, engage in flirting and light kissing. Wein asks Sedgwick questions seemingly designed to harass and annoy her. Piserchio is more or less a bystander not interacting with Wein. The dialogue seems created adlib and no conclusions are reached in the film. The only conceivable climax is when Sedgwick finally becomes so mad, she throws a glass ashtray at Wein, breaking it.

Vinyl 1965 star_border 4.5
Andy Warhol’s screen adaptation of Burgess's "A Clockwork Orange”.

Empire 1965 star_border 4.3
A single static wide shot of the Empire State Building from early evening until nearly 3 am the next day.

Drunk 1965
"In January 1965, over drinks at the Russian Tea Room, the documentary filmmaker Emile de Antonio (Point of Order, In the Year of the Pig) warily agreed to collaborate with Warhol on a movie. Believing their politics and art to be absurdly different, De Antonio instead gamely proposed to drink an entire quart of J&B scotch in 20 minutes under the unflinching, voyeuristic gaze of Warhol’s camera. Their Factory session, recorded in this film, instead lasted 66 minutes, its grand finale a reckless and grandiose De Antonio writhing on the floor, clawing the walls, and speaking in tongues." - MoMA

Screen Test: Edie Sedgwick 1965 star_border 6.4
Andy directs Edie for a screen test.

Mario Banana II 1964 star_border 3.5
Black-and-white version of Mario Banana I, in which Mario enjoys another banana.

Mario Banana I 1964 star_border 3.8
Mario Montez in drag eats a banana.

Soap Opera 1964
Soap Opera, starring Baby Jane Holzer and Lester Persky, among Factory regulars, intercuts television commercials of its day with silent domestic scenes shot by Warhol.

Taylor Mead's Ass 1964 star_border 3.7
Taylor Mead humorously bares his ass for Andy Warhol.

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