Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film
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Documentary filmmaker Ric Burns explores the life and legacy of pop art's most beloved icon with this film that seeks to illuminate the public persona and creative complexity of painter, photographer, and filmmaker Andy Warhol. Host Laurie Anderson narrates as an erudite collection of curators, critics, and biographers dispel Warhol's own self-created image as a haute couture heavyweight to offer a more intellectually minded portrait of the man who forever changed the way the world views Campbell's Soup cans. From Warhol's boyhood experiences in a Czechoslovakian community in Pittsburgh to a disheartening stint at art school and initial work as a commercial illustrator in New York, Burns' film explores every aspect of Warhol's life to offer a detailed look at the artist whose short-circuited class-jumping gave him a most unique view on contemporary culture. ~ Jason Buchanan, RoviCast
Philip Bosco; Josh Hamilton; Robert Sean Leonard; George Plimpton; Laurie Anderson - Narrator; Paul Morrissey; John Richardson; Callie Thorne; Jeff Koons - Andy Warhol; Irving Blum; Donna DeSalvo; Pat Hackett; Dave HickeyCredit
Robin Espinola - Co-producer, Marilyn Ness - Co-producer, Mary Recine - Co-producer, Ric Burns - Director, Julianna Parroni - Editor, Li-Shin Yu - Editor, Peter Brant - Executive Producer, Diane Von Furstenberg - Executive Producer, Larry Gagosian - Executive Producer, Brian Keane - Composer (Music Score), Don Lenzer - Camera Operator, Michael Chin - Cinematographer, Buddy Squires - Cinematographer, Allen Moore - Cinematographer, Peter Nelson - Cinematographer, Ric Burns - Producer, Donald Rosenfeld - Producer, Daniel Rosenfeld - Producer, Daniel Wolf - Producer, Ric Burns - Screenwriter, James Sanders - Screenwriter| Andy Warhol's Women (1972 Film), Andy Warhol's Silver Floatations (1964 Film) | |
| Andy Warhol: Denied (2006 Film), Andy Warhol: Life and Death (Film) |
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| Directed by | Ric Burns |
| Produced by | Peter M. Brant Donald Rosenfeld Daniel Wolf Ric Burns |
| Written by | James Sanders Ric Burns |
| Music by | Brian Keane |
| Cinematography | Buddy Squires Peter Nelson Allen Moore Michael Chin Don Lenzer |
| Editing by | Li-Shin Yu Juliana Parroni |
| Distributed by | Steeplechase Films Daniel Wolf High Line Productions Thirteen/WNET New York |
| Release date(s) | September 1, 2006 (Manhattan) |
| Running time | 4 hours |
| Language | English |
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Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film is a four-hour 2006 documentary by Ric Burns about pop artist Andy Warhol.
The film is Burns' cinematic argument that Warhol was the greatest artist of the second half of the 20th Century. (Picasso is credited with having that honor in the first half of the 20th Century.)
Laurie Anderson narrates the movie.
In one segment, Burns compares Warhol's portraits of such celebrities as Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor with the icons of saints that Warhol saw in his boyhood Byzantine Catholic parish, where he spent many hours as a child.
Burns follows Warhol through his meteoric rise in New York's commercial art world during the 1950s. Burns cites 1962, the year Warhol first exhibited his soup can paintings in Los Angeles, as the turning point in Warhol's career.
Burns also describes in detail Valerie Solanas' near-fatal shooting of Warhol in 1968.
Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film debuted in early September 2006 with a two-week theatrical run in New York City at Film Forum that charged no admission. The movie was televised in the United States over two nights, September 20–21, 2006, on PBS as part of its American Masters series.
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