Movies: Ronald Tavel
- 1965
Andy Warhol Screen Tests (1965)
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The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong key light, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls...
- 1966
Chelsea Girls (1966)
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Lacking a formal narrative, Warhol's mammoth film follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in 1966 New York City. The film was intended to be screened via dual projector set-up....
- 1965
Vinyl (1965)
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Andy Warhol’s screen adaptation of Burgess's "A Clockwork Orange”....
- 2007
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (2007)
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In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's performances and films punctuate interviews with artists, critics, friends and foes to create an engaging p...
- 1965
Space (1965)
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A melange of casual talking, food fights, and folk singing. The film includes Eric Andersen with his guitar, singing his lines, and leading Edie Sedgwick and her friends in unscripted sing-alongs of popular songs including "Puff the Magic Dragon" and...
- 1966
My Hustler (1966)
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Set on Fire Island, My Hustler depicts competition over the affections of a young male hustler among a straight woman, a former male hustler, and the man who hired the boy's companionship via a "Dial-A-Hustler" service....
- 1966
Screen Test #3 (1966)
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One of Andy Warhol's screen tests, focusing on an actor's face for 4-5 mins....
- 1966
Lupe (1966)
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Mexican actress Lupe Vélez's final hours as she overdoses on Seconal....
- 1965
Poor Little Rich Girl (1965)
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A young, jobless woman stays in bed, reads, talks on the phone, smokes cigarettes, makes fresh coffee, and tries on some clothes from a large wardrobe....
- 1966
Screen Test #4 (1966)
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A series of Andy Warhol’s screen tests, focusing on an actor’s face for 4-5 mins....
- 1965
Screen Test #1 (1965)
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Ronald Tavel taunts Philip Fagan, who lacks the verbal dexterity to counter the clever spider’s web of words that Ronald Tavel weaves to ensnare him, so that Fagan’s only response is to refuse to respond and stare silently off-screen, turning the scr...
- 1965
Horse (1965)
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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 later western epic Lonesome Cowboys....
- 1966
Kitchen (1966)
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Instructed by Warhol to write a vehicle for Edie Sedgwick in a “completely white” setting, scenarist Ronald Tavel created one of Warhol’s most iconic films. Here a group of performers of all stripes – the sink and litter basket receive equal billing ...
- 1965
The Life of Juanita Castro (1965)
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A playwright taunts a number of actors into improvising a truly ridiculous but subtlely meaningful meditation on Fidel Castro and his family....
- 1966
More Milk, Yvette (1966)
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Warhol offers his own version of the notorious 1958 Johnny Stompanato murder case....
- 1965
Harlot (1965)
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Jean Harlow-lookalike Harlot (Mario Montez), Gerard Malanga, Philip Fagan, and Carol Koshinskie (with a cat) sit in a room eating bananas as the off-screen voices of Billy Name, Ronald Tavel, and Harry Fainlight discuss various topics....
- 1965
Screen Test #2 (1965)
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Warhol and scenarist Ronald Tavel offer a brutal vision of the Hollywood casting couch with this record of ingenue Mario Montez performing a humiliating auditions for a dictatorial, unseen director....
- 1989
Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties (1989)
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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 collaboration with Simon Field....
- 1966
Hedy (1966)
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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...