International Velvet

Les amours passionnées et tourmentées d'un réalisateur de films publictaires en vogue avec une jeune Anglaise sentimentale.

Joe Buck, blond et beau gosse, quitte sa petite bourgade du Texas pour monter à New York, où il espère se faire entretenir par des femmes riches. Mais la dureté de la ville lui fait rapidement perdre ses illusions. Seul, sans un sou, il fait la connaissance de Ratso Rizzo, un petit Italien chétif, boiteux et tuberculeux. Parce que ce dernier a l'air encore plus seul que lui, Joe accepte de partager son appartement miteux. À l'opposé l'un de l'autre, ils partagent pourtant la même misère dans les bas-fonds new-yorkais, s'accrochant au même rêve : partir vivre sous le soleil de Floride...

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.

Andy Warhol's experimental reconstruction of the assassination of the President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, which serves as his critical commentary on the way the media presented the tragic event.

Four Stars (ou « **** ») est un film américain d'avant garde réalisé par Andy Warhol et sorti en 1967. Le film n'a été projeté qu'une seule fois dans sa version intégrale d'une durée de 25 heures, les 15 et 16 décembre 1967 à New York. Il est composé de bobines de 35 minutes, projetées simultanément et se superposant. Le titre du film est une allusion au système de notation utilisé par les critiques de cinéma, « quatre étoiles » représentant la note maximale.

Susan Bottomly/International Velvet's screen test is dark as her piercing eyes stare into the camera, as Warhol plays with the lighting and zoom features.

Between 1964 and 1966, Andy Warhol shot nearly 500 Screen Tests, beautiful and revealing portraits of hundreds of different individuals, from Warhol superstars and celebrities to friends or anyone he thought had "star potential". All visitors to his studio, the Factory. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong keylight, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls of film. The resulting two-and-a-half-minute film reels were then screened in slow motion, resulting in a fascinating collection of four-minute masterpieces that startle and entrance, mesmerizing in the purest sense of the word. Songwriters Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips, formerly of the band Luna and currently recording as Dean & Britta, incorporated original compositions as well as cover songs to create new soundtracks for the 13 films.

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 of film at 24 frames per second. The resulting two-and-a-half-minute film reels were then screened in 'slow motion' at 16 frames per second.

Queen of China (Hanoi Hanna), based on Ronald Tavel’s scenario, loosely refers to the real-life radio show host who broadcast antiwar propaganda to American soldiers in Vietnam. It is Mary Woronov’s showcase piece, in which she metes out physical and psychological abuse to Susan Bottomly, Angelina “Pepper” Davis, and Ingrid Superstar in a room at the Chelsea Hotel. At first, the cast tries to accurately adhere to Tavel’s scenario, but by reel two it all falls apart—the performers begin to use their real names and exhibit a sort of residual stress disorder that permeates the rest of the film.

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.

Candy, jeune fille ingénue, quitte son lycée de banlieue pour se lancer dans une quête existentielle. Elle traversera les États-Unis et rencontrera des personnages insolites : un poète maudit, un jardinier terroriste, des médecins pervers, un cambrioleur bossu et un gourou abusif.