Warhol/Edie Film Festival at Whitney Museum: Feb 1995 !!!

Warhol/Edie Film Festival at Whitney Museum: Feb 1995 !!!
15 years ago in nyc nightlife: feb. 1995

jan 30 1995 a CFDA event at lincoln center

feb. 2, 1995 D Generation played CBGB's.

feb 3 1995 The Whitney Museum on 75th & Madison had a month-long Andy Warhol film program. showcasing many rarely-seen and all-important warhol film projects from early silents like 'sleep' 'eat' and 'empire' through to sound films from the mid sixties. heres the lineup for feb 3 1995: 510 pm edie sedgwick in poor little rich girl. 735 the velvet underground symphony of sound. 855 edie poor little rich girl.
* here are a few thoughts on the warhol films I saw in feb 1995 at the whitney retrospective program:
One of the more notable warhol films is "the Velvet Underground:Symphony of sound" a rehearsal film, including nico & her son ari bologne, 30 minutes of cool feedback and a mantra-like trance effect with the guitars of reed & morrison , cale's viola & mo tucker's metronome- like drumming. the film climaxes with the NYC police entering the Factory & busting up the film due to excess noise on 47th st.

one of warhol's best colour films is edie sedgwick in 'Lupe,' a scary & haunting set piece with edie dressed to the nines eating dinner at a richly-appointed dakota apartment on west 72nd st as she free-associates and chatters on talking to herself for about 30 minutes. It's a version of the real-life Hollywood suicide of actress Lupe Velez, and given edie's fragile mental state & drug overdose death about 5 years later, this film is eerily precient, harrowing, sad, darkly comic and totally involving.

'beauty #2': imo edie's very best performance in a warhol film, where she makes out with 2 guys & smokes weed in her black bra and panties on her bed in a 1 hour film. the 1st half of the film is totally out of focus; when the focus suddenly is corrected in part 2 its a revelation; edie's co-star here is gino piserchio; its a fascinating and sexually charged film of twisted near-animalistic courtship, the young stud and a wasted, deathly skinny edie, still somehow compelling and erotic in her sultry black french lingerie & wasted, masochistic vulnerability. Lupe & Beauty #2 are by far the best edie sedgwick films you will ever see, if youre lucky enough to see them screened !!!

I understand the new , pathetic 'Factory Girl' film recreates 'Beauty #2' but of course gets it all wrong: as this week's village voice review describes. Here's an excerpt from nathan lee in this week's Voice:

"Hickenlooper ...mutilates Beauty #2, the richest of Warhol's cine-interrogations and the apex of Edie's underground Superstardom. Plunked on a bed with a chunk of stud named Gino, Edie submits to the offscreen questions of Chuck Wein (a clueless Jimmy Fallon), an old friend of Edie's whose crucial and controversial role in the Factory ecosystem is here glossed over. Factory Girl literalizes the rape scenario implicit in Beauty #2, escalating into the vulgar (and wildly exaggerated) spectacle of Wein forcing Gino on the distressed starlet. "
http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0706,l..ee,75716,20.html


* the same night the Bliss party at 11th ave & 26th st. at club velvet.

feb 4 1995 Club EXPO at times square with guest christina wayne, screenwriter of 'tart.'

feb 7 1995 a party at the bowery bar on west 4th st with christy turlington & tyson beckford.

feb 8 1995 party at the limelight disco 2000 with kenny kenny.

feb 9 1995 beavher at don hills with nancy boy performing & guest liz cohen.
* the same night i also saw edie sedgwick in 'lupe' at the whitney museum at 830 pm.
* the same night Ozone at demerara at 215 west 28th st

feb 10 1995 scotto's Abducted afterhours at the tunnel starting at 4 am.

feb. 11, 1995 I went to expo in times sq [now club new york] with alan barcoff and run dmc gave a surprise appearance playing an exciting 20 minute set! JMJ RIP!

feb. 14 1995 Suede played the manhattan center [7th floor ballroom] with richard oakes making his nyc debut. if youve seen the 'introducing the band' concert film you know how fiery Suede 1995 was, touring the peerless lp 'dogmanstar' it was 1 of the best concerts I saw in the 1990s. setlist incl: we are the pigs. killing of a flashboy. animal nitrate. the wild ones. pantomime horse. metal mickey. the asphalt world. so young. heroine. new generation. this hollywood life. imo suede was the best band of the 90s & also the best live band I saw in the 90s.
* the afterparty was at the tunnel.

feb 15 1995 Bridget Hall did a polo in store promotion at bloomingdales on 59th st.
* afterwards down to cafe tabac

feb 16 1995 i went to gregory crewdson's opening on prince street where i met zoe cassavettes.

feb 23, 1995 went to ozone at demerara/planet 28 with adam x dj-ing & saw old sheep meadow & nightlife friend heather summerfield.

feb 24, 1995 went to scotto's after hours at the tunnel 'abducted' which BEGAN at 4:am. & ran into carissa glucksman from liquid sky & 'kids'

feb. 28, 1995 elastica played their debut nyc show at mercury lounge it was packed and then some but that first LP is pretty darn good.

* the film 'boys on the side' featured chrissie hynde covering morrissey's 'everyday is like sunday.'

oasis' 'whatever' was a current favourite 45, back when every oasis 45 was great & had equally great b-sides.

suede released 'new generation' from the incredible 'dogmanstar' lp with essential b-sides 'bentswood boys' 'together' and 'eno's introducing the band,' on Feb 1, 1995. Im not aware of any rock bands in the 21st century releasing brilliant 45s regularly as suede did 12 years ago.

favourite art shows in feb 1995 incl kandinsky at MOMA. james nares at paul kasmin. donald judd at paula cooper 155 wooster. richard misrach at curt marcus 578 broadway.

my business meetings in feb 1995 incl bowles/sorokko gallery in soho, schmidt/bingham in the fuller building, & gallery henoch.

my favourite tv show in feb 1995 was AAA lucha libre on galavision.
Currently listening:
The Singles 1966-1969
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