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Chelsea Girls

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Director: Andy Warhol

Starring: Brigid Berlin, Gerard Malanga, Marie Menken, Mario Montez, Nico, Ondine, Edie Sedgwick, Mary Woronov

Year: 1966

Runtime: 210 mins.

Synopsis: THE CHELSEA GIRLS, made up of 12 half-hour episodes, is the first of Warhol’s experimental movies to become a critical and commercial success and to have broken through the confines of New York’s underground world.

It was made from June to September 1966 and shot live with meager resources. The scenes, as in all of Warhol’s previous movies, were filmed in one take following the conviction that, if the camera was left pointed at interesting people something interesting would surely take place. There is no editing, a choice also determined by the kind of camera that was used by Warhol where the reel lasted 30 minutes and the sound is taped directly onto the film. (from RaroVideo)

DVD: RaroVideo

Official Website: None

Reviews: Roger Ebert
San Francisco Chronicle (Kenneth Baker)
TV Guide (unknown)

Video: None

Tags: 1966