From: Mark Toscano (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Mar 02 2009 - 18:32:34 PST
Thank you, GP (parental guidance is suggested)!
mt
--- On Mon, 3/2/09, Pierce, Greg <email suppressed> wrote:
> From: Pierce, Greg <email suppressed>
> Subject: Re: [FRAMEWORKS] Warhol on video (authorized)
> To: email suppressed
> Date: Monday, March 2, 2009, 2:41 PM
> Record Straightening Now!
>
> I believe the first Warhol film ever released on
> video(tape) was
> Lonesome Cowboys. It came out in the UK in the early
> 80's while Warhol
> was still alive and as far as I know was only available in
> PAL.
>
> The second authorized (digital) video (disc) release of a
> Warhol film
> was in 2006. Screen Test: Helmut was included on a
> compliation disc
> entitled American Short Films put out by the UK's
> Cinema16. Other films
> on that disc were Lawder's Necrology, Deren's
> Meshes of the Afternoon,
> Van Sant's The Discipline of D.E., Pennebaker's
> Daybreak Express plus
> shorts by Lucas, Burton, Solondz and Payne. A fairly varied
> collection.
>
> #3. Treasures IV
> #4. 13 Most Beautiful...
>
> Greg Pierce
> Assistant Curator of Film and Video
> The Andy Warhol Museum
> Pittsburgh, Penna.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Experimental Film Discussion List
> [mailto:email suppressed] On Behalf Of Mark
> Toscano
> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 12:08 AM
> To: email suppressed
> Subject: Re: New Andy Warhol Plexifilm Release available
> through
> Microcinema International
>
> This is very exciting and amazing, but I still gotta give
> props (as they
> say) to Jeff Lambert and the NFPF: the Treasures IV DVD
> set, coming out
> this Tuesday 3/2/09, is ACTUALLY the first ever authorized
> DVD release
> of a film by Andy Warhol (containing Mario Banana #1)!
>
> mt
>
>
> --- On Thu, 2/26/09, Jay McBride
> <email suppressed> wrote:
>
> > From: Jay McBride <email suppressed>
> > Subject: [FRAMEWORKS] New Andy Warhol Plexifilm
> Release available
> > through Microcinema International
> > To: email suppressed
> > Date: Thursday, February 26, 2009, 2:14 PM New
> Releases
> >
> >
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> >
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> > 13 Most Beautiful...Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen
> Tests
> >
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> >
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> >
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> >
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> >
> >
> >
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> Warhol!
> >
> >
> >
> > Released in conjunction with The Andy Warhol Museum,
> 13 Most
> > Beautiful...Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests
> features 13 of
> > Warhol's classic silent film portraits. Subjects
> include Nico, Lou
> > Reed, Edie Sedgwick, Dennis Hopper, and more. Shot
> between 1964 and
> > 1966 at Warhol's
> > Factory studio in New York City, the Screen Tests are
> presented with
> > newly commissioned soundtracks performed by Dean
> Wareham and Britta
> > Phillips.
> > Between 1964 and 1966, Andy Warhol shot nearly 500
> Screen Tests,
> > beautiful and revealing portraits of hundreds of
> different
> > individuals, from the famous to the anonymous, 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > Soundtrack & Performances:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > Additional Features:
> >
> > The DVD is presented in a slipcovered hardbound
> package New transfers
> > from Warhol's original 16mm negatives Behind the
> scenes making-of the
> > new soundtrack and a video interview with Dean &
> Britta 40-page
> > booklet with liner notes and biographies of the Screen
> Test subjects
> >
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>
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