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Couch (film)
''Couch'' (1964) is a feature-length underground film directed by Andy Warhol, and starring Gerard Malanga, Piero Heliczer, Naomi Levine, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, John Palmer, Baby Jane Holzer, Ivy Nicholson, Amy Taubin, Ondine, Peter Orlovsky, Jack Kerouac, Taylor Mead, Kate Heliczer, Rufus Collins, Joseph LeSeuer, Binghamton Birdie, Mark Lancaster, Gloria Wood, and Billy Name. Plot An "entirely pornographic" series of sexual encounters on the old red couch at The Factory, with all permutations and orientations. See also * * |
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol (;''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary''"Warhol" born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director and producer. A leading figure in the pop art movement, Warhol is considered one of the most important American artists of the second half of the 20th century. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, advertising, and celebrity culture that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, photography, and filmmaking. Some of his best-known works include the silkscreen paintings ''Campbell's Soup Cans'' (1962) and '' Marilyn Diptych'' (1962), the experimental film '' Chelsea Girls'' (1966), the multimedia events known as the '' Exploding Plastic Inevitable'' (1966–67), and the erotic film '' Blue Movie'' (1969) that started the " Golden Age of Porn". Born and raised in Pittsburgh in a family of Rusyn immigrants, Warhol initially pursued ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ondine (actor)
Robert Olivo (June 16, 1937 – August 28, 1989), better known by his stage name Ondine, was an American actor. He is best known for appearing in a series of films in the mid-1960s by Andy Warhol, whom he claimed to have met in 1961 at an orgy: Ondine was the focus of Warhol's book, ''a, A Novel'', based on transcripts of Ondine and others. He appeared in films made by his lover, Roger Jacoby, ''Dream Sphinx Opera'', ''L'Amico Fried's Glamorous Friends'', and ''Kunst Life''. In later years, he supported himself by showing Warhol films and delivering a lecture on his days as a Warhol superstar on the college circuit. He died of AIDS-related liver disease in Queens, New York in 1989, aged 52. He was portrayed in the film ''I Shot Andy Warhol'' by Michael Imperioli. Filmography * ''Batman Dracula'' (1964) * ''Couch (film), Couch'' (1964) * ''Raw Weekend'' (1964) * ''Afternoon (film), Afternoon'' (1965) * ''Restaurant (1965 film), Restaurant'' (1965) * ''Vinyl (1965 film), Vinyl'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960s English-language Films
Year 196 ( CXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dexter and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 949 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 196 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus attempts to assassinate Clodius Albinus but fails, causing Albinus to retaliate militarily. * Emperor Septimius Severus captures and sacks Byzantium; the city is rebuilt and regains its previous prosperity. * In order to assure the support of the Roman legion in Germany on his march to Rome, Clodius Albinus is declared Augustus by his army while crossing Gaul. * Hadrian's wall in Britain is partially destroyed. China * First year of the Jian'an Era, during the reign of the Xian Emperor of the Han. * The Xian Emperor returns to w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Andy Warhol
A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are generally, since the 1930s, synchronized with sound and (less commonly) other sensory stimulations. Etymology and alternative terms The name "film" originally referred to the thin layer of photochemical emulsion on the celluloid strip that used to be the actual medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist for an individual motion-picture, including "picture", "picture show", "moving picture", "photoplay", and "flick". The most common term in the United States is "movie", while in Europe, "film" is preferred. Archaic terms include "animated pictures" and "animated photography". "Flick" is, in general a slang term, first recorded in 1926. It originates in the verb flicker, owing to the flickering appearance of early films. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1964 Films
The year 1964 in film involved some significant events, including three highly successful musical films, ''Mary Poppins,'' ''My Fair Lady,'' and '' The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'' Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1964 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 29 – 50-year-old actor Alan Ladd is found dead in bed at his home in Palm Springs, California. An autopsy confirms the cause of death as cerebral edema caused by an acute overdose of "alcohol and three other drugs" His death is ruled accidental. Ladd's final film, '' The Carpetbaggers'', is released in April and, despite mostly negative reviews from critics, becomes a major commercial success. * March 6 – Elvis Presley's 14th motion picture, '' Kissin' Cousins'', is released to theaters. * March 15 - Elizabeth Taylor marries Richard Burton. * June 3 – The animated film '' Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!'' is released. Not only it is the first theatrical feature produced by H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Warhol Filmography
American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol produced more than 600 films between 1963 and 1968, including short '' Screen Tests'' film portraits. His subsequent work with filmmaker Paul Morrissey guided the Warhol-branded films toward more mainstream success in the 1970s. Since 1984, the Whitney Museum of American Art and Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and worked to preserve, restore, exhibit, and distribute Warhol's underground films. In 2014, the MoMA began a project to digitize films previously unseen and to show them to the public. History Warhol had always been interested in films, and once he became successful as an artist with his pop art paintings, he started making underground films at his studio dubbed The Factory. In 1963, he experimented with single-frame cinematography, a stylistic method already used by a number of independent filmmakers. However, he quickly came to the conclusion that long takes were the opposite of what was conventional at the time, and he started prod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of American Films Of 1964
A list of American films released in 1964. ''My Fair Lady'' won the Academy Award for Best Picture. __TOC__ A-C and 0-9 D-F G-H I-K L-Q R-V W-Z See also * 1964 in the United States References External links 1964 filmsat the Internet Movie Database *List of 1964 box office number-one films in the United States {{DEFAULTSORT:American films of 1964 1964 Films A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, is a work of Visual arts, visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are gen ... Lists of 1964 films by country ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Lancaster (artist)
Christopher Ronald Mark Lancaster (14 May 1938 – 30 April 2021) was a British-American artist and set designer who worked extensively with the Cunningham Dance Company. Alastair Macaulay referred to him as a "superlative designer" who "knew how to create drama by colour contrasts." Early life Lancaster was born in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire on 14 May 1938. In early childhood, he chose to go by Mark. He attended Holme Valley Grammar School (1949-1952) and Bootham School in York (1952-1955) before returning home to work in the family textile business. He studied textile technology for six years, painting in his own time, before attending King's College (1961-1965) to study Fine Art. Here, he studied under Richard Hamilton. Lancaster taught at the university, now called University of Newcastle upon Tyne, between 1965 and 1966, then at the Bath School of Art until 1968. Career Lancaster visited New York City for the first time in 1964, where he worked briefly as an assistant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taylor Mead
Taylor Mead (December 31, 1924 – May 8, 2013) was an American writer, actor and performer. Mead appeared in several of Andy Warhol's underground films filmed at Warhol's Factory, including ''Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of'' (1963) and '' Taylor Mead's Ass'' (1964). Career Born in Detroit, Michigan and raised by divorced parents mostly in the wealthy suburb of Grosse Pointe, he appeared in Ron Rice's beat classic '' The Flower Thief'' (1960), in which he "traipses with elfin glee through a lost San Francisco of smoke-stuffed North Beach cafés ..." Film critic P. Adams Sitney called ''The Flower Thief'' "the purest expression of the Beat sensibility in cinema." Village Voice film critic J. Hoberman called Mead "the first underground movie star." In 1967, Taylor Mead played a part in the surrealistic play '' Desire Caught by the Tail'' by Pablo Picasso when it was set for the first time in France at a festival in Saint-Tropez, among others with Ultra Violet. In the mid- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Orlovsky
Peter Anton Orlovsky (July 8, 1933 – May 30, 2010) was an American poet and actor. He was the long-time partner of Allen Ginsberg. Early life and career Orlovsky was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City, the son of Katherine (née Schwarten) and Oleg Orlovsky, a Russian immigrant. He was raised in poverty and was forced to drop out of Newtown High School in his senior year so he could support his impoverished family. After many odd jobs, he began working as an orderly at Creedmoor State Mental Hospital, known today as Creedmoor Psychiatric Center. In 1953, Orlovsky was drafted into the United States Army for the Korean War at nineteen years old. Army psychiatrists ordered his transfer off the front to work as a medic in a San Francisco hospital. He later went to Columbia University. He met Allen Ginsberg while working as a model for the painter Robert La Vigne in San Francisco in December 1954. Prior to meeting Ginsberg, Orlovsky had made no deliberate a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Taubin
Amy Taubin (; born September 10, 1938) is an American author and film critic. She is a contributing editor for two prominent film magazines, the British ''Sight & Sound'' and the American ''Film Comment''. She has also written regularly for the ''SoHo Weekly News'', ''The Village Voice'', '' The Millennium Film Journal'', and ''Artforum'', and used to be curator of video and film at the non-profit experimental performance space The Kitchen. Life and career Taubin attended Sarah Lawrence College as an undergrad and received an MA from New York University. Taubin is also a filmmaker, curator, and educator. She is one of the people visible in Michael Snow's experimental film ''Wavelength''. Taubin has served on the board of trustees of the Anthology Film Archives; She was named as a Distinguished Art Historian-Teacher at the New York School of Visual Arts, Department of Humanities and Sciences; and has served on the selection committee for the Film Society of Lincoln Center Film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Holzer
Jane Holzer (née Brukenfeld; born October 23, 1940), is an American art collector and real estate investor. She is best known as a Warhol superstar, and she also worked as a model, actress, and film producer. Nicknamed Baby Jane Holzer, she appeared on the cover of British ''Vogue'' in 1964, and she was referred to as one of the "fashion revolutionaries" by ''Women's Wear Daily'' in 1966. Life and career Jane Brukenfeld grew up in Palm Beach, the daughter of real estate investor Carl Brukenfeld. His wealth came from Florida real estate, particularly in Miami and West Palm Beach. She grew up in a Jewish household and attended Palm Beach High School. She attended Finch Junior College in Manhattan but "flunked out of college on purpose to become a model," she recounted. In 1962, she married real estate investor, Leonard Holzer. In 1963, her modeling career began to take off in London where she was photographed by David Bailey. In 1964, Holzer told journalist Tom Wolfe: "Bailey c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
