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Andy Warhol (/ˈwɔːrhɒl/; born Andrew Warhola; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture, and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became a renowned and sometimes controversial artist. The Andy Warhol Museum in his native city, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, holds an extensive permanent collection of art and archives. It is the largest museum in the United States dedicated to a single artist.
Warhol's art used many types of media, including hand drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, silk screening, sculpture, film, and music. He was also a pioneer in computer-generated art using Amiga computers that were introduced in 1984, two years before his death. He founded Interview magazine and was the author of numerous books, including The Philosophy of Andy Warhol and Popism: The Warhol Sixties. He managed and produced The Velvet Underground, a rock band which had a strong influence on the evolution of punk rock music. He is also notable as a gay man who lived openly as such before the gay liberation movement. His studio, The Factory, was a well known gathering place that brought together distinguished intellectuals, drag queens, playwrights, Bohemian street people, Hollywood celebrities, and wealthy patrons.
Actors: Philip Glass (composer), János Darvas (director), Rudy Wurlitzer (writer), Marie McLaughlin (actress), Françoise Gazio (producer), Janis Kelly (actress), Isabel Iturriagagoitia (producer), Phelim McDermott (miscellaneous crew), Christopher Purves (actor), Coro Intermezzo (actor), Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid (actor), Dennis Russell Davies (actor), Nazan Fikret (actress), Zachary James (actor), Zachary James (actor),
Genres: Drama, History, Musical,Actors: John Duong (miscellaneous crew), Nick Meyers (editor), Gillian Jones (actress), Gillian Jones (actress), Basil Hogios (composer), Jim Sharman (writer), Jim Sharman (director), David Dennis (actor), David Dennis (actor), Stephen Sewell (writer), Kenny Ang (editor), Lisa Hoppe (producer), Ahmed Salama (producer), Michael Pontin (producer), Akos Armont (actor),
Plot: In February 1987, American artist Andy Warhol checked himself anonymously into New York Hospital for a routine gall bladder operation. As he lay recovering from this standard procedure, the nurse who was meant to watch over him fell asleep reading a bible. Thus neglected, Andy Warhol died and entered the land of legend. 25 years later film-maker Jim Sharman, writer Stephen Sewell and composer Basil Hogios interweave verse, song and imagery into a unique and dreamlike 40 minute exploration of this great artist's life, death and legacy. With Andy Warhol every yes contained a no and every beginning an end. Welcome to the mysterious and wonderful world of ANDY X.
Keywords: 15-minutes-of-fame, andy-warhol, art-film, death, exploration, poem, robotActors: Kestrin Pantera (actress), Sarah Carter (composer), Sarah Carter (producer), Sarah Carter (writer), Sarah Carter (actress), Sarah Carter (actress), Alexandra Fulton (actress), Scott Stewart (editor), Scott Stewart (writer), Alexandra Fulton (producer), Scott Stewart (producer), Johnny White (miscellaneous crew), Sam Littlefield (actor), Adam Christy (actor), Justin Reinsilber (actor),
Genres: Musical, Short,Actors: Will Smith (actor), Tommy Lee Jones (actor), David Rasche (actor), Bill Hader (actor), Tim Burton (actor), Raymond Mamrak (actor), Raymond Mamrak (actor), Justin Bieber (actor), David Cohen (actor), Rick Baker (actor), Will Arnett (actor), Josh Brolin (actor), Ken Arnold (actor), Rip Torn (actor), Barry Sonnenfeld (actor),
Plot: After breaking out of a moon-based maximum security prison, Boris the Animal decides to go back in time and eliminate the person who arrested him - Agent K. When he does so, Agent J realizes that the time line has been changed and he too travels back to July 15, 1969, the day before Agent K is killed. After overcoming some disbelief, J manages to convince K and others of just who he is and why he's there. With the help of a being who can see all time lines, they track Boris down. J also learns a secret, something K had never told him.
Keywords: 1960s, 1960s-spirit, 2010s, 20th-century, 21st-century, 3-dimensional, 3d, 3d-sequel-to-2d-film, actor-talks-to-audience, alienActors: Guido Henderickx (actor), Matthias Schoenaerts (actor), Dirk Roofthooft (actor), Gunther Lesage (actor), Sam Louwyck (actor), Frank Focketijn (actor), Peter Van den Borre (miscellaneous crew), Johan Heldenbergh (actor), Manou Kersting (actor), Annick Christiaens (actress), Els Voorspoels (editor), Robert Borremans (actor), Nancy Brasseur (miscellaneous crew), Ben Segers (actor), Katelijne Damen (actress),
Plot: Sort of a low-budget Short Cuts (1993), set in the Flemish port city of Antwerp on a warm day in June. Natalie, her brother Chouki, her boyfriend Walter and his ex Lara, the gallery keeper Firmin, unhappily married French language teacher Paul Garcin, a couple of party-loving studs from Ghent (another Flemish city) and the weird mister Winterman, independently go about their lives, which have little in common, yet all end up on the same place for a grand party that evening.
Keywords: antwerp-belgium, belgium, deus, ensemble-film, kakken, tranche-de-vie, vlaamsActors: Elya Baskin (actor), Michael McDonald (actor), Rob Lowe (actor), Clint Howard (actor), Burt Bacharach (actor), Neill Calabro (actor), Mike Judge (actor), Mike Judge (actor), Tom Arnold (actor), Will Ferrell (actor), Robin Gammell (actor), Brian George (actor), Seth Green (actor), Joe Grisaffi (actor), Mike Myers (actor),
Plot: Austin Powers is a 60's spy who is cryonically frozen and released in the 1990's. The world is a very different place for Powers. Unfortunately for Austin, everyone is no longer sex-mad. Although he may be in a different decade, his mission is still the same. He has teamed up with Vanessa Kensington to stop the evil Dr. Evil, who was also frozen in the past. Dr. Evil stole a nuclear weapon and is demanding a payment of (when he realises its the 90's) 100 billion dollars. Can Austin Powers stop this madman? or will he caught up with Evil's henchman, with names like Alotta Fagina and Random Task? Only time will tell!
Keywords: 1960s, 1990s, 8-track, absurd-violence, actor-playing-both-hero-and-villain, actor-playing-multiple-roles, agent, airplane, android, assassinActors: Sam Rockwell (actor), Christopher Walken (actor), Dennis Hopper (actor), Steven Randazzo (actor), Paul Bartel (actor), Gary Oldman (actor), Jean-Claude La Marre (actor), Benicio Del Toro (actor), Michael Badalucco (actor), Willem Dafoe (actor), Vincent Gallo (actor), Vincent Gallo (actor), David Bowie (actor), Jeffrey Wright (actor), Michael Wincott (actor),
Plot: Basquiat tells the story of the meteoric rise of youthful artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Starting out as a street artist, living in Thompkins Square Park in a cardboard box, Jean-Michel is "discovered" by Andy Warhol's art world and becomes a star. But success has a high price, and Basquiat pays with friendship, love, and eventually, his life.
Keywords: 19-year-old, 1980s, andy-warhol, art, art-dealer, art-exhibition, art-gallery, art-market, artist, basketballActors: Chris Sarandon (actor), Amanda Plummer (actress), Robert Englund (actor), Billy Gray (actor), Maximilian Schell (actor), Jim O'Rear (actor), Mick Davis (writer), Gene Kirkwood (producer), Ryan Paul James (actor), Edge (actor), Hugh Parks (director), Shelly Bovert Hyde-White (miscellaneous crew), Russell Sanderlin Sr. (actor), Robert Leon Casey (miscellaneous crew), Wally Parks (producer),
Genres: Horror,Actors: John Sessions (actor), William S. Burroughs (writer), Bernard Hill (actor), Danny Webb (actor), Allen Ginsberg (writer), Edgar Allan Poe (writer), John Sessions (actor), Jean Cocteau (writer), Timothy Leary (actor), Allen Ginsberg (actor), David Gilmour (composer), Jon Finch (actor), Phil Daniels (actor), Diana Quick (actress), Jon Blair (producer),
Genres: Documentary, Drama,Actors: Michael Madsen (actor), Andrew Lauer (actor), Adolf Hitler (actor), Kyle MacLachlan (actor), Martin Luther King (actor), Val Kilmer (actor), Bret Culpepper (actor), Kevin Dillon (actor), Robert F. Kennedy (actor), Allan Graf (actor), Dennis Burkley (actor), Crispin Glover (actor), John Capodice (actor), Jack McGee (actor), Costas Mandylor (actor),
Plot: Oliver Stone's homage to 1960s rock group The Doors also doubles as a biography of the group's late singer, the "Electric Poet" Jim Morrison. The movie follows Morrison from his days as a film student in Los Angeles to his death in Paris in 1971, at the age of 27. The movie features a tour-de-force performance by Val Kilmer, who not only looks like Jim Morrison's long-lost twin brother, but also sounds so much like him that he did much of his own singing. It has been written that even the surviving Doors had trouble distinguishing Kilmer's vocals from Morrison's originals.
Keywords: 1940s, 1960s, 1970s, 27-year-old, acid-the-drug, acid-trip, airplane, alcohol, alcohol-abuse, alcoholicLike to take a cement fix
Be a standing cinema.
Dress my friends up just for show
See them as they really are.
Put a peephole in my brain
Two New Pence to have a go.
Like to be a gallery
Put you all inside my show.
Andy Warhol, looks a scream,
Hang him on my wall.
Andy Warhol, silver screen
Can't tell them apart at all.
Andy walking, Andy tired,
Andy take a little snooze.
Tie him up when he fast asleep,
Send him on a pleasant cruise.
When he wakes up on the beach
Be sure to think of me and you.
To think and paint, to think about glue,
What a boring thing to do.