Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film

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2006 TV series or program

Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film

Written by| James Sanders
Ric Burns
Directed by| Ric Burns
Theme music composer| Brian Keane
Original language| English
Production
Producers| Peter M. Brant
Donald Rosenfeld
Daniel Wolf
Ric Burns
Cinematography| Buddy Squires
Peter Nelson
Allen Moore
Michael Chin
Don Lenzer
Editors| Li-Shin Yu
Juliana Parroni
Running time| 4 hours
Original release
Release| September 1, 2006 (2006-09-01)

Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film is a four-hour 2006 documentary by Ric Burns about pop artist Andy Warhol.

The film is Burns' cinematic argument that Warhol was the greatest artist of the second half of the 20th century. (Picasso is credited with having that honor in the first half of the 20th century.)

Laurie Anderson narrates the movie.

In one segment, Burns compares Warhol's portraits of such celebrities as Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor with the icons of saints that Warhol saw in his boyhood Byzantine Catholic parish, where he spent many hours as a child.

Burns follows Warhol through his meteoric rise in New York's commercial art world during the 1950s. Burns cites 1962, the year Warhol first exhibited his soup can paintings in Los Angeles, as the turning point in Warhol's career.

Burns also describes in detail Valerie Solanas' near-fatal shooting of Warhol in 1968.

Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film debuted in early September 2006 with a two-week theatrical run in New York City at Film Forum that charged no admission. The movie was televised in the United States over two nights, September 20–21, 2006, on PBS as part of its American Masters series.

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* PBS American Masters: Andy Warhol Archived 2008-09-07 at the Wayback Machine
* Ric Burns: Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film
* Stephen Holden's review in The New York Times
* Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film at IMDb
* WARHOLCITY - Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art - Medzilaborce, Slovakia (city of origin)

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Artworks|

* 129 Die in Jet! (1962)
* Campbell's Soup Cans (1962)
* Coca-Cola (3) (1962)
* Coca-Cola (4) (1962)
* Marilyn Diptych (1962)
* Men in Her Life (1962)
* 3 Coke Bottles (1962)
* Gold Marilyn Monroe (1962)
* Green Coca-Cola Bottles (1962)
* Eight Elvises (1963)
* Colored Mona Lisa (1963)
* Ethel Scull 36 Times (1963)
* Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) (1963)
* Green Car Crash (1963)
* Triple Elvis (1963)
* Suicide (Purple Jumping Man) (1963)
* Thirteen Most Wanted Men (1964)
* Shot Marilyns (1964)
* Race Riot (1964)
* Exploding Plastic Inevitable (1966)
* Cow Wallpaper (1966)
* Big Electric Chair (1967)
* Marilyn Monroe portfolio (1967)
* Campbell's Soup I (1968)
* Campbell's Soup Cans II (1969)
* Vote McGovern (1972)
* Athletes (1977)
* Shadows (1978-79)
* Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century (1980)
* Crosses (1981)
* Jean-Michel Basquiat  (1982)
* Magazine and History (1983)
* Speed Skater (1983)
* Orange Prince (1984)
* Olympics (1984)
* Taxi, 45th/Broadway (1984-85)
* The Last Supper (1984-1986)
* Zenith (1985)
* Portrait of Seymour H. Knox (1985)
* Reigning Queens (1985)
* Camouflage Self-Portrait (1986)
* Cars (1986)

Films|

* Kiss (1963)
* Eat (1964)
* Blow Job (1964)
* Sleep (1964)
* Screen Tests (1964–1966)
* Batman Dracula (1964)
* Soap Opera (1964)
* Couch (1964)
* Taylor Mead's Ass (1964)
* Henry Geldzahler (1964)
* Harlot (1964)
* Empire (1965)
* Vinyl (1965)
* Horse (1965)
* Space (1965)
* Camp (1965)
* Poor Little Rich Girl (1965)
* Beauty No. 1 (1965)
* Beauty No. 2 (1965)
* More Milk, Yvette (1965)
* The Life of Juanita Castro (1965)
* My Hustler (1965)
* Kitchen (1966)
* Eating Too Fast (1966)
* The Velvet Underground and Nico: A Symphony of Sound (1966)
* Salvador Dalí (1966)
* Chelsea Girls (1966)
* Since (1966)
* The Andy Warhol Story (1966)
* I, a Man (1967)
* Bike Boy (1967)
* Four Stars**** (1967)
* Imitation of Christ (1967)
* Tub Girls (1967)
* The Nude Restaurant (1967)
* Lonesome Cowboys (1968)
* San Diego Surf (1968)
* Flesh (1968)
* Blue Movie (1969)
* Trash (1970)
* Women in Revolt (1971)
* Heat (1972)
* L'Amour (1972)
* Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)
* Blood for Dracula (1974)
* Bad (1977)

Books|

* 25 Cats Name Sam and One Blue Pussy (1954)
* a, A Novel (1968)
* Blue Movie (1970)
* The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975)
* Exposures (1979)
* Popism: The Warhol Sixties (1980)
* The Andy Warhol Diaries (1989)

Other|

* Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes (TV series)
* Andy Warhol's Pork (play)
* Interview (magazine)
* "15 minutes of fame"
* You Are the One (music video)
* "Misfit" (music video)

Milieu|

* The Factory
* Factory Additions
* The Velvet Underground
* Warhol Superstars
* Studio 54
* New Andy Warhol Garrick Theatre
* 55th Street Playhouse
* Jed Johnson

Museums|

* The Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh)
* Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art (Medzilaborce)

Depictions|

* "Andy Warhol" (1971 song)
* Dos Cabezas (1982 painting)
* Andy Mouse (1986 screenprints)
* Songs for Drella (1990 album)
* Basquiat (1996 film)
* I Shot Andy Warhol (1996 film)
* Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film (2006 documentary)
* Factory Girl (2006 film)
* The Andy Warhol Diaries (2022 docuseries)

Family|

* Julia Warhola (mother)
* John Warhola (brother)
* James Warhola (nephew)

Related|

* Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board
* Moon Museum
* The Druds
* The Autobiography and Sex Life of Andy Warhol (1971)
* Absolut Warhola  (2001 film)
* Brillo Box (3 ¢ Off) (2016 documentary)
* Andy Warhol Bridge
* Warhol (biography)

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