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C4285 Chelsea Girls (Usa, 1967) C4285 CHELSEA GIRLS (USA, 1967) Credits: director, Andy Warhol ; writers, Andy Warhol, Ronald Tavel. Cast: Nico, Ondine, Mary Might, International Velvet. Summary: Experimental film set in contemporary New York City at the Chelsea Hotel. A 210 minute expose of the lifestyles of Andy Warhol’s New York Factory crowd, an over-sexed, drugged-out, narcissistic group of hipsters and homosexuals. Includes Vietnam War references. Adair, Gilbert. Hollywood’s Vietnam [GB] (p. 52) ___________. Vietnam on film [GB] (p. 74) Andy Warhol film factory (edited by Michael O’Pray) London : BFI Pub., 1989. Battcock, Gregory. “Notes on the Chelsea girls: a film by Andy Warhol” Art journal 26/4 (summer 1967), p. 363-5. Bourdon, David. “Warhol as filmmaker” Art in America 59 (May-Jun 1971), p. 48- 53. Burnett, Ron. [Chelsea girls] Take one 1/4 (Apr 1967), p. 23-4. Callenbach, Ernest. [Chelsea girls] Film culture 21/2 (winter 1967-8), p. 60. “Chelsea girls” American Film Institute catalog [GB] (Entry F6.0761) [Chelsea girls] Cahiers du cinema in English n. 10 (May 1967), p. 43-9. [Chelsea girls] Filmfacts 9 (1966), p. 369. [Chelsea girls] Hollywood reporter 195/11 (Mar 30, 1967), p. 3. [Chelsea girls] Monthly film bulletin 39/462 (Jul 1972), p. 134. [Chelsea girls] Monthly film bulletin 39/463 (Aug 1972), p. 179. “Chelsea girls” Motion picture guide (edited by Jay Robert Nash and Stanley Ralph Ross) Chicago : Cinebooks, 1985. (v. 2, p. 408) [Chelsea girls] Today 23 (Oct 1967), p. 33. Cipnic, D. J. “Andy Warhol, iconographer” Sight and sound (summer 1972) Coplans, John. Andy Warhol. Greenwich, Conn. : New York Graphic Society, 1970. Cowan, Bob. “My life and times with the Chelsea girls” Take one (Sep-Oct 1971) Crawford, Pamela. [Chelsea girls] Cineaste 1/3 (winter 1967-8), p. 20-21. Crone, Rainer. Andy Warhol. New York : Praeger, 1970. Devine, Jeremy M. Vietnam at 24 frames a second [GB] (p. 38) Durgnat, Raymond. [Chelsea girls] Films and filming 15/11 (Aug 1969), p. 36-8. Ehrenstein, David. [Chelsea girls] Film culture 42 (fall, 1966), p. 8-9. Gelmis, Joseph. The film director as superstar. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1970. [interview] (p. 65-73) Gidal, Peter. Andy Warhol: films and paintings. London : Studio Vista ; New York : Dutton Picturebacks, 1971. Hirsch. “The Chelsea girls” Variety (Jan 18, 1967), p. 6. Koch, Stephen. Stargazer: Andy Warhol’s world and his films. New York : Praeger, 1973 [rev. ed. 1985] (p. 86-97). ___________. Stargazer: Andy Warhol’s world and his friends. New York: 1973. Larson, R. “A retrospective look at the films of D.W. Griffith and Andy Warhol” Film journal (fall-winter 1972) Lithgow, James. [Chelsea girls] Films and filming 15/11 (Aug 1969), p. 21, 24. Lowry, Ed. “Chelsea girls” International dictionary of films and filmmakers (2nd ed) [GB] (p. 171-3) Lugg, Andrew. “On Andy Warhol” Cineaste (winter 1967-68) Mussman, Toby. [Chelsea girls] Film culture n. 45 (summer 1967), p. 41-44. Pile, Susan. [Chelsea girls] Film culture n. 45 (summer 1967), p. 46. Price, James. [Chelsea girls] Sight and sound 37/2 (spring 1968) Pruitt, John. “Jonas Mekas: A European critic in America” in To free the cinema: Jonas Mekas & the New York underground (edited by David E. James) Princeton, N.J. : Princeton Univ. Press, 1992. (p. 49-61) Sarris, Andrew. [Chelsea girls] Village voice (Dec 15, 1966) Shatnoff, Judith. [Chelsea girls] Film quarterly 20/4 (summer 1967), p. 73-6. Simon, John. Private screenings New York : Macmillan, 1967. (p. 261-2) Smith, Patrick S. Andy Warhol’s art and films. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press, 1986. Stoller, James. “Beyond cinema: notes on some films by Andy Warhol” Film quarterly 20/1 (fall 1966), p. 35-8. Tyler, Parker. “Dragtime or drugtime: or film a la Warhol” Evergreen revue (Apr 1967) __________. Underground film: a critical history. New York : Grove Press, 1969. [Reissued: London : Secker and Warburg, 1971; Harmondsworth [England] : Penguin, 1974] Warhol, Andy. “My favorite superstar: Notes on my epic, ‘Chelsea girls’” Arts magazine (Feb 1967) Wilcock, John. The autobiography and sex life of Andy Warhol. New York : Other Scenes, 1971. .
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