Old Hollywood
Cinema
1900-1979
Nostalgia is a seductive liar - George Wildman Ball

Lou Reed, Nico, Bob Dylan, and Edie Sedgwick in Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests (1966), which were originally conceived as “living portraits” (i.e. portraits done on film rather than on canvas) and featured silent, unbroken 3-4 minute shots of both famous & anonymous visitors to Warhol’s studio sitting in front of the camera.

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Screen test excerpts: Reed / Nico / Dylan / Sedgwick

The Velvet Underground & Nico - Femme Fatale

“Andy [Warhol] said I should write a song about Edie Sedgwick. I said ‘Like what?’ and he said ‘Oh, don’t you think she’s a femme fatale, Lou?’ So I wrote Femme Fatale and we gave it to Nico.”

-Lou Reed

Edie Sedgwick in Ciao! Manhattan (1972, dir. John Palmer & David Wiseman)

Edie Sedgwick in Ciao! Manhattan (1972, dir. John Palmer & David Wiseman)