Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film

From: The Village Voice | Date: August 30, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film

Directed by Ric Burns

September 1 through 14, Film Forum

240 Minutes of Fame

Epic doc traces an intellectual history of Warhol

'Some company recently was interested in buying my 'aura,' "Andy Warhol once said, as recorded in his 1975 book The Philosophy of Andy Warhol. "They didn't want my product. They kept saying, 'We want your aura.' I never figured out what they wanted. " Ric Burns's Andy WarhoL: A Documentary Film attempts to illuminate the artist's alleged dilemma by both chronicling the evolution of Warhol's public persona and piercing its veil to reveal ...

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