Kitchen

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Instructed by Warhol to write a vehicle for Edie Sedgwick in a completely white setting, scenarist Ronald Tavel created one of Warhols most iconic films. Here a group of performers of all stripes the sink and litter basket receive equal billing to the human actors are forced into Warhol and Tavels cruelly comical theatre of the absurd. Inside this cramped domestic space, boredom, confusion and a sense of existential dread hang heavy in the air. Warhol and Tavel transform the modern 1960s kitchen replete with the latest gadgets and conveniences into a chaotic laboratory for self-creation and interpersonal conflict.

Underground U.S.A.

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The Sunset Blvd. of underground cinema, and a suitably ambivalent retrospect on the star-game casualties of New York’s upper depths, with Patti Astor statuesquely hysterical as a 20-year-old Norma Desmond, made up to recall Edie Sedgwick and surrounded by Warhol’s lost children. We’ve been here before, but without the hindsight: a camera cruise along a hustler’s meat-rack, kitchen-talk over cold canned spaghetti, Taylor Mead grimacing in a spastic dance, the silent stud a sullenly passive observer. Mitchell’s ear for campy native wit and eye for figures in a loft-scape happily keep at bay the otherwise contagious NY ennui.

Rene Ricard – MRQE

Kitchen

Underground U.S.A.