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A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory

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Filmmaker Esther Robinson chronicles the life of Danny Williams, her uncle and onetime lover of Andy Warhol.
A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory

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A portrait piece of Danny Williams, set amongst New Yorks Factory, home of Andy Warhol, provides insight and flavour of the time and the setting, with an unresolved mystery at its heart.

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Melissa Anderson Time Out Rated: 4/5 Nov 17, 2011 Full Review Ty Burr Boston Globe An eerily moving tone poem as hard to pin down as its subject. Rated: 3/4 Jan 6, 2011 Full Review Sukhdev Sandhu Daily Telegraph (UK) Robinson is his niece and, though she affects a needlessly shaky, blurry style at times, she does her uncle's creative work justice. Aug 15, 2008 Full Review Sarah Boslaugh Playback:stl ... if you can overlook [Robinson's] self-indulgent style, A Walk Into the Sea offers fascinating glimpses of the Warhol scene in the early 1960's. Rated: 6/10 Sep 21, 2008 Full Review Holly Grigg-Spall Film4 Not what it wishes to be - it's actually a cautionary tale on the abuse of amphetamines. Rated: 1/5 Aug 15, 2008 Full Review Mark Keizer Boxoffice Magazine A Walk into the Sea traps us in an odd and compelling purgatory, one that's unable to answer the central question of what happened to Williams, yet still resolves with its own sense of satisfaction. Rated: 3/5 May 7, 2008 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Methamphetamine & Harvard Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Audience Member Straightforward and rather creepy. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Yet another film that exposes Warhol for the fraud and master manipulator that he was. The last twenty minutes of this documentary is tediously long with too much filler in an attempt to extend it beyond an hour in length. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Audience Member This recent documentary provides another glimpse at one of the Factory's peripheral players. The recent conversations with various associates (Maysles, Name, Berline, Cale, Paul Morrissey) and members of Williams' family are of some interest, but the highlights are the clips of Danny Williams' own films. In contrast to Warhol's own fascination with long takes and tedium, Danny uses blistering strobe-like editing. The effect is akin to what he must have been doing when lighting shows for the VU. Despite my mixed reaction to the documentary itself, it's worth seeing if you have an interest in the subject or if you want to see some striking experimental short films. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member muddled documentary made by danny williams niece as she attempts to uncover her uncle's past at the warhol factory and the reason for his strange disapperance thru interviews with ex factory devotees. sits uncomfertably between a mystery doco and an expose of factory life, would have done better to choose one or the other. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Mike M Poorly structured as mystery, hamstrung by the elusiveness of Factory life, the reluctance to provide anyone with any point or meaning; Robinson isn't the first director to be suckered into casting about for answers that were perhaps never there to begin with, and her blurry DV imagery becomes resistible very quickly. Where "A Walk in the Sea" intrigues is in reconvening key players (Morrissey, Malanga, Ron Nameth) to explore how the Factory was more than just about Andy... At its best, Robinson's film serves a similar purpose to her uncle's beloved strobe effects, revealing both the light and the dark of the Factory. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 09/29/10 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Filmmaker Esther Robinson chronicles the life of Danny Williams, her uncle and onetime lover of Andy Warhol.
Director
Esther Robinson
Production Co
Chicken & Egg Pictures
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 19, 2017
Runtime
1h 15m