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The Chelsea Girls

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Director Andy Warhol's camera elicits unpredictable responses from celebrities and hangers-on.

Critics Reviews

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Variety Staff Variety A pointless, excruciatingly dull three-and-a-half hours spent in the company of Andy Warhol's friends. Mar 26, 2009 Full Review Raymond Durgnat Time Out View'n doze. Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times Warhol has nothing to say and no technique to say it with. Rated: 1/4 Oct 23, 2004 Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews I couldn't be more bored with this flimsy anti-film presentation. Rated: C Feb 9, 2014 Full Review Phil Hall Film Threat The Warhol gang at their underground peak. Rated: 5/5 Dec 13, 2013 Full Review TV Guide A film whose importance as a 1960s cultural statement outweighs any intrinsic value it may have as a film, Chelsea Girls is nevertheless fascinating, provocative, and hilarious. Rated: 4/4 Dec 17, 2006 Full Review Read all reviews

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bill t So glad I got to see this again. This movie really isn't about anything, just a collection of a motley of characters hanging around Andy Warhol at the time. Highlights include the incredible musings of Christian Aaron Boulogne, Mary Woronov just snapping at everyone, and the color sequences. So good! Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Chelsea Girls is a senseless, painfully boring epic that doubles the tedium by presenting two uninteresting vignettes on screen at once. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Audience Member It's basically two films shown side by side to achieve a sort of low rent split screen effect. I can see where, if seen in a full house of Warhol fanatics, it can be fascinating. There's the rub though. I can't even conceive of seeing it at home or really even HOW you would see it at home. Theater or nothing is my recommendation. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member Perhaps Warhol's most renowned work as a filmmaker, though perhaps it should be more regarded as a work by Paul Morrissey, this film is a drama that is more about style than content, and fully expressive of the Pop Art wave of its times. The film revolves around the occupants of a hotel in Chelsea. The screen is split in two, with intermittent sound, the cinematography is often out of focus, and made up of pointless zooming, whereas the subjects are talking about nothing at all in particular. Yet, there is something attractive in everything; the same appeal of Warhol's other art work, defining (or merely observing) style, fashion and eccentricity. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member One of the best of the Andy Warhol "experiments"...the split-screen helps hold the interest. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member See it & you've been Warholed.Don't expect a Story, this is a work of Warhol Art Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Director Andy Warhol's camera elicits unpredictable responses from celebrities and hangers-on.
Director
Andy Warhol
Producer
Andy Warhol
Screenwriter
Ronald Tavel, Andy Warhol
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Runtime
3h 30m