The Chelsea Girls

1967

3h 30m

Drama

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50%

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10 Reviews

72%

Audience Score

500+ Ratings

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

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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

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Raymond Durgnat

Time Out

View'n doze.

Jun 24, 2006

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Warhol has nothing to say and no technique to say it with.

Rated: 1/4

Oct 23, 2004

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

I couldn't be more bored with this flimsy anti-film presentation.

Rated: C

Feb 9, 2014

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Phil Hall

Film Threat

The Warhol gang at their underground peak.

Rated: 5/5

Dec 13, 2013

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Andy Warhol

Director

Randy Borscheidt

Self

Christian Aaron Boulogne

Self

Angelina Davis

Self

Dorothy Dean

Self

Eric Emerson

Self

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Synopsis

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

Director: Andy Warhol
Screenwriter: Ronald Tavel, Andy Warhol
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Runtime: 3h 30m