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Warning: Spoilers ahead! Do not proceed if you haven't watched the season finale of American Horror Story: Cult.

Evan Peters is opening up about his "most difficult" season of American Horror Story yet.

During an exclusive interview with Et on Tuesday, the 30-year-old actor revealed what it was like taking on the lead role of Kai Anderson in Ahs: Cult and how he felt about that shocking season finale.

Over the course of seven seasons, Peters has been cast in a number of villainous roles, like Tate Langdon in Murder House, Jimmy Darling in Freak Show and James March in Hotel. But none have come close to Kai, whom Peters says was probably his favorite character he's portrayed in FX's anthology series thus far.

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"Kai has been a really challenging role, the hardest role that I had to do, so in that respect...

Mubi is partnering with the New York Film Festival to present highlights from Projections, a festival program of film and video work that expands upon our notions of what the moving image can do and be. Jesse McLean's Wherever You Go, There We Are (2017) is playing October 18 - November 17, 2017 in most countries around the world.Jesse McLean works with dog barks and Céline Dion karaoke and Heidi clips and spam emails that solicit you for sex. She’s been making videos that appropriate media (usually pop culture, but recently Internet culture) to create moods and stories since 2008. Her work usually contains a friction of pleasant anecdotes and nostalgic media combined with the most anxious techniques of experimental film history. This means that watching a Jesse McLean film can often be a bit like watching a pop culture artifact run through several YouTube commentaries and projected from a Lovecraftian dimension.

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Cult is shaping up to be the best season of American Horror Story since the first. Spoilers ahead in our episode 7 review...

This review contains spoilers.

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7.7 Valerie Solanas Died For Your Sins: Scumbag

Going by the reaction of the Internet, hundreds of people were injured when Lena Dunham was announced as joining the cast of American Horror Story: Cult. Most of these injuries were caused by violent, forceful rolling of the eyes. I was one of the eye-rollers. I watched Dunham's show Girls for several seasons, only to fall away from it when the self-indulgence got to be a bit too much for me. Dunham, never afraid of being controversial, has brought a lot of backlash onto herself. She makes deliberately provocative statements and shocking admissions in public, tends to...

Tuesday’s American Horror Story: Cult began, just as last week’s ended, with a woman at her wit’s end brandishing a firearm — only this time, it wasn’t Ally.

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No, this week’s episode took viewers back to June 1968 for the true-crime tale of Valerie Solanas (played by Lena Dunham), an aspiring writer who was sick and tired of being taken advantage of by one Andy Warhol (Evan Peters). “You had too much control over my life,” she told him as he recoiled from her first misfire. “Down with the patriarchy!

Evan Peters has officially added Andy Warhol to the list of cult leaders he's playing in American Horror Story. Ryan Murphy shared the first photo of this new look, and Peters look so similar to Warhol that its almost eery.

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Ryan Murphy confirmed today what’s been out there on Reddit: That Lena Dunham will play Valerie Solanas, the woman who attempted to assassinate Andy Warhol, on American Horror Story: Cult. And Evan Peters will be portraying various cult leaders who people began to follow in disenfranchised times: a local Michigan suburban leader, Charles Manson, David Koresh, Jim Jones and Warhol. In a Fox lot Q&A for Season 7 with FX CEO John Landgraf, Murphy said, “We examine how these…...

Coming off the heels of the Cannes premiere of his new film Wonderstruck, which will be shown as the Centerpiece selection of this year’s New York Film Festival, Todd Haynes has announced that his next project will be a documentary on the legendary rock band The Velvet Underground. As reported on by Variety, Haynes, for which this will be his first documentary, is seeking to create a visual experience that will “rely certainly on [Andy] Warhol films but also a rich culture of experimental film, a vernacular we have lost and we don’t have, [and that] we increasingly get further removed from,” in addition to interviews with the surviving members of the band and other contemporaries.

In addition, the article mentions an Amazon limited TV series that the director is developing which is said to be about a currently unidentified, immensely influential and radical public figure.

Haynes, who is in Locarno...

What is Art Now? Skyler’s Personal Take on Warhol is Both Sincere & Insightful

Though the merits of pop artist Andy Warhol are still debated to this day, Lisanne Skyler (Getting to Know You, 1999) tells a different story of the maverick that manages to be surprisingly whimsy throughout.

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In 1966, as the underground film wave was sweeping the country, a Boston off-shoot of New York City’s Film-Makers’ Cinematheque opened at a performance space at 53 Berkeley Street. Underground films were shown on weeknights, while on the weekends the space transformed into a music venue called The Boston Tea Party.

The Cinematheque and the Tea Party were founded and run by a controversial figure named Mel Lyman, a harmonica player and the leader of a hippie commune in Boston’s Fort Hill neighborhood. Lyman has also been considered a cult leader on par with Charles Manson, except Lyman’s followers never actually murdered anyone. According to the book Apocalypse Culture, Lyman claimed to be an extraterrestrial and was seemingly obsessed with “ruling” the country’s underground culture.

Whatever Lyman’s background, the Cinematheque showed some cool films, according to the actual flyers from that time period below. Click each poster...

If you’ve got it, flaunt it -- then post it on Twitter!

Jessica Simpson took to social media on Monday to share a pic with her husband, Eric Johnson, and the singer was sporting a revealing crop top.

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The colorful, plunging outfit gave a glimpse at the 37-year-old singer’s amazing bikini body and perky cleavage.

“Warhol Swagger for #Jaggersnow,” Simpson captioned the photo.

Simpson rocked the outfit for her niece, Jagger’s Andy Warhol-themed second birthday bash on Sunday.

The epic party featured spray-painted pineapples, banana decorations and vinyl art activities, and Simpson had a blast making funny videos for Snapchat with the fruit.

Watch: Ashlee Simpson’s Daughter Jagger Marks Second Birthday with Vinyl Art

Earlier this year, the mom of two invited Et into her Waco, Texas, home where she got candid about her body, crediting a “push...

Music’s biggest stars have nothing on little Jagger Snow Ross’ latest birthday bash!

The adorable daughter of Ashlee Simpson and Evan Ross marked her second birthday on Sunday, and true to her musician parents, the little girl had the coolest party activities -- like decorating vinyl CDs!

“So much fun making painting vinyl CDs with @partylayne,” Simpson captioned a photo of the pair showing off their artwork on Instagram.

Watch: Evan Ross Shares Sweet Photo of Daughter Jagger Dressed as a Reindeer

Jagger was center-stage at her Andy Warhol-themed bash, holding her hands in the air while guests sang her “Happy Birthday,” then joining in when everyone clapped for her at the end of the song -- much to the amusement of half-brother Bronx.

Her Mickey Mouse cake was adorned with a Warhol-style can of soup, reading “Jagger’s Tomato Soup,” with two star-shaped candles on top.

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It was a birthday party fit for a rock star in the making! In honor of her 2nd birthday, Ashlee Simpson and Evan Ross' only daughter Jagger Snow Ross rang in her special day in style befitting of her namesake. Along with famous aunts Tracee Ellis Ross and Jessica Simpson, the little lady and her posse spent the afternoon outside decorating vinyl CDs surrounded by hanging bananas.  As evidenced by the birthday girl's tomato soup can cake, her proud parents threw her an Andy Warhol-themed soirée. There was no shortage of color as even pineapples used as decorations were spray painted in pink, blue and yellow. Suffice it to say, Warhol would have been...

Andy Warhol by Marie Menken. Competed 1965.

Marie Menken made several films inspired by and starring artists she knew, such as Visual Variations on Noguchi (1945) and Arabesque for Kenneth Anger (1961). According to Warhol’s memoir Popism: The Warhol Sixties (written with Pat Hackett), in 1963 Warhol was brought by his friend Charles Henri Ford to a party hosted by Menken and her husband Willard Maas at the couple’s apartment in Brooklyn Heights. Warhol and Menken hit it off immediately and he would go on to cast her as an actress in his films, such as Chelsea Girls and The Life of Juanita Castro.

Close to the same time, Warhol was also introduced to Gerard Malanga, who would become Warhol’s main art assistant throughout the ’60s and who is featured prominently in this short film. In Popism, Warhol describes Menken and Maas as “sort of godparents” to Malanga.

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Lynn Castle Rose Colored Corner Light (Light In The Attic)

Coming across visually as a prototype Nancy Sinatra about to enter The Valley Of The Dolls, Lynn Castle in the 1960s was an entrancing and beguiling entity. Her debut album finally appears a few years shy of her turning eighty, and it is a tremendous affair, an index of splendid and unrealized possibilities, as stark as it is haunting. 

Vocally she sounds like a female Leonard Cohen who's been listening to too much Nina Simone, whose smoke-laced croak she frequently echoes. Her look though uber-girlie doesn't match her sound, and simply serves to enhance the appeal of her beauty and big, big hair. Think Warhol's Candy Darling doing an arch Barbie doll look and you are nearly there. Add Jackie O shades and you have quite simply arrived. Her sole single 'The Lady Barber' is a wonderful piece of...

“In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes,” Andy Warhol famously said, but the legendary artist probably didn’t expect that such a sentiment would apply to his own screen tests, which have endured over the decades as a curious, intimate look at the inner workings of his creative process.

Filmed during the ’60s-era heyday of his Warhol Factory, the black and white screen tests feature a slew of Warhol regulars — from Ondine to Edie Sedgwick, Lou Reed to Bob Dylan — and other famous faces of the day, all lensed on Warhol’s own Bolex camera. Nearly 500 of the screen tests were filmed, though Warhol did not use or exhibit all of them. Favorites were arranged into various compilations that were then screened by Warhol for assorted audiences, though they’ve continued to inspire and delight fans for decades past their original filming.

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Dig if you will the picture, of a lawsuit filed over Andy Warhol’s portraits of deceased music legend Prince. The Andy Warhol Foundation has filed suit against photographer Lynn Goldsmith, after Goldsmith allegedly claimed that Warhol’s 1984 portrait of the since-deceased “1999” musician infringed on her photograph. The suit, filed in federal court in New York on Friday, says that Warhol “used his signature style of celebrity portraiture” to create a series of Prince portraits, which “drew inspiration from and transformed” a publicity photo of Prince. Also Read: Sinead O'Connor Apologizes to Arsenio Hall For Accusing Him of Giving Prince Drugs More than.

We chat with the show’s production designer about everything from ‘The Leftovers’ to Andy Warhol.

Brian Yorkey’s 13 Reasons Why begins in a high school hallway but doesn’t stay there. Its branches can be felt in every inch of the Northern California suburban town. Adapting Jay Asher’s bestselling Thirteen Reasons Why into a 13-episode series that Netflix dropped last weekend, the series explores the world surrounding Hannah, a teenager (Katherine Langford) who kills herself, and Clay (Dylan Minnette), a friend whose relationship to the deceased is among the show’s central ambiguities.

To some, framing what feels like a Twin Peaks-esque murder-mystery around an issue like suicide comes off as dangerous. Hank Stuever, of the Washington Post, called it “an especially cruel experience.” But suicide, the third leading cause of death for young people aged 15 to 24, has long been a fixture in teen literature, from Sharon Draper’s award-winner Tears of a Tiger...

Multiple Maniacs

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1970 / Black and White /96 Min. / 1:66 / Street Date March 21, 2017

Starring: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce and Mink Stole.

Cinematography: John Waters

Film Editor: John Waters

Written by John Waters

Produced by John Waters

Directed by John Waters

Andy Warhol was nothing if not a multi-media maven. Along with his ubiquitous silkscreens and sculpture, he embraced movie-making beginning as early as 1963 with such literal-minded efforts as Haircut (a haircut) and Taylor Mead’s Ass (one hour of exactly what you think) and pretty much closed shop with 1968’s Lonesome Cowboys, a 109 minute western satire that, of all his films, came closest to approximating a traditional tinseltown production.

Essentially Warhol was parodying the Hollywood studio system, rounding up his acolytes and hangers-on, from supermodels to pushers, and casting them as regular performers in a series of deadpan documentaries. Meanwhile in the wilds of Baltimore, Warhol fan John Waters...

Jared Leto is getting in touch with his inner Andy Warhol.

The Oscar-winning actor stopped by Revolver Gallery on Monday afternoon for a private tour of the exhibit Andy Warhol: Revisited in Santa Monica. According to a source, Revolver Gallery owner Ron Rivlin led Leto around the space, speaking at length with him about the iconic artist, a conversation held against the backdrop of Warhol's original works.

Revolver Gallery — located in gallery-filled Bergamot Station in Santa Monica — bills itself as "home to the largest gallery-owned collections of Andy Warhol works in the world." Currently, there are more than 200...

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It’s the summer of 1976, and in small-town Nova Scotia Kit (Dylan Authors) is looking to run away from home with his girlfriend Alice (Julia Sarah Stone) in order to reunite with his estranged mother Laurie (Molly Parker). The pair are led, in a fashion, by Andy Warhol (Rhys Bevan-John), an idol of Kit’s who occasionally manifests as his self-appointed spirit guide. At first Kit struggles to articulate his reasons for leaving, though it’s clear that it has something to do with his father Dave (Allan Hawco). However with time and distance he begins to understand his heart’s true desire, and unlike Alice it isn’t to finally consummate their relationship.

Shot in black and white, Weirdos is already pretty unusual even before it introduces an imaginary Andy Warhol — or Not Andy Warhol, as he is later credited after suggesting that he might actually...

Ring Twice for Miranda

Stage II at New York City Center Through April 16, 2017

During Ring Twice for Miranda, while witnessing the frequent long and drawn-out arguments scenes that pepper this play’s landscape, I was reminded of Andy Warhol’s Chelsea Girls. What kept your attention during that film’s interminable arguments among Warhol’s characters was hope of some kind of satisfying resolution. Playwright Alan Hruska is by trade a litigation lawyer, so he knows how to argue. Unfortunately his characters do not share his real life expertise. I kept saying to myself “come on, get on with it!” My impatience had me physically squirming much as I did when, eons ago, I first viewed Chelsea Girls! In addition, specters of the post-apocalyptic Spike Milligan/Richard Lester film collaboration The Bed Sitting Room floated about me. Absent from Miranda’s world was the clear social satire and whimsy which sustained Mr.

Fifteen-year-old Kit, the neat-as-a-pin runaway at the center of the affectionately titled Weirdos, hits the road carrying a suitcase whose contents include Andy Warhol’s autobiography and a blow dryer. As with most movie road trips, his journey through eastern Canada is occasion for self-discovery, and Kit has some crucial learning to do. He also has two insightful guides along the way: the Warhol look-alike “spirit animal” who appears to him from time to time, and his sensible girlfriend, who’s guardedly hopeful that she can entice him to consummate their relationship, fall in love with her and scrap his plans to...

Andy Warhol spent his career bucking against traditional notions of what can be considered art, and there were few pieces in his oeuvre more iconic than the infamous Brillo box. The simple replica of the detergent container caused shockwaves across the ’60s art scene, and the upcoming HBO documentary “Brillo Box (3ȼ Off)” dives into the history of the piece from a distinctly personal perspective.

Directed by Lisanne Skyler, ‘Brillo Box’ chronicles her family’s connection to Warhol’s work (the filmmaker is pictured above as a baby with the box), with her father one of the few who saw something in the artist’s Brillo box and picked one up for $1,000 in 1969.

Continue reading Exclusive: Discover The Story Of Andy Warhol’s Anti-Art In Trailer For HBO Documentary ‘Brillo Box (3ȼ Off)’ at The Playlist.

He managed the Ramones, helped launch the Doors, and hung around with Warhol. A new documentary puts the man behind the scenes front stage

In his diary, Andy Warhol wrote that he would love to film Danny Fields’ life story. The artist died six weeks later, but now Fields’s life has finally arrived the screen in a new documentary called, Danny Says.

Related: Ramones: 'They were outcasts who had contempt for those who rejected them'

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Warhol: Jared Leto (Suicide Squad) is set to star in Warhol, a biographical drama about iconic artist Andy Warhol. Terence Winter (The Wolf of Wall Street) will write the screenplay, based in part on Warhol: A Biography by Victor Bockris. Warhol's long career soared in the 1960s; he died in 1987. Leto will produce the project with Michael DeLuca (Captain Phillips and many others). [Variety]   The Escape: Clive Owen will reprise his role as an expert driver in a new TV spot for BMW. It's described as an homage to the first eight themed spots in which he was featured, broadcast from 2001 to 2002, which were directed by the likes of Ang Lee, Joe Carnahan and John Woo. Dubbed The Escape, the new 11-minute spot was directed by Neill Blomkamp (Chappie); Dakota...

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Singer-turned-actor Jared Leto has signed on to play Andy Warhol in a biopic he is producing. Leto To Play Andy Warhol In Biopic Warhol The film will be based off of Victor Bockris‘s biography of the artist, Warhol: The Biography, which was released in 1989, two years after the artist’s death. Leto and Michael De Luca, who produced such films as The […]

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Warhol: Jared Leto (Suicide Squad) is set to star in Warhol, a biographical drama about iconic artist Andy Warhol. Terence Winter (The Wolf of Wall Street) will write the screenplay, based in part on Warhol: A Biography by Victor Bockris. Warhol's long career soared in the 1960s; he died in 1987. Leto will produce the project with Michael DeLuca (Captain Phillips and many others). [Variety]   The Escape: Clive Owen will reprise his role as an expert driver in a new TV spot...

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Jared Leto has signed on to portray Andy Warhol in a biopic – titled Warhol – that the actor will also produce. Screenwriter Terence Winter, who has worked on the Sopranos, The Wolf of Wall Street and Vinyl, will write the script and co-produce.

The movie's source material is author Victor Bockris' account of the pop artist's life, Warhol: The Biography, which came out two years after the artist's 1987 death. The Hollywood Reporter describes that book as the "jumping-off point" for the film and says that Leto and fellow producer...

Jared Leto is set to take on another iconic character, but this time, unlike The Joker, it is someone from the real world. The Oscar winner is set to play famed artist Andy Warhol in a biopic, which he is also going to produce. Oscar-nominated producer Michael De Luca is attached to produce the movie alongside Jared Leto.

The Hollywood Reporter broke the news about the movie, which will simply be called Warhol. While Jared Leto playing Andy Warhol on its own is enough to make almost any movie fan interested, the project has also scooped up Boardwalk Empire creator Terence Winter to pen the screenplay for the movie. He will be using Victor Bockris' 1989 book, Warhol: The Biography, as a starting point. Winter also wrote the screenplay for The Wolf of Wall Street, if you needed some more convincing that this project has some serious potential.

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After a disappointingly small amount of screen time in a supporting role as the Joker in Suicide Squad, Jared Leto is returning to leading man status. THR reports that the Oscar winner will portray pop artist Andy Warhol in a new biopic called Warhol, which is being written by The Wolf of Wall Street scribe Terence Winter and produced by Michael De Luca (The Social Network, Captain Phillips).

Warhol was a fascinating figure, a vibrant artist in multiple fields, and a figurehead of the New York City art world in the 1960s. He was also openly gay in a time when that wasn't nearly as culturally accepted as it is now. Recently, Bill Hader played Warhol in Men in Black 3, and Cary Elwes is playing him in the upcoming Billionaire Boys Club. John Cameron Mitchell also played the artist in HBO's short-lived series Vinyl, a series for which Winter was the showrunner.

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Cinema's latest The Joker is taking on the life of Andy Warhol for his next project...

Fresh of his surprisingly limited screentime playing The Joker in this summer’s Suicide Squad, Jared Leto is getting right back into the soup, Campbell’s Soup that is. Leto, who won an Oscar for 2013’s Dallas Buyers Club, has signed on to play Andy Warhol in a new film called Warhol.

The film will be based on author Victor Bockris's 1989 book Warhol: The Biography. The screenplay will be written by The Wolf Of Wall Street screenwriter and Boardwalk Empire and Vinyl creator Terence Winter.

Leto will co-produce Warhol with Winter and Michael De Luca, who produced Oscar-winning and -nominated films like The Social Network and Captain Phillips.

Andy Warhol was, of course, an art provocateur. He took New York City’s art world and club scene by storm throughout the 1960s.

Here’s betting the next time we all see Jared Leto, he’ll be wearing a grey wig and sunglasses trying to convince someone to make a screen test: The actor has signed on to play Andy Warhol in a new film that he’ll also produce, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The biopic, which is not-very-creatively titled Warhol, is set to be written by The Wolf Of Wall Street’s Terence Winter, fresh off Vinyl, which means we’re guaranteed extended sequences of people doing drugs. Winter is basing the screenplay off of Victor Bockris’ book Warhol: The Biography.

Leto spent the last year trying to convince everyone how hardcore he went as the Joker in Suicide Squad only to see the movie get savaged by critics and most of his scenes cut. Presumably going Method to play Warhol won’t require a live rat, but here’s...

Jared Leto will star as Andy Warhol in an upcoming biopic titled “Warhol,” TheWrap has learned. Leto will also produce alongside Michael De Luca, whose credits include “The Social Network” and “Captain Phillips.” Terence Winter, who wrote “The Wolf of Wall Street,” will write the screenplay based on the 1989 book “Warhol: The Biography” by Victor Bockris. Leto and De Luca acquired the rights to the book together. There is no director attached to the project as yet. Also Read: Jared Leto Joins 'Blade Runner' Sequel Warhol rose to fame in the art world in the 1960s as a pioneer of pop art,...

Jared Leto isn’t the most prolific of actors, but his roles have become increasingly high-profile since he won an Oscar for his performance in “Dallas Buyers Club.” After playing the Joker in “Suicide Squad” and lining up a part in Denis Villeneuve’s upcoming “Blade Runner” sequel, Leto has found his next part: Andy Warhol.

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Leto will star in and co-produce a biopic about the pop artist, with a screenplay by Terence Winter (“The Sopranos,” “Boardwalk Empire,” “The Wolf of Wall Street”). Michael De Luca is also onboard as a producer of the project, which will be based in part on Victor Bockris’ “Warhol: The Biography.” De Luca’s previous work includes several other biopics focusing on well-known figures from very recent history: “The Social Network,” “Moneyball,” “Captain Phillips.”

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2016 had Jared Leto step into the oversized clown shoes of one of the most iconic villains in comic book history – not for the last time, but more on that later – however, artnet News brings word that the Oscar-winning actor has agreed terms to play the illustrious pop culture artist for an upcoming Andy Warhol biopic.

An adaptation of Victor Bockris’ book Warhol: The Biography – itself a 2003 reissue of his The Life and Death of Andy Warhol from ’89 – it’s understood Terrence Winter (Boardwalk Empire, The Wolf of Wall Street) is attached to write the script, with Leto himself producing alongside the prolific Michael De Luca, who is currently overseeing erotic sequel Fifty Shades Darker for Universal.

In terms of Andy Warhol, much like the Joker, Jared Leto is by no means the first actor to portray the legendary artist on the big screen, with today’s news confirming that...

Jared Leto is set to play the title character in the biopic Warhol, about famed pop artist Andy Warhol. Leto is also producing along with Michael De Luca (The Social Network). The Wolf Of Wall Street scribe Terence Winter will pen the script using Victor Bockris' 1989 book Warhol: The Biography as a reference. Leto took home the Oscar in 2014 for Dallas Buyers Club and plays the Joker in Warner Bros’ Suicide Squad. He also just joined the cast in the Blade Runner…...

Jared Leto, Michael De Luca and Terence Winter are teaming to tackle the life of Andy Warhol, the famed pop art artist whose blend of art and commerce made him a household name. Leto will portray the artist in the biopic, titled Warhol, as well as produce it, along with De Luca, the producer whose credits include such Oscar-winning and -nominated true-life tales as The Social Network and Captain Phillips. Winter, the Boardwalk Empire creator who wrote The Wolf of Wall Street, will pen the screenplay, using the Victor Bockris 1989 book, Warhol: The Biography, as a jumping-

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Weirdos, the latest film from the quintessentially Canadian auteur Bruce McDonald, is on its face just another road trip comedy with the spirit of Andy Warhol, but this time Warhol actually appears on screen — although for legal reasons, per the credits, Rhys Bevan-John plays “Not Andy Warhol.” It’s the summer of 1976 in Nova Scotia when Kit (Dylan Authors) takes out on the road with his radiant pal Alice (Julia Sarah Stone). She’s as confused as he is when she asks if they’ll be having “goodbye sex,” something they’ve been putting off for an obvious reason.

Kit and Alice bum rides, walk, and hitchhike from Antigonish to the shore where Kit hopes to escape his father’s unkind words at home and move in with his mother Laura (Molly Parker), a hippy who regrets she ever moved out of Toronto. She’s presumably more open-minded than his...

Phil Strongman uses archive interview footage to place McLaren and punk in the tradition of anarchism, situationalism and pop art

There’s something appropriately anarchic about Phil Strongman’s scrappy but nonetheless watchable documentary tribute to Malcolm McLaren, the uncategorisable flaneur, entrepreneur, poseur, artist-manqué and mischief-maker who died in 2010, having invented the Sex Pistols. This film looks a bit patchy, occasionally the audio quality isn’t of the highest and, despite the title, there is hardly anything about Vivienne Westwood. (Strongman uses what appears to be archive interview footage of McLaren.) Yet like Julien Temple and Greil Marcus, Strongman places McLaren and punk in the tradition of anarchism, situationism and pop art, with interesting supporting material and claims that McLaren always wanted to be the “British Andy Warhol”. A shrewd guess, and it could be true. Unfortunately, McLaren didn’t have Warhol’s stamina and his gift for flattering celebrities,...

NEWSWe wish we were at the Telluride and Venice film festivals, but since we're not that lucky, we've been voraciously following the buzz. To see what the critics are saying from the Telluride, which was last weekend, and Venice (on-going) check out David Hudson's round-ups at Keyframe. From the former, we're particularly excited about Barry Jenkins' Moonlight and Clint Eastwood's Sully, and from the latter, can't wait to see Uhlrich Seidl's Safari.Recommended VIEWINGSince we just wrapped our Kelly Reichardt retrospective on Mubi, we're feeling much need for her new film, Certain Woman. Starring Michelle Williams, Laura Dern, and Kristen Stewart, its first trailer is only getting us even more excited.We love Spanish filmmaker Víctor Erice. And we also love the video essays by Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin. Sight & Sound has made made the connection and presents Haunted Memories, exploring "the joy and regret...

Ext. New York – evening. A static shot of the Downtown Manhattan skyline, filmed from a Brooklyn rooftop. The Woolworth Building is silhouetted clearly among other less discernible structures, offices and apartment blocks. Thick plumes of smoke and dust shade much of the image on the left. To the right, bands of yellow light blend into the blue of the upper sky. As evening descends, the cityscape below is bathed in shadow first, giving a Magritte-like surrealness to this most surreal of American days: September 11, 2001. The title of the painter’s ‘Empire of Light’ might be applied here, with an additional descriptive: fading. Not only will the natural light ebb from the picture, shifting first through red hues and darker blues; the musical motif on the soundtrack, too, will slowly wear away to little more than a resonant drone. To describe this as the establishing shot of the twenty-first century might seem trite or insensitive.

"It's even weirder now than it ever was," John Waters says, reflecting on his newly restored, resplendently profane Multiple Maniacs. "When I was watching it again recently, I was thinking, 'No wonder my parents were uptight.' But I'm proud of it."

The Pope of Trash's 1970 feature stars his greatest muse, the raunchy drag queen Divine, as the ringleader of a homicidal sideshow called the Cavalcade of Perversion that sets up camp in — of course — Baltimore. Vulgarity ensues. The poster for the theatrical re-release, restored from film the director had kept in his closet,...

Editor’s note: On Friday, Kanye West premiered “Famous,” an extended music video for his single in which he portrayed a variety of recognizable faces sleeping in the nude. The 10-minute video has naturally sparked a mixture of outrage and confusion. Here, critics Eric Kohn and David Ehrlich attempt to figure out what the rapper is trying to say.

Eric Kohn: It may have commandeered the cultural dialogue within moments of its release, but Kanye West’s “Famous” video is about as intellectually basic as the celebrity-obsessed terrain it’s designed to deconstruct: Stars — they’re just like us! Whether it’s Chris Brown or Donald Trump, everybody snores. And yet West’s titillating provocation is fundamentally amusing precisely because it’s such a lark. Minutes drag by as grainy digital video of his sleeping subjects slowly reveals more and more participants, setting the stage for an epic zoom that...

Art Bastard offers a lively, colorful and entertaining look at rebel artist Robert Cenedella, a painter of undeniable artistic talent and integrity who has been out of step with the trends of the art world most of his career. But at a time when people are looking for authenticity, painter Robert Cenedella’s moment many have come.

Director Victor Kanefsky delivers a fun, playful documentary that puts a greater focus on Cenedella’s color-drenched, satiric art work than it does on his biography, offering just enough of the personal to put the artist’s work in proper context. The 76-year-old artist’s career has spanned from the post WWII Abstract Expressionist movement of Jackson Pollack and Mike Rothko, to the Pop Art movement and Andy Warhol, to the present, without fitting into the mainstream trends. Recapping Cenedella’s career gives the audience a little overview of two art movements of...

The documentary shorts presented at the Tribeca Film Festival included both human stories and New York’s past. The films delved into themes of chaos, survival, and a glimpse into a life of the city that forever evolves but a time past that cannot be forgotten. After the screening, the filmmakers joined in for a Q&A.

About the Film: "Joe's Violin"

A 91-year-old Holocaust survivor donates his violin to an instrument drive, changing the life of a 12-year-old schoolgirl from the Bronx and unexpectedly, his own.

About the Director: Kahane Cooperman is the director/producer of "Joe's Violin." She has also directed several other documentaries. She is currently the showrunner/executive producer of "The New Yorker Presents." Prior to that role, she was a co-executive producer of ‘The Daily Show’ with Jon Stewart. She began her career at Maysles Films.

Kahane Cooperman talks about "Joe’s Violin"

Cooperman began by introducing the two subjects of her film who were seated in the audience, the violin owner Joseph Feingold and Brianna.

“The way I got this idea was very simple. My car radio was on and I tuned on the classical radio station Wqxr and I heard a promo for their instrument drive; it said donate your instruments and the instruments are going to New York City school kids. They mentioned the donations they already had gotten and one of the instruments was Joseph’s violin. I just thought, 'I wonder if there's a story there with this violin and if the student who gets the violin will know the story.' I got in touch with the radio station and they allowed me the privilege of pursuing the story and this film is what unfolded. It was a very moving experience. I do love music but I don't play an instrument. I think music is incredibly powerful but I'm also moved by the idea of how a small gesture can make you dream and change someone’s life. Somehow the idea of this was very compelling to me and that it might play out in the context of this one instrument shared by two people who were born 80 years apart.

About the Film: "Mulberry"

This cinematic portrait of Little Italy explores how a working class neighborhood of tenement buildings transformed into the third most expensive zip code in the United States. Part funny, part sad, the film investigates how gentrification and rent control are affecting the neighborhood’s long-term residents.

About the Director: Paul Stone

Brooklynite Paul Stone started his directing career in the edit room at Ridley Scott & Associates. In "Tales of Time Square," Paul recreated 1980’s Time Square. The footage was often mistaken for stock and went on to be screened at over 50 festivals in the U.S. and abroad. His previous short ‘Man Under’ (Tff 2015) explored the rise in NYC subway suicides.

Paul Stone talks about "Mulberry"

“I saw my neighborhood disappearing, changing. I have no problem with gentrification, but it’s gotten to a point of hyper gentrification. Little Italy in New York is known for its soul and its people, and it was rapidly disappearing. I wanted to tell the story about who inspired me in terms of my friends and that Little Italy is still alive and well, and that there are still a lot of characters left.

About the Film: "Starring Austin Pendleton"

Austin Pendleton is that quintessential character actor you might recognize. We follow Austin as he reflects on his life and craft, while his A-list peers discuss his vast influence, dogged determination, and what it means to be an original in today's celebrity-obsessed world.

About the Directors Gene Gallerano and David H. Holmes

David H. Holmes has studied and acted under the direction of Mr. Pendleton. His film and television credits include ‘Birdman’, ‘Law and Order’, ‘Girls’, ‘Mr. Robot’, and ‘The Following’. Gene Gallerano is the co-founder of The Neboya Collective, and has produced and starred in works including, Occupy’, ‘Texas’, ‘Fireworks’, and ‘The Talk Men’, which he also directed.

Holmes and Gallerano talk about "Starring Austin Pendleton"

The directors met ten years ago in an Off-Broadway show and studied with Austin Pendleton for about five years. They consider him a big mentor. “We look up to him a lot and we wanted to make sure in the end that we could look him in the eye. He was very happy we made the film. At the Tribeca Talks the other day it was the first time Austin saw it. Someone asked him if he had any input into the film and he said no because then you start manipulating it and controlling it; particularly his stutter, he said I would have told them ‘cut that’.” He wasn’t preventing us from making art.”

About the Film: "Taylor and Ultra on the 60s, The Factory and Being a Warhol Superstar"

Warhol superstar Ultra Violet (Isabelle Colin Dufresne) and Lower East Side icon Taylor Mead (poet/actor/artist) share their stories of Manhattan in the 1960s.

About the Director: Brian Bayerl

Brian Bayerl's documentary work includes ‘8: The Mormon Proposition’ (Sundance 2010), and ‘For Once in My Life’ (SXSW Audience Award Winner 2010). This is his third collaboration with producer Michael Huter, including ‘Datuna: Portrait of America’ (London's Raindance Winner 2015) and Full Circle.

Brian Bayerl talks about "Taylor and Ultra on the 60s, The Factory and Being a Warhol Superstar"

“Our producer came across photographs of Robert Indiana, Andy Warhol, Taylor Mead and Ultra Violet and a lot of other figures of the sixties Pop Art. When documenting those photographs we met Taylor Mead and Ultra Violet and instantly fell in love with them; they were just so captivating and charismatic and fun that over the next four years we had opportunities to interview them and gather footage. When we lost both of them, we were approached by the Warhol Museum about putting something together and that's exactly what we wanted to do. We put this film together as an homage to both of them.”

About the film "Dead Ringer"

There are only four outdoor phone booths left in all of New York City—this is a late night conversation with one of them.

About the Directors: Alex Kliment, Dana O’Keefe, and Michael Tucker

Alex Kliment is a filmmaker and musician from New York. He is also a talking head. Dana O'Keefe is a filmmaker based in New York and Stockholm. Michael Tucker is a documentary filmmaker who lives in upstate New York.

Alex Kliment, Dana O’Keefe, and Michael Tucker talk about "Dead Ringer"

“Our film started with learning about the statistic that there were only four outdoor telephone booths left in New York City. The city's replacing them with Wi-Fi hotspots, We thought, ‘What's a fun way to dramatize the changing urban landscape that also reflects a lot of other changes of the human landscape and how we relate to each other. We thought about how to impersonate and put ourselves in the mind of a pay phone. This film was an opportunity to visit with very tragic heroes of our sidewalk -- the payphones of New York City.”

Award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker, Susan Kouguell teaches screenwriting at Purchase College Suny, and presents international seminars on screenwriting and film. Author of Savvy Characters Sell Screenplays! and The Savvy Screenwriter, she is chairperson of Su-City Pictures East, LLC, a consulting company founded in 1990 where she works with writers, filmmakers, and executives worldwide. www.su-city-pictures.com, http://su-city-pictures.com/wpblog...

Gotham-based indie film distribution company Cavu Pictures will release the award-winning documentary feature film "Art Bastard" in theatres nationwide, beginning May 20th, 2016 in NYC at the Angelika Film Center and Lincoln Plaza Cinemas; June 3rd in La at the Laemmle Monica Film Center & Edwards University Town Center 6 in Irvine, CA and June 10th at the Angelika Pop-Up in Washington, D.C. The film will then roll out nationwide throughout the summer.

The distributor describes the film as follows: "'Art Bastard' is the mischievous tale of a rebel who never fit into today’s art world… yet has become one of its most provocative, rabble-rousing characters nevertheless. By turns funny and touching, this portrait of New York painter Robert Cenedella – a contemporary of Andy Warhol who set himself up in the ‘60s as the anti-Warhol – uncovers a fascinating story of family secrets vs. personal identity, art vs. money, and conventional success vs. creating a life on one’s own defiant terms. A quintessential New York story, Art Bastard is as energetic, humorous and unapologetically honest as the uncompromising artist at its center. What the film shows, in stunning cinematic detail, are the living, breathing, storytelling canvases that Cenedella has created for six decades. Set to a rollicking soundtrack, the film not only tours Cenedella’s life, it also tours his eye-poppingly intricate, NY-centered paintings as one might travel the city – peering into every corner to uncover Cenedella’s characters, commentary and emotions. The result is a visceral art documentary that also has the sweeping impact of a feature film –at once an investigation of a man’s identity, an inquiry into what art is and who it’s for, and a feisty portrait of the ups and downs of a life lived on one’s own terms."

Executive produced by Chris T. Concannon, the film is directed by Victor Kanefsky. The artist profiled in the film, Robert Cenedella teaches a much sought after class at the famous Art Students League in NYC, where as a student he studied under the late German satirical painter George Grosz who had a huge influence on his life. "Art Bastard" has been on the film festival circuit these last few months (including the Santa Fe Film Festival, Orlando Film Festival, Big Apple Film Festival, etc.) and will be screening at the Newport Beach Film Festival next month. The film recently received the Best Documentary award at the Manchester Film Festival in the UK, and the Best Documentary Film & Best Director awards at the Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema in Idyllwild, CA. Beginning April 1st, select paintings of Cenedella featured in the film, including his famous mural that hangs at NYC’s popular Le Cirque New York restaurant, will be on public display in the café and lobby of the Angelika Film Center in NYC, in celebration of the film and the artist.

Check out the film's official poster below:

Cavu Pictures executives Isil Bagdadi & Michael Sergio negotiated the deal directly with the film’s executive producer Chris T. Concannon of Concannon Productions, the film’s production company. Cavu’s Co-Founder & President of Distribution, Isil Bagdadi said: “'Art Bastard' is incredibly timely, given that once again we are in the season of revolution - which always provides a fertile canvas for a lifetime rebel and artist like Robert Cenedella who after years of being rejected by the art establishment, continues to take great joy in poking holes in their self-righteous balloons with the point of his art.” Cavu’s Co-Founder & CEO, Michael Sergio said: “It’s a thrill to find an incredible doc like Art Bastard that so clearly shows an artist’s struggle played out against the decayed yet colorful backdrop of NYC in the 60’s, 70’s & 80’s.”...

Andy Warhol was certainly right about everyone being famous in the future. But if you'd have asked him to speculate on the future of New York's real estate value, he might not have been as prescient. The first studio Warhol ever occupied in New York - a 5,000-square-foot firehouse on E. 87th street in Manhattan - is now up for sale by Cushman & Wakefield. The price? $10 million. (By way of additional inflation reference, the literal paper lease for the space, signed by Warhol, sold at Sotheby's in 2013 for $13,750.) Leased in 1962 and the first studio Warhol rented outside of his apartment,...

Gotham-based indie film distribution company Cavu Pictures will release the award-winning documentary feature film Art Bastard in theatres nationwide, beginning May 20th, 2016 in NYC at the Angelika Film Center and Lincoln Plaza Cinemas; June 3rd in La at the Laemmle Monica Film Center & Edwards University Town Center 6 in Irvine, CA and June 10th at the Angelika Pop-Up in Washington, D.C. The film will then roll out nationwide throughout the summer.

Art Bastard is the mischievous tale of a rebel who never fit into today’s art world… yet has become one of its most provocative, rabble-rousing characters nevertheless. By turns funny and touching, this portrait of New York painter Robert Cenedella – a contemporary of Andy Warhol who set himself up in the ‘60s as the anti-Warhol – uncovers a fascinating story of family secrets vs. personal identity, art vs. money, and conventional success vs. creating a life on one’s own defiant terms.

The Performer | Olivia Wilde

The Show | Vinyl

The Episode | “Whispered Secrets” (February 28, 2016)

The Performance | Olivia Wilde may not have had an abundance of screen time in Episode 3 of HBO’s ’70s-set drama, but what she lacked in minutes, she more than made up for in raw emotion.

The actress subtly hinted at years of repressed fury after learning her relapsed-addict husband Richie (Bobby Cannavale) had purposely tanked a deal to sell his struggling record label — and was now unwilling to donate $10,000 to the ballet company she’d gotten to start as a consolation prize for leaving behind her life...

She was one of the most beautiful and glamorous women of all time but to Firooz Zahedi, his friend Elizabeth Taylor was just "low-key" Elizabeth, a "hippie," humanitarian - and hitchhiker. Zahedi explores the legend's off-screen life in his intimate new photographic memoir, My Elizabeth, which contains many never-before-published pictures and fascinating glimpses into the woman behind the movie marquees, multiple husbands and precious jewels. Among the anecdotes is the story of a 1976 summer day when Taylor was visiting Andy Warhol's Montauk, New York, beach house and decided to hitch a ride into town. "Let's hitchhike!" she suggested to Zahedi.