POP GOES THE LOFT! THE FILMS OF ANDY WARHOL / "VINYL" and "COUCH"

POP GOES THE LOFT! VINYL and COUCH
Thursday, March 18th at 8:00 p.m.
Admission: $10.00 general; $8.00 Loft members and Tucson Museum of Art members
*All films screened in glorious 16mm!*

POP GOES THE LOFT as we celebrate the cinematic legacy of the one-and-only ANDY WARHOL with a month-long tribute featuring some of the Pop Master's greatest, wildest and most influential films. EVERY THURSDAY NIGHT IN MARCH we'll be showcasing different Warhol classics, so don't miss any of these ultra-rare screenings!
PLUS! Bring a can of Campbell's Soup to any of our four Warhol nights in March (all soup collected will be donated to The Tucson Community Food Bank), and you'll be entered into our POP RAFFLE for a great Warhol-inspired prize package, to be awarded at the final screening on March 25th (you need not be present to win).

VINYL / 1965 / 66 mins. / sound and b&w
This far out adaptation of Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange (filmed several years before Stanley Kubrick's version) stars Warhol protégé and poet Gerard Malanga in the role of the young hoodlum, Alex (here, Victor). Malanga enthusiastically performs his infamous “whip dance” before his arrest and subsequent deprogramming, with the results here given a decidedly kinky S&M twist. Featuring a silently compelling Edie Sedgwick in her first significant Warhol role. Warhol incorporated VINYL into his multimedia extravaganza, “The Exploding Plastic Inevitable," which also included live music by the Velvet Underground.

COUCH / 1964 / 52 mins. / silent and b&w
The red couch at Andy Warhol’s Factory was as famous in its own right as any of his Superstars. In COUCH, visitors to the Factory were invited to “perform” on camera, seated on the old couch. Their many acts—both lascivious and mundane—are documented in a film that has come to be regarded as one of the most notorious of Warhol’s early works. Over the course of the film we encounter such compelling exhibitionists as poets Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, writer Jack Kerouac, perennial New York figure Taylor Mead, and Factory Superstars Gerard Malanga, Ondine and Baby Jane Holzer.

Don't miss the Warhol exhibit "Andy Warhol Portfolios: Life & Legends" at the Tucson Museum of Art, February 27, 2010 - July 3, 2010. Visit http://www.tucsonmuseumofart.org/ for more information.