Nico

I Shot Andy Warhol: SCUM Manifesto (2024)

New York, June 3, 1968. Valerie Solanas enters the Factory, Andy Warhol's studio, and fires three shots at him, who miraculously survives, but is seriously wounded. What led this woman to try to kill the famous pop artist, as well as to write a manifesto c ...

The Velvet Underground (2021)

Experience the iconic rock band's legacy in the first major documentary to tell their story. Directed with the era's avant-garde spirit by Todd Haynes, this kaleidoscopic oral history combines exclusive interviews with dazzling archival footage. ...

The Truth About La Dolce Vita (2020)

On October 20th, 1959, producer Giuseppe Amato is alone in a screening room, watching Federico Fellini's most famous movie. The working print is more than four-hour long. Fellini would not allow any cut, and distributor Angelo Rizzoli wants to drop the mov ...

Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau (2019)

A childhood in boarding school, volunteered at 17 for the war and dismissed for indiscipline, thug in Marseille turned gigolo in Paris, he became actor thanks to some inspired women. Then flying high, fast and far, thanks to his director masters René Clé ...

Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground (2018)

The 29-minute experimental film Christmas on Earth caused a sensation when it first screened in New York City in 1964. Its orgy scenes, double projections and overlapping images shattered artistic conventions and announced a powerful new voice in the city' ...

Gimme Danger (2016)

No other band in rock'n'roll history has rivaled The Stooges' combination of heavy primal throb, spiked psychedelia, blues-a-billy grind, complete with succinct angst-ridden lyrics, and a snarling, preening leopard of a frontman who somehow embodies Nijins ...

Sad Vacation: The Last Days of Sid and Nancy (2016)

The final days of Nancy Spungen and Sid Vicious are explored. ...

A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol (2015)

Stephen Smith sets out to discover the real Andy Warhol - in the hour-by-hour detail of his daily life. ...

Danny Says (2015)

DANNY SAYS is a documentary unveiling the amazing journey of Danny Fields. Fields has played a pivotal role in music and culture with seminal acts including: the Doors, the Velvet Underground, the Stooges, MC5, Nico, the Ramones and beyond. ...

Lou Reed - Remembered (2013)

Film tribute to Lou Reed, who died in October, which looks at the extraordinarily transgressive life and career of one of rock 'n' roll's true originals With the help of friends, fellow musicians, critics and those who have been inspired not only by his m ...

The Velvet Underground And Nico (2013)

Universal Music Group has gone back to the original master tapes to deliver fully uncompressed, high-resolution versions of many of your favorite albums on Blu-ray Pure Audio Disc. Mastered at 24bit/96kHz, Blu-ray Pure Audio Discs deliver the sound the art ...

Beautiful Darling (2010)

James Rasin's documentary "Beautiful Darling" honors American Transgender actress and best-known Warhol Superstar, Candy Darling, and her all-too-brief life and career, with a combination of current and vintage interview material, rarely seen archival phot ...

13 Most Beautiful… Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests (2009)

Between 1964 and 1966, Andy Warhol shot nearly 500 Screen Tests, beautiful and revealing portraits of hundreds of different individuals, from Warhol superstars and celebrities to friends or anyone he thought had "star potential". All visitors to his studio ...

La deuxième femme (2008)

Over the course of more than fifteen years, Clémenti films a series of intimate diaries, starting from daily encounters. In La deuxième femme, we see Bulle Ogier and Viva, Nico and Tina Aumont, Philippe Garrel and Udo Kier, a performance by Béjart, a p ...

Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory (2008)

Takes an in-depth look at the lives and times of the people who hung out with Andy Warhol and "worked" at the Silver Factory during the Sixties, making it all click as a new counter-culture arose and began to exert its influence throughout the arts. ...

65 Revisited (2007)

A collection of rare outtakes and performances from Pennebaker's 1965 documentary Don't Look Back. ...

Velvet Underground's First Public Appearance (2006)

Velvet Underground's first public appearance. ...

Velvet Underground: Under Review (2006)

Velvet Underground Under Review is a 75 minute film reviewing the music and career of one of rock musics most influential collectives; a band which esteemed music journalist Lester Bangs claims started modern music. It features rare musical performances ne ...

All Tomorrow's Parties: Nico Live (2006)

After fighting a hard-core drug habit for most of her life, Christa Päffgen aka Nico -- the striking European supermodel who sat in as an occasional lead singer with the Velvet Underground -- succumbed to a tragic death in 1988 at the age of 50, the resul ...

Vies et morts d'Andy Warhol (2005)

Icon of pop art, Andy Warhol has marked the 20th century. This film pays tribute to him with the exceptional participation of Ultraviolet, never-before-seen images of the "private" Warhol and archival documents from the Velvet Underground, Mick Jagger, Dav ...

Philippe Garrel - Portrait d'un artiste (1999)

Cited as "the best filmmaker of his generation" by directors ranging from Akerman to Benoît Jacquot, Philippe Garrel remains an alluring, somewhat enigmatic figure; this rare look at his world and his art was made right after the completion of his great " ...

John Cale: An Exploration of His Life & Music (1998)

Follows John Cale, a Welsh musician and producer, who founded the legendary 60s and 70s NY rock band - the Velvet Underground, with Lou Reed. Cale delved into other mainstream and experimental music genres as well. ...

Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart (1998)

An incredible retracing of the evolution of Reed's remarkable career over three decades. Filled with interviews with Reed, his friends and some of the major artists influenced by Reed including David Bowie, David Byrne, Patti Smith, Suzanne Vega, Dave Stew ...

Nico Icon (1995)

A look into the many lives of Christa Päffgen, otherwise known as Nico; from cutie German mädchen to the first of the supermodels, to glamorous diva of the Velvet Underground, to cult item, junkie and hag. Many faces for the same woman, whom, you realize ...

Curious: The Velvet Underground in Europe (1993)

Spotlights the Velvet Underground's 1993 reunion tour of Europe, interspersing footage of the band's Paris concert and interviews with the members of the group. Concerts in Prague and Berlin included. ...

Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol (1990)

Iconic American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol is the subject of this documentary, which looks at both his life and his influence on pop culture. The film provides details about Warhol's upbringing in Pittsburgh and follows his move to New York City, whe ...

Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections (1990)

Jonas Mekas's intimate diary film spans 1963 to 1990, capturing Andy Warhol alongside friends and collaborators from the New York avant-garde. Featuring figures such as Allen Ginsberg, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and George Maciunas—as well as rare footage of ...

Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties (1989)

Documentary on Andy Warhol's cinema of the sixties, made for Channel 4 in association with The Factory, MOMA and the Whitney Museum of Art and in collaboration with Simon Field. ...

Nico: In Memoriam (1989)

"Not a documentary but the the ruins of an attempted documentary." - Grashina Gabelmann Nico's solo concert in West Berlin 1986. She's high, giggly, not entirely there but her voice is still haunting and raspy and her presence still the one of a star. We ...

Ballhaus Barmbek - Let's Kiss and Say Goodbye (1988)

A study of the alienated people who frequent the Ballhaus Barmbek dance hall, including an obese El groupie, an old man reciting poetry, two young women and a regular dance employee. ...

nico - live in switzerland (1986)

nico and her band live at the dolce vita club, lausanne, switzerland on may 1 1986. ...

nico/philippe garrel - Arsenal (1986)

clips from nicos live perfomances, working with garrel ...

The South Bank Show: Velvet Underground (1986)

Season 9 episode 23 of The South Bank Show, highlighing the velvet underground ...

Nico: Live In Tokyo 1986 (1986)

LIVE AT SHIBUYA LIVE INN TOKYO, JAPAN 11.04. ...

Nico: An Underground Experience + Heroine (1982)

A live performance of Nico and Blue Orchids recorded at the Warehouse in Preston, UK, in 1982. ...

La vraie histoire de Gérard Lechômeur (1982)

Chelsea Hotel (1981)

This TV documentary shows some of the colourful residents of and people connected with the New York Chelsea Hotel. Some highlights include Andy Warhol and William Burroughs having dinner; Quentin Crisp pontificating in a blue rinse hairdo on his balcony an ...

nico - strange window (1980)

Nico live in milwaukee, 1980 ...

Nico performing Secret Side & Valley of the Kings (1979)

Haunting music there, from the album The End, from Nico ...

The Blue of the Origins (1979)

A survival, silent black & white film shot with a hand camera, a journey into Philippe Garrel's intimate family album featuring the two women who counted in his cinematographic life: Nico and Zouzou. ...

Nico (1978)

interview with nico ...

Journey to the Garden of the Dead (1978)

Love between Georges and Hypolyte has faded. George confides in Catherine that he is still obsessed with Hypolyte. He wishes that she was a virgin but since she is not, he wishes that she was dead. ...

Leonard Cohen: Under Review: 1934-1977 (1977)

Delve into the career of poet, author, composer and musician Leonard Cohen, who has been called one of the premiere folk singers of the 1960s and '70s. This documentary relies on rare concert footage, archival photos and interviews with music critics to he ...

The Crystal Cradle (1976)

An androgynous poet/dreamer sits and writes and meditates on the aching void that is her life. ...

Nico – Live at Théâtre Campagne-Première (1976)

An evening with harmonium & flute. Nico plays stripped down versions of "The Drama of Exile" tracks and some oldies at the Théâtre Campagne-Première, Paris on March 31st, 1978 backed by French flutist Didier Malherbe. ...

Nico Live in Marseille (1975)

Nico's 48'49" complete set live at Cinema Le Rond-Point Marseille on Saturday April 12. 1975 ; opening for John Cale Digitized from the master tape for the first time since it was recorded 1. Purple Lips 2. Secret Side 3. The End 4. Janitor of Lunacy ...

An Angel Passes (1975)

Nico is an ethereal poet haunting the gaps between scenes of Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Bulle Ogier, Laurent Terzieff, and Garrel's father, Maurice, discussing the filmmaker's staple topics: love, psychoanalysis, and the failures of May '68. ...

Les Hautes solitudes (1974)

Garrel convinced Jean Seberg, in the midst of a long struggle with mental illness, alcohol and drug, to "star" in this silent document of her daily life. Consisting mostly of meditative B&W close-ups of Seberg and her friends, as her torments and inner lif ...

Athanor (1972)

Athanor (Nico) is searching for fire. A flame is always at the foreground. Nico naked in tombs, looking at herself in circular mirrors, Nico in castles, keeper of the fire. Nico and Musky as medieval princesses. Athanor is a film about fire. ...

The Inner Scar (1972)

A composition of symbolic, surreal and almost mystic images. ...

The Velvet Underground at Bataclan '72 (1972)

Recorded on French TV, the concert marked the first time since the breakup of The Velvet Underground that Reed, Cale and Nico were on stage together. ...

Andy Warhol (1972)

With a rambling, unstructured style that echoes Andy Warhol's own approach to filmmaking, this documentary profiles his career, showing him to be a brilliant manipulator, dedicated voyeur and person of astute commercial judgment. ...

Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks (1970)

This compilation of Gerard Malanga's short films consists of a collection of extremely rare footage and film portraits providing candid and interesting glimpses of Bob Dylan, Salvador Dalí, Jane Fonda and The Velvet Underground among other 1960s icons and ...

Nico: Evening of Light (1969)

Shot as a proposed short film behind Iggy Pop's Ann Arbor, MI estate and summarily rejected by Elektra Records as promotional material for Nico's 1968 album, The Marble Index, Evening of Light is a gothic fantasy in a barren cornfield. Nico's song of the s ...

Positano (1969)

Positano is an island of the Amalfi Coast that Neptune would have, according to legend, created for the love of a nymph. Perched on the rocks of the island, the house of Frédéric Pardo and Tina Aumont became in 1968 a meeting place for the underground co ...

Monterey Pop (1968)

Featuring performances by popular artists of the 1960s, this concert film highlights the music of the 1967 California festival. Although not all musicians who performed at the Monterey Pop Festival are on film, some of the notable acts include the Mamas an ...

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1968)

Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas's first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s New York, interweaving moments with family, friends, lovers, and artistic idols. Blending everyday encounters with portraits of the avant-garde art scene, it ...

Four Stars (1967)

Photographed entirely in color, Four Stars was projected in its complete length of nearly 25 hours (allowing for projection overlap of the 35-minute reels) only once, at the Film-Makers' Cinematheque in New York City. The imagery in the film is dense, wear ...

Imitation of Christ (1967)

Warhol's Factory visits Los Angeles. ...

I, a Man (1967)

Morrissey and Warhol's commercial take on the Swedish film I, A Woman. Somebody suggested to Warhol that they wanted a sexploitation film in the vein of I, A Woman, and so he and Morrissey concocted I, A Man. They created the story of this male hustler who ...

Sunset (1967)

A rare, unfinished film by Andy Warhol, Sunset is a meditation on the temporality of an everyday phenomenon. Here, a sunset over the Pacific Ocean in California unfolds as a slow and colorful shift of atmospheric light at dusk. As the sun sinks to the hori ...

Exploding Plastic Inevitable (1967)

Exploding Plastic Inevitable was a series of multimedia events organised by Andy Warhol between 1966 and 1967, featuring musical performances by The Velvet Underground and Nico, screenings of Warhol's films, and dancing and performances by regulars of Warh ...

Sausalito (1967)

Scenes of Sausalito, California, including boats, the docks, and streets. Eventually, the setting turns to night and boats appear silhouetted against the sky. A woman speaks poetic phrases on the soundtrack; at intervals her face is seen. A band begins to ...

Jeanetta Cochrane (1967)

More consciously experimental than Whitehead's other works, this film draws on a variety of sources, including sequences of London shot while Whitehead was at the Slade School of Art, glimpses of the singer and model Nico, and footage of the psychedelic un ...

Nico (1967)

A color sound meditation on the erstwhile Warhol superstar. ...

Nico Music (1967)

"More than eighty reels of film made up Warhol's 1967 epic double-screen, twenty-five-hour film **** (FOUR STARS). Reel 20 – "Nico Music" – features the Velvet Underground's chanteuse Nico improvising and working on the song 'It Was a Pleasure Then' fr ...

Screen Test [ST245]: Nico (Hershey) (1966)

Nico, in a pseudo 'commercial', holds a large, partially unwrapped Hershey bar to her chin, with the labelling upside down; the camera remains stationary while she gazes morosely into the distance. ...

Paranoia (1966)

On the evening of November 8th, 1966, following the afternoon filming of The George Hamilton Story, a movie in which Warhol cast his mother Julia as an "aging peroxide movie star with a lot of husbands", – " We're trying to bring back old people." – he ...

Chelsea Girls (1966)

Lacking a formal narrative, Warhol's mammoth film follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in 1966 New York City. The film was intended to be screened via dual projector set-up. ...

Nico/Nico Crying (1966)

A portrait of the ultimate Chelsea Girl. Nico sits for over an hour while dazzling colored lights and psychedelic-patterned slides are projected onto her statuesque face. She breaks down in tears during the second reel, which made it into the final version ...

The Velvet Underground Tarot Cards (1966)

Documents each member of The Velvet Underground having their cards read at a big apartment party. The tarot reader is continually interrupted in her readings by the chaos created by the characters around her. ...

The Velvet Underground and Nico: A Symphony of Sound (1966)

The film depicts a rehearsal of The Velvet Underground including Nico, and is essentially one long loose improvisation. ...

The Velvet Underground: Psychiatrist's Convention, NYC, 1966 (1966)

The Velvet Underground's first public appearance, filmed in Super 8 at a Psychiatrist's Convention, at the Delmonico Hotel, New York, January 14, 1966. Andy Warhol was invited to speak at the annual banquet of the New York Society for Clinical Psychiatry. ...

Screen Test [ST238]: Nico (1966)

Nico, filmed with an unmoving camera, reads a magazine. She scratches her head, flips her hair, looks glumly at the camera, and then rolls the magazine into a tube and peers through it. ...

The Closet (1966)

A man and a woman live in a clothes-cabinet, literally; they contemplate leaving, but never do. For a time only their voices are heard, until they try to have some light, and open the door. The Woman takes an almost maternal role, they share a sandwich and ...

Salvador Dalí (1966)

Salvador Dalí is a 35-minute film directed by Andy Warhol. The film features surrealist artist Salvador Dalí visiting The Factory and meeting the rock band The Velvet Underground. ...

Screen Test [ST246]: Nico (Hershey) (1966)

A second screen test featuring Nico and a Hershey bar — the last being ST245. Camera exercises back and forth, from side to side, swinging, stuttering, crawling while Nico enjoys a Hershey bar. She laughs. ...

Screen Test [ST244]: Nico Coke (1966)

Nico swigs from a Coke bottle while the camera maintains constant movement, zooming in and out, panning right and left. ...

Andy Warhol Screen Tests (1965)

The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong key light, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls of fi ...

The Sandpiper (1965)

A free-spirited single mother forms a connection with the wedded headmaster of an Episcopalian boarding school in Monterey, California. ...

All About Loving (1964)

Serge follows Hélène in the crowded streets of Paris and manages to seduce her. Werther takes Sophie to her dentist, Raoul, who tries to seduce her too. ...

In the French Style (1963)

A young American art student must decide whether to stay in Paris with her boyfriend or go back to the U.S. when her wealthy father arrives to bring her back. ...

Sweet Skin (1963)

Strip-tease has a pleasing Paris setting and a convincing strip club atmosphere, where a roster of exotic dancers do their thing. Making the club atmosphere work is the animated Dany Saval, as a charming gossip and outspoken cheerleader for the art of the ...

A Man Named Rocca (1961)

Roberto goes to Marseilles to give a hand to his friend Xavier, wrongly imprisoned following a frame-up organized by his associate Villanova. Roberto sets out to seduce Villanova's mistress, but when Villanova is killed, Roberto ends up leader of the band. ...

La Dolce Vita (1960)

Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer. ...

For the First Time (1959)

In this musical, a tempermental opera singer falls in love with a hearing-impaired young woman. ...

Tempest (1958)

A young officer in the army of Empress Catherine of Russia is on his way to his new duty station at a remote outpost. During a blinding snowstorm he comes upon a stranger who was caught in the storm and is near death from freezing. He rescues the man and e ...

Nico - Sphinx of Ice (2014)

Nico, born Christa Päffgen in Cologne, Germany just before the outbreak of the Second World War is one of the most mythic icons of our time. She was the supermodel who became Andy Warhol's most notorious muse and the singer of legendary American rock band ...

nico - live in switzerland (1986)

nico and her band live at the dolce vita club, lausanne, switzerland on may 1 1986. ...

nico/philippe garrel - Arsenal (1986)

clips from nicos live perfomances, working with garrel ...

She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps (1985)

A young film director is making a movie with his friend Christa. In the film-within-the-film there are two couples, one real, one imagined, and the film - told through five dreams - is as much the story of a film in-production, as the birth of a child. ...

nico - strange window (1980)

Nico live in milwaukee, 1980 ...

Nico performing Secret Side & Valley of the Kings (1979)

Haunting music there, from the album The End, from Nico ...

Nico – Live at Théâtre Campagne-Première (1976)

An evening with harmonium & flute. Nico plays stripped down versions of "The Drama of Exile" tracks and some oldies at the Théâtre Campagne-Première, Paris on March 31st, 1978 backed by French flutist Didier Malherbe. ...

Nico Live in Marseille (1975)

Nico's 48'49" complete set live at Cinema Le Rond-Point Marseille on Saturday April 12. 1975 ; opening for John Cale Digitized from the master tape for the first time since it was recorded 1. Purple Lips 2. Secret Side 3. The End 4. Janitor of Lunacy ...

An Angel Passes (1975)

Nico is an ethereal poet haunting the gaps between scenes of Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Bulle Ogier, Laurent Terzieff, and Garrel's father, Maurice, discussing the filmmaker's staple topics: love, psychoanalysis, and the failures of May '68. ...

The Inner Scar (1972)

A composition of symbolic, surreal and almost mystic images. ...

Nico: Evening of Light (1969)

Shot as a proposed short film behind Iggy Pop's Ann Arbor, MI estate and summarily rejected by Elektra Records as promotional material for Nico's 1968 album, The Marble Index, Evening of Light is a gothic fantasy in a barren cornfield. Nico's song of the s ...