Edie Sedgwick is a Poor Little Rich Girl at Eyedrum tonight
April 24, 2009 at 12:32 pm by Wyatt Williams in movies & tv
Atlanta’s best film series, Film Love, returns tonight with a rare screening of the Andy Warhol classic from 1965, Poor Little Rich Girl. The best known collaboration between Warhol and his most mythical muse, Edie Sedgwick, Poor Little Rich Girl is a completely unrehearsed and unscripted film of Sedgwick going about her daily routine, listening to the Everly Brothers, drinking orange juice, and smoking cigarettes.
Few people are able to embody style the way Sedgwick and Warhol could. Sedgwick is known for little more than taking pills, drinking, living in the Chelsea Hotel, and probably sleeping with Bob Dylan while she was there. Yet, her image is one that has lasted in the popular consciousness much longer than her short life. She died of an accidental overdose in 1971.
More details about the film after the jump.
Poor Little Rich Girl was made as part of Warhol’s idea for a 24-hour film of a day in the life of Edie Sedgwick. It was his first sound movie to use no script at all, instead relying on Sedgwick’s natural vivaciousness and volubility to create this portrait of her on a typical morning. The resulting film is part documentary, part performance, part narrative – a unique, uncategorizable, and fascinating combination. Like all of Warhol’s films from this period, Poor Little Rich Girl has never been released on video in this country and can only be seen in its original 16mm film format
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