Ronald Tavel Movies

  • 1965
    Harlot

    Harlot

    Harlot

    01965HD

    Jean Harlow-lookalike Harlot (Mario Montez),Gerard Malanga, Philip Fagan, and Carol Koshinskie (with a cat) sit in a room eating bananas as the off-s...

    Harlot
  • 1965
    Screen Test #2

    Screen Test #2

    Screen Test #2

    101965HD

    Warhol and scenarist Ronald Tavel offer a brutal vision of the Hollywood casting couch with this record of ingenue Mario Montez performing a humiliati...

    Screen Test #2
  • 2007
    Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

    Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

    Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

    6.62007HD

    In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's perform...

    Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
  • 1966
    Kitchen

    Kitchen

    Kitchen

    6.61966HD

    Instructed by Warhol to write a vehicle for Edie Sedgwick in a “completely white” setting, scenarist Ronald Tavel created one of Warhol’s most iconic...

    Kitchen
  • 1966
    Hedy

    Hedy

    Hedy

    01966HD

    Egotistical faded star Hedy Lamarr visits a plastic surgeon to be transformed into the "14-year-old girl" she believes herself to be. She is then caug...

    Hedy
  • 1965
    The Life of Juanita Castro

    The Life of Juanita Castro

    The Life of Juanita Castro

    6.61965HD

    A playwright taunts a number of actors into improvising a truly ridiculous but subtlely meaningful meditation on Fidel Castro and his family.

    The Life of Juanita Castro
  • 1965
    Screen Test #1

    Screen Test #1

    Screen Test #1

    6.51965HD

    Ronald Tavel taunts Philip Fagan, who lacks the verbal dexterity to counter the clever spider’s web of words that Ronald Tavel weaves to ensnare him,...

    Screen Test #1
  • 1989
    Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties

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

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

    01989HD

    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 coll...

    Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties
  • 1965
    Andy Warhol Screen Tests

    Andy Warhol Screen Tests

    Andy Warhol Screen Tests

    81965HD

    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, a...

    Andy Warhol Screen Tests