Rene Ricard
Film performances

Rene Ricard

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Year	Title	Director	Format	Notes

1965	Queen of the Night Gotta Box of Light	Saul Levine	16 mm, black & white, silent, 4 minutes	Starring Vivian Kurz, with Ivan Cohn, Andrew Meyer and Rene Ricard. In this impressionistic portrait Kurz, Cohn, Meyer and Ricard are shown hanging out at Kurz's Cambridge apartment getting high.

1965	Kitchen	Andy Warhol	16 mm, black & white, 66 minutes	Theater of the Ridiculous playwright Ronald Tavel scripted this absurdist satire on the bourgeois household. The filming takes place in a real kitchen, with Edie Sedgwick and Roger Trudeau playing an unhappy married couple.

1966	Screen Test: Rene Ricard	Andy Warhol	16 mm, black & white, silent, 4 minutes	Between 1964 and 1966 Andy Warhol pioneered a unique type of cinematic portraiture. In the screen tests, Warhol adopted a consistent, disarmingly straightforward approach in which each subject was asked to sit motionless before his stationary camera.

1966	Chelsea Girls	Andy Warhol	16 mm, black & white, 195/210 minutes	Warhol's most famous film, is a series of twelve uncut reels each depicting the goings-on in a different room of the Chelsea Hotel.

1966	An Early Clue to a New Direction	Andrew Meyer / Victor Hack	16 mm, black & white, 28 minutes	Featuring Joy Bang, Prescott Townsend, Rene Ricard. Music by the Unidentified Flying Objects.

1966	Hall of Mirrors	Walter Sonbert	16 mm, black & white/color, 7 minutes	Warren Sonbert (1947 - 1995), an independent filmmaker renowned for his avant-garde, diarist style, began producing films in 1966. This film is an outgrowth of one of Sonbert's film classes at NYU in which he was given out takes from a 1947 Hollywood murder film photographed by Hal Mohr to re-edit into a narrative sequence.

1966	The Andy Warhol Story	Andy Warhol	16 mm, black & white	The notorious unreleased film in which both Ricard and Sedgwick viciously imitate Warhol. Notorious unreleased lost film in which both Ricard and Sedgwick viciously imitate Warhol.

1967	B.O.N.Y. (aka Boys of New York)	Gregg Barrios	16 mm, black & white	Cast: Gerard Malanga, Rene Ricard, Ivy Nicholson (Vogue model) and Leonard Cohen (singer).

1967	Joan of Arc	Piero Heliczer	Color withy sound on tape; 11 minutes	Poet turned filmmaker, Piero Heliczer was among the most notable of underground directors of the mid '60s. In a cast that included Ira Cohen, Gerard Malanga, Jack Smith and Andy Warhol, Rene Ricard played the title role of Joan of Arc dressed as a 1950s French maid.

1967	**** (aka Four Stars)	Andy Warhol	16 mm, 1500 minutes	Warhol's ambitious follow-up to Chelsea Girls, **** [aka Four Stars] consisted of 94 color sound half-hour reels projected superimposed two at a time over a continuous span of 25 hours, shown only once in its entirety in December 1967.

1968	Pre-Raphaelite Dream	Gerard Malanga	16 mm	Cast included: Loulou de la Falaise, International Velvet, John Weiners, Emma Malagna, Mario Anniballi, and Rene Ricard.

1973	An American Family	Craig Gilbert	Television documentary series	An American Family, the 1973 cinema verité production that followed the lives of Bill and Pat Loud of Santa Barbara, Calif., and their five children: Michele, Delilah, Grant, Kevin and Lance.

1978	Sleepless Nights	Becky Johnston	Super 8 mm; 49 minutes	Written by Becky Johnson and Gary Indiana. Original score by John Lurie.

1979	Red Italy	Eric Mitchell	Black & white, 55 minutes	Second feature film by director Eric Mitchell is a Bertolucci-style story of a bored, rich woman looking for romance and adventure.

1980	Underground USA	Eric Mitchell	Color, 85 minutes	"Street hustler Mitchell forces his way into the life of has-been movie star Astor. Rambling but fascinating; a sort of punk rock Sunset Boulevard".

1995	On Seventh Avenue	Jeff Bleckner	Television pilot, 97 minutes	A fashion designer desperately attempts to rescue her father's apparel business, left in shambles by her brother. Rene Ricard in a role as a journalist.

1999	After the Fall	Michele Civetta	16 mm, color, 10 minutes	A father grieves over the loss of his wife after his indiscretions with a young girl. Rene Ricard plays the protagonist of the film and appears in every scene.

2010	You Won't Miss Me	Ry Russo-Young	Color, 81 minutes	A kaleidoscopic film portrait of Shelly Brown, a twenty-three-year-old alienated urban misfit recently released from a psychiatric hospital. Starring Stella Schnabel, featuring Rene Ricard and introducing other notable New York personalities.

2014	Asthma	Jake Hoffman	Color	Directing debut by Jake Hoffman (son of Dustin Hoffman). Ricard plays an extravagantly over-the-top drug dealer named Juan.

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Rene Ricard appeared in the Warhol films Kitchen in 1965, Chelsea Girls in 1966, and The Andy Warhol Story in 1966.
Rene Ricard appeared in the Warhol films Kitchen in 1965, Chelsea Girls in 1966, and The Andy Warhol Story in 1966.
Rene Ricard appeared in the Warhol films Kitchen (1965), Chelsea Girls (1966), and The Andy Warhol Story (1966).

final_sentence: Rene Ricard appeared in the Warhol films Kitchen in 1965, Chelsea Girls in 1966, and The Andy Warhol Story in 1966.
final_sentence: Rene Ricard appeared in the Warhol films Kitchen in 1965, Chelsea Girls in 1966, and The Andy Warhol Story in 1966.
final_sentence: Rene Ricard appeared in the Warhol films Kitchen (1965), Chelsea Girls (1966), and The Andy Warhol Story (1966).