Rene Ricard
Film performances

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.

Question: What Andy Warhol films did Rene Ricard appear in?
Answer: Rene Ricard appeared in the Warhol films Kitchen (1965), Screen Test: Rene Ricard (1966), Chelsea Girls (1966), The Andy Warhol Story (1966) and **** (aka Four Stars) (1967).