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Paul Morrissey is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor and Cinematography American born on 23 february 1938 at New York City (USA)

Paul Morrissey

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Nationality USA
Birth 23 february 1938 (86 years) at New York City (USA)

Paul Morrissey (born February 23, 1938, New York City) is a film director from the United States, best known for his association with Andy Warhol.

Biography

Paul Morrissey naît dans une famille catholique d'origine irlandaise. Il poursuit des études de littérature à l'université jésuite Fordham de Bronx. Il est employé ensuite comme travailleur social au début des années 1960. Il commence à réaliser des courts métrages à l'université. En 1965, il rencontre Andy Warhol et devient rapidement un réalisateur incontournable du milieu underground de New York. Leur collaboration s'achève en 1975, après plusieurs films dont la trilogie : Flesh (1968), Trash (1970) et Heat (1972) avec Joe Dalessandro. Il tourne en France et en Italie Du sang pour Dracula et Chair pour Frankenstein, toujours avec Dallessandro et produits cette fois ci par Carlo Ponti.

Pendant toute cette période, il réalise une série de photographies à New York, Cannes, Saint-Tropez et Positano mettant en scène Warhol, Nico, Lou Reed, Viva, le groupe Velvet Underground (qu'il a découvert avec Gerard Malanga). Il utilise un appareil Canon Dial comme une caméra capturant des séquences d’images.

En 1975, Warhol décide de se consacrer à sa peinture et sa collaboration avec Warhol s'interrompt. Il se rapproche du mouvement Dogme95 à partir du milieu des années 1990.

Usually with

Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol
(15 films)
Jed Johnson
Jed Johnson
(4 films)
Eric Emerson
Eric Emerson
(4 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Paul Morrissey (26 films)

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Actor

Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film
Directed by Ric Burns
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Andy Warhol, Laurie Anderson, Candy Darling, Bob Dylan, Dennis Hopper, Paul Morrissey
Roles Self
Rating80% 4.012674.012674.012674.012674.01267
Andy Warhol fut l’un des artistes les plus importants – sinon le plus important – de la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle. Ce documentaire captivant et souvent émouvant, brosse un portrait de ce personnage aussi génial que décrié, qui sut capter les turbulences d’une époque marquée par le changement. Ce fi lm est le premier à exploiter les immenses archives du musée Andy Warhol de Pittsburgh.À travers quantité d’images et de séquences inédites complétées d’interviews, il explore la vie et l’œuvre de celui qui deviendra le pape du Pop Art – depuis son enfance solitaire et sa formation à Pittsburgh – jusqu’à l’explosion de sa carrière à New York et sa mort prématurée 1987.
Nico Icon
Nico Icon (1995)
, 1h10
Origin German
Genres Biography, Documentary
Themes Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Nico, John Cale, Paul Morrissey, Tina Aumont, Viva, Jonas Mekas
Roles Himself
Rating71% 3.5891053.5891053.5891053.5891053.589105
Du mannequinat jusqu’à l’underground, de Berlin à New York en passant par Paris, l’itinéraire hors du commun de Christa Päffgen devenue la mythique Nico. Documentaire notamment ponctué de témoignages d’autres icônes avant-gardistes...
Resident Alien
Directed by Jonathan Nossiter
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Documentary films about cities, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Quentin Crisp, Sting, John Hurt, Holly Woodlawn, Paul Morrissey, Fran Lebowitz
Roles Self
Rating67% 3.369353.369353.369353.369353.36935
At age 73, writer and melancholy master of the bon mot, Quentin Crisp (1908–1999), became an Englishman in New York. John Foster's camera follows Crisp about the streets of Manhattan, where Crisp seems very much at home, wearing eye shadow, appearing on a makeshift stage, making and repeating wry observations, talking to John Hurt (who played Crisp in the autobiographical TV movie, "The Naked Civil Servant"), and dining with friends. Others who know Crisp comment on him, on his life as an openly gay man with an effeminate manner, and on his place in the history of gays' social struggle. The portrait that emerges is one of wit and of suffering.
Room 666
Room 666 (1982)
, 50minutes
Directed by Wim Wenders
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about films, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry
Actors Steven Spielberg, Jean-Luc Godard, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Chantal Akerman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Mike De Leon
Roles Self
Rating65% 3.2940153.2940153.2940153.2940153.294015
Durant le festival de Cannes en 1982, Wim Wenders a invité les cinéastes présents à se rendre tour à tour dans la chambre 666 de l'hôtel Martinez et à mettre en marche la caméra et le magnétophone qu'il y avait placés pour répondre à une seule question : «le cinéma est-il un langage en train de se perdre, un art qui va mourir ? ».
Rich and Famous, 1h57
Directed by George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about writers, Feminist films, Political films, Films based on plays, Buddy films
Actors Candice Bergen, David Selby, Hart Bochner, Jacqueline Bisset, Steven Hill, George Cukor
Roles Malibu Party Guest
Rating58% 2.9006452.9006452.9006452.9006452.900645
Two women find their friendship is tested when one rises from obscurity to success while the other stagnates in a stalled career. Liz Hamilton, a young woman with literary ambitions, and Merry Noel Blake, an all-American blond beauty from Atlanta, are close friends who met while they were freshmen at Smith College in the 1950s.
Midnight Cowboy, 1h49
Directed by John Schlesinger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Films about prostitution, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Erotic thriller films, Buddy films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, Brenda Vaccaro, Bob Balaban, John McGiver
Roles The Party
Rating77% 3.8983053.8983053.8983053.8983053.898305
As the film opens, Joe Buck (Jon Voight), a young Texan working as a dishwasher, dresses in new cowboy clothing, packs a suitcase, and quits his job. He heads to New York City hoping to succeed as a male prostitute for women. Initially unsuccessful, he succeeds in bedding a well-to-do middle-aged New Yorker (Sylvia Miles), but Joe ends up giving her money.

Director

Spike of Bensonhurst, 1h41
Directed by Paul Morrissey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films
Actors Sasha Mitchell, Ernest Borgnine, Frank Adonis, Sylvia Miles, Talisa Soto, Rick Aviles
Rating59% 2.9512052.9512052.9512052.9512052.951205
In the film, the protagonist, Spike Fumo (Mitchell), is a young Italian-American man who lives in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn and aspires to be a boxer. However, he falls in love with a girl who turns out to be the daughter of a Mafia boss. As he is forced to leave, he moves to Red Hook, Brooklyn, a predominantly Puerto Rican section of New York City, where he falls in love with a girl from that neighborhood, as well.
Beethoven's Nephew, 1h45
Directed by Paul Morrissey
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Wolfgang Reichmann, Jane Birkin, Nathalie Baye, Mathieu Carrière
Rating57% 2.8616352.8616352.8616352.8616352.861635
Ludwig van Beethoven, homme au caractère difficile, devient le tuteur de son neveu Karl. Il l'aide, le surveille, et intervient dans sa première expérience amoureuse.
Mixed Blood, 1h38
Directed by Paul Morrissey
Genres Action, Crime
Themes Gangster films
Actors Marília Pêra, Rodney Harvey, John Leguizamo, Linda Kerridge
Rating59% 2.952712.952712.952712.952712.95271
Rita La Punta (Marília Pêra) leads a gang of underaged Brazilian kids in an attempt to seize control of New York's Lower East Side's drug trade from a Puerto Rican gang.
Forty Deuce, 1h29
Directed by Paul Morrissey
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Orson Bean, Kevin Bacon, Mark Keyloun, Esai Morales
Rating54% 2.7181152.7181152.7181152.7181152.718115
Un jeune prostituée essaye de trouver de l'argent pour s'acheter de la drogue en vendant un jeune garçon à un homme.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1h25
Directed by Paul Morrissey
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Horror, Crime
Themes Sherlock Holmes films, Buddy films
Actors Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Penelope Keith, Denholm Elliott, Joan Greenwood, Hugh Griffith
Rating45% 2.260362.260362.260362.260362.26036
The film begins in a theater, where a pianist (Moore) begins to play a piano accompaniment to the actual film being shown in the theater.
Blood for Dracula, 1h43
Directed by Paul Morrissey, Antonio Margheriti
Origin Italie
Genres Horror
Themes Films about families, Films about magic and magicians, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Dracula films, Vampires in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier, Vittorio De Sica, Milena Vukotic, Roman Polanski, Stefania Casini
Rating60% 3.045723.045723.045723.045723.04572
In the first years of the 1920s, a sickly and dying Count Dracula, who, as a vampire, must drink virgin blood to survive, travels from Transylvania to Italy, following his servant Anton's plan and thinking he will be more likely to find a virgin in a Catholic country. At the same time, all of Dracula's family has vanished because of two reasons, the lack of virgins in their hometown and how the family's reputation prevents any normal family from choosing to bring women to the renowned castle. Shortly after arriving in Italy, Dracula befriends Marchese di Fiore (De Sica), an impecunious Italian landowner who, with a lavish estate falling into decline, is willing to marry off one of his four daughters to the wealthy aristocrat.