list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around Factory Girl on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/Factory_Girl/289896/default.aspx Title: Factory Girl
Year: 2006
Director: George Hickenlooper
Plot: The true story of one woman's brief and ultimately tragic flirtation with fame in the 1960s provides the basis for this biographical drama. In 1943, Edie Sedgwick (Sienna Miller) was born to a wealthy and socially prominent family, and she grew up with beauty and money, but also a history of mental illness; she was hospitalized with an eating disorder in her late teens, and by the time she was 21, two of her seven siblings had died before their time. In 1964, Edie moved to New York City, and quickly made a splash on the Manhattan social scene; she became friendly with the famous pop artist Andy Warhol (Guy Pearce), who was fascinated by her gamine loveliness and her quirky personality. Warhol wasted no time in casting her in one of his underground movies, and she quickly became a crucial part of his retinue of "superstars." Fashion icon Diana Vreeland (Illeana Douglas) was convinced Edie had the looks and charm to also become a successful model, and soon she was gracing the pages of Life, Vogue, and Glamour. But Edie's instability was hardly helped by her new fast-lane lifestyle, and when she met Billy Quinn (Hayden Christensen), a folk-rock singer-songwriter often cited as "the voice of a generation," he persuaded her that Warhol and his associates were simply using her fame and beauty for their own gain, and she found herself torn between two powerful mentors, one of whom had become her lover as well. Factory Girl also co-stars Jimmy Fallon, Mena Suvari, and Tara Summers as regulars at the Warhol "Factory." The character of Musician was inspired in part by Bob Dylan, who was romantically involved with Edie Sedgwick for a brief time. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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]]>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:40:46 GMTFactory Girl2006George HickenlooperThe true story of one woman's brief and ultimately tragic flirtation with fame in the 1960s provides the basis for this biographical drama. In 1943, <a href="/players/P____64281/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Edie Sedgwick</a> (<a href="/players/P___367562/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Sienna Miller</a>) was born to a wealthy and socially prominent family, and she grew up with beauty and money, but also a history of mental illness; she was hospitalized with an eating disorder in her late teens, and by the time she was 21, two of her seven siblings had died before their time. In 1964, Edie moved to New York City, and quickly made a splash on the Manhattan social scene; she became friendly with the famous pop artist <a href="/players/P___115970/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Andy Warhol</a> (Guy Pearce), who was fascinated by her gamine loveliness and her quirky personality. Warhol wasted no time in casting her in one of his underground movies, and she quickly became a crucial part of his retinue of "superstars." Fashion icon Diana Vreeland (<a href="/players/P____19863/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Illeana Douglas</a>) was convinced Edie had the looks and charm to also become a successful model, and soon she was gracing the pages of Life, Vogue, and Glamour. But Edie's instability was hardly helped by her new fast-lane lifestyle, and when she met Billy Quinn (<a href="/players/P___277514/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Hayden Christensen</a>), a folk-rock singer-songwriter often cited as "the voice of a generation," he persuaded her that Warhol and his associates were simply using her fame and beauty for their own gain, and she found herself torn between two powerful mentors, one of whom had become her lover as well. Factory Girl also co-stars <a href="/players/P___301488/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Jimmy Fallon</a>, <a href="/players/P___223626/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Mena Suvari</a>, and Tara Summers as regulars at the Warhol "Factory." The character of Musician was inspired in part by <a href="/players/P____88557/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Bob Dylan</a>, who was romantically involved with <a href="/players/P____64281/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Edie Sedgwick</a> for a brief time. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide25Tag Target (>10)772http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s289896.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Factory_Girl/289896/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/yinali/archive/2009/2/16/40488.aspx Post By: Yinali
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Body: Tragic, beautiful and horrifically happy. That's all I have to say.
]]>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:56:14 GMTYinaliYinali Blog2/16/2009 6:56:14 PMTragic, beautiful and horrifically happy. That's all I have to say. http://www.spout.com/blogs/chrismorrell/archive/2008/1/21/24158.aspx Post By: chrismorrell
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Body: Sienna Miller is a real beauty,but a much more conventional looking one than Edie Sedgewick.She puts in a good performance,but has virtually nothing to work with here. She does a lot of feverish cigarette smoking.Guy Pierce is ,however very convincing,as Andy Warhol.Obviously,we know much more about him,and this film largely shows how Warhol with his camp,and obtuse take on film-making,as part of his Art,took advantage of a naive and impressionable rich girl.A gaping hole in 'Factory Girl' is the inability to actually name Bob Dylan,as the 'folk singer' who was Edies' lover for a short time. Maybe a legal block from Dylan?Doesnt make him look good does it?Disappointing.
]]>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:27:32 GMTchrismorrellchrismorrell Blog1/21/2008 4:27:32 PMSienna Miller is a real beauty,but a much more conventional looking one than Edie Sedgewick.She puts in a good performance,but has virtually nothing to work with here. She does a lot of feverish cigarette smoking.Guy Pierce is ,however very convincing,as Andy Warhol.Obviously,we know much more about him,and this film largely shows how Warhol with his camp,and obtuse take on film-making,as part of his Art,took advantage of a naive and impressionable rich girl.A gaping hole in &#39;Factory Girl&#39; is the inability to actually name Bob Dylan,as the &#39;folk singer&#39; who was Edies&#39; lover for a short time. Maybe a legal block from Dylan?Doesnt make him look good does it?Disappointing. http://www.spout.com/blogs/dibot/archive/2007/8/8/17600.aspx Post By: dibot
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Post Date: 8/8/2007 11:54:10 AM
Body: Factory Girl is about Andy Warhol's muse, Edie Sedgwick. Sienna Miller ("Stardust") stars as Sedgwick and she is gorgeous and luminous and fascinating. Guy Pierce ("The Proposition") and his jaw just disappear into Warhol. The rest of the film is trash. The "story" is difficult to follow. The editing is okay. I'm sure that the filmmakers were trying to capture the feel of that time period and the drugs and the art being created. But for all the interesting subject matter, it was a boring movie.
]]>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:54:10 GMTdibotdibot Blog8/8/2007 11:54:10 AMFactory Girl is about Andy Warhol&#39;s muse, Edie Sedgwick. Sienna Miller (&quot;Stardust&quot;) stars as Sedgwick and she is gorgeous and luminous and fascinating. Guy Pierce (&quot;The Proposition&quot;) and his jaw just disappear into Warhol. The rest of the film is trash. The &quot;story&quot; is difficult to follow. The editing is okay. I&#39;m sure that the filmmakers were trying to capture the feel of that time period and the drugs and the art being created. But for all the interesting subject matter, it was a boring movie. http://www.spout.com/blogs/bigjefflebowski/archive/2007/4/11/6928.aspx Post By: BigJeffLebowski
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Post Date: 4/11/2007 5:49:00 PM
Body: I admit a bias when it comes to the 1960s. It's a time I wish I had been able to experience. The music, the films, the literature, the art, and the very real belief that an individual could make a difference; I don't try to hide that I tend to get sweeped up and carried away by my romanticized notions of my father's era. Bobby plays to this nostalgic sensibility, though more in content than in form. Unlike Factory Girl, which was released the same year and concerns roughly the same time period, Estevez's film doesn't try to disguise itself as a product of the times it illustrates. Save for one scene which attempts to visualize an acid trip (which is, coincidentally, the film's worst segment, featuring Ashton Kutcher giving the film's worst performance) there are no true-to-the-period behind-the-camera histrionics. Instead, Estevez rips a few pages from the books of Robert Altman and Grand Hotel in an effort to define an era through a series of portraits all relating tangentially to Robert Kennedy's assassination. In fact, the film's closest relative is the unjustly overlooked and shortlived TV series "American Dreams," the first episode of which concluded poignantly with the other Kennedy assassination five years earlier. Like that show, Bobby presents us with an array of characters, each representing a different aspect of the 60s, ranging from the draft to the civil and women's rights movements. Unfortunately for Estevez, he doesn't have three seasons to develop these characters; instead, he has two hours, and as such, few of the characters become more than archetypes. What carries the film up to its powerful final third is the discord between the intangible sense of hope which lingers above all of the characters and the heartbreaking conclusion which the audience knows is inevitable. Bobby is clear in its intention to be about the murder of Kennedy rather than about Kennedy, but there are long stretches when the film seems to exist just outside of the events at its core, and it isn't until halfway through when the results of the primaries start coming in and Kennedy himself starts to become a more concrete element in the film that it really picks up steam and pulls you along with it. This isn't to say Bobby is a bad film. It's handsomely executed in nearly every way, and it's obvious that Estevez has a great fondness for his subject. But that fondness is one befitting someone who was only a child when Kennedy was assassinated, and consequently, the film is more about the ideas and the feelings than about the people and the events. In spite of that -- or maybe even because of it -- the film's last 15 minutes are a knockout. Depicting the murder itself, and set to Kennedy's own words, the film's conclusion is an emotionally resonant, affecting reminder of a time when the American people believed they had something worth fighting for, and that their efforts would not go unnoticed. The film is a loving memorial not only to one man, but the very idea of One Man, when a person's individuality and his solidarity could exist in harmony for the betterment of a nation. Politics may have always been dirty, but there's no harm in viewing the past with a little less cynicism than we view the present.
]]>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:49:00 GMTBigJeffLebowskiBigJeffLebowski Blog4/11/2007 5:49:00 PMI admit a bias when it comes to the 1960s. It's a time I wish I had been able to experience. The music, the films, the literature, the art, and the very real belief that an individual could make a difference; I don't try to hide that I tend to get sweeped up and carried away by my romanticized notions of my father's era. Bobby plays to this nostalgic sensibility, though more in content than in form. Unlike Factory Girl, which was released the same year and concerns roughly the same time period, Estevez's film doesn't try to disguise itself as a product of the times it illustrates. Save for one scene which attempts to visualize an acid trip (which is, coincidentally, the film's worst segment, featuring Ashton Kutcher giving the film's worst performance) there are no true-to-the-period behind-the-camera histrionics. Instead, Estevez rips a few pages from the books of Robert Altman and Grand Hotel in an effort to define an era through a series of portraits all relating tangentially to Robert Kennedy's assassination. In fact, the film's closest relative is the unjustly overlooked and shortlived TV series "American Dreams," the first episode of which concluded poignantly with the other Kennedy assassination five years earlier. Like that show, Bobby presents us with an array of characters, each representing a different aspect of the 60s, ranging from the draft to the civil and women's rights movements. Unfortunately for Estevez, he doesn't have three seasons to develop these characters; instead, he has two hours, and as such, few of the characters become more than archetypes. What carries the film up to its powerful final third is the discord between the intangible sense of hope which lingers above all of the characters and the heartbreaking conclusion which the audience knows is inevitable. Bobby is clear in its intention to be about the murder of Kennedy rather than about Kennedy, but there are long stretches when the film seems to exist just outside of the events at its core, and it isn't until halfway through when the results of the primaries start coming in and Kennedy himself starts to become a more concrete element in the film that it really picks up steam and pulls you along with it. This isn't to say Bobby is a bad film. It's handsomely executed in nearly every way, and it's obvious that Estevez has a great fondness for his subject. But that fondness is one befitting someone who was only a child when Kennedy was assassinated, and consequently, the film is more about the ideas and the feelings than about the people and the events. In spite of that -- or maybe even because of it -- the film's last 15 minutes are a knockout. Depicting the murder itself, and set to Kennedy's own words, the film's conclusion is an emotionally resonant, affecting reminder of a time when the American people believed they had something worth fighting for, and that their efforts would not go unnoticed. The film is a loving memorial not only to one man, but the very idea of One Man, when a person's individuality and his solidarity could exist in harmony for the betterment of a nation. Politics may have always been dirty, but there's no harm in viewing the past with a little less cynicism than we view the present. http://www.spout.com/blogs/pairofchutes/archive/2007/4/9/6844.aspx Post By: pairofchutes
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Post Date: 4/9/2007 1:23:45 PM
Body: This film really made me reconsider my feelings towards Andy Warhol. Although I'm aware this is a bias movie, as Bob Dylan's real name couldn't even be used, I came to see a side of Andy's art that I really despised. I thought this was really well done, the scenes were shot nicely, the use of lighting was superb, and I was entangled in it from beginning to end. Hayden Christensen was remarkably handsome, and Sienna did a very good job in portraying Edie.
]]>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 17:23:45 GMTpairofchutespairofchutes Blog4/9/2007 1:23:45 PMThis film really made me reconsider my feelings towards Andy Warhol. Although I&#39;m aware this is a bias movie, as Bob Dylan&#39;s real name couldn&#39;t even be used, I came to see a side of Andy&#39;s art that I really despised. I thought this was really well done, the scenes were shot nicely, the use of lighting was superb, and I was entangled in it from beginning to end. Hayden Christensen was remarkably handsome, and Sienna did a very good job in portraying Edie. http://www.spout.com/blogs/benjaman/archive/2007/2/24/5752.aspx Post By: Benjaman
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Post Date: 2/24/2007 1:29:38 PM
Body: I did like this movie, but unfortunatly there are many down sides to it also. First of all the performances in this piece are wonderful. Guy Pierce does a superb job as Andy Worhal, but even better is Sienna Millers role. She looks and acts a lot like Edie Sedgwick but without as deep of a voice. There are many instances were you can't help but feel bad for her and that is where the movie does its best. It shows that you can have everything dreamed for; fame, beauty, kindness, intelligence, and without something real to centralize you you're ultimatly grasping for nothing. She is very self-centered but she doesn't want to be. And that is why I liked this movie, because it shows the true desparity of a girl searching for meaning and purpose in her life which gradually leads to death. But sadly, this is where the movies biggest weakness also stands. It does great in portraying a self-centered, drugged up, lonely human but it does horrible as a character film. It seemed like it was to much focused on her surroundings and relationships than it was on her. I would have liked to see it go a little deeper into her mind procces and what made think and go down the paths she went down. But even with that problem the movie is still a good one and worth seeing.
]]>Sat, 24 Feb 2007 18:29:38 GMTBenjamanBenjaman Blog2/24/2007 1:29:38 PMI did like this movie, but unfortunatly there are many down sides to it also. First of all the performances in this piece are wonderful. Guy Pierce does a superb job as Andy Worhal, but even better is Sienna Millers role. She looks and acts a lot like Edie Sedgwick but without as deep of a voice. There are many instances were you can&#39;t help but feel bad for her and that is where the movie does its best. It shows that you can have everything dreamed for; fame, beauty, kindness, intelligence, and without something real to centralize you you&#39;re ultimatly grasping for nothing. She is very self-centered but she doesn&#39;t want to be. And that is why I liked this movie, because it shows the true desparity of a girl searching for meaning and purpose in her life which gradually leads to death. But sadly, this is where the movies biggest weakness also stands. It does great in portraying a self-centered, drugged up, lonely human but it does horrible as a character film. It seemed like it was to much focused on her surroundings and relationships than it was on her. I would have liked to see it go a little deeper into her mind procces and what made think and go down the paths she went down. But even with that problem the movie is still a good one and worth seeing. http://www.spout.com/blogs/demndiary/archive/2007/2/18/5603.aspx Post By: Demndiary
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Post Date: 2/18/2007 10:46:00 AM
Body: I wanted to see Flannel Pajamas after seeing a preview months ago. I saw it the same weekend I saw Breach and Factory Girl. Although all three films were great, Flannel Pajamas is still buzzing in my head days after. Flannel Pajamas is the story of Nichole & Stuart. It begins with their meeting on a blind date and ends years later. This film is different from so many romantic drams I've seen because it doesn't hide the relationship behind buildings, events or fascades. You see Nichole and Stuart at their happiest, maddest and saddest. You see them reflected through their families at Christmas, Weddings and more. Every character is strongly written and incredibly acted without overdoing it. I couldn't take my eyes off the screen the entire film. Flannel Pajamas is a small film that should be bigger. It should have wide release on a thousand screens. It makes you think, and feel like only the best films can do.
]]>Sun, 18 Feb 2007 15:46:00 GMTDemndiaryDemndiary Blog2/18/2007 10:46:00 AMI wanted to see Flannel Pajamas after seeing a preview months ago. I saw it the same weekend I saw Breach and Factory Girl. Although all three films were great, Flannel Pajamas is still buzzing in my head days after. Flannel Pajamas is the story of Nichole &amp; Stuart. It begins with their meeting on a blind date and ends years later. This film is different from so many romantic drams I&#39;ve seen because it doesn&#39;t hide the relationship behind buildings, events or fascades. You see Nichole and Stuart at their happiest, maddest and saddest. You see them reflected through their families at Christmas, Weddings and more. Every character is strongly written and incredibly acted without overdoing it. I couldn&#39;t take my eyes off the screen the entire film. Flannel Pajamas is a small film that should be bigger. It should have wide release on a thousand screens. It makes you think, and feel like only the best films can do. http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/drugs/MemberTagFilms.aspxdrugs
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