Ronald Tavel

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Ronald Tavel (May 17, 1936 – March 23, 2009) was an American screenwriter, director, novelist, poet and actor, best known for his work with Andy Warhol and The Factory.

Most Popular Ronald Tavel Trailers

Total trailers found: 20

Andy Warhol Screen Tests Trailer (1965)

28 November 1965

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, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls of film at 24 frames per second.

Screen Test #2 Trailer (1965)

12 June 1965

Warhol and scenarist Ronald Tavel offer a brutal vision of the Hollywood casting couch with this record of ingenue Mario Montez performing a humiliating auditions for a dictatorial, unseen director.

Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis Trailer (2007)

11 April 2007

In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's performances and films punctuate interviews with artists, critics, friends and foes to create an engaging portrait of the artist.

Screen Test #4 Trailer (1966)

23 October 1966

A series of Andy Warhol’s screen tests, focusing on an actor’s face for 4-5 mins.

Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties Trailer (1989)

01 January 1989

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 collaboration with Simon Field.

My Hustler Trailer (1966)

12 January 1966

Set on Fire Island, My Hustler depicts competition over the affections of a young male hustler among a straight woman, a former male hustler, and the man who hired the boy's companionship via a "Dial-A-Hustler" service.

The Life of Juanita Castro Trailer (1965)

22 March 1965

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

Screen Test #3 Trailer (1966)

23 October 1966

One of Andy Warhol's screen tests, focusing on an actor's face for 4-5 mins.

Screen Test #1 Trailer (1965)

12 June 1965

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, so that Fagan’s only response is to refuse to respond and stare silently off-screen, turning the screen test into a strange form of psychodrama.

Lupe Trailer (1966)

08 February 1966

Mexican actress Lupe Vélez's final hours as she overdoses on Seconal.

Vinyl Trailer (1965)

04 June 1965

Andy Warhol’s screen adaptation of Burgess's "A Clockwork Orange”.

Hedy Trailer (1966)

03 March 1966

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

Harlot Trailer (1965)

11 January 1965

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-screen voices of Billy Name, Ronald Tavel, and Harry Fainlight discuss various topics.

Horse Trailer (1965)

28 August 1965

Warhol plunked a horse named Mighty Byrd in the middle of the Factory for this dark, homoerotic take on the classic oater that later anticipates his later western epic Lonesome Cowboys.

Chelsea Girls Trailer (1966)

01 September 1966

Lacking a formal narrative, Warhol's mammoth film follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in 1966 New York City.

Poor Little Rich Girl Trailer (1965)

19 June 1965

A young, jobless woman stays in bed, reads, talks on the phone, smokes cigarettes, makes fresh coffee, and tries on some clothes from a large wardrobe.

Space Trailer (1965)

17 September 1965

A melange of casual talking, food fights, and folk singing. The film includes Eric Andersen with his guitar, singing his lines, and leading Edie Sedgwick and her friends in unscripted sing-alongs of popular songs including "Puff the Magic Dragon" and "The Battle Hymn of the Republic".

Kitchen Trailer (1966)

03 March 1966

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 films.

More Milk, Yvette Trailer (1966)

08 February 1966

Warhol offers his own version of the notorious 1958 Johnny Stompanato murder case.

Suicide Trailer (1965)

14 April 1965

Two men verbally enact the chronology of an actor’s failed romantic connections and repeated suicide attempts.