First
Time Ever Released!
1973 - Black and White - 20 minutes - Digitized from the original 16mm film
"Exquisite
- Haunting!"
-Women's Wear Daily
Holly
Woodlawn's triumphant, unforgettable film performance, just as it premiered
to rave reviews on her birthday October 26, 1973!
Highly collectible - each copy personally signed
and lipstick kissed by Warhol Superstar Holly Woodlawn!
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"A
dramatic tour-de-force!
- New York Daily News"
"A parade
of living sculpture
- Andy Warhol's Interview"
"La Woodlawn's
performance is a blazing thing - a highly stylized expose of glamour-as-terror!
- Film Comment"
"We're speechless
- Playboy Magazine"
Note: this
signed-and-kissed-by-Holly edition is available for a limited time only, when
it sells out, this page will change!
Broken Goddess is a gorgeous black-and-white salute to both silent films and
the Woodlawn image - the glamourous star fighting to transcend her unreal
image. The story is told in title cards adapted from the moody love songs
of Laura Nyro against a soundtrack of Debussy's music. The project was originally
conceived around Bette Midler to play silently behind her as she sang "Superstar"
at the Continental Baths, but Bette was too busy to film. Holly Woodlawn,
who was riding high on the smashing success of Warhol's Trash [directed by
Paul Morrissey] seemed the perfect inspiration for the piece to filmmaker
Dallas.
It
was shot in the very early dawn light, surreptitiously,
because filming permits were expensive. It took twelve mornings (from 4 a.m.
to 7 a.m.) that spanned two months of the summer of 1973 at Bethesda Fountain
in Central Park in New York City. Void of the crowds, the fountain was the
perfect silent movie set. The early morning light makes Holly Woodlawn appear
to be made of the same pale marble as the fountain.
Professional makeup artist Vincent Nasso created a look for Holly he called
Western Kabuki; a face like a mask that encompassed Greek tragedy, pop art,
and silent cinema.
The result is stunning. The film opened to wide acclaim at New York's Playboy Theatre on Holly's birthday, October 26, 1973 and had a six-week run paired with Alla Nazimova's 1923 silent film production of Oscar Wilde's Salomé. Broken Goddess remains one of the great underground New York films of its period.