Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Lonesome Cowboys
Taylor Mead: A Clown Underground
- When
- Fri Sep 19, 2008
- Where
- Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) Screening Room
- Time
- 7:30pm
- Cost
- $6 - $8
- Tags
- Movies, Film Screenings
Description
Long before Brokeback Mountain there was Lonesome Cowboys, a homoerotic satire of the Western with a hilarious, raunchy co-starring role by Mead. Shot on location at a ranch in Arizona used previously for John Wayne movies, Warhol edited the film while recuperating from his gunshot wound. Also starring Viva and Joe Dallesandro. (1967-68, 109 min, 16mm) Followed by discussion with Mead.Performer and poet Taylor Mead has starred in over 100 films and is a central figure in the history of underground cinema. Though best known for the films he made with Andy Warhol (including Lonesome Cowboys and Nude Restaurant), Mead has appeared in things as diverse as Saturday Night Live, Rip Torn’s staging of Hamlet and Midnight Cowboy. Now over 80 years old, Mead’s work has a mature innocence, and a celebration of (and longing for) peace and joy that is missing from so much contemporary art today.
More Info
- Link
- http://ybca.org
- Call
- 415-978-2787 (Box Office)
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