The Andy Warhol Story

On a single evening in a cramped apartment, an artist who calls himself Andy Warhol invites a woman friend over to talk about his career. Their conversation starts like small talk but gradually becomes an accusation, as the woman peels back polite layers to accuse him of using people for his work and then discarding them. As tensions rise she becomes more unbalanced, accusing him of promising fame and offering drugs, and blaming those promises for the wreckage in her life. The film stays focused on this raw, intimate exchange, keeping events contained to that one charged encounter without resolving the larger fallout.

Directed by Andy Warhol in 1966, the film features Rene Ricard playing Warhol and Edie Sedgwick appearing as herself. It belongs to Warhol's series of short, experimental screen pieces from the mid 1960s and was circulated mainly through underground and art venues rather than mainstream cinemas.

Commercial figures for this title aren't available, it had a very limited release and was shown mostly at private screenings and art-house programs. There are no reliable box office totals recorded for its original run.

Among Warhol aficionados the film reinforces the Factory era mythology, partly because of Sedgwick's presence and the way it portrays the interchange between artist and muse. It isn't quoted like mainstream movies, but it gets cited in histories of 1960s counterculture and experimental cinema as an example of Warhol's interest in real-time conversation and personal spectacle.

Contemporary critical response was and remains mixed, since the movie's rough, confrontational style isn't aimed at general audiences. Themes center on exploitation, the hollowness of celebrity promises, and the interpersonal costs of art scenes that trade in charisma. People who study underground film find it useful for what it reveals about power dynamics in creative circles, even if it never achieved wide recognition.