BEAUTIFUL DARLING

A Kim Novak dead ringer, Candy Darling, one of the Factory's most storied girls (memorialized in Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side"), was first a Long Island boy. The superstar's collaborations with Andy Warhol and Tennessee Williams are included, but the documentary manages to transcend mere nostalgia thanks to Jeremiah Newton, a devoted friend who preserved Darling's effects, including a detailed and heartbreaking journal.

"James Rasin has dedicated to Candy Darling... an intelligent, affecting documentary, in which he captures in images the vitality and the curiosity, the explosive desire for experimentation with gender, and all other boundaries, of late-'60s New York - but also the infinite melancholy of the few survivors from that era..." BERLINER ZEITUNG

"...a documentary about the Warhol Superstar Candy Darling with
Chloe Sevigny reading Darling's journals and music by The Velvet Underground, David Bowie, Bryan Ferry, Etta James and Lou Reed whose "Walk on the Wild Side" was written about the late crossdresser Candy whose idol was Kim Novak and whose 1974 death at 30 (by cancer) was accompanied by a call to a photographer to come to her hospital bed where she posed for a final photo call with a dozen red roses and a sweet smile." BOSTON HERALD

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Andy Warhol
• Candy Darling
• New York Underground
• Sixties
• Documentary Feature
• Trailer

[chyman]

when i first saw her in "Flesh", she had me FOOLED.

[chazmo2000]

Your real, your beautiful and damn-it we love you Candy Darling!