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A pointless, excruciatingly dull three-and-a-half hours spent in the company of Andy Warhol's friends.
Variety Staff, Variety
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Chelsea Girls
Overview
Follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in 1966 New York City.
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View'n doze.
Raymond Durgnat, Time Out
Rotten
Warhol has nothing to say and no technique to say it with.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
Watching and waiting brought some amazing performances before Warhol's camera: Emerson's stoned monologue, Ondine's violent, sourly comic rant on being pope.
Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh
The results are often spellbinding; the juxtaposition of two film images at once gives the spectator an unusual amount of freedom in what to concentrate on and what to make of these variously whacked-out performers.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
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