Lions Love
Director in Person
Screening on Film
$12 Special Event Tickets
Screening on Film
$12 Special Event Tickets
Directed by Agnès Varda.
With Viva, Jim Rado, Jerry Ragni.
France, 1968, 35mm, color, 110 min.
Print source: Cine Tamaris
With Viva, Jim Rado, Jerry Ragni.
France, 1968, 35mm, color, 110 min.
Print source: Cine Tamaris
Andy Warhol discovery Viva, filmmaker Shirley Clarke and Jerome Ragni and James Rado, the creators of Hair, play themselves in Varda’s vision of Hollywood and the sexual revolution. Structured as a playful film within a film, Varda repeatedly punctures the cinematic illusion by discussing scenes with the actors from behind the camera and at one point appearing briefly, to show Clarke how to act out a suicide attempt. Combined with footage of Bobby Kennedy’s assassination and the shooting of Andy Warhol, Lions Love is a time capsule of free love and its consequences. Look for cameo appearances by Peter Bogdanovich and Jim Morrison, among others.