alr

Lonesome Cowboys

Screening on Film
Directed by Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey.
With Joe Dallesandro, Viva, Taylor Mead.
US, 1968, 16mm, color, 109 min.

By the late 1960s, Warhol was using not just sync sound but also color and an increasing emphasis on narrative in an attempt to expand the audience for his movies. One of the more successful of these ventures, Lonesome Cowboys re-imagines Romeo and Juliet as a Western, shot at an Arizona dude ranch often used as a Hollywood location. As the Nurse to Viva's Juliet, Mead spends much of the film in idle gossip with his charge, as they wonder whether the film's reluctant Romeo might prefer the other cowboys. Not content to be a bystander, Mead undertakes a flirtation with Joe Dallesandro that culminates in a spectacularly salacious dance scene. – DP

Part of film series

Read more

The Legend of Taylor Mead

Other film series with this film

Read more

Andy Warhol and the Factory: Selected Works

Current and upcoming film series

Read more

Wang Bing’s Youth Trilogy

Read more

Planet at 50

Read more

From the collection – Satyajit Ray

Read more

Mother’s Day
Mini-Marathon