“13 Most Beautiful… songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests” DVD 3-27-09
After performing this Andy Warhol Screen Test show in museums across the country for the past six months, the DVD from Plexifilm has finally arrived and is a thing of beauty. The DVD is housed in an elegant hardcover booklet with with forty pages of notes and photographs. It contains the original Andy Warhol films, with our songs (brand new studio recordings) as the soundtrack, along with a short documentary about the making of the live show. The DVD officially hits the streets April 7, but we have copies available now.
We are playing our last 13 Most Beautiful show for a while, this Saturday night at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, but will pick up again July 2 with a show at the Ann Arbor Arts Festival, followed by July shows in Marseille, Dunfermline (Scotland), St Etienne and Paris.
Here is the official description of the DVD from the Plexifilm site:
Released in conjunction with The Andy Warhol Museum, 13 Most Beautiful…Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests features 13 of Warhol’s classic silent film portraits. Subjects include Nico, Lou Reed, Edie Sedgwick, Dennis Hopper, and more. Shot between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol’s Factory studio in New York City, the Screen Tests are presented with newly commissioned soundtracks performed by Dean & Britta (and band).
This is the first ever authorized DVD release of films by Andy Warhol.
The DVD is presented in a slipcovered hardbound package. DVD extras include a behind-the-scenes documentary on the live production of the 13 Most Beautiful… Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Testsperformances, and a video interview with Dean & Britta about Andy Warhol, the music and the project. The booklet includes brief biographies of the Screen Test subjects, liner notes from the Warhol Museum’s Thomas Sokolowski, Geralyn Huxley, and Ben Harrison and notes on the music from Dean Wareham.
13 Most Beautiful: Songs for
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
13 “Screen Test” portrait films
by Andy Warhol, with songs
performed by Dean & Britta
DVD (Region 0 - World)
$30
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thanks,
Dean
March 30th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
At the Chicago show Dean mentioned onstage that 13 Most Beautiful would be available on iTunes. Is this correct, meaning the songs will be available or will it be just the DVD to watch on the iPod or computer?
March 30th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
The DVD will be available on iTunes as video with music (not just as mp3s). We might release the songs separately at some point as digital downloads on iTunes.
April 1st, 2009 at 12:47 pm
It would be great if you could sell the songs separately. I’d love to see the movie, but I’d probably only watch it a couple of times. The songs, however, would be on heavy rotation. I know I can just rip the music off the DVD, but it’s always a pain.
July 9th, 2009 at 6:22 am
Hello
I saw the concert last night at Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline Scotland.
The whole experiece of film and music was outstanding.
Taking into account the fuse blowing in the middle of one of the songs added to the Warhol experience.
Beautiful film accompanied by superb music.
Many congratulations.
July 9th, 2009 at 6:25 am
Hello
I saw the concert last night at Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline, Scotland.
The wohle experience of film and music was outstanding.
Taking into account the fuse blowing in the middle of the concert added to the warhol experience.
Beautiful film accompanied by superb music.