Tally Brown, New York
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Duration Language English | 6.8/10 Genre Documentary Producer Rosa von Praunheim Country U.S | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 4 May 1979 Awards German Film Award for Outstanding Non-Feature Film Cast Similar movies American Sniper , Women He's Undressed , The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden , Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles , Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs , The Creep Behind the Camera |
Tally Brown, New York is a 1979 documentary film directed, written and produced by Rosa von Praunheim. The film is about the singing and acting career of Tally Brown, a classically trained opera and blues singer who was a star of underground films in New York City and a denizen of its underworld in the late 1960s.
In this documentary, Praunheim relies on extensive interviews with Brown, as she recounts her collaboration with Andy Warhol, Taylor Mead and others, as well as her friendships with Holly Woodlawn, and Divine. Brown opens the film with a cover of David Bowie's "Heroes" and concludes with "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide." The film captures not only Tally Brown’s career but also a particular New York milieu in the 1970s.
In the same year of its release, the documentary won the Film Award in Silver at the German Film Awards for Outstanding Non-Feature Film.
The documentary is also noteworthy for being the first of Von Praunheim's many portraits of women, usually aging legendary performers, who have become cult figures among the LGBT community.
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