Beautiful Darling

Name: Beautiful Darling
Genre: Documentary
Released: April 22, 2011
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 69

2011

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Corinth Films | Release Date: April 22, 2011 | Not Rated

Summary: Beautiful Darling chronicles the short but influential life of Candy Darling who was a major part of Andy Warhol's entourage and was one of the inspirations for the Lou Reed song "Walk on the Wild Side."
Born James Slattery in a Long Island suburb in 1944, he transformed himself into a gorgeous, blonde actress and well-known downtown NewBeautiful Darling chronicles the short but influential life of Candy Darling who was a major part of Andy Warhol's entourage and was one of the inspirations for the Lou Reed song "Walk on the Wild Side."
Born James Slattery in a Long Island suburb in 1944, he transformed himself into a gorgeous, blonde actress and well-known downtown New York figure. Candy's career took her through the raucous and revolutionary Off-off-Broadway theater scene and into Andy Warhol's legendary Factory. There she became close to Warhol and starred in two Factory movies that still shock and amuse today: Flesh and Women in Revolt. Candy used her Warhol fame to land further film roles, and her admirer Tennessee Williams cast her in his play Small Craft Warnings. She dreamed of becoming a Hollywood star, but tragically died of lymphoma in the early Seventies, at only twenty-nine. (Corinth Releasing)… Expand

Director: James Rasin

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 85 min

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Robert Abele

May 5, 2011

A transgender icon with a life as tragically short as some of the idols she worshipped, she's the deserving subject of an archivally rich remembrance, and such is James Rasin's poignant documentary Beautiful Darling. Read full review

Keith Uhlich

Apr 19, 2011

The film isn't blinded by Candy's beauty and celebrity; it digs critically, if still empathetically, beneath. Read full review

Lou Lumenick

Apr 22, 2011

James Rasin's documentary is surprisingly the first to focus on one of Warhol's biggest attractions, the attractive male-to-female transsexual Candy Darling, best known for inspiring Lou Reed's song "A Walk on the Wild Side." Read full review

IndieWire Eric Kohn

May 5, 2011

Beautiful Darling not only explains the appeal of its subject; it actively contributes to her ongoing mystique. Read full review

Loren King

May 5, 2011

As fascinating as the material is, like so much of popular culture it doesn't hold up well out of context. Read full review

Stephen Holden

Apr 21, 2011

Beautiful Darling, James Rasin's touching documentary biography of Candy Darling, the transsexual Andy Warhol "superstar," is a sad, lyrical reflection on the foolish worship of movie stars. Read full review

Melissa Anderson

Apr 19, 2011

Denied the opportunity to see Candy at her best, simultaneously mocking and paying homage to golden-age glamour, viewers instead get too much of Jeremiah Newton, a close friend of the actress's and guardian of her papers, personal effects, and ashes (and one of Beautiful Darling's producers). Read full review

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JamesL

Jun 4, 2011

As a big fan of Lou Reed, I thoroughly enjoyed this documentary. It filled in some of the gaps in that period. I must admit this is the fourth film where Andy Warhol is portrayed as user of people.

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