Factory Girl

[babydoll1125]

Thanks for the article Liberty Bell!

If it's so bad that they are thinking of not even releasing it then why would they even bother putting it out in time to qualify for an Oscar? i don't get that... Who cares if it wins an Oscar anyways? Why not just focus on making it a decent and accurate movie?

 

[TheKiwi]

I'm just interested in seeing it....I really don't know why! my girlfriend is in the business and she worked on this movie...and she said it was one of the worse movie sets she's worked on in years....(like almost everyone was high..smoking...drinking...)....

Well, that's how this time period was (and that's Edie's life basically)... Why not get a little on-set inspiration?

 

[liberty33r1b]

sienna miller and an oscar nomination - how laughable is that!!

 

[Jadee]

sienna miller and an oscar nomination - how laughable is that!!

I wouldn't be surprised. Lame actresses/actors/films have been awarded by the Oscars before. An Oscar has little to do with actual talent.


I won't see this film. It looks really bad. Plus I think Edie Sedgewick is way overrated.
To be honest I'm not even sure she was better than Sienna Miller.
If she was alive today I'd put her just above the Cory Kennedy, Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan ect bunch...

Haha I'm so gonna get bash for saying that .

 

[kellyt]

I went to an advanced screening of "factory girl" last night.

I do not know Edie's story all that well, most of what I know is from the book:"Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk" by Legs McNeil but from what I do know, I can confirm that this film was a complete peice of sh**.

I read all the posts on this thread and a lot of you are spot on with how you predicted the film would be. It is hollywood at its worst and it was disgusting.
very cheesy, pathetic, dull, and shallow.

It compromises the integrity of the factory scene in general, the acting is bad, the script was HORRIBLE.

and if you do see it, watch out for the sex scene btwn Edie and the Bob Dylan character bc it will literally make you want to vomit

 

[madison01]

To be honest I'm not even sure she was better than Sienna Miller.
If she was alive today I'd put her just above the Cory Kennedy, Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan ect bunch...

paris hilton and lindsay lohan and the like are just all a bunch of trend whores. they'll be forgotten eventually. edie made a completely original icon of herself, stunning society with what she wore and did, and with the groundbreaking art she helped create. she had the most extraordinary persona, the kind that resonates for decades. her struggles drew the empathies of the nation's most turbulent era. if she were from our time, it wouldn't be the same.

kelly t, thanks for sharing! i hope they never release that crap
how could they ruin something so wonderful... it's really sad.... they don't deserve this embarassment at all.
oscar, my ***! just hype.

 

[cosmicangel]

im so excited to see mk olsen in this movie, that's all..

 

[Jadee]

paris hilton and lindsay lohan and the like are just all a bunch of trend whores. they'll be forgotten eventually.

Yes they are trend whores.That's why I said I would put Edie above them (but just a bit above them)

As for them being eventually forgotten. Hmm not so sure about that. I can see the next generation worshipping someone like Nicole Richie for instance. If Nicole Richie would die tomorrow she could be fashion icon material. People would forget that she had a stylist (after all people more or less forgot that Audrey Hepburn had one) and be sad over the poor little rich girl struggle.

edie made a completely original icon of herself, stunning society with what she wore and did,

The only good thing about Edie was her sense of style.And I find it overrated.So there. She was cute I'd give her that but not stunningly gorgeous IMO.

and with the groundbreaking art she helped create.

She had absolutely no talent .Other than dressing herself and party.
I don't think she helped create art at all. She may have inspired artists but that's not the same thing. Prostitutes, homeless people, nature ... everything has inspired artists throughout the ages. That doesn't mean that the subject of the artwork was outstanding.Baudelaire could transform mud into gold. Does it means that mud is gold ? Art is more about the artist's vision than its subject.

she had the most extraordinary persona, the kind that resonates for decades. her struggles drew the empathies of the nation's most turbulent era. if she were from our time, it wouldn't be the same.

She was a self centered spoiled girl with not talent whose only goal in life was getting high and be photographed.Today she'd be living it up with Cory Kennedy and Vincent Gallo in front of the cobrasnake. I'm sorry to say that because it's obvious that you're a fan but the woman personality wasn't great at all. She had huge psychological issues since her childhood and was into autodestruction. I feel sorry for her to an extent but you just have to watch Ciao Manhattan or read any books about her to see that she was a nightmare to be around. What makes her special is her connection to talented people and her style. Her persona is all too common. Go in any scene club or at a AA meeting. You'll see people dealing with the same issues. Edie was just better dressed and rich.

On another note I really hope the film will flop.

 

[kellyt]

im so excited to see mk olsen in this movie, that's all..

well, you will be disappointed. She isn't really in the film at all. At least from the version I saw she was just in the background in a party dress smoking a cigarette for 15 seconds at the beginning and thats the ONLY scene she was in. No lines, no close up shots. At all.

However when I saw it they called it a "work in progress" and the film will be modified before its released...so there is a chance she will show up more in the final version. But dont count on it and I dont believe any celebrity could save this film.

Boy, did it suck. I think they should just scrap it completely. There is obviously a strong reaction of hostility towards it so they should quit while they are ahead.

 

[madison01]

Yes they are trend whores.That's why I said I would put Edie above them (but just a bit above them)
As for them being eventually forgotten. Hmm not so sure about that. I can see the next generation worshipping someone like Nicole Richie for instance. If Nicole Richie would die tomorrow she could be fashion icon material.

I suppose that's a matter of opinion, really. I don't think her image and fashion choices are half as radical and original as Edie's were in her time period. She broke conventions, and made herself the original It-girl.

She had absolutely no talent .Other than dressing herself and party.
I don't think she helped create art at all.

If you look into the Girl On Fire project, you'll find out that Edie didn't just sit in front of the camera and act as herself. She had an active, collaborative role in the underground films she helped create. She had great ideas and plans of her own for such films, which were discussed with Andy. She was also a talented artist, and quite intelligent, in my opinion. She had a wonderful way with words. Even if she didn't seem to have a bit of talent in the eyes of the public, it only adds to how extraordinary she must have been to be made a superstar. I mean, to have chaotic throngs of people chanting her name (Warhol's Philadelphia opening) couldn't have been out of nothing.

She was a self centered spoiled girl with not talent whose only goal in life was getting high and be photographed.Today she'd be living it up with Cory Kennedy and Vincent Gallo in front of the cobrasnake. I'm sorry to say that because it's obvious that you're a fan but the woman personality wasn't great at all. She had huge psychological issues since her childhood and was into autodestruction. I feel sorry for her to an extent but you just have to watch Ciao Manhattan or read any books about her to see that she was a nightmare to be around. What makes her special is her connection to talented people and her style. Her persona is all too common. Go in any scene club or at a AA meeting. You'll see people dealing with the same issues. Edie was just better dressed and rich.

Yes, she was spoiled. But the self-centeredness, recklessness, partying and drug abuse were all part the kind of self-destructive personality that comes with childhood trauma, addiction, and having psychological problems. This is the only "nightmare". Which is why I don't see her as some regular junkie, party girl who behaved that way simply to "live it up". She was a victim, completely vulnerable, acting out on her problems and rebelling against the family which suffocated her for so many years. Which is what draws out the sympathies of so many people, especially those from her generation.

She was remembered for the way she walked into a room, for her dazzling and inventive personality, drop-dead charm, nothing common at all. Her presence changed the atmosphere. There are hundreds and hundreds of accounts by people who actually knew her, who really have fond and unforgettable memories of her. I think she was much like Ondine, Andy, etc. in that they all had rare and brilliant personalities. They were artists at creating distinct images out of themselves. Whether you were gay, straight, male or female, you fell in love with Edie, and such relationships would go sour only when she would act upon her problems. They got tired of it.

Anyway, I respect your opinion as I can see where you're coming from

 

[PoppyAzura]

Not looking good for FG. Jeffery Wells- one of the few (well- actually the only one) championing the film is slowing pulling away...

Looks like only a limited release in LA (not NYC)

Weinstein Co, publicist Liz Biber told me this morning that George Hickenlooper's Factory Girl(Weinstein Co., 12.29) will definitely screen "several" times this week for the benefit of New York and Los Angeles critics, as well as the Hollywood Foreign Press. (The National Board of Review saw it yesterday afternoon.) She said she'll be contacting everyone on both coasts today and giving them screening dates and times between now and Saturday.his despite the last-minute, down-to-the-wire additional shooting last month and the re-editing and re-mixing that Hickenlooper finished only yesterday morning (with more tweaks to come over the next week or two), and despite some critics (including a couple of influential ones from the LAFCA and NYFCC orgs, which will decide their annual awards this coming Sunday and Monday, respectively) complaining that the Weinstein Co. doesn't have its act together and that showing a would-be contender this late in the game makes it difficult all around.

The odds that anyone will jump up and down about Factory Girl or even the performances are not high at this stage of the game -- let's face it. But you have to admire the spirit of HIckenlooper and the Weinstein Co. to somehow make it work despite the pressure and general insanity.

Biber wants it understood that there are still a few polishings and smoothing yet to be done on the version that will show this week. Those are curious terms when it comes to this film because Factory Girl has a deliberately raw, unpolished, Warhol-of- the-late-'60s visual scheme, which naturally synchs with the story and the era in which it happens.

Since running an early review last August, I've been waiting for the big end-of-the- year moment when it would finally start screening for the big-gun critics. Having pretty much done cartwheels over Sienna Miller 's performance as Edie Sedg- wick (and Guy Pearce's as Andy Warhol), I wanted to know if I'd be joined by several others or be all alone on an island.I spoke to Us critic and NYFCC Thelma Adams this morning about this whole magillah, and she said that "several screenings at this stage of the game are not good enough for me right now." But NYFCC members vote next Monday and the screenings start tomorrow, I countered -- you have four or five days to see it. "This is very last minute," Adams said. "I'm a mom, I have to commute into town...if they sent me a DVD I could maybe watch it.

"I'd like to see it, I'm curious to see it...but it's the deluge factor right now. They're screening Letters From Iwo Jima and The Good Shepherd this week, to name but two. This has been a good year and I could easily fill a top ten list right now, and you have so many Best Actress contenders already in place. .Sienna Miller doesn't stand a chance unless she's drop-dead brilliant. Bless their hearts" -- she meant the Weinstein Co. -- "but they're pushing too much, too late. It almost seems to do a disservice to the film to put it out this way."

The last-minute, going-totally-crazy efforts of the Weinstein Co. team to get additional shooting done on George Hickenlooper's Factory Girl (Weinstein Co., 12.29) only a few weeks ago and then hurriedly screen the film for all the year-end critics groups for possible awards consideration...the entire breathless bandwagon (Sienna Miller as Edie Sedgwick! Don't count us out! We're in the game!) has suddenly devolved into an east-coast farce.I'm speaking of an hours-old decision to suddenly cancel the just-scheduled New York press screenings in lieu of a decision by Weinstein Co. distribution honchos to bypass the 12.29 release and not even open Factory Girl in New York theatres until sometime early next year, possibly as late as February.

The reason, I'm told, is that the film is not quite finished -- i.e., some rough spots still exist -- and the Weinstein Co. would rather that the extra-tough New York-area critics see a film that's 100% finished rather than one that's 97% or 98% there. bullsh*t, bullsh*t....a line like this is always a cover for something else.

No one was expecting New York Film Critics Circle members to drop everything and see Factory Girl this week (although three screenings had been set up between now and Friday) and then step right up and vote for Miller in the Best Actress category or for Guy Pearce's Andy Warhol performance in the Best Supporting Actor category...nobody was expecting anything. And yet something favorable could have happened along these lines. But not now with the NYFCC totally cut loose. And yet the Weinstein Co. showed the 97% -completed version to the National Board of Review on Monday, and will screen it for the Holly- wood Foreign Press today, and is still showing the film to Los Angeles critics (five screenings between today and Saturday) in time for the LAFCA voting on Sunday.

I've been a supporter of Factory Girl for several months, having seen a rough cut back in August, but now the campaign for it is starting to feel like a joke -- and the film is not that. It's spritzy and steeped in a mid 1960s aroma-atmosphere with a excitingly alive-feeling performance by Miller and a wryly amusing one by Pearce, and yet the Weinstein Co.'s suddenly pulling the film out of the New York arena obviously means someone -- Harvey Weinstein would be a good guess-- got scared at the last second about what the tough-*** NY-area critics might say or do, and decidely to pull the plug on this specific area. Weird.

24 hours ago Weinstein Co, publicist Liz Biber told me that despite confusion to the contrary, Factory Girl would definitely screen "several" times this week for the benefit of New York and Los Angeles critics, as well as the Hollywood Foreign Press. She said she'd be contacting everyone on both coasts yesterday and give them screening dates and times between now and Saturday. And three or four hours later, she did just that. And then came today's announcement about the New York bailout.

I feel somewhere between angered and dis-invested. I've been feeling something genuine for this film for the last four months, but the handling of it over the last 24 to 36 hours has been erratic and close-to-embarassing.

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/

 

[outdoorminer]

^Oh this is fantastic!

 

[Jadee]

Anyway, I respect your opinion as I can see where you're coming from

Thanks I respect yours too.

 

[KhaoticKharma]

I'll rent it when blockbuster gets three DVDs (when, if ever, it is finally released in the US), just to see the fashion. B)

 

[kochie332]

December 9, 2006 -- "FACTORY Girl" - the hotly anticipated movie about 1960s "It Girl" Edie Sedgwick and the Andy Warhol scene - is having such a hard time getting off the assembly line, it won't even be released in New York until sometime next year.

The Weinstein Company had invited New York critics to a screening of the unfinished movie this week, but then disinvited them when the producers learned they wouldn't be eligible for awards from the New York Film Critics Circle.....

The movie, which stars Sienna Miller as the drug-doomed Edie and Guy Pearce as the platinum-wigged Warhol, has been vexed by so many problems and delays that director George Hickenlooper has been pushed aside, sources say.

Page Six previously reported that the crew was forced to reshoot some of the Pittsburgh scenes (or as Miller fondly called it, "S - - - sburgh") in New York.

One New Yorker who was asked to appear in the film said he was shocked it's already being screened because shooting hasn't even wrapped: "They've got me on hold for more scenes next week."
nypost.com

 

[Liberty Bell]

January 2007 issue of W

Sienna Miller Says She Didn't Seek Fame http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-People-Sienna-Miller.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: December 11, 2006
NEW YORK (AP) -- Her on-off relationship with Jude Law made her an overnight celebrity, but Sienna Miller says that wasn't her goal. ''I was just never desperate to be famous, which I know sounds cliched and probably like a lie, but it is, in my case, very true,'' the 24-year-old actress says in the January issue of W magazine http://www.style.com/w. ''And that's the irony of my situation.
''It was always about acting, and now it's all about everything but that. I fell in love with someone very, very famous, and that's beyond all of our control. Strategically I probably could have analyzed it at the time and thought, `This could potentially be very damaging,' but that was a very beautiful period of my life.''
Miller, a fashion icon and Hollywood It Girl, reportedly broke off her engagement to Law last year after he publicly apologized for cheating on her following reports that he had a fling with the nanny of his three children from his marriage to fashion designer-actress Sadie Frost.
She says the 33-year-old actor remains ''a very close person in my life.''
''It just becomes this soap opera,'' she says, recalling the media attention. ''And I guess I had a pretty good few episodes.''
Miller stars as Andy Warhol muse Edie Sedgwick in the upcoming movie ''Factory Girl.''
''I know that I have a lot to prove to a certain degree, but it's fine,'' says Miller, whose screen credits include roles in ''Layer Cake,'' ''Alfie,'' which starred Law, and ''Casanova,'' opposite Heath Ledger.
Though she's been tagged as a party girl by the tabloids, Miller says socializing over alcohol was how she was raised.
''I was brought up in a culture where, when you're 12 years old, you're given a glass of wine at dinner -- it was never a novelty,'' she says.
''Factory Girl,'' also starring Guy Pearce as Warhol, is scheduled for limited release in the United States on Dec. 29.
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[estherlouise]

I wouldn't be surprised. Lame actresses/actors/films have been awarded by the Oscars before. An Oscar has little to do with actual talent.


I won't see this film. It looks really bad. Plus I think Edie Sedgewick is way overrated.
To be honest I'm not even sure she was better than Sienna Miller.
If she was alive today I'd put her just above the Cory Kennedy, Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan ect bunch...

Haha I'm so gonna get bash for saying that .

Marissa Tomei anyone??

 

[brokenenglish]

My mom and I were talking about this film the other day...
and I brought up how popular Edie is right now and esp. online....
and she just couldn't get her head around it.
She says Edie was big but not quite the "it" girl she is being made into now.
( isn't everyone always better dead she said )
I said, but mom all the girls want to be like her....
and she said she is happy she didn't end up like her....
She said find me someone who was alive in the 60's and still thinks Edie was something special.

 

[Liberty Bell]

Sienna Miller is terrified of what her father will think of the explicit scenes in her new film 'Factory Girl'.
The 24-year-old actress - who plays real life 60s 'it' girl Edie Sedgwick in the movie - performs some of the most raunchy scenes ever included in a mainstream film, and was determined to make them as real as possible.
But Sienna even covered her eyes when watching the sequences back because she's dreading the day her father sees them.
She revealed in an interview with Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper: "We wanted to make it realistic and I watched it thinking, 'Oh my God, my dad's going to see it!' And that was going through my head the whole time.
"But it was relevant to the story in that it's a movie about the 60s, and sex and drugs and rock and roll were a big part of that.
"We didn't want to hold back because it is a real film and it is a gritty film and there were a lot of shocking things and it wouldn't fit in the film if we had an unrealistic sex scene."
Sienna's steamy scenes are with co-star Hayden Christensen, who portrays rock star Billy Quinn.
(C) BANG Media International

 

[brokenenglish]

^ someone here said that scene nearly made them puke...
what is so bad about it?