Penny Arcade

Penny Arcade

Born: December 8, 1943

Movies for Penny Arcade...

Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC
Title: Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC
Character: Self
Released: March 10, 2023
Type: Movie
Documentary about the legendary nightclub Max's Kansas City and the New York Rock Scene of the 70s.
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Personality Crisis: One Night Only
Title: Personality Crisis: One Night Only
Character: Self
Released: October 12, 2022
Type: Movie
A portrait of musician David Johansen from Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi featuring a live performance at Café Carlyle in New York City, where he performs as Buster Poindexter singing the Johansen songbook, along with new and archival interviews.
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Fragments of Paradise
Title: Fragments of Paradise
Character: Self
Released: August 31, 2022
Type: Movie
For over 70 years, Jonas Mekas, internationally known as the "godfather" of avant-garde cinema, documented his life in what came to be known as his diary films. From his arrival in New York City as a displaced person in 1949 to his death in 2019, he chronicled the trauma and loss of exile while pioneering institutions to support the growth of independent film in the United States. Fragments of Paradise is an intimate look at his life and work constructed from thousands of hours of his own video and film diaries-including never-before-seen tapes and unpublished audio recordings. It is a story about finding beauty amidst profound loss, and a man who tried to make sense of it all... with a camera.
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Andy Warhol's America
Title: Andy Warhol's America
Character: Self
Released: January 6, 2022
Type: Movie
A pioneering artist and cultural icon. His work is a history of 20th-century America. A country reinventing itself - as seen through the legendary artist's eyes.
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Scumbag
Title: Scumbag
Character: Lydia
Released: March 18, 2017
Type: Movie
A young hipster wannabe-superstar dj, Phil, takes on a day job at a telemarketing company, working with crazy people, ex-prisoners, drug addicts and murderers. The time on his life begins to tick as he battles addiction, fights the law and tries to maintain the only sane thing left in his life, his girlfriend, Christine.
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This Side of Heaven
Title: This Side of Heaven
Released: October 27, 2016
Type: Movie
V, an older trans woman, is desperately trying to hold on to her rent stabilized apartment in New York City.
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The Book of Conrad
Title: The Book of Conrad
Released: July 12, 2016
Type: Movie
About the poet C.A.Conrad, an eccentric Elvis worshiping poet and tarot card reader, who confronts his violent past and the suspicious death of his boyfriend, Earth. The film attempts to unravel the mystery of Earth's death, while Conrad wrestles with his inner demons through a series of unconventional rituals and a tour of the deep South.
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The Book of Conrad
Title: The Book of Conrad
Character: herself
Released: July 12, 2016
Type: Movie
About the poet C.A.Conrad, an eccentric Elvis worshiping poet and tarot card reader, who confronts his violent past and the suspicious death of his boyfriend, Earth. The film attempts to unravel the mystery of Earth's death, while Conrad wrestles with his inner demons through a series of unconventional rituals and a tour of the deep South.
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NYC, 1981
Title: NYC, 1981
Character: Penny Arcade
Released: January 29, 2015
Type: Movie
A24 and A MOST VIOLENT YEAR present NYC, 1981. An original short documentary featuring stories from one of the most dangerous years on record for New York City. Featuring Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa, performance artist and former Warhol Factory fixture Penny Arcade, actress Johnnie Mae, Harlem street-style legend Dapper Dan, auto body shop owner Nick Rosello, and trucking union rep Wayne Walsh.
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Beautiful Darling
Title: Beautiful Darling
Character: Self
Released: April 2, 2010
Type: Movie
James Rasin's documentary “Beautiful Darling” honors American Transgender actress and best-known Warhol Superstar, Candy Darling, and her all-too-brief life and career, with a combination of current and vintage interview material, rarely seen archival photos and footage, and extracts from Darling's movies.
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New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture
Title: New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture
Character: Herself
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
The film explores the memory and the legacy of the 60s counterculture through interviews with NY political activists, artists and people on the street. The mosaic of voices heard in the documentary creates a public site for memories, reflections and hopes for the future to be shared beyond the confines of one's community. An inter-generational exploration on what is left of the 60s in people's memory and consciousness.
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The Stolen Moments of September
Title: The Stolen Moments of September
Character: Thug
Released: June 30, 2007
Type: Movie
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Excavating Taylor Mead
Title: Excavating Taylor Mead
Character: Herself
Released: October 8, 2005
Type: Movie
The film icon/Andy Warhol darling is interviewed is his legendary cluttered apartment.
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Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
Title: Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
Character: Self
Released: May 5, 2004
Type: Movie
Andy Warhol described Jackie Curtis as “A pioneer without a frontier.” In this biographical documentary, Curtis’s co-workers and friends speak of her work and her influence, along with clips from Curtis’s Warhol films as well as never-before-seen footage from her stage shows.
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The Significant Death of Quentin Crisp
Title: The Significant Death of Quentin Crisp
Character: Herself
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Quentin Crisp was a writer, raconteur, social rebel, and "professional being". He was nearly 91 when he died of heart failure in 1999, and his death powerfully affected those who loved him. In this portrait, Tim Fountain (Crisp's biographer, and author of the play RESIDENT ALIEN) interviews friends and family of Crisp, to learn something of the significance of his death, and the "enigma of his life".
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Sadness at Leaving
Title: Sadness at Leaving
Character: Juanita
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
Following the erection of the Berlin wall, special agent Carl Halman is assigned by East German intelligence to move to New York where he’ll “sleep” as a writer until he is called. Using the code-name “April 23,” Carl successfully infiltrates the uptown-downtown literary world in 1950s New York. He edits a magazine, follows the Knicks, and marries Melinda, the socialite wife of best-selling jock novelist Hubert Cleaver, Ayden’s hilarious Norman Mailer pastiche. Through Carl’s eyes, we see New York City change from an outpost of Europe to the new capital of an anarchistic, post-ideological world. But then, when Carl least expects it, he’s called.
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I Was on Mars
Title: I Was on Mars
Character: Coffee shop waitress
Released: October 1, 1991
Type: Movie
Silva fulfills herself a dream: from Poland she flies to USA. With only a few hundred dollars she arrives in New York, incapable of the language. Not long until the charming swindler Avi steals all her money - but she doesn't give up: She hunts him down, follows him around, demanding her money back.
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Resident Alien
Title: Resident Alien
Character: Performance Artist
Released: September 14, 1990
Type: Movie
At age 73, writer and melancholy master of the bon mot, Quentin Crisp (1908-1999), became an Englishman in New York. Nossiter's camera follows Crisp about the streets of Manhattan, where Crisp seems very much at home, wearing eye shadow, appearing on a makeshift stage, making and repeating wry observations, talking to John Hurt (who played Crisp in the autobiographical TV movie, "The Naked Civil Servant"), and dining with friends. Others who know Crisp comment on him, on his life as an openly gay man with an effeminate manner, and on his place in the history of gays' social struggle. The portrait that emerges is of one wit and of suffering.
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Jack Smith's Apartment
Title: Jack Smith's Apartment
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Film of Jack Smith's apartment starring Penny Arcade before it was reposed by the "evil landlords."
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Women in Revolt
Title: Women in Revolt
Character: Penny
Released: December 1, 1971
Type: Movie
Candy is an aloof heiress caught in an unhappy relationship with her brother. Jackie is a virginal intellectual who believes women are oppressed in contemporary American society. And Holly is a nymphomaniac who has come to loathe men, despite her attraction to them. Together, they join a militant feminist group, P.I.G. (Politically Involved Girls), but their newfound liberation doesn't make them any happier.