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Cleopatra situates itself in the same relationship to Hollywood as the Warhol/Morrisey films of the
period. It corresponds to Joseph Mankiewicz’s 1963 Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor and
Richard Burton which Auder’s cast watched and used as the starting point for scene by scene
improvisation Auder drew his cast from Warhol’s ensemble – including not only Viva and Louis
Waldon, but also Taylor Mead, Ondine, Andrea Feldman, Gerard Melanga and others.
The film revels in epic excess like Mankiewicz’s cinematic debacle which succumbed to vast length,
a bloated budget, multiple revisions and a scandal occasioned by the extramarital escapades of its
co-stars.

In Auder’s Cleopatra, Viva is the queen, shrieking with an authority different from the languorous
speech patterns she had perfected in Warhol’s films.
The (newly invented) snowmobile substitutes for horses; the industrial setting of a factory becomes
a showplace of armaments, and the whole Egypt section takes place in upstate New York. The
streets and parks of Rome, where Waldon lived at the time, are the staging ground for his role as
Caesar.

In a wonderful display of Waldon’s charm and skills as an improviser, he begins a dialogue with
local police who are then conscripted into the film as Roman soldiers.
Auder shot the culminating orgy and gladiator scenes in the famous Cinécita film studio in Rome
where Mankiewicz filmed. Due to a fight with his producers, Auder never edited the film which was
lost for many years. It survives as an uncut degraded copy of the original.

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Agnes Varda directed this drama which combines formal dramatic structures with the openness of improvisational cinema verite. Independent filmmaker Shirley Clarke plays an avant-garde film director attempting to work with a major studio to finance her next project, in which she hopes to collaborate with James Rado and Jerome Ragni, creators of the musical Hair (who play themselves). She also wants to use Andy Warhol superstar Viva (who also appears as herself) as her leading lady. However, after much give and take between herself and the moneymen, the director learns that the plug has been pulled on her project, pushing her to the brink of suicide. Incorporating newsreel footage and excerpts from the work of poet and playwright Michael McClure into its narrative, Lions Love also features appearances by European screen tough guy Eddie Constantine and noted film writers Carlos Clarens and Peter Bogdanovich.

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