Metrograph Presents Leaving the Factory: Morrissey After Warhol

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Parent Category: Film and the Arts

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Published on Thursday, 21 August 2025 21:59

Written by Brad Balfour

Paul Morrissey (1938 - 2024) shocked, delighted, and disgusted audiences for decades with his “Warhol” films, and leaving a mark as a reactionary auteur. Now the Metrograph theater (7 Ludlow Street) pays tribute to the films made in the 1980s and distancing himself from the Warhol brand. 

Leaving the Factory: Morrissey After Warhol runs September 5th to the 14th (with select encore screenings) featuring five films, all screened in 35mm. These are rare and raw films such as Forty Deuce (starring a young Kevin Bacon) based on Alan Bowne’s off-Broadway play about desperate hustlers. The anti-biopic Beethoven’s Nephew, paints a less than flattering picture of the legendary composer in this shot in Vienna period piece. Madame Wang’s is a satire of 1980s LA as an agent of the East German Stasi becomes mired with Los Angeles squatters. Mixed Blood is a an East Village turf war as gangs battle across Alphabet City. Spike of Bensonhurst is about a down on his luck boxer who’s run out of his neighborhood for chasing after the daughter of mafia boss Ernest Borgnine and now hides out in the Red Hook slums. 

To learn more, go to: https://metrograph.com/category/morrissey/

Leaving the Factory: Morrissey After Warhol
September 5 - 14, 2025 with select encore screenings to follow

Metrograph
7 Ludlow Street
New York, NY 10002

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