Written and Directed by James Rasin
Born James Slattery in Massapequa, Long Island, in 1944, Candy Darling transformed herself into a stunning blonde actress who in the mid-Sixties became an active player in New York’s “downtown” scene. In her passionate act of self-creation, Candy Darling mesmerized. A party fixture, she appeared in Warhol films, and Tennessee Williams cast her in a play. She was seen and written about, and then, before she turned 30, cancer claimed her life.
Using vintage footage and interviews old and new, and anchored by the presence of Candy’s very close friend, Jeremiah Newton, director James Rasin creates a critical and loving portrait of a singular and audacious life. With Jackie Curtis, Holly Woodlawn, Penny Arcade, Paul Morrissey, Fran Lebowitz, John Waters. Candy’s letters and diaries read by Chloë Sevigny.
2010. USA. 86 min.
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ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
New York–based filmmaker James Rasin was born in Chicago in 1963. His short film The Burning Ghat, featuring Beat writer Herbert Huncke, was screened at the Venice Biennale and the Chicago International Film Festival, and his short documentary, Gregory Corso Reads from the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, was shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Rasin has written several screenplays, including Somebody’s Sins (cowritten with Jack Walls), about the lives of Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith. Rasin also wrote the screenplay for an Andy Warhol feature to be directed by Abel Ferrara.
