How to watch Andy Warhol: The American Dream in New Zealand
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Andy Warhol once said that in the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. Turns out his particular stretch of celebrity has lasted a lot longer. As evidence, here comes a new doco about one of the most important, creative, and divisive artists of the 20th century.
How to watch Andy Warhol: The American Dream in New Zealand
Andy Warhol: The American Dream is screening in New Zealand cinemas from July 24, 2025.
Andy Warhol: The American Dream
What is Andy Warhol: The American Dream about?
Andy Warhol!
I mean, obviously, right? The soup can guy. David Bowie played him in Basquiat. A Slovakian documentary from director Lubomir Slivka and writer Petra Basic Slivková, Andy Warhol: The American Dream is a biography, sure, but it’s also an immigrant story. Warhol’s parents were immigrants from what is now Miková in northeast Slovakia and, looking around (good lord, but there is almost no information out there about this one at all) it seems that the focus here is on the Warhol family’s journey from working class immigrant poverty to the top of the art world heap.
Compiled from archival footage and interviews with family, friends, and art historians, it sounds interesting at least.
The cast of Andy Warhol: The American Dream
Uh…Andy Warhol? Expect a lot of the Factory crew to show up in archival footage.
Andy Warhol: The American Dream trailer
Why we’re excited about Andy Warhol: The American Dream
Andy Warhol is one of the important artistic figures of the last hundred years, and his life and work is endlessly fascinating, so a new documentary is more than welcome. Having said that, there’s so little information about Andy Warhol: The American Dream out there, it’s hard to make a judgement call. The handful of Letterboxd reviews out there seem pretty unimpressed, though. Make of that what you will.
