GME Notes with Sadness the Recent Passing of Warhol Superstar Brigid Berlin

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"It is a bitter but lyric work. It is also revolutionary in form, being unlike, in its technique, anything you ever saw. It is a poster declaration, a manifesto. I regard GUNS OF THE TREES as the most important film by far of the American 'New Wave.…
 

GME notes with sadness the recent passing of Warhol superstar Brigid Berlin. A fixture at the Factory for decades, Berlin appeared in several of his films and photos and was also an important participant in Warhol’s life, to which, per the artist, she contributed enormously.  Berlin is perhaps best remembered for her shocking role in Warhol’s best known early film, CHELSEA GIRLS (1966). 

John Waters, who cast her in several of his movies after Warhol’s death, called her “old money combined with danger” and “my favorite underground movie star; big, often naked and ornery as hell.”  Berlin is also featured in the documentary about her life PIE IN THE SKY: THE BRIGID BERLIN STORY (2000) to which GME president Jon Gartenberg acted as archival consultant.