Monday, December 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM to 10:30 PM
2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles
Lightstruck is thrilled to partner with Liz Purchell and Hollywood Entertainment for an extremely rare 16mm screening of Paul Morrissey & Andy Warhol’s infamous, transgressive, and hilarious satire, *Women In Revolt*! “Man-hating dykes Jackie (Curtis) and Holly (Woodlawn) plot to recruit bored Long Island socialite Candy (Darling) away from her incestuous relationship with her brother and into joining their militant feminist organization, the Politically Involved Girls, in Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol’s anarchic satire. Shot in spurts over the course of a year—during which Warhol and Morrissey also decamped to Paris to shoot Andy Warhol’s *L’amour* (1972) and the fall release of *Trash* (1970) led none other than George Cukor to launch an Oscar campaign for Woodlawn—*Women in Revolt* serves both as Warhol’s response to Valerie Solanas and the capper to his seven years of frenetic moviemaking in New York, with Morrissey fully taking over the reins with the Factory’s next production, the Los Angeles-shot *Heat* (1972). Much has been said about the way that Morrissey and Warhol’s casting of their three trans superstars as cis women was meant to make them the butt of the joke (men playing feminist women, get it?), though that reading is perhaps a bit harsh and doesn’t give the filmmakers enough credit. In giving Curtis, Darling, and Woodlawn a full hundred minutes to run wild—and pitting them against each other to jockey for screen time—one could argue instead that the film merely serves as both a remarkable showcase for their individual talents and personalities and something of a cautionary tale for what happens when you cast not one but three divas in the same film. Loud, raucous, and maybe a little exhausting, *Women in Revolt!* is a groundbreaking work of trans cinema and one of the great—if sadly underseen—underground films.” (Liz Purchell) With special guest Liz Purchell to introduce the film! Program by Lightstruck & Hollywood Entertainment. 16mm print courtesy of Paul Morrissey Film Trust.