Tally Brown New York

Audience Score
50
Tally Brown New York
NR 1 hr 37 minDocumentary
Tally Brown New York is a 1979 documentary film directed written and produced by Rosa von Praunheim The film is about the singing and acting career of Tally Brown a classically trained opera and blues singer who was a star of underground films in New York City and a denizen of its underworld in the late 1960s In this documentary Praunheim relies on extensive interviews with Brown as she recounts her collaboration with Andy Warhol Taylor Mead and others as well as her friendships with Holly Woodlawn and Divine Brown opens the film with a cover of David Bowies Heroes and concludes with Rock n Roll Suicide The film captures not only Tally Browns career but also a particular New York milieu in the 1970s