Tally Brown, New York

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| name = Tally Brown, New York

| image = Tally Brown, New York film poster.jpg

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| caption = Theatrical release poster

| director = Rosa von Praunheim

| producer = Rosa von Praunheim
Joachim von Mengershausen

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| starring = Tally Brown
Holly Woodlawn
Divine
Taylor Mead
Ching Ho Cheng
Edward Caton

| music = Tally Brown
Holly Woodlawn

| cinematography = Edvard Lieber
Michael Oblowitz
Rosa von Praunheim
Juliana Wang
Lloyd Williams

| editing = Mike Shephard
Rosa von Praunheim,

Rosa von Praunheim

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| released = {{Film date|1979|05|04|df=yes}}

| runtime = 97 minutes

| country = United States
Germany

| language = English

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Tally Brown, New York is a 1979 documentary film directed, written and produced by Rosa von Praunheim, centring around the career of Tally Brown.

The film received international attention and was shown, for example, at Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 1979.{{cite web|title=Recent Films From West-Germany|url=https://www.moma.org/momaorg/shared/pdfs/docs/press_archives/5785/releases/MOMA_1979_0085_71.pdf|work=Museum of Modern Art|access-date=2022-04-25}}

Plot

The film follows the singing and acting career of Tally Brown, a classically trained opera and blues singer who became a star of the New York underground scene in the late 1960s. In this documentary, von Praunheim draws on extensive interviews with Brown, in which she shares her collaborations with Andy Warhol, Taylor Mead and other artists, and friendships with Ching Ho Cheng, Holly Woodlawn and Divine. Brown opens the film with a cover of David Bowie's Heroes and closes with Rock 'n' Roll Suicide. The film not only captures Tally Brown's career, but also a certain New York milieu of the 1970s.{{cite news

| last = Anderson

| first = Melissa

| title = The Films of Rosa von Praunheim at Anthology

| work = The Village Voice

| date = June 3, 2009

| url = http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-06-03/film/the-films-of-rosa-von-praunheim-at-anthology/

| accessdate = 2014-05-05

| archive-date = 2011-01-21

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110121202659/http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-06-03/film/the-films-of-rosa-von-praunheim-at-anthology/

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Production notes

The documentary is also notable for being the first of Praunheim's many portraits of women, mostly aging performers, who have become iconic figures in the LGBT community.

Awards

1979: German Film Award (for best non-feature film){{cite web|title=Rosa von Praunheim - Awards|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0902823/awards|work=Internet Movie Database|access-date=2022-04-25}}
1979: Nominated for the Gold Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival

Reception

The Village Voice wrote: "In its way, Tally Brown, New York is the best documentary about New York since Chantal Akerman's News From Home",{{cite web|title=Tally Brown, New York|url=http://www.rosavonpraunheim.de/werke/rosafilme/78tally/w_tally_brown_1.html|work=Rosa von Praunheim Filmproduktion - Village Voice, 1979|access-date=2022-04-25}} and "a must-see for all those interested in performance and the cultural history of New York in the ’70s."{{cite web|title=The Films of Rosa von Praunheim at Anthology|url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2009/06/03/the-films-of-rosa-von-praunheim-at-anthology/|work=Village Voice|date=3 June 2009|access-date=2022-04-25}}