TALLY BROWN, NEW YORK (LA Premiere!) + SCARECROW IN A GARDEN OF CUCUMBERS!

7th House and Queer Film Los Angeles, are thrilled to present a double feature celebrating two singular icons of New York’s queer underground: the inimitable downtown cabaret legend and Warhol superstar Tally Brown and fellow superstar and pioneering trans icon Holly Woodlawn. Headlined by the Los Angeles premiere of the gorgeous new restoration of Rosa von Praunheim’s TALLY BROWN, NEW YORK (1979) and paired with the restoration of Robert J. Kaplan’s delirious and riotous cult romp SCARECROW IN A GARDEN OF CUCUMBERS , this special evening offers a vivid journey through the grit, glamour, irreverent mischief, and radical creative freedom of 1970s downtown New York — a vanished world of cabaret stages, underground cinema, and larger-than-life personalities who transformed themselves into living works of art.

TALLY BROWN, NEW YORK

Los Angeles premiere of the new 2K restoration!

“A must-see for all those interested in performance and the cultural history of New York in the '70s; the bewigged Miss Brown, with false eyelashes capable of sending her short, round body aloft, is the most mesmerizing raconteur and cabaret artist you'll hear this year.” — Melissa Anderson, The Village Voice

Both a loving portrait of a larger-than-life personality and a vivid record of New York’s 1970s bohemian demimonde, this captivating documentary follows chanteuse Tally Brown—cabaret diva, star of underground films, and a staple of Andy Warhol’s Factory scene—as she takes filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim on a tour through the grit and glamour of the city she loved. Capturing Brown’s mesmerizing performances (including her breathtaking bilingual cover of David Bowie’s “Heroes”) as well as her social world among fellow queer cult icons like Holly Woodlawn, Divine, and Taylor Mead, TALLY BROWN, NEW YORK is an essential snapshot of a downtown scene that has passed into legend.

By turns hilarious, melancholic, and intoxicating, the film captures Tally Brown herself in all her flamboyant wit, emotional openness, and larger-than-life magnetism, preserving the fleeting world of queer cabaret, underground performance, and bohemian survival that she embodied so completely before the city’s rough edges and art enclaves were slowly scrubbed away and sanitized.

2K restoration by the Deutsche Kinemathek, courtesy of Muscle Distribution.

Dir. Rosa von Praunheim, 1979, 97 mins, West Germany, English, Unrated (Adult Audiences), Digital.

SCARECROW IN A GARDEN OF CUCUMBERS

Beautifully restored by the Academy Film Archive and the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA), Robert J. Kaplan’s SCARECROW IN A GARDEN OF CUCUMBERS is a rediscovered should-be-cult-classic gem of ’70s queer cinema and one of the great lost oddities of downtown New York filmmaking.

A fixture of Andy Warhol’s Factory and muse to pioneering queer filmmaker Paul Morrissey, whose films Trash and Women in Revolt transformed her into an overnight underground sensation, Woodlawn received her first and only starring role in this hilarious, exuberant musical comedy as a small-town Kansas girl trying to make it big — or at least find a roommate — in New York City. Along the way she encounters a gallery of downtown eccentrics, including Tally Brown as the always-arm-candy-adorned scene queen Mary Poppins (yes, really), an imposing matriarch who runs her own computer dating and roommate-pairing service.

Long unavailable and never released on home video, SCARECROW IN A GARDEN OF CUCUMBERS is shaggy, irreverent, and overflowing with slapstick, Old Hollywood riffs, surreal comic detours, and show-stopping musical numbers, channeling a similarly anarchic downtown spirit to the films of Robert Downey Sr. Featuring covert cameos by Lily Tomlin and Bette Midler, the film also stands as one of the earliest American features to center a trans performer in a leading role.

Lovingly restored by the Academy Film Archive and AGFA after decades out of circulation, this joyous and gloriously eccentric rediscovery is finally ready to find the cult audience it has long deserved.

2K restoration by the Academy Film Archive, courtesy of American Genre Film Archive.

Dir. Robert J. Kaplan, 1972, 82 min, U.S., Unrated ( Adult Audiences), Color/B&W, English, Digital.

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