Lupe is part of what might be considered Warhol's Hollywood trilogy, a series of films made in the winter of 1965-66 which focused on well-known scandals involving Hollywood stars. Lupe was based on the 1944 death of Lupe Velez, the actress known as the "Mexican Spitfire," who had planned an elegant suicide in her Hollywood mansion, taking sleeping pills and lying down on a bed surrounded by flowers and candles, only to be found dead with her head in the toilet. Despite the campy potential of this story, Lupe is more of an Edie Sedgwick vehicle than a Hollywood melodrama. Much like Warhol's earlier series of Sedgwick films, Lupe is a rather direct filming of a decidedly uncampy Edie simply acting as herself. Lupe is an important transitional work in Warhol's cinema, marking both the end of the Sedgwick films and the beginning of Warhol's experimentations in multiscreen production.-C.A. Please note: Lupe will be shown again in a double-screen projection on August 16.