Mexican actress Lupe Vélez's final hours as she overdoses on Seconal.

Billy Name screen test by Andy Warhol.

A look at avant-garde filmmaker Marie Menken.

Shot in slow motion, with tiny bits of stagy lighting that seem to crumble and flake like cookies, Billy Name gives one of his notorious haircuts--and Warhol turns it into a homoerotic performance, a dance of adoration and control, a triangle of looking and keeping-at-bay, that is a slightly dullish but finally essential contribution to Warhol's long project of bringing portraiture technologies to moviemaking.