For the last scene, director Agnès Varda did not want to say "cut" and chose to let the camera run, until it was out of film stock.
The assassination attempt on Andy Warhol is mentioned. Viva at the time was part of Warhol's social circle, she having appeared almost exclusively in his movies before this one.
While often referred to by the title "Lions Love (...and Lies)", the "(...and Lies)" part never appears on screen or on the original film posters.
Dialogue between some characters after the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, displayed on TV, reported and discussed during the film's time-frame, suggests a subliminal KKK connection when considering the chained John F. Kennedy-Martin Luther King-Bobby Kennedy assassinations.
This film is included in "Eclipse Series 43: Agnès Varda in California", released by Criterion.
Jim Morrison: Agnès Varda originally wanted Jim Morrison to play one of the male leads. He declined, though he visited the production during filming and can be briefly seen as an audience member of the theater performance of "The Beard" in the opening scene.
Peter Bogdanovich: is fleetingly glimpsed walking out of Larry Edmunds Book Shop holding a copy of his own book on John Ford.