Directed by:
Todd HaynesScreenplay:
Todd HaynesCinematography:
Edward LachmanCast:
John Cale, Maureen Tucker, Sterling Morrison (a.f.), Lou Reed (a.f.), Jonathan Richman, Danny Fields, Jackson Browne, Angus MacLise (a.f.), John Waters (more)VOD (1)
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Emerging from the primordial soup of glamour, gutter sleaze, and feverish creativity that was New York’s 1960s underground culture, the Velvet Underground redefined music with its at once raw and exalted blend of experimentation and art-damaged rock and roll. In his kaleidoscopic documentary The Velvet Underground, Todd Haynes vividly evokes the band’s incandescent world: the creative origins of the twin visionaries Lou Reed and John Cale, Andy Warhol’s fabled Factory, and the explosive tension between pop and the avant-garde that propelled the group and ultimately consumed it. Never-before-seen performances, interviews, rare recordings, and mind-blowing transmissions from the era’s avant-garde cinema scene come together in an ecstatic swirl of sound and image that is to the traditional music documentary what the Velvets were to rock: utterly revolutionary. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
John Cale
UK
Maureen Tucker
USA
Sterling Morrison (a.f.)
USA
Lou Reed (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
Rock & Rule (1983)
Blue in the Face (1995)
Prozac Nation (2001)
Jonathan Richman
USA
Best movies:
There's Something About Mary (1998)
Kingpin (1996)
Danny Fields
USA
Jackson Browne
Best movies:
Angus MacLise (a.f.)
USA
John Waters
USA
Best movies:
Jackass: Number Two (2006)
Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
Hairspray (1988)
Amy Taubin
USA