#1164: HAYNES, Todd: The Velvet Underground (2021)
HAYNES, Todd (United States)
The Velvet Underground [2021]
Director/Writers
The Velvet Underground [2021]
Spine #1164
Blu-ray
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.
120 minutes
Black and White/Color
Dolby Atmos
1:77:1
Criterion Release 2022
Black and White/Color
Dolby Atmos
1:77:1
Criterion Release 2022
Todd Haynes was 50 when he directed The Velvet Underground.
Other Haynes films in the Collection:
#739: Safe (1995)
Other Haynes films in the Collection:
#739: Safe (1995)
The Film
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Film Rating (0-60):
The Booklet
Twenty-eight page booklet featuring an essay by critic Greil Marcus.
Commentary
Featuring Haynes and editors Affonso Gonçalves and Adam Kurnitz.
Outtakes
Of interviews shot for the film with musician Richman, filmmaker Jonas Mekas, and actor Woronov.
Conversation
With Haynes and musicians Cale and Tucker in conversation with writer Jenn Pelly in 2021.
Complete versions
Of some of the avant-garde films excerpted in the movie.
Teaser
Optional
Annotations identifying the avant-garde films seen in the movie.
Theatrical trailer
Extras Rating (0-40):
60
The ExtrasThe Booklet
Twenty-eight page booklet featuring an essay by critic Greil Marcus.
Commentary
Featuring Haynes and editors Affonso Gonçalves and Adam Kurnitz.
Outtakes
Of interviews shot for the film with musician Richman, filmmaker Jonas Mekas, and actor Woronov.
Conversation
With Haynes and musicians Cale and Tucker in conversation with writer Jenn Pelly in 2021.
Complete versions
Of some of the avant-garde films excerpted in the movie.
Teaser
Optional
Annotations identifying the avant-garde films seen in the movie.
Theatrical trailer
Extras Rating (0-40):
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