Portland Public Library

The Velvet Underground, Apple Original Films and Polygram Entertainment present ; in association with Federal Films ; a Motto Pictures production ; a Killer Films production ; a documentary film by Todd Haynes ; directed and produced by Todd Haynes ; produced by Christine Vachon, Julie Goldman, Christopher Clements, Carolyn Hepburn, David Blackman

eng

videorecording

MPAA rating: R

The Velvet Underground

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Apple Original Films and Polygram Entertainment present ; in association with Federal Films ; a Motto Pictures production ; a Killer Films production ; a documentary film by Todd Haynes ; directed and produced by Todd Haynes ; produced by Christine Vachon, Julie Goldman, Christopher Clements, Carolyn Hepburn, David Blackman

120

The Criterion collection, 1164

Emerging from the primordial soup of glamour, gutter sleaze, and feverish creativity that was New Yorks 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

disc one. [Feature film] -- disc two

adult

live action