Rent The Velvet Underground (2021)
3.6 of 5 from 82 ratings
2h 0min
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- Synopsis:
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 experimental 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. - Actors:
- John Waters, Mary Woronov, Barbara Walters, Lou Reed, Jackson Browne, Jonathan Richman, Jonas Mekas, John Cale, Allen Ginsberg, Maureen Tucker, Danny Fields, Sterling Morrison, Doug Yule, Amy Taubin, Merrill Reed Weiner, Angus MacLise, Allan Hyman, Martha Morrison, Shelly Corwin, Richard Mishkin
- Directors:
- Todd Haynes
- Producers:
- David Blackman, Christopher Clements, Julie Goldman, Todd Haynes, Carolyn Hepburn, Christine Vachon
- Writers:
- Todd Haynes
- Genres:
- Documentary, Music & Musicals, Special Interest
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 26/12/2022
- Run Time:
- 120 minutes
- Languages:
- English Dolby Atmos, English Stereo
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.77:1
- Colour:
- Colour and B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Audio commentary featuring Haynes and editors Affonso Goncalves and Adam Kurnitz
- Outtakes of interviews shot for the film with musician Jonathan Richman, filmmaker Jonas Mekas, and actor Mary Woronov
- Haynes and musicians John Cale and Maureen 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 English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
