TY  - ADVS
AU  - Haynes,Todd
AU  - Reed,Lou
AU  - Cale,John
AU  - Morrison,Sterling
AU  - Tucker,Maureen
ED  - Criterion Collection (Firm),
ED  - Apple Original Films,
ED  - PolyGram Entertainment (Firm),
ED  - Federal Films, Inc.,
ED  - Motto Pictures,
ED  - Killer Films,
TI  - The Velvet Underground
T2  - Criterion collection
SN  - 9781681439990
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - [United States]
PB  - The Criterion Collection
KW  - Velvet Underground (Musical group)
KW  - Rock groups
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Rock music
KW  - 1961-1970
KW  - 1971-1980
KW  - Video recordings for the hearing impaired
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Nonfiction films
KW  - Documentary films
KW  - Musical films
N1  - Title from disc surface; Originally released as a motion picture in 2021; Wide screen (1.77:1); Special features: Alternate stereo soundtrack; Audio commentary; Interview outtakes; Todd Hayes, John Cale, Maureen Woronov in conversation with Jenn Pelly; Complete versions of some of the avant-garde films excerpted in the movie; essay by critic Greil Marcus; Editors, Affonso Goncalves, Adam Kurnitz ; cinematography, Ed Lachman ; music, Randall Poster; Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, Maureen Tucker; Rating: R
N2  - 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
ER  -