The Velvet Underground / Apple Original Films and Polygram Entertainment present ; in association with Federal Films ; a Motto Pictures and Killer Films production ; directed by Todd Haynes ; produced by Todd Haynes [and 5 others]
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: CC3425D | The Criterion CollectionCC3425DVD | The Criterion CollectionLanguage: English Original language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 1164.Publisher: [United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2022]Edition: Director-approved two-DVD special editionDescription: 2 videodiscs (120 min.) : sound, color, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 pages : illustrations, some color ; 19 cm)Content type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 9781681439990
- 1681439999
- Editors, Affonso Goncalves, Adam Kurnitz ; cinematography, Ed Lachman ; music, Randall Poster.
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Main Library | DVD | 782.4216 V446 | Available | 33111009980836 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
DVD; region 1, NTSC; wide screen (1.77:1); Dolby digital 5.1 surround.
English dialogue; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
Title from disc surface.
Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, Maureen Tucker.
Editors, Affonso Goncalves, Adam Kurnitz ; cinematography, Ed Lachman ; music, Randall Poster.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2021.
Wide screen (1.77:1)
Rating: R.
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.
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.