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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]

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Format:
Video
Contributor:
Haynes, Todd, film director, film producer.
Reed, Lou, musician.
Cale, John, musician.
Morrison, Sterling, musician.
Tucker, Maureen, musician.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
Apple Original Films, presenter.
PolyGram Entertainment (Firm), presenter.
Federal Films, Inc., prodution company.
Motto Pictures, prodution company.
Killer Films, prodution company.
Series:
Criterion collection ; 1164.
Criterion collection ; 1164
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Velvet Underground (Musical group).
Rock groups--United States--Biography.
Rock groups.
Rock music--1961-1970--Biography.
Rock music.
Rock music--1971-1980--Biography.
United States.
Genre:
Biographies.
Documentary films.
Musical films.
Nonfiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (120 min.) : sound, color, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 pages : illustrations, some color ; 19 cm)
Edition:
Director-approved two-DVD special edition.
Place of Publication:
[United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2022]
Language Note:
English dialogue; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
System Details:
DVD, NTSC, Region 1; wide screen (1.77:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.
digital
optical
surround
Dolby digital 5.1
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1
Summary:
Emerging from the primordial soup of glamour, gutter sleaze, and feverish creativity that was New York₂s 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.
Participant:
Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, Maureen Tucker.
Credits:
Editors, Affonso Goncalves, Adam Kurnitz ; cinematography, Ed Lachman ; music, Randall Poster.
Notes:
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.
ISBN:
9781681439990
1681439999
OCLC:
1347765062
Publisher Number:
715515279710
CC3425D The Criterion Collection
CC3425DVD The Criterion Collection

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