The Velvet Underground (2021)
As part of <b>BEATS WORKING</b>, our annual mini-music festival, we present a special screening of Todd Haynes' <i>The Velvet Underground.</i><div><br></div><div>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 <i>The Velvet Underground,</i> 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.</div><div><br></div><div>In what is Todd Haynes’ first feature documentary, he tackles subjects he has long been circling around: counterculture movements, artists and musicians who have shaped popular culture and who have also left an indelible mark on his filmmaking sensibility. This one of a kind film is a thrilling documentation of the disruptive art that emerged from the time, and a loving tribute to a New York that no longer exists.</div>DocumentaryPT2H1MMLou Reed
John Cale
Sterling Morrison
Maureen Tucker
Andy Warhol
Jonas Mekas
Jonathan Richman
John Waters
Nico
David Bowie
Todd Haynes
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