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The Velvet Underground

Blu-Ray - 2022 Blu-ray 782.421 Ve, Adult Blu-ray / Nonfiction / Performing Arts / Velvet Underground 4 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 0 out of 5

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Call Number: Blu-ray 782.421 Ve, Adult Blu-ray / Nonfiction / Performing Arts / Velvet Underground
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch, Traverwood Branch, Westgate Branch

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Originally produced as a documentary film in 2021.
Wide screen (1.77:1)
Accompanied by booklet containing essay by critic Greil Marcus.
Special features: 4K digital master, approved by director Todd Haynes and cinematographer Ed Lachman, with Dolby Atmos soundtrack; alternate stereo soundtrack; audio commentary featuring Haynes and editors Affonso Gonçalves 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 (Award presentation to Andy Warhol / Jonathan Mekas, 1964; Venus in furs / Piero Heliczer, 1965); teaser; optional annotations identifying the avant-garde films seen in the movie; PLUS: a 2021 essay by critic Greil Marcus.
Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, Maureen Tucker, Nico, Doug Yule, Merrill Reed-Weiner, Allan Hyman, Henry Flynt, La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, Richard Mishkin and others.
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.
Blu-ray, region A ; wide screen (1.77:1) ; Dolby Atmos 7.1 surround and Dolby digital 2.0 stereo ; requires Blu-ray player.

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