The Velvet Underground (Criterion Collection

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.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED TWO-DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES


* New 4K digital master, approved by director Todd Haynes and cinematographer Ed Lachman, with 5.1 surround soundtrack
* Audio commentary featuring Haynes and editors Affonso Gonçalves and Adam Kurnitz
* Outtakes of interviews shot for the film with musicians John Cale, Jonathan Richman, and Maureen Tucker; filmmaker Jonas Mekas; and actor Mary Woronov
* Conversation from 2021 among Haynes, Cale, and Tucker
* Complete versions of some of the avant-garde films excerpted in the movie, including Piero Heliczer’s Venus in Furs (1965)
* Teaser
* English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
* Optional annotated subtitle track that identifies the avant-garde films seen in the movie
* PLUS: A 2021 essay by critic Greil Marcus

Actors: Todd Haynes

Audio Languages: English

Number of Discs: 2

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