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I Shot Andy Warhol [DVD]

Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over | Format: DVD
3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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  • Format: PAL
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: MGM Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 10 July 2006
  • Run Time: 99 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • ASIN: B000FIGEZC
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 81,908 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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Based on the attempted murder of New York artist Andy Warhol. Valerie Solanas (Lili Taylor) moves to Sixties New York, where she is befriended by the transvestite Candy Darling (Stephen Dorff) and lesbian Stevie. Working as a prostitute, Valerie tries to get herself published. She writes her own manifesto, SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men), and a play entitled 'Up Your Ass'. When she and her friends become part of Warhol's (Jared Harris) Factory entourage, Valerie has hopes that Warhol will produce her work, but instead finds herself ridiculed by and finally 'excommunicated' from his circle. As she slips into paranoia, Valerie makes an attempt on Warhol's life.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Some good performances, but it could have been more adventurous 4 Dec 2007
By cathy earnshaw
The film's title is self-explanatory: this is the story of militant lesbian feminist Valerie Solanas' violent attack on the pope of pop art, Andy Warhol, on June 3, 1968. It was partly the forthrightness of the title that so enraged Lou Reed, a friend of Warhol's in the 1960s and lead singer of the Warhol-produced Velvet Underground: "How would people feel about a film titled 'I Shot John Lennon?'". Unsurprisingly Reed refused cooperation, but ex-Velvet John Cale agreed to compose the original score and famous Factory cohort Billy Name served as a dramatic consultant (Billy was also responsible for the original Factory being decorated in silver foil; the replica here, complete with weirdly-shaped silver balloons, looks utterly convincing).

Lili Taylor's performance as Valerie has garnered a host of very complimentary reviews as well as a Grand Jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival. It is certainly an authentic portrayal (as is Stephen Dorff's performance as the transvestite Candy). Another Amazon reviewer has complained that Solanas is irritating because of her fast-talking, misandrist manner, but that is surely intentional: she is after all an anti-heroine and director Mary Harron (who interviewed Warhol herself in 1980) is unlikely to have wanted to give a more sympathetic account than was necessary. Personally, I think the film doesn't go far enough on this score: Solanas was clearly an extremely dangerous woman, so obsessed with Warhol that she even spray-painted the bullets silver, regarded him as a vampire and referred to the shooting three years after the event as "a moral act. And I consider it immoral that I missed. I should have done target practice".... Read more ›
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