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  • Actors: Lili Taylor, Jared Harris, Martha Plimpton, Lothaire Bluteau, Anna Levine
  • Directors: Mary Harron
  • Writers: Daniel Minahan, Diane Tucker
  • Producers: Anthony Wall, Christine Vachon, Lindsay Law
  • Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Colour, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
  • Language English, Spanish
  • Subtitles: Spanish, French
  • Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: R (Restricted) (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: MGM
  • DVD Release Date: 23 Jan 2001
  • Run Time: 103 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • ASIN: B000053VAV
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 114,660 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Mary Harron's feature--which picked up a Special Jury Award at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival for lead actress and independent film mainstay Lili Taylor--is a highly suspect mishmash of golly-gee counterculture reconstruction and inflammatory agitprop. Harron re-creates the ultimately violent relationship of motor-mouth street freak writer-prostitute-lesbian-gun-wielding assailant Valerie Solanas (Taylor) and pop artist Andy Warhol (Jared Harris) in the late 1960s, which ended in Solanas's assault on Warhol for his charmingly noncommittal responses to her search for a patron. It's a great idea for a film, but I Shot Andy Warhol is truly at odds with itself. Harron's modular construction of the story--part naive re-enactment of the instant-celebrity life at Warhol's studio, part celebration of Solanas's subversive ramblings, part investigation into the roots of her hyper-victimisation at, apparently, the hands of all men--is ultimately a shell game that allows the writer-director to avoid taking a clear stand on Solanas's bizarro politics. The cast is the only draw here: besides indie-film queen Taylor, Jared Harris makes for a convincingly cagey Warhol. --Tom Keogh

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5.0 out of 5 stars Only in Manhatten?,, 25 Oct 2007
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This review is from: I Shot Andy Warhol [VHS] [1995] (VHS Tape)
It must be Manhatten. The distance between the Warhol art scene and the Times Square porn scene seems to have been small. A "Midnight Cowboy" for the 90's.

This is one of my favorite films from the 90's. Certainly more of an edge than Oscar winners from the '90's Forrest Gump, Titanic and Shakespeare in Love.

Lili Taylor as Valerie Solonas is superb. The overall cast is excellent. Stephen Dorff as Candy Darling is ... irresistible. Going beyond the fine acting is the direction, Mary Harron making it all just too real. She also co-wrote the script with Daniel Minahan, who later directed "Series 7: The Contender". Without Harron's tight handling, this film probably would have just been odd. Now it's great and odd. Billy Name, who was responsible for covering the actual Factory's inner walls in foil, was an advisor. He seems to have been put to good use.

I've watched twice now, the second time seeming even more powerful than the first. The second half was especially absorbing. The entire Warhol scene seems fascinating. Reading about it first in a book like "Popism: The Warhol Sixties" might enhance viewing of this movie. Something to watch but perhaps to be glad not to have been part of. Well, who's bold enough?

And yet somehow these wild side walkers have been made to seem familiar, perhaps not the girls next door but maybe just up the street. "I Shot Andy Warhol" begins as a look at the fringe and ends much closer to home.
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