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I Shot Andy Warhol

starring: Lili Taylor, Jared Harris, Martha Plimpton, Lothaire Bluteau, Anna Levine
directed by: Mary Harron

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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 9780792848134
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792848136
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 23, 2001
Running Time: 103 minutes
Sales Rank: 30069
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: May 01, 1996



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Description:
He was the world-renowned King of Pop Artand his life was about to take a dramatic turn in exchange for someone else's fifteen minutes of fame! Starring Lili Taylor (Ransom) and Jared Harris (Father's Day), and winner of the Sundance Film Festival's Special Jury Recognition Award*,this 'vibrant, touching and thoroughly entertaining film' (The New York Times) explores the provocative story behind the shooting of '60s superstar Andy Warhol. Valerie Solanas (Taylor), a lesbian writer, loner and prostitute, has come to the Big Apple with one goal in mind: to spread the gospel of her radical feminism. Desperate for an audience, she latches on to the fringes of Warhol's (Harris) glamorous sex-and-drug-laced Factory scene. But as her zeal swerves dangerously out of control, her private madness leads to a bizarre obsession with the artist himselfand a final, explosive act of violence that not only gets her notice...but makes her manifesto infamous. *1996

Amazon.com:
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 reenactment of the instant-celebrity life at Warhol's studio, part celebration of Solanas's subversive ramblings, part investigation into the roots of her hyper-victimization 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



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - You're just being paranoid ...
Andy Warhol once said that in the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. How ironic (or is ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - A Bizarre Film about Bizarre People
The 1996 film "I Shot Andy Warhol" is a bizarre film based upon the true story of a bizarre woman named ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Lack of ambition!

I shot Andy Warhol was by itself a fortunate idea but to my view, wasted the fabulous opportunity ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Compelling look at some pretty bizzare people.
I really enjoyed this film. As a Factory fan, I was hesitant to get this, perhaps due to the off-putting ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Not a bad reconstruction of the early 70's
But not the best either. Lily Taylor was terrific as the truthful and talented, but lost Valarie. And if ... Read More

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