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I Shot Andy Warhol
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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
Item Dimensions: 25
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
MPN: 1001449
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 23, 2001
Running Time: 103 minutes
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: May 01, 1996
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Editorial Review:
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
He was the world-renowned King of Pop Art and his life was about to take a dramatic turn in exchange for someone else's 15 minutes of fame! Starring Lili Taylor (Ransom) and Jared Harris (Father's Day) and winner of the Sundance Film Festival's Special Jury Award in 1996 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 himself - and a final explosive act of violence that not only gets her noticed...but makes her manifesto infamous.System Requirements:Starring: Lili Taylor Jared Harris Martha Plimpton Lothaire Bluteau Anna Levine Peter Friedman Tahnee Welch and Jamie Harrold. Directed By: Mary Harron. Running Time: 103 Min. Color. This film is presented in both "Widescreen" and "Standard" formats. Copyright 2000 MGM Studios.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 027616857699 Manufacturer No: 1001449
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - You're just being paranoid ...
Andy Warhol once said that in the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. How ironic (or is it?) that not even he was immune from someone looking for their 15 minutes at his expense. It nearly cost him his life, but we got to see the true story of the woman behind the myth when it came to Andy Warhol's career.
Valerie Solarnis was angry at the world, to say the least. She was a lesbian hooker in New York who was looking to publish her SCUM manifesto (the Society for Cutting ... Read More
Rating: - 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 Valerie Solanas (Lili Taylor) who, in the late 1960's in Manhattan, became an acquaintance of the famous pop artist Andy Warhol (Jared Harris). Obsessed with misandry and blaming men for all of the world's problems, Valerie wrote a booklet advocating an anarchistic and violent revolution to be carried out by women in order to create a female-only society. Valerie used the booklet, which she named ... Read More
Rating: - Lack of ambition!
I shot Andy Warhol was by itself a fortunate idea but to my view, wasted the fabulous opportunity to show both sides of the coin. And the script would seem to be much more interested around the tragic anima and the psychical disturbances of the woman in question rather than to remark Warhol' s relevance in the Pop Art. Perhaps the aim was to consider his murder as simply a departure point, as historical reference and nothing else.
Rating: - 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 title. But I'm glad I did. The acting was great, especially the actor who played Warhol himself - dead on. Also, Ms. Taylor was 100% believable as the unfortunate, demented, freaky Valarie Solanas.
I notice that a lot of negative reviews for this and other films consist of a rant about the film being the worst they ever saw, a waste of 2 hours, etc., but these folks never explain WHY ... Read More
Rating: - 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 you've ever seen footage on Andy and heard him talk, Jarrid nailed him. So vague and spacey, but that was Andy. This movie somehow shows how loud and pointless the 70's really were. But, see it for the bad fashion and people who aren't around anymore.
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