Edgy rock band the Velvet Underground was an outgrowth of manager Andy Warhol’s avant garde art movement that over time has emerged as one of the most influential groups of the 1960s and ‘70s.
It also exerted a powerful influence – particularly in the image crafted in Warhol’s films – on the way filmmaker Todd Haynes presented the group onscreen in the documentary The Velvet Underground.“What we all felt when we were making this movie is that it was about a really specific time and place that produced this band, in which questions about art, and aesthetics and life and meaning were circulating, and changing what seemed possible,” Haynes, whose narrative films include Carol and Far From Heaven, said at Deadline’s Contenders Film:
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