On this week’s Popcast, a conversation about how the Velvet Underground was experienced in its time, how the band’s musical aesthetic matches with the film’s visual aesthetic and the state of contemporary music documentaries. In his first documentary, filmmaker Todd Haynes uses the language of experimental cinema to spotlight the Velvet Underground, a legendary band that flowered within New Yorks avant-garde art world. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground was an American rock band formed in New York City.
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This movie is a deep dive on the New York demimonde that birthed the band, and also a reflection on the cinema and art of the day. Curated by director Todd Haynes, the official soundtrack to his feature documentary (out Oct 15 on Apple TV+) about the highly influential, iconic New York band. The band is remembered in “The Velvet Underground,” a new documentary directed by Todd Haynes, who has made unconventional music films for the last two decades. Managed for a time by Andy Warhol, it wasn’t particularly successful by commercial measures, but the group - which included Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison and Moe Tucker - provided an early counternarrative to the peace and love centrist counterculture of the 1960s, and proved to be profoundly influential.
In its day, the Velvet Underground verged on the inscrutable, a band that tempered pop curiosity with avant-garde abrasion. Todd Haynes new documentary explores the groups origins in 1960s New York, their connections with Andy Warhol, the success (or lack of it) of their. vintage experimental-movie snippets, and new interviewsas much a portrait of an era as of a band. (MVFF 2007) and the glam-rock freak out Velvet Goldmine turns his attention to the V.U. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Todd Haynes, The Velvet Underground shows just how the group became a cultural touchstone representing a range of contradictions. For those coming to Todd Haynes’s The Velvet Underground Velvets-curious but not Velvets-familiar, the documentary could be a somewhat confusing experience. Subscribe to Popcast! Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher Who better to pay tribute to the Velvet Underground than Todd Haynes (MVFF Tribute.
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