DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

The Velvet Underground / Apple Original Films and Polygram Entertainment present ; in association with Federal Films ; a Motto Pictures and Killer Films production ; directed by Todd Haynes ; produced by Todd Haynes [and 5 others]

Director-approved two-DVD special edition.

[United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2022]

2 videodiscs (120 min.) : sound, color, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

NTSC

video file

DVD video

region 1

Emerging from the primordial soup of glamour, gutter sleaze, and feverish creativity that was New York₂s 1960s underground culture, the Velvet Underground redefined music with its at once raw and exalted blend of experimentation and art-damaged rock and roll. In his kaleidoscopic documentary The Velvet Underground, Todd Haynes vividly evokes the band's incandescent world: the creative origins of the twin visionaries Lou Reed and John Cale, Andy Warhol's fabled Factory, and the explosive tension between pop and the avant-garde that propelled the group and ultimately consumed it. Never-before-seen performances, interviews, rare recordings, and mind-blowing transmissions from the era's avant-garde cinema scene come together in an ecstatic swirl of sound and image that is to the traditional music documentary what the Velvets were to rock: utterly revolutionary.

Rating: R.

Criterion collection ; 1164

Criterion collection ; 1164.

Velvet Underground (Musical group)

Rock groups -- United States -- Biography.

Rock music -- 1961-1970 -- Biography.

Rock music -- 1971-1980 -- Biography.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Nonfiction films.

Documentary films.

Musical films.

Haynes, Todd, film director, film producer.

Reed, Lou, musician.

Cale, John, musician.

Morrison, Sterling, musician.

Tucker, Maureen, musician.

Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.

Apple Original Films, presenter.

PolyGram Entertainment (Firm), presenter.

Federal Films, Inc., prodution company.

Motto Pictures, prodution company.

Killer Films, prodution company.

Title from disc surface.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2021.

Wide screen (1.77:1)

Special features: Alternate stereo soundtrack; Audio commentary; Interview outtakes; Todd Hayes, John CAle, Maureen Woronov in conversation with Jenn Pelly; Complete versions of some of the avant-garde films excerpted in the movie; essay by critic Greil Marcus.

Editors, Affonso Goncalves, Adam Kurnitz ; cinematography, Ed Lachman ; music, Randall Poster.

Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, Maureen Tucker.

DVD; region 1, NTSC; wide screen (1.77:1); Dolby digital 5.1 surround.

English dialogue; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

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