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I Shot Andy Warhol - with director Mary Harron in person
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 1
Sat, Jul 11 7:00 PM
New Restoration!
I SHOT ANDY WARHOL
Saturday, July 11th at 7 PM
with director Mary Harron in person
The scintillating feature debut of Mary
Harron (American Psycho) and one
of the most controversial independent films of the 1990s, I Shot Andy Warhol stars
an electric Lili Taylor as Valerie Solanas, a militant feminist
whose attempted murder of Andy Warhol
brought instant fame to her radically anti-male SCUM Manifesto. Dropping out of
grad school in the midsixties, the brilliant yet volatile Solanas survived in
New York City as a destitute artist, sex worker, and panhandler, soon striking
up a friendship with Warhol superstar Candy
Darling that brought her briefly into the orbit of the world’s premier pop
artist. With vivid, hallucinatory attention to historical detail, Harron
captures the explosive cross-pollination of New York’s political and artistic
countercultures as well as the creativity, snobbery, and decadence at the heart
of the legendary Factory. Anchored by pitch-perfect performances —and featuring
a blistering score by John Cale as
well as covers of sixties hits by some of the nineties’ most iconic bands
(R.E.M., Wilco)— I Shot Andy Warhol
is an incisive portrait of a rebel without an outlet and the soon-to-be-lost
generation she came to define. (USA,
1996, 103 mins, R, English | Dir. Marry Harron)
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