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I Shot Andy Warhol (1996)
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Reviews Counted:24
Fresh:18
Rotten:6
Average Rating:6.5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Mary Harron (AMERICAN PSYCHO) transports New York to a pre-feminist, late 1960s, Andy Warhol art scene in this stylistically inflammatory flick that harkens back to such films as BORN IN FLAMES.... Mary Harron (AMERICAN PSYCHO) transports New York to a pre-feminist, late 1960s, Andy Warhol art scene in this stylistically inflammatory flick that harkens back to such films as BORN IN FLAMES. Lili Taylor plays the angry Valerie Solanas with a vengeance that just won't quit. Solanas is mad. She's a manic spitfire, has hell to raise, and is armed with the SCUM MANIFESTO. Encouraged by Warhol's queerly noncommittal attitude, Solanas is convinced he will produce her play UP YOUR ASS. Between writing and turning tricks at the Chelsea Hotel, she meets Maurice Girodias, famous publisher of writers like William S. Burroughs, Jean Genet and Pauline Reage. Intrigued by her subversive quality, he signs a contract with her for the completion of two novels. When Solanas realizes she's signed the rights over to Girodias, she begins to unravel and sets out on a paranoid mission to stop him and Warhol from controlling her life. Harron's film is a manifesto. Stylistically adventurous, this indie romp is a smart and sassy feminist critique of Andy Warhol's Factory scene. Unlike other films that glamorize it (THE DOORS, BASQUIAT), I SHOT ANDY WARHOL exposes the subtle misogyny that is just barely veiled under all the glamor. [More]
Starring: Lili Taylor, Jared Harris, Lothaire Bluteau, Martha Plimpton
Starring: Lili Taylor, Jared Harris, Lothaire Bluteau, Martha Plimpton, Anna Thompson, Stephen Dorff, Tahnee Welch, Michael Imperioli, Danny Morgenstern, Reginald Rodgers, Coco McPherson, Donovan Leitch, Craig Chester, James Lyons, Jamie Harrold, Myriam Cyr, William Sage
Director: Mary Harron
Director: Mary Harron
Screenwriter: Mary Harron, Daniel Minahan
Producer: Tom Kalin, Christine Vachon
Composer: John Cale
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Reviews for I Shot Andy Warhol
The film benefit from Lili Taylor's perfromance and from nice artistic treatment, but Valerie Solanas is simply not interesting enough as a dramatic character to occupy the center of a whole film.
Harron's style and Taylor's unforgettable performance keep us off-balance and engrossed.
Never as compelling as its central performance, it's still a very good film - and after all, that's a hard performance to live up to.
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