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I Shot Andy Warhol (1996)
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Mary Harron's feature--which picked up a Special Jury Award at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival for lead actress and independent film mainstay Lili Taylor--is a highly suspect mishmash of golly-gee counterculture reconstruction and inflammatory agitprop. Harron re-creates the ultimately violent relationship of motor-mouth street freak writer-prostitute-lesbian-gun-wielding assailant Valerie Solanas (Taylor) and pop artist Andy Warhol (Jared Harris) in the late 1960s, which ended in Solanas's assault on Warhol for his charmingly noncommittal responses to her search for a patron. It's a great idea for a film, but I Shot Andy Warhol is...
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I Shot Andy Warhol Movie Review by Zara  (1/24/2007) |
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I don't understand why Andy Warhol was considered such a great artist. I've taken an Art History course and we covered pop art, but I still fail to see what it was about this odd looking man who barely spoke and when he did it was to talk about a "style" that no one else got but pretended to act as if they knew what the...
(complete I Shot Andy Warhol review by Zara)
This film seems to be more interested in re-creating the surface sheen of Warhol's art scene, than it does in trying to understand his coterie of cronies and hangers-on.
Director Mary Harron's film is a pretty conventional period piece, considering its outrageous subject matter.
Actress Lili Taylor is ferocious as the...
(complete I Shot Andy Warhol review by Film Fanatic)
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