The Velvet Underground - The Criterion Collection (Blu-ray) Vicky Bennison Girma Beyene

Girma Beyene

"The B/W images that cascade through "The Woman With Fifty Faces" are stunningly beautiful

Thomas Vinterberg’s international breakthrough

this wrenching historical drama recounts the true story of a West Virginia coal town where the local miners’ struggle to form a union rose to the pitch of all-out war in 1920

uneasy portrait of modern disconnection

The Velvet Underground - The Criterion Collection (Blu-ray) Vicky Bennison Girma BeyeneEmerging from the primordial soup of glamour, gutter sleaze, and feverish creativity that was New Yorks 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 bands incandescent world: the creative origins of the twin visionaries Lou Reed and John Cale, Andy Warhols