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I Shot Andy Warhol, 1996

I Shot Andy Warhol

English

UK, USA

Rating:6.5
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Profile of I Shot Andy Warhol

The mood of I Shot Andy Warhol is disturbing, bleak, and tense. The plot centers around an assassination attempt, a losing-it hero, and celebrity culture. It is a drama, independent, and period movie. Stylistically, I Shot Andy Warhol stars a strong female character. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It takes place, at least partly, in an urban environment. I Shot Andy Warhol is set in New York. It happens in the 1960s. The musical score is alternative, pop, and rock. I Shot Andy Warhol is drawn from a biography and originally a true story. The movie is known for being a Sundance Festival winner and critically acclaimed. Note that it includes mild violent content, drugs/alcohol, and sexual content.

Summary of I Shot Andy Warhol

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.

Details

Language: English
Country: UK, USA
Release date: 20 January 1996
Runtime: 103 min

Cast and Crew

Lili Taylor as Valerie Jean Solanas in I Shot Andy Warhol
Lili Taylor

as Valerie Jean Solanas

Jared Harris as Andy Warhol in I Shot Andy Warhol
Jared Harris

as Andy Warhol

Photos

I Shot Andy Warhol (1996)
I Shot Andy Warhol (1996)

Clips

I Shot Andy Warhol
I Shot Andy Warhol: Official Trailer

Critics Reviews

Variety
An exemplary and dynamic work that goes about as far as a narrative film can in both analyzing a complex personality and portraying a cultural scene.
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  • by: Todd McCarthy
Rolling Stone
Immensely entertaining and provocative.
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  • by: Peter Travers

Users Reviews

I SHOT ANDY WARHOL. Lili Taylor is in the skin of the person that shot Andy Warhol, it is a chilling performance by Ms Taylor. I found it to be captivating and so realistic as to be scary. I highly recommend it.
  • 10.January.2011
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  • by: Netflowers
  • Netflowers rated this movie0/10
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