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.

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"...Immensely entertaining and provocative....The brilliant Lili Taylor finds her breakthrough role at last..." -- Peter Travers , (Rolling Stone)

"...Enjoyable...Engaging..." -- Rob White , (Sight and Sound)

"...[A] terrifically cast movie....A cool and clinical reportorial remembrance..." -- Mike Clark , (USA Today)

"...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..." -- Todd McCarthy , (Variety)

"...Ambitious and absorbing....A solid, impressive first feature..." -- Kevin Thomas , (Los Angeles Times)

"...[Taylor] has proven herself the most intelligent and versatile of performers..." -- Roger Ebert , (Chicago Sun-Times)

3 stars out of 5 -- "Harron lets Taylor's unrelenting brazenness drive the film without an ounce of victimhood." -- Simon Edwards , (Ultimate DVD)

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