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I Shot Andy Warhol

  • 19961996
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  • 1h 43m
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I Shot Andy Warhol (1996)
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This is the story of Valerie Solanas who was a 60s radical preaching hatred toward men in her "Scum" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a film that she wanted Andy Warhol to produce. Afte... Read allThis is the story of Valerie Solanas who was a 60s radical preaching hatred toward men in her "Scum" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a film that she wanted Andy Warhol to produce. After many times of ignoring her, Valerie shot him.This is the story of Valerie Solanas who was a 60s radical preaching hatred toward men in her "Scum" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a film that she wanted Andy Warhol to produce. After many times of ignoring her, Valerie shot him.
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    • Mary Harron
  • Writers
    • Jeremiah Newton(book: additional scenes dialogue from "The Letters and Diaries of Candy Darling, 1992")
    • Diane Tucker(research)
    • Mary Harron
  • Stars
    • Lili Taylor
    • Jared Harris
    • Martha Plimpton
    • Mary Harron
  • Writers
    • Jeremiah Newton(book: additional scenes dialogue from "The Letters and Diaries of Candy Darling, 1992")
    • Diane Tucker(research)
    • Mary Harron
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    • Lili Taylor
    • Jared Harris
    • Martha Plimpton
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    • 46User reviews
    • 47Critic reviews
    • 75Metascore
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    Lili Taylor
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    • Valerie Jean Solanas
    Jared Harris
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    • Andy Warhol
    Martha Plimpton
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    • Stevie
    Lothaire Bluteau
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    • Maurice Girodias
    Anna Thomson
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    • Jackie Curtis
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    • Gerard Malanga
    • (as Donovan Leitch)
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    Reg Rogers
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    • Paul Morrisey
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    • Tom Baker
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      • Mary Harron
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    • Trivia
      The film was originally planned as a documentary, but the filmmakers found almost no footage of Solanas or anyone to speak about her.
    • Goofs
      Valerie visits same newsstand as much as six months apart but same issues of magazines are always on display (with, in some cases, several different issues of same title on view concurrently, something that would never happen), only rearranged.
    • Quotes

      Valerie Solanas: Give me fifteen cents, and I'll give you a dirty word.

      Maurice Girodias: What's the word?

      Valerie Solanas: Men.

    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: Mulholland Falls/Sunset Park/The Truth About Cats and Dogs/I Shot Andy Warhol/Wings of Courage (1996)
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      Performed by Wilco

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    7/10
    thought provoking
    Lili Taylor gives a savagely kinetic performance in this representation of a disturbed individual who may just also have been a genius despite, or because of, her treatment at the hands of various men throughout her life.

    Judging biopics in terms of historical accuracy is for the most part a futile exercise. There is no 'truth', only interpretation, but if you want to get closer to the facts you really should be in the library, not the movie theatre. The story of Valerie Solanas is especially vexing in this case, because were this a work of complete fiction, the script would never have been made. The 'so what?' factor is superseded by the fact that this actually happened, and the legacy of Solanas still divides contemporary feminists.

    As cinema, the film succeeds through the charisma exuded in Taylor's performance. Her descent into madness is sudden, vicious and uncompromising. The depiction of the shooting, the moment the film has been leading up to, shows a human being divorced absolutely from her conscience. The groovy scene around Warhol's the Factory is both decadent and, viewed from the 21st century, slightly twee. The pastiche of Sixties nostalgia is less foregrounded than Solanas's brutal victimhood. The film begins with a reading of her psychiatric evaluation, where a litany of unpunished crimes inflicted upon this woman by various men is laid out. The female director sets her stall out straight away - what you are hearing now leads through a direct line of cause and effect to the monstrous act you will see committed by Solanas later.

    If the film has a major flaw, it is the title. Audiences could be mistaken for thinking it is about a documentarian of Warhol's life and work. Solanas and her SCUM manifesto, for better or worse, have made their mark, and perhaps 'Solanas' would have been a more fitting (if less marketable) title. Did it take the shooting for that to be the case? A polemical moment in recent history relayed straightforwardly, this is competent, entertaining, edifying cinema.
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      • May 1, 1996 (United States)
      • United Kingdom
      • United States
      • English
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      • Detroit, Michigan, USA
    • Production companies
      • Playhouse International Pictures
      • The Samuel Goldwyn Company
      • BBC Arena
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