The Velvet Underground
Managed by Andy Warhol, the Velvet Underground were ground zero for art-rock bands, though their stripped down sound influenced a multitude of musical genres from punk to low-fi to emo. Superfan Todd Haynes directed this fine documentary in 2021 with cooperation from the band’s surviving members, John Cale and Mo Tucker. We’ll never know how Lou Reed—whose prickly nature and heartrending songs defined the band—would have reacted to Haynes’s cinematic beatification.
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About Allan Arkush
A record collector and film buff from birth, Allan Arkush brought his two loves together in directing the cult classic Rock ‘n’ Roll High School. Back in the day Allan was directing and executive producing television series like Heroes, and Crossing Jordan. He has also directed episodes of Ally McBeal, Moonlighting, St. Elsewhere, Fame, A Series of Unfortunate Events and TV Movies like Elvis Meets Nixon and Shake Rattle & Rock as well as the mini-series, The Temptations, for which he won an Emmy. He used to have a lost film, Get Crazy, but Kino/Lorber found it in time for Christmas 2021. His day job is teaching Film production & history at the AFI.