| | | You only get one shot at fame.
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.95:1, Theatrical Version
He was the world-renowned King of Pop Art-and his life was about to take a dramatic turn in exchange for someone else's fifteen minutes of fame! Starring Lili Taylor (Ransom) and Jared Harris (Father's Day), and winner of the Sundance Film Festival's Special Jury Award, this "vibrant, touching and thoroughly entertaining film" (The New York Times) explores the provocative story behind the shooting of 60s superstar Andy Warhol. Valerie Solanas (Taylor), a lesbian writer, loner and prostitute has come to the big Apple with one goal in mind: to spread the gospel of her radical feminism. Desperate for an audience, she latches on to the fringes of Warhol's (Harris) glamorous sex-and-drug-laced Factory scene. But as her zeal swerves dangerously out of control, her private madness leads to a bizarre obsession with the artist himself-and a final explosive act of violence that not only gets her noticed...but makes her manifesto infamous.
"Two thumbs up!" Siskel & Ebert
Editor's Note
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.
| Features | Scene Access | | French Subtitles | | Spanish Subtitles | | Interactive Menus | | Original Theatrical Trailer | | Widescreen Version | | Dolby Digital Stereo Surround |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: MGM |
| Release Date: 9/7/2004 |
| Running Time: 103 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1996 | | Catalog ID: 1001449 | | UPC: 00027616857699 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Available Subtitles: French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Memorable Quotes| "I have a lot of real involved reasons." ---- Valerie Solanas (LILI TAYLOR), explaining why she shot Andy Warhol (JARED HARRIS). | | "He had too much control over my life." ---- Valerie Solanas (LILI TAYLOR), giving one of the reasons why she shot Warhol (JARED HARRIS). | | "Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic--minded, responsible, thrill--seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and destroy the male sex." ---- a segment from "The SCUM Manifesto" of Valerie Solanas (LILI TAYLOR). | | "The male will swim a river of snot, wade nostril deep through a mile of vomit [for sex]...." ---- another excerpt from "The SCUM Manifesto." | | "Fifteen cents, any dirty word you want." ---- Valerie Solanas (LILI TAYLOR), to people who pass by on the street.| "Men." ---- Valerie, to somebody who takes her up on the offer. | | "What is that horrendous monstrosity?" ---- a member of Andy Warhol's Factory, after seeing Valerie Solanas (LILI TAYLOR) show up in a reel of screen tests.| "Isn't she tragic?" ---- another Factory member, upon seeing Solanas. | | "It's way too disgusting, even for us." ---- Brigid Polk (COCO McPHERSON), after realizing what's in one of Valerie's obscene plays. | | "Oh gee, did you type this yourself? I'm so impressed. You should come type for us." ---- Andy Warhol (JARED HARRIS), to Valerie Solanas (LILI TAYLOR). | | "All these revolutionary girls come across very hard to me." ---- Candy Darling (STEPHEN DORFF), while watching bra--burning demonstrators on television. | | "If anyone can make you a star, Andy can." ---- Candy Darling (STEPHEN DORFF), to Valerie Solanas (LILI TAYLOR). | | "You're a guy? My God, I thought you were a lesbian." ---- Valerie Solanas (LILI TAYLOR), to Candy Darling (STEPHEN DORFF), when they first meet each other in Washington Square Park. | | "Hey Valerie, you got a boyfriend?" ---- a reporter, to Valerie Solanas (LILI TAYLOR), after she is arrested. |
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| | Professional Reviews | Rolling Stone
"...Immensely entertaining and provocative....The brilliant Lili Taylor finds her breakthrough role at last..." 05/16/1996 p.71-2Sight and Sound
"...Enjoyable...Engaging..." 12/01/1996 p.48-9 USA Today
"...[A] terrifically cast movie....A cool and clinical reportorial remembrance..." 05/03/1996 p.10D 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..." 01/29/1996 Los Angeles Times
"...Ambitious and absorbing....A solid, impressive first feature..." 05/17/1996 p.F13 Chicago Sun-Times
"...[Taylor] has proven herself the most intelligent and versatile of performers..." 05/17/1996 p.33 Ultimate DVD
3 stars out of 5 -- "Harron lets Taylor's unrelenting brazenness drive the film without an ounce of victimhood." 09/01/2006 212 Chicago Sun-Times 8 of 10
...[Harron] does two remarkable things in her movie: She makes Solanas almost sympathetic and sometimes moving and funny, and she creates a portrait of the Factory that's devestating and convincing...[Taylor] gives the character spunk, irony and a certain heroic courage... - Roger Ebert
The New York Times 8 of 10
...a scrappy, vibrant, unexpectedly touching film with a ragtag heroine no audience will easily forget... This film's extraordinary centerpiece is Lili Taylor, giving a great, funny, furiously alive performance that deserves to put her on the mainstream map... - Janet Maslin
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