My old friend Paul Morrissey was Andy Warhol’s manager and confident. Brash and outspoken, Paul’s long-term collaboration with the low-keyed, taciturn artist has been described as “a successful mismatch.”
of his band endures, speaking to people who don t quite fit in and prefer to embrace life with its rough edges intact. emerging from a pandemic in which we all felt disconnected and off kilter, haynes believes the velvet underground also resonates for a new reason. for us, it was the movie we had been making underground during lockdown in this pandemic but it was a movie about an incredibly vital time in creative life, in the history of film, and in music. and that music filled that room, and i think it did something to the audience beyond what the film itself is doing, you know, because of the conditions that we ve all lived through. well, that brings this special new york film festival edition of talking movies to a close. we hope you ve enjoyed
festival, came to new york with its director and star. i told myself, pretend you re doing a little show. this is a weird show, butjust have fun with it. there were many festival films with great performances, a real stand out, benedict cumberbatch in the power of the dog. and some great documentaries, one using animation to chronicle the plight of an afghan refugee fleeing the taliban 25 years ago. and the other, a portrait of the influential new york rock band formed in the 1960s, the velvet underground. like almost every british schoolchild of my generation, i had the works of william shakespeare thrown at me. but i have to admit, the only play of his that i received with a massive amount ofjoy was macbeth. i think i really understood the drama of it all, and over the years, lines