Despite having never made a documentary, Todd Haynes didn’t hesitate when Universal Music Group’s David Blackman approached him in 2018 to make a nonfiction feature about the enormously influential…
, which was initially mentored by Andy Warhol and launched the careers of Lou Reed, John Cale and Nico.
Haynes spent the better part of three years researching, interviewing subjects and sifting through 600 hours of archival footage with editor Adam Kurnitz. The result is “The Velvet Underground,” which made its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. To bring the band’s history to life, Haynes relied on underground experimental films from the ’60s, photographs, Warhol collaborators’ footage of the group, and contemporary and archival interviews with band members and those around them.
The lack of full-scale concert footage of the band’s peak era led Haynes and his longtime producing partner, Killer Films’ Christine Vachon, to license archival material, which the director says was “a considerable challenge for this film in terms of budget.”
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