DVD & Blu-ray: THE VELVET UNDERGROUND (2021) - The Criterion Collection

The Velvet Underground Criterion Collection New On Bluray

Product Description: Emerging from the primordial soup of glamour, gutter sleaze, and feverish creativity that was New York’s 1960s underground culture, the Velvet Underground redefined music with its at once raw and exalted blend of experimentation and art-damaged rock and roll. In his kaleidoscopic documentary The Velvet Underground, Todd Haynes vividly evokes the band’s incandescent world: the creative origins of the twin visionaries Lou Reed and John Cale, Andy Warhol’s fabled Factory, and the explosive tension between pop and the avant-garde that propelled the group and ultimately consumed it. Never-before-seen performances, interviews, rare recordings, and mind-blowing transmissions from the era’s avant-garde cinema scene come together in an ecstatic swirl of sound and image that is to the traditional music documentary what the Velvets were to rock: utterly revolutionary.

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Director: Todd Haynes

Starring: John Waters, Mary Woronov, Barbara Walters

Genre: Documentary

Runtime: 120 min

Rating: R

Language: English

Studio: Criterion

Home Video Release Date: December 13, 2022

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Codec: MPEG-2
Resolution: 480i
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Encoding Format: 16:9
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)

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Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Resolution: 1080p
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Region: Region A/1

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DVD: Dolby Digital 5.1
Blu-ray: Dolby Atmos

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DVD: English

Blu-ray: English

SPECIAL FEATURES & EXTRAS

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New 4K digital master, approved by director Todd Haynes and cinematographer Ed Lachman, with Dolby Atmos soundtrack
Audio commentary featuring Haynes and editors Affonso Gonçalves and Adam Kurnitz
Outtakes of interviews shot for the film with musicians John Cale, Jonathan Richman, and Maureen Tucker; filmmaker Jonas Mekas; and actor Mary Woronov
Conversation from 2021 among Haynes, Cale, and Tucker
Complete versions of some of the avant-garde films excerpted in the movie, including Piero Heliczer’s Venus in Furs (1965)
Teaser
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Optional annotated subtitle track that identifies the avant-garde films seen in the movie
PLUS: A 2021 essay by critic Greil Marcus