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The scintillating feature debut of Mary Harron (American Psycho) and one of the most controversial independent films of the 1990s, I Shot Andy Warhol stars an electric Lili Taylor as Valerie Solanas, a militant feminist whose attempted murder of Andy Warhol brought instant fame to her radically anti-male SCUM Manifesto. Dropping out of grad school in the midsixties, the brilliant yet volatile Solanas survived in New York City as a destitute artist, sex worker, and panhandler, soon striking up a friendship with Warhol superstar Candy Darling that brought her briefly into the orbit of the world’s premier pop artist. With vivid, hallucinatory attention to historical detail, Harron captures the explosive cross-pollination of New York’s political and artistic countercultures as well as the creativity, snobbery, and decadence at the heart of the legendary Factory. Anchored by pitch-perfect performances —and featuring a blistering score by John Cale as well as covers of sixties hits by some of the nineties’ most iconic bands (R.E.M., Wilco)—I Shot Andy Warhol is an incisive portrait of a rebel without an outlet and the soon-to-be-lost generation she came to define.

If you want to know what the Warhol scene was all about, this is even better than the documentaries.”- Jonathan Rosenbaum, The Chicago Reader

“A fierce, intelligent, and deeply unsettling portrait of obsession and alienation.” — The New York Times

“One of the most impressive independent films of the decade.” — Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)

“Lili Taylor gives a remarkable performance, capturing both vulnerability and menace.” — Los Angeles Times

“A provocative and sympathetic examination of a woman pushed to the margins.” — The Washington Post

“Mary Harron’s debut remains a sharp, uncompromising study of fame, power, and exclusion.” — The Village Voice

“A riveting account of the collision between celebrity culture and personal desperation.” — Time Out