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 mid sixties, 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.

Grand Jury Prize, Sundance, Un Certain Regard Award, Cannes

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

“Scrappy, vibrant, unexpectedly touching…This film’s extraordinary centerpiece is Lili Taylor, giving a great, funny, furiously alive performance.” (The New York Times)

“Ferociously entertaining! Makes you realize just how simple (and simple-minded) the majority of biopics are by comparison.” (IndieWire)

Thursday, June 18
Doors 6:00 pm | Movie 6:30 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.
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I SHOT ANDY WARHOL (Mary Harron, 1996 / 18A / 103 mins) The story of Valerie Solanas, a ’60s radical who preached misandry in her “Scum” manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a film that she wanted Andy Warhol to produce, but after he repeatedly ignored her, she shot him.

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