A new Velvet Underground documentary is on its way. It’s set to be directed by luminary filmmaker Todd Haynes, who is known for indie films, Far From Heaven and Carol, and I’m Not There, the biographical musical drama about Bob Dylan.
A new Velvet Underground documentary is on its way, set to be directed by luminary filmmaker Todd Haynes.
As Pitchfork note, via Variety, the film is set to feature new interviews with the surviving members of the band as well as their ’60s contemporaries.
Haynes says that the as-yet-untitled film will be “an intensely visual experience” that will “rely certainly on [Andy] Warhol films but also a rich culture of experimental film, a vernacular we have lost and we don’t have, [and that] we increasingly get further removed from.”
“They’re the most influential of bands – as Brian Eno said, everybody who bought [‘Velvet Underground & Nico’] started a band,” Haynes noted.
Velvet Underground & Nico sold only 30,000 copies. Yet it was a huge influence on artists such as David Bowie, who sang Velvet Underground tracks on his Ziggy Stardust tour. “Their influence has nothing to do with sales or visibility or the ways we portion ideas of success,” Haynes said.
There is no trailer or title as of yet, but you can read Haynes’ interview with Variety here.
[via Pitchfork]