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The Oscar-contending documentary The Velvet Underground, about the influential 1960s avant-garde rock band fronted by Lou Reed, has been praised as a "superb testament to a lost world that helped make our own." Those words come from New York Times critic Manohla Dargis, who listed The Velvet Underground as number…

Edgy rock band the Velvet Underground was an outgrowth of manager Andy Warhol's avant garde art movement that over time has emerged as one of the most influential groups of the 1960s and '70s. It also exerted a powerful influence – particularly in the image crafted in Warhol's films – on the way filmmaker Todd Haynes…

Apple TV+ has released the trailer for Todd Haynes documentary The Velvet Underground, the director’s debut doc that premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The pic will be in theaters on streaming on the service on October 15. A deep dive into the seminal 1960s avant-garde rock band, the doc dissects just what…

If The Velvet Underground had known how popular they would become in the years after their demise, they might never have split up. Instead, one by one, the original members quit the band formed by Lou Reed and John Cale in the mid-60s, leaving newcomer Doug Yule to soldier on with a completely different band until…

Fresh off premiering his first feature documentary at Cannes Film Festival last night, The Velvet Underground filmmaker Todd Haynes told press today that he remains committed to theatrical, despite the movie heading to Apple TV+ in the fall. The pic, premiering here Out of Competition, will receive a dual theatrical…

So far 2021 is turning out to be quite the year for documentaries unearthing long-buried or unknown musical treasures of the ’60s. The current Summer of Soul highlights a series of Harlem-based concerts with iconic Black artists, a kind of African American Woodstock stuck in someone’s basement for half a century and…

Todd Haynes reinvented the music biopic not once but twice, first with the controversial glam rock epic Velvet Goldmine (1998), a pastiche of the life and times of David Bowie, and then with 2007's I'm Not There, a dazzlingly surreal look at the many faces of folk poet Bob Dylan, sanctioned by the man himself. His…

Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore are set to star in Rocket Science’s May December for Carol director Todd Haynes. The screenplay was written by Samy Burch with the story by Burch and Alex Mechanik. Rocket Science is handling international sales beginning at the Virtual Cannes Market, where UTA Independent Film Group…

EXCLUSIVE: The long-in-development Peggy Lee biopic Fever not only looks to have found a new studio to call home, but also a new star to play the legendary singer. Sources tell Deadline that MGM is in talks to come aboard the Peggy Lee biopic, with Academy Award nominee Todd Haynes set to direct and four-time Academy…

Apple has landed rights to The Velvet Underground, a new feature documentary from director Todd Haynes and Polygram Entertainment. The Velvet Underground, fronted by Lou Reed, created a new sound that changed the world of music in the mid-1960s, cementing its place as one of rock and roll's most revered bands. The doc…

Mark Ruffalo's dramatic true story Dark Waters began as a 2016 New York Times article "The Lawyer Who Became DuPont's Worst Nightmare." As the title suggests, the piece focused on a high-powered attorney, Rob Bilott, who took on one of the biggest companies in the world over the lethal contamination of ground water in…

The determined struggles of true-life heroes, whose tales look to resonate loudly this awards season, were at the heart of Focus Features' Contenders NY presentation Saturday at the DGA Theater in New York City. For Harriet writer/director Kasi Lemmons (who helmed both Eve's Bayou and Talk To Me) the task was to offer…