I Shot Andy Warhol (4K Restoration)

Presented in a new 4K restoration.

One of the defining independent films of the 1990s, Mary Harron’s remarkable feature debut stars an electrifying Lili Taylor as Valerie Solanas, the radical feminist whose attempted assassination of Andy Warhol brought notoriety to both herself and her incendiary SSCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto. Drifting through the artistic, political, and underground worlds of 1960s New York, Solanas briefly enters the orbit of Warhol’s Factory, where ambition, celebrity, and revolution collide.

With vivid attention to period detail and outstanding performances from Jared Harris, Martha Plimpton, Stephen Dorff as Candy Darling, and Michael Imperioli, I Shot Andy Warhol is far more than a biopic. Harron crafts a complex portrait of an uncompromising outsider while capturing the volatile intersection of feminism, Pop Art, and counterculture that reshaped America in the 1960s.

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

Don’t miss American Psycho, also screening at the Roxie as part of our Two by Mary Harron spotlight.