14 Films To See In October 2021
(Plus, they rock.) Haynes is no conventional director, and while he takes a fairly normal strategy to the story — starting with Lou Reed’s childhood on Long Island and shifting forward from there — he weaves collectively more of a tapestry than a clunky paint-by-numbers documentary. The Velvet Underground is as a lot in regards to the culture of 1960s New York City, dominated by Andy Warhol’s in-crowd and the work they made at his Factory, because the band itself. Using the display screen like a window and collaging collectively pictures and photographs with audio from interviews, Haynes evokes a mood and a time; he reminds audiences that some success comes from expertise and exhausting work, and some of it just comes from being in the proper place at the right time. A haunting, humorous, tightly written meditation on loneliness and connection, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy is ready up as a triptych. In the primary story, one lady tells her good friend in regards to the man one of them lately met on a date; she doesn’t realize her pal is hiding a secret. In the second story, a younger girl agrees to set a entice for her professor …