The scintillating fiction-feature debut of Mary Harron 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. 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.

Dropping out of grad school in the midsixties, 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.

Reviews
"Harron pulls off something in “I Shot Andy Warhol” comparable to that of Welles, Hitchcock, and Kubrick in their best work, creating a visual language that is simultaneously drunk on the expressive possibilities of cinema and rigorously analytical — it’s a movie that goes straight for the nervous system with its passion and energy while still encouraging a slightly distanced, multi-faceted reading from a variety of perspectives." –IndieWire