The Velvet Underground Filmography

Occupation:: Actor, Composer (Music Score), Featured Music

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Glastonbury

Actors: Michael Eavis, T. Rex, Radiohead, R.E.M., Coldplay

Synopsis: In 1970, a music aficionado and entrepreneur named Michael Eavis staged a "pop, folk, and blues" festival on a dairy farm in the English community of Glastonbury, not far from Stonehenge. 1,500 attended the "Glastonbury Fayre," and a second festival followed in 1971. By 2005, The Glastonbury Read More

2/23/07
Nearing Grace

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Gregory Smith, Jordana Brewster, Ashley Johnson, David Moscow, Chad Faust

Synopsis: A teenage boy tries to hold his family together while the girl of his dreams drives him to distraction in this coming-of-age comedy drama. It's 1978, and Henry Nearing (Gregory Smith) and his family are in a state of flux. Henry's mother has died, and now his father, Shep (David Morse), is trying Read More

1/1/06
Avida

Actors: Gustave Kervern, Benoit Delepine, Eric Martin, The Velvet Underground, Jean-Claude Carrière

Synopsis: In this bizarre surrealist comedy from France, a handful of oddball characters live in world where people heap strange forms of abuse on animals -- dwarves stage bullfights with rhinos, zoos open restaurants where the privileged can dine on the animals on display, and the wealthy lock themselves Read More

2006
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Actors: Jackson Browne, Christa Paffgen

Synopsis: This German documentary offers a tragic profile of the notorious "death angel," Nico. Long after her death in 1988, the German model and entertainer has remained a darkly mysterious cult figure. She was born Christa Paffgen in Cologne and took her professional name from photographer Nico Read More

1995
Velvet Underground: Velvet Redux, Live MCMXCIII

Synopsis: This musical performance features the reunited quartet of Lou Reed, John Cale, Maureen Tucker, and Sterling Morrison in concert in Paris. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1993
Because We Must

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Leigh Bowery, Leslie Bryant, Joachim Chandler, Michael Clark, Dawn Hartley

1989
Ich Bin Ein Elefant, Madame

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Guenther Lueders, Peter Palitzsch

Synopsis: Rull (Wolfgang Schneider) is in his last year at a classical German state school. Believing all authority figures are repugnant, he engages in a series of bizarre behaviors. He literally acts like a bull in a china shop, alienates his friends, loses his girlfriend and infuriates his teachers. When Read More

1968
The Chelsea Girls

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ondine, Mary Might, International Velvet, Nico, Gerard Malanga, Ingrid Superstar

Synopsis: One of the first "underground" films of the 1960's to achieve a degree of mainstream acceptance (it was an actual hit in New York City, was well-received in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and was banned in Chicago and Boston), Andy Warhol's The Chelsea Girls offered a long, unblinking look into Read More

1967