Singer songwriter Jonathan Richman dissects the band’s musical choices, imitating both Reed’s vocals and Cale’s background drones, blending the enthusiasm of a fan with the rigor of a working musician. Under Haynes' supervision, cutters Affonso Gonçalves and Adam Kurnitz let the material flow and change direction, twist back, feed on itself recursively, digress, then return to the main point.
Every few minutes, the editing shifts emphasis so that you're not just switching musical tracks but intellectual tracks: as in railroads, as in "one-track mind," or "train of thought."
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Like another great 2021 music documentary, Questlove's "Summer of Soul," this movie appears to deliberately adopt the structure of a mid-twentieth century vinyl album-the kind with songs arranged in tracks that are meant to be experienced in a linear way, first Side A and then Side B, straight through, without stopping. Interview subjects who were present at the time-including Velvet co-founder Cale, a Welsh classical musician Mo Tucker, their signature drummer actress and painter Woronov my colleague Amy Taubin, a veteran film critic and the late Anthology Film Archives co-founder Jonas Mekas, who died not long after his interview-offer commentary and insight, alternating between taking a detached "long view" of things and plunging us into the middle of it all.
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