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Lou Reed's Berlin (DVD)

Lou Reed (actor), Antony (actor) and Julian Schnabel (director)

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Review

Entertainment Weekly, 07/25/2008, p.50, "Reed and the band get a momentum going in 'Men of Good Fortune' and the great girl-group bop 'Caroline Says I'..."

Sight and Sound, 08/01/2008, p.54-55, "Barring encores, the show documented is an almost note-exact resurrection of Reed's LP of this name, recorded 35 years ago..."

New York Times, 07/18/2008, "In Julian Schnabel's grimly majestic concert film LOU REED'S BERLIN, Mr. Reed wears the deadpan smirk of a Zen master who has endured unusually punishing Buddhist training."

Los Angeles Times, 07/18/2008, "Reed stands at the center, taut and impassive, punching out words that are more often spoken than sung."

Release Note

DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case
Widescreen
Audio:
Dolby Digital - English
Subtitles - Spanish - Optional

DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case
Widescreen
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Subtitles - English SDH, Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Behind The Scenes - BERLIN ON TOUR
Highlights - An Excerpt From Spectacle: Elvis Costello With Lou Reed & Julian
Schnabel
Trailer - Theatrical Trailer

Product Notes

The curious tale of Lou Reed's 1973 album, BERLIN, is worthy of a documentary in itself. Its trajectory from critical and commercial failure to one of the most highly regarded records in his canon has vindicated Reed's vision for the album. This concert film was shot 33 years after the former Velvet Underground frontman unleashed BERLIN on the world. A remarkable critical volte-face has occurred in the intervening years, although Reed has rarely performed material from the album. Director Julian Schnabel (THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY) headed to St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn, New York, at the tail end of 2006 to shoot this document of BERLIN's live resurrection. The film is culled from a five-night stint at the venue in which Reed, and a host of guest performers, brought the album back to life.

Schnabel's movie is no ordinary concert film. The director designed the sets Reed and his band perform on, and his daughter, Lola, shot footage that brings to life the album's central character, Caroline. Schnabel has talked openly about the huge influence BERLIN has had on his work, and he clearly has a great deal of reverence for Reed as an artist. The film is shot mostly with shaky handheld cameras that provide a satisfying replication of the concert-going experience. Cinematographer Ellen Kuras (ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND) deserves credit for turning a relatively straightforward concert film into a visually stimulating affair, and actor Emmanuelle Seigner, who plays Caroline, perfectly captures the character. But it's the combination of Reed's music and Schnabel's vision that makes LOU REED'S BERLIN such a gratifying audiovisual experience.

Over 30 years after the release of Lou Reed's rock opera BERLIN, the legendary Velvet Underground singer took the album to the stage for the first time in a series of 2006 concerts. There to record the one-of-a-kind event was director Julian Schnabel (THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY), who helped bring to life this lurid love story of desolate lives in a divided Berlin. Antony, Sharon Jones, and Emmanuelle Seigner (as Caroline, the tale's tragic heroine) appeared in this moody rendering of one of rock & roll's underrated classics.

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