Mary Harron's 'I Shot Andy Warhol' Returns: Solanas's 1968 Attack Revisited

Mary Harron's 1996 directorial debut 'I Shot Andy Warhol' is being reexamined as it returns to screens. The film is an 'anti-biopic' of Valerie Solanas, author of the 'Scum Manifesto,' who shot Andy Warhol on June 3, 1968, at his Factory. Solanas fired a .32-caliber pistol three times, hitting art critic Mario Amaya in the hip, a wall, and Warhol's chest. The assassination of Robert Kennedy two days later overshadowed the attack. Solanas told police she had 'a lot of very involved reasons' for the shooting, a phrase that recurs in the film. Harron's movie walks through Solanas's life without definitively answering why she did it.