Lou Reed’s Red Shirley Movie

If there’s two things we love in this world it’s old ladies and rock’n’roll – so the fact that Lou Reed has made a documentary portrait of his 100-year-old cousin makes our serotonin just sing-aling! Red Shirley is a 28-minute visual testimony to this mega inspiring dame who survived two world wars, spear-heading workers’ rights and fearlessly fighting The Man during her five-decade dress-making career. Shot by subversive photographer Ralph Gibson and with a rousing score by the Reed, this movie makes us want to stay in and ignore the onset of Spring…