Trine Dyrholm as Christa Päffgen in "Nico, 1988." (Courtesy Magnolia Pictures) “I only did three songs with them,” sighs an exasperated Christa Päffgen during one of the many frustrating radio ...

Italian director Susanna Nicchiarelli’s Nico 1988, a biopic about Velvet Underground lead singer Christa Paffgen, better known as Nico, is set to open the Venice Film Festival’s Horizon section. The ...

A brain hemorrhage claimed German musician Christa “Nico” Päffgen 30 years ago this Wednesday, but American cinema-goers can celebrate her legacy later this summer. Magnolia Pictures has released the ...

“Please don’t confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them,” sings German model-actress-musician Nico on 1967’s Jackson Browne-penned “These Days,” one of her signature post-Velvet ...

Trine Dyrholm ('Love Is All You Need,' 'The Commune') embodies the talented and tragic Warholian superstar and Velvet Underground singer Nico in her final years in ‘Nico, 1988.' By THR Staff Long past ...

This music biopic chronicles the last two years of Warhol superstar Christa Päffgen (a.k.a. Nico). It showcases her underground music solo performances, erratic moods, heroin addiction, and her ...

Italian director Susanna Nicchiarelli made a splash in Venice with her 2009 debut “Cosmonauta,” set during the space race between the Soviet Union and the U.S. She’s back on the Lido with “Nico, 1988, ...

For anyone who has ever heard her, there is no mistaking — or forgetting — the voice of Nico, the icy blond German chanteuse who sang with the groundbreaking group the Velvet Underground in the 1960s ...

Trine Dyrholm plays Christa "Nico" Päffgen, who spent the end of her career fighting for artistic independence from former collaborators Andy Warhol and Lou Reed. A brain hemorrhage claimed German ...