Velvet Goldmine
Miramax (1998)
Drama, Music, Queer Themes/Interest
In Collection
#456
8*
Seen ItYes
(6/26/2016 Amazon Prime)
031398138242
IMDB   7.0
124 mins UK / English
DVD  Region 1
Christian Bale Arthur Stuart
Ewan McGregor Curt Wild
Toni Collette Mandy Slade
Eddie Izzard Jerry Devine
Ray Shell Murray
Jonathan Rhys Meyers Brian Slade
Janet McTeer Female Narrator
Michael Feast Cecil
Osheen Jones Jack Fairy (7)
Don Fellows Lou
Emily Woof Shannon
Mairead McKinley Wilde Housemaid
Ganiat Kasumu Mary
Wash Westmoreland Young Man
Danny Nutt Kissing Sailor
Luke Morgan Oliver Oscar Wilde
Micko Westmoreland Jack Fairy
Damien Suchet BBC Reporter
Director
Todd Haynes
Producer Christine Vachon
Writer/Composer Todd Haynes
James Lyons
Cinematography Maryse Alberti
Music Carter Burwell


In 1984, British newspaper reporter Arthur Stuart is investigating the career of 1970s glam rock star Brian Slade, who was heavily influenced in his early years by American rock singer Curt Wild, whose show was quite crazy for his time.
Edition Details
Release Date 2014
No. of Discs/Tapes 1
Personal Details
Purchase Date 6/26/2016
Location Amazon: My Video Library
Owner Amazon
Store Amazon
Purchase Price $6.59
Links Wikipedia
A.V. Club: Movie & David Bowie
+ Review: NY Times
Velvet Goldmine at Core for Movies
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Notes
"Velvet Goldmine captures the spirit, if not the biography, of David Bowie" --

"The Glam: Velvet Goldmine

"Gay lion of cinema Todd Haynes made an overlooked masterpiece with Velvet Goldmine, and also happened to catch a few then-unknown actors on their way to megastardom. Christian Bale, Ewan McGregor, Toni Collette, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and Eddie Izzard star in a fictionalized account of the rise of David Bowie and homoerotic, gender-bending rock. Bale plays a journalist investigating the rise and fall of Bowie analogue Brian Slade (Rhys-Meyers) by investigating his ex-wife (Collette) and ex-boyfriend (McGregor). Featuring a soundtrack with tunes by Lou Reed, Placebo and original music by Thom Yorke of Radiohead, Velvet Goldmine doesn’t just channel the glam rock of the 1970s; it adds to the canon. The entire cast gives great performances all around (another Haynes hallmark), and the scenes of gay sex, while graphic for 1998, never feel gratuitous. Flashy, innovative and extremely personal to Haynes, Velvet Goldmine makes for terrific quarantine evening viewing, especially when played at maximum volume."

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