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Oct 1, 1998 · Velvet Goldmine takes the history of glam rock - that brief, early-'70s burst of glitter that gave the world David Bowie, Iggy Pop, and a flock of other mascaraed musicians who seemed to want to be drag queens - and does a makeover on it. It's a delectable idea, even if the thirty-seven-year-old writer and director Todd Haynes, a semiotician by ...
Oct 23, 1998 · Velvet Goldmine: Directed by Todd Haynes. With Ewan McGregor, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Christian Bale, Toni Collette. In 1984, British journalist Arthur Stuart investigates the career of 1970s glam superstar Brian Slade, who was heavily influenced in his early years by hard-living and rebellious American singer Curt Wild.
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About this movie. 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. In 1984, British newspaper reporter Arthur Stuart is investigating the career of 1970s glam ...
"Velvet Goldmine" is a movie made up of beginnings, endings and fresh starts. There isn't enough in between. It wants to be a movie in search of a truth, but it's more like a movie in search of itself. Not everyone who leaves the theater will be able to pass a quiz on exactly what happens. Set in the 1970s, it's the story of the life, death and resurrection of a glam-rock idol named Brian ...
Gallery of dvd screen captures from the 1998 British glam-rock drama movie, 'Velvet Goldmine'. Starring Ewan McGregor, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Christian Bale and Toni Collette
Glam rock star Brian Slade predicts and enacts his own death onstage. When the killing is exposed as a hoax, Slade's stardom quickly ends. A decade later, journalist Arthur Stuart tracks Slade through his early life and his initial encounter with American singer Curt Wild as well as ex-wife Mandy Slade, whose marriage paralleled his Bowie-like ascent to fame as an innovative, bisexual rock ...
Brian Slade, a young rock star, inspires numerous teenage boys and girls to paint their nails and explore their own sexuality. In the end Slade destroys himself. Unable to escape the character role of "Maxwell Demon" that he created, he plots his own murder. When fans discover the murder is not real, his star falls abruptly and he is quickly ...
