Velvet Goldmine (Blu-ray) R
Style matters. Even when it comes to murder.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 59 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 13, 2011
- Originally Released: 1998
- Label: Miramax Lionsgate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Ewan McGregor & Christian Bale | |
| Performer: | Toni Collette, Eddie Izzard, Emily Woof & Michael Feast | |
| Directed by | Todd Haynes | |
| Edited by | James Lyons | |
| Screenwriting by | Todd Haynes | |
| Composition by | Carter Burwell | |
| Produced by | Christine Vachon | |
| Director of Photography: | Maryse Alberti | |
| Executive Production by | Michael Stipe & Scott Meek |
Entertainment Reviews:
57%
80%
Rating: 2/4 --
In Velvet Goldmine, there is the sense that the film's arms were spread too wide, gathered in all of the possible approaches to the material and couldn't decide on just one.
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Chicago Sun-Times
...A fascinating reflection on the mythical power of music idols and the nature of memory, identity and nostalgia...
Box Office
...Haynes' film brilliantly exposes the ideals of youth culture...
Sight and Sound
...In re-creating an era as a gorgeous carnal dream, Haynes celebrates the art of the possible...
Rolling Stone
...[Haynes is] brilliantly audacious....An eccentric hybrid of pop opera and surreal essay....A ravishing rock dream... -- Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly
...Fascinating....GOLDMINE dives headfirst into the era's overhyped perversity, and luxuriates in the pouty lips, taut bodies, and fabulous frippery of the glam demigods...
Premiere
I'm telling you, I was bored stiff.
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CNN.com
Product Description:
Loosely based on the experiences and personalities of David Bowie and Iggy Pop, VELVET GOLDMINE is a wild, glitter-laced trip through the 1970s era of Glam rock. Fictional characters Brian Slade (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) and Curt Wild (Ewan McGregor) are personifications of Glam rock's ideals, with the mysterious and androgynous Slade balanced by the intense, raucous Wild. When Slade disappears, the era itself seems to melt away, swallowed up by the slick 1980s. But Slade's story, and the story of Glam rock, is retold when journalist Arthur Stuart (Christian Bale) is assigned to discover what really happened to Slade. Through his own memories of this time, Arthur faces his childhood fears and fantasies. With a nod to Oscar Wilde, a CITIZEN KANE-like structure, and an overall sumptuous atmosphere, VELVET GOLDMINE is director Todd Haynes's unique look at homosexuality, indulgence, and, most importantly, rock & roll.
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