Velvet Goldmine
by Todd Haynes
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Actor: Christian Bale, Eddie Izzard, Ewan McGregor, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Toni ColletteDirector: Todd Haynes
Edition: VHS Tape
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Running Time: 119 minutes
Release Date: 2000-04-04
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: Walt Disney Video
Studio: Walt Disney Video
VHS Movie Reviews of Velvet Goldmine
Movie Review: excellent movie and retrospective on a time, scene and place..
Summary: 5 Stars
I didnt know about this movie(or it missed me somehow), I acutally saw it a day ago on the IFC channel on cable, I was blown away. Admittedly not of that generation or movement (actually born just as it probably got started).
I do recall as a young boy growing up in London during the late 70's "this stuff" being on the radio, like many things it took my growing into adulthood and perhaps being nostalgic for a time period I sailed through in complete oblivion to have a appreciative look back. As a guy whos musical genre leanings dont tend to lean in this direction there are a number of true musical gems that this movie brought to my attention.
Again, being older, more open-minded and mature, I felt like I truly was able to look at this with fresh and open eyes...and loved it. The hype, the theatricality, the indulgences, the lows, the highs, the abandonment. An almost filling journey, I probably need to watch it again (which is why I'm gonna buy it from Amazon).
As a kid I remember the joy I felt when the 70's transitioned to the 80's and when my mother could no longer find 'flares' (what we in the UK called bell bottoms) and the trend moved over to the 'pencil leg' trouser. I hated the polyester, paisley, mini-fro, big-collared shirts, platform shoes...I mean I was a kid 9 or 10 yrs old but distinctly remember hating what I was forced to wear so my personal lamenting of the passing of the 70's is not so much.
I look back and years later learn that there was a scene and movement associated with all this 'gaudiness' that I didnt understand. Youth, pop and a sort of bastard child of the London crew morphing the US Hippy movement, dying Mod(ernists) and the highly commercialized pop scene. (or thats the way I see it, I always thought the hippies looked and felt distinctly out of place in London as opposed to the newer, wider more expansive spaces and aggreable weather of California...not that I fully understand the hippy scene either..again too young for that thing).
I cant help but look at this and think on Gary Glitter (still trying to live the dream alas..), Bay City Rollers, TRex. Watching 'top of the pops' and being totally confused by the theatre, costume and androgeny and lip-synced performances...Watching this movie I felt like I understood it. As a younger guy why a 'boy' would want to look like a 'girl' utterly escaped me, androgeny or it's appeal was a multisyllabled word that had little meaning or understanding to me. Boys looking like girls, wearing tight outfits, crazy platformed shoes and makeup just was so alien to me. Theatre, fantasy, alter-ego, alternative ways of living, gender-bending was just over the head of a kid my age.
This great movie had me revisit some pretty frikken decent music and offered an entre into a time and scene that I didnt understand and it performed superbly in that. Besides that it is simply a great movie with a stellar cast and certainly worth owning.
Summary of Velvet Goldmine
Starring Ewan McGregor (MOULIN ROUGE, TRAINSPOTTING) and Jonathan Rhys Meyers (THE GOVERNESS, MICHAEL COLLINS) -- executive producer Michael Stipe of R.E.M. presents this electrifying journey through rock 'n' roll's most outrageous era! It's been 10 years since glam-rock superstar Brian Slade (Meyers) faked his own death and vanished from the spotlight. Now, it's the job of an investigative reporter, Arthur Stuart, to locate this living legend and uncover the truth behind his disappearance! Through the course of Stuart's investigation, you're taken for a wild, all-access guided tour back into a vibrant music scene ... for an uncompromising look at the flamboyance and excesses of its larger-than-life stars! Acclaimed by critics, VELVET GOLDMINE also earned an Award of Merit at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival!Todd Haynes, ever unpredictable, follows up his experimental trilogy Poison and his restrained Safe with this flamboyant study in glam rock through the kaleidoscopic lens of Citizen Kane. Christian Bale plays Arthur Stuart, a reporter sent to investigate the legend of rock legend and bisexual pop icon Brian Slade (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as a not-so-thinly veiled David Bowie), who disappeared a decade ago after staging his own mock assassination. But Arthur is flooded with memories of his own adolescence as he interviews Slade's friends and business associates, peeling back the layer of makeup and spangles that was the model of rebellion for a generation of middle-class British kids and discovering a hollow center. Ewan McGregor almost steals the film as the punk pioneer Curt Wild (equal parts Iggy Pop and Kurt Cobain), the genuine article to Slade's calculated, coifed image of glitter stardom. Haynes's film lacks nothing in capturing the flamboyance and spectacle of the era with flashy filmmaking and kitschy costumes, and if the plot seems lost in the preening and visual fireworks, perhaps that's the point: behind the fa?ades and manufactured fronts is nothing but glitter, energy, and a beat. --Sean Axmaker
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