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details
Release Date: Nov 6, 1998
Running Time: 117 mins.
Country Of Origin: United Kingdom
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
The story of the rise and fall of a glam rock star: mythical rock God, Brian Slade, suddenly disappears at the peak of his fame after a publicity stunt at a concert goes wrong. Ten years later Arthur Stuart, a reporter sets out to find out what happened. The film is a meditation on imgination, memory, nostalgia and identity, set to the sights and sounds of the glam rock era.
cast + crew
Director
Curt Wild
Brian Slade
Mandy Slade
Arthur Stuart
Jerry Devine
Shannon
Cecil
Female Narrator
Wilde Housemaid
Oscar Wilde
Producer
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Co-Executive Producer
Co-Executive Producer
Co-Producer
reviews
April 18, 2001
It's easy to describe what writer- director Todd Haynes does in Velvet Goldmine as a swooningly sexy tribute to the rude boys in mascara and heels who detonated the musical and sexual explosion of Seventies glam rock.
It's easy to see Jonathan Rhys Meyers' fictional Brian Slade as the essence of Bowie glitter Ð right down to his Ziggy Stardust alter ego, here called Maxwell Demon, whose murder he fakes onstage. Likewise, Ewan McGregor gives Curt Wild the suck-my-cock…
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