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Summary: Perhaps the most beautiful film you will ever see...
Review: An explosion of music, light, glitter and fame. Velvet Goldime boasts a cast most beautiful - Meyers, McGregor, Bale, coupled with a thick and irresistable plot which will take you on a journey dazzled with decadence and riddled with tragedy. This is a film To laugh with, to cry over, to dance to, to sing along with and to fall head-over-heels in love with.
A film to watch again and again - each time opening new avenues of scandal, mystery and intruigue.
By the end of your first viewing you will wish you now lived in this other era, other world.
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Summary: Velvet Goldmine
Review: Velvet Goldmine is a movie for those familiar with the Glam Rock era. Even if you aren't, the storyline, music, costumes, and undertones of Oscar Wilde's Aesthetic beliefs will keep you interested. People of heterosexual, homosexual, and bi-sexual natures will all find something of interest. Clearly, this is an adult film, based loosely on Iggy Pop, and David Bowie, and the era in which they rocked. As a fan of David Bowie, Ewan McGregor, Oscar Wilde, Eddie Izzard, and glam rock, this movie could do no wrong with me. There are subtle clues to follow while watching the film that most will miss the first time viewing. But having a keen eye is guaranteed to explain more of the movie than most will comprehend. While the movie may move from past to present and will surely loose some viewers, I enjoyed seeing the characters as they were and as they became.
Any fans of Placebo, will enjoy seeing them in the movie playing a glam rock band of the times. Having owned the soundtrack for some years, it is played regularly, and I am even thinking of purchasing an extra soundtrack incase I wear out the one I have now. Anyone who enjoys concerts, music videos, or the fantasy of being a musician or being around musicians will enjoy this film.
Other films I recommend are Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Forbidden Passion: Oscar Wilde.
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Summary: Buy velvet goldmine dvd
Review: velvet goldmine is a great film. You will watch it 100s of time. great music to , worth money
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Summary: THIS MOVIE (GLAM!) ROCKS
Review: This movie is fantastical. Let's just put it at that. Regarding the previous review, the reason there were no Bowie songs is because Bowie didn't want anything to do with the movie (since the main character Brian Slade is based on him). So instead they made a make believe band up to create Bowie-esque songs. Which works out for the best considering those songs kick ass. Anyways, this movie is weird, like glam rock. It is theatrical, like glam rock. It is surreal, like glam rock. And it rocks, like glam rock! The bottom line is, if you enjoy the music and ideas of glam rock (sexual revolution, theatrical outfits, glitter!, and lots of make up) then you will enjoy this movie greatly.
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Summary: The most beautiful movie ever made
Review: The first time I watched this movie I was sixteen and I fell in love with the way it made me feel. With glitter and boas and eyeliner, the visuals are absolutely breath taking. This is the type of movie that makes you wish that you are actually there and at times makes you feel that you really are. Oh how i wish i would have been a teen in the glam era! Such a magnificent performance from Jonathon Rhys Meyers, and Ewan McGregor is perfect as always. Not only is this the best movie ever, but the soundtrack is to die for! I dug in the basement for my mom's old bell bottoms and T Rex and New York dolls tees, put on as much make up and glitter as possible and danced in my platforms! YAY!!!!!
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Summary: Breathtaking
Review: Although I do agree that this is a fantasy version of the real happenings in the glam rock era, this movie is simply beautiful. It's extremely close to real happenings between the glam stars of that time, enough to not totally consider it a work of fiction, but not enough to consider it a biography. The costumes, make up, and moods of the movie are a fantastic sight! You can honestly feel journalist Aurthur's pain and relate to him.... The acting in this movie is great... You're really there! I cannot help but jump up and point out the mirrored similarities between real occurances and the movie, but you really will be sucked up into this one. Pick up the soundtrack, too. It's lacking most of the glam staples, but it's a great start, or piece to your collection. A wonderful movie. If you're thinking about it, go ahead, get it.
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Summary: One of the greats.
Review: I caught this movie one night on Bravo and was instenly drawn in to it. The costumes and music are a visual delight, and the acting worthy of some sort of awards.. I realize this movie was released in 98 but someone should really consider re-releasing it to the big screen.. I would be willing to say if this were to happen the amount of money maid would triple from its origanl debuet. I have come to this conclusion based on the booming exceptance of sexual orientation here in the states in the last year.. If you have not seen this movie I suggest you do.
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Summary: --awesome music, intriguing story, three and a half stars--
Review: A British journalist working in NYC, in the eighties, tries to put the pieces together when the "death" of a glam rock star is re-examined. Brian Slade, the fictional/quintessential Glam rocker dissappeared years ago, presumed shot. Arthur Stuart's assignment is to find out what really happened to Slade, though he is more than reluctant.Those who knew Slade rock star tell what they know: the former manager who fell in love with him in a sixties gay club when Slade was every other hippie rocker; the supposed widow who followed Slade in the change to glam rock and fame...and remembers when Slade fell in love with an American hard rocker (McGregor) and his life changed, just as Slade changed Stuart's life: Stuart remembers his own attraction to Slade that forced him to leave home and the night he saw Slade's supposed death. I keep reading how Slade is based on David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust, and to some extent he is-the breakout glam star (to a mainstream audience) with constant revision, but I feel that the Slade image feels so borrowed...but the plot is only half the movie in this case. It's also a celebration of the music and make-up and sexuality of the glam era. There's a recurring character that comes down from glam heaven, in a manner of speaking, who we are introduced to, a sorta-descendent of Oscar Wilde because each was an outcast; both were united in their unique glamour-and a mythical charm each wore, which gets passed on to Slade, who passes it on to his muse/lover Curt Wild (a variation of Wilde? Hmm.) who passes it on to Stuart, sort of Stuart's reconcilliation with his own past. The cast is great! The music is greater than the movie-awesome collection of music from the era and music paying homage to the original era. It's hard to follow all the people in the flashbacks (especially as they change with the fashions of the times) and I had a hard time telling Arthur's fantasies and recollections apart, yes, though it is an interesting movie with artistic attributes that would still make an entertaining Saturday night rental. The movie is definately an experience.
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Summary: Strange, sexy and wonderful
Review: This film was strange with it jumping through time and revisiting differant perspectives of the same past. It was vibrant, alive and full of passion. The acting was fantastic and the music was good. It's not too heavy and an enjoyable evenings entertainment. Buy it and enjoy. NOTE: some nude imagages and behaviors. I may suggest this for adults, not for children under 18 or so.
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Summary: Astonishing
Review: The only reason I saw this movie was for Jonathan Rhys-Meyers. I knew nothing about it. I thought it was going to be...well, I had no clue about it. The first 5 minutes, I was hooked. It was just brilliant. Hayes has done it again. I have seen his other movies, but this topped. I had NO IDEA that such a great film could be made. If you love Bowie, (which it is NOT about) or you loved the Labrynth: SEE IT! Now if you are ultra conservative, didn't like the 70's, or want a film to define the 70's, (...) don't see this. It's not for you. There's language, many a many a sex party scene, and more sex. I loved it. (...) If you don't love it, then...you don't.
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