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Gay
New Queer Cinema: The Director's Cut

CGiii Rating

Drugs | Nudity

Public Rating

Velvet Goldmine

Country: UK, Language: English, 124 mins

Gay | New Queer Cinema: The Director's Cut | Drama | 1998
  • Director: Todd Haynes
  • Writer: James Lyons; Todd Haynes
  • Producer: Christopher Ball; Sandy Stern

CGiii Comment

1st impression: RUBBISH.

2nd impression: Bowie must be furious.

3rd impression: Ewan McGregor can't act (or sing).

Take out the arty bits and it could possibly be an okay TV movie. Maybe not.

All in all, it's even worse than Absolute Beginners - which is a very difficult achievement.

Over-rated - both film and director.

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The(ir) Blurb...

1971: Glamrock explodes all over the world and challenges the seriousness within the flower power generation by means of glitter and brutal music. 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 role he created for himself, he plots his own murder. When his fans discover that the murder is not real, his star falls and he is forgotten about. 1984: Arthur, a journalist working for a New York newspaper, gets assigned the story about the fake murder of Brian Slade. When Arthur was young and growing up in Manchester, he was more than a fan of Slade. Reluctantly he accepts the assignment and starts to investigate what happened to his old glamrock hero.

Cast & Characters

Ewan McGregor as Curt Wild;
Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Brian Slade;
Christian Bale as Arthur Stuart;
Toni Collette as Mandy Slade;
Eddie Izzard as Jerry Devine;
Emily Woof as Shannon;
Michael Feast as Cecil;
Janet McTeer as Female Narrator;
Mairead McKinley as Wilde Housemaid;
Luke Morgan Oliver as Oscar Wilde, 8;
Osheen Jones as Jack Fairy, 7;
Micko Westmoreland as Jack Fairy;
Damian Suchet as BBC Reporter;
Danny Nutt as Kissing Sailor;
Wash Westmoreland as Young Man

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120879