Velvet Goldmine
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- Synopsis
- At the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, American independent director Todd Haynes (Safe) received the "Artistic Achievement" award for this re-creation of the UK glam rock scene of the early '70s....
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- Director(s)
- Todd Haynes
- Distributor(s)
- Miramax
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 123 min.
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Critic Reviews
There are moments when Velvet Goldmine threatens to collapse under the weight of writer/director Todd Haynes' (Poison, Safe) ambition. But, sometimes amazingly, it doesn't, becoming in the process one of the year's freshest, most exciting films.Read the full review
Brilliantly reimagines the glam-rock 70's as a brave new world of electrifying theatricality and sexual possibility, to the point where identifying precise figures in this neo-psychedelic landscape is almost beside the point.Read the full review
Velvet Goldmine is no masterpiece, but, at its best, it's a ravishing rock dream.Read the full review
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Film: The New Cult Canon: Velvet Goldmine
02/04/09 To me, the key scene in Todd Haynes' experimental musical Velvet Goldmine —not the thesis, necessarily, but the reason why it was made—takes place in the early '70s, just as the glam-rock movement is starting to find its legs. | The A.V. Club