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Genres:
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Drama /
Music /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Todd Haynes
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Actors:
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Eddie Izzard,
Emily Woof,
Mairead McKinley,
Luke Morgan Oliver,
Ewan McGregor,
Jonathan Rhys Meyers,
Christian Bale,
Toni Collette,
Michael Feast,
Janet McTeer
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Duration:
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124 min.
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Rating:
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(6.7/10)81.5
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Plot Summary:
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1971: Glamrock explodes all as a remainder the world and challanges the seriousness within the flowerpower start by means of glitter and brutal music. Brian Slade, a adolescent rockstar, inspires numerous teenage boys and girls to characterize their nails and explore their own sexuality. In the ambivalent Slade destroys himself. Impotent to escape the role he created for himself, he plots his own murder. When his fans discovers that the murder is a fake, his star falls and he is forgotten apropos. 1984: Arthur, a scribe working for a New York newspaper, gets assigned the yarn about the fake m... urder of Brian Slade. When Arthur was juvenile and grew up in Manchester, he was more than a fiend of Slade. Reluctantly he accepts the job and starts to investigate what happened his old glamrock knight.
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Velvet Goldmine
This waggish, evocative re-creation of the heady days of glam rock is loosely structured on the lines of a Freeman...
Velvet Goldmine
A brazenly ambitious whirl through the music uncomfortable of the 70s, borrowing from the lives of its omnisexual icons to make a film completely in tune with the energising epoch that was Glam. Taking its structure from Citizen Kane, a news-hound is dispatched to find visible whatever happened to lemonade personage Brian Slade, who faked his own death on stage at the height of his fame. This investigation explores the enjoyment from between Bowie-alike Slade, and Ewan McGregor's trailer-flapdoodle songster Curt Wilde, who combines the scrawny vulnerability of Lou Reed with the knob-out naughtiness of Iggy Bang. From its gap at the birth of Oscar Wilde, to its soundtrack featuring the normally cheerless Thom Yorke up for a prance, to its Osc...
Velvet Goldmine
A inartistic account of a camp-site phenomenon, flamboyantly revelling in the fakery and the androgynous appeal of it all.
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