Review of Velvet Goldmine (1998) by Noora Y — 16 Mar 2008
1â?? winner, Special Jury Prize for Artistic Contribution at Cannes.
2â??references glam-relevant films like Performance and The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976); while, like the â??60s work of Alan Resnais, uses memory and desire to advance a complex narrative.
3â??characters are little distillations of real-life people and the stories they wove around themselves in their personas; biographies of David Bowie and Oscar Wilde blended together.
4â??What is (American Independent) Cinema? homage to Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)â??structurally.
This review of Velvet Goldmine (1998) was written by Noora Y on 16 Mar 2008.
Velvet Goldmine has generally received positive reviews.
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