Info
Director: Todd Haynes
Section: Retrospective - Todd Haynes
Country: USA, United Kingdom
Year: 1998
Language: English
Version: Original version
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Christian Bale, Toni Collette, Eddie Izzard
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Logline
Velvet Goldmine
It's easy to see Jonathan Rhys Meyers' fictional Brian Slade as the essence of Bowie glitter right down to his Ziggy Stardust alter ego, here called Maxwell Demon, whose murder he fakes onstage. Likewise, Ewan McGregor gives Curt Wild the suck-my-cock swagger of the Iggy Pop who transfixed Bowie. Rhys Meyers and McGregor throw themselves into the makeup, the clothes, the drugs, the bi sex and the blazing music with a dynamism that is never less than mesmeric. Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Meet the director
Todd Haynes
Credits
Screenplay: Todd Haynes, James Lyons
Director of Photography: Maryse Alberti
Film Editor: James Lyons
Composer: Carter Burwell, Craig Wedren
Production Designer: Christopher Hobbs
Costume Design: Sandy Powell
Sound: Peter Lindsay
Producer: Christine Vachon
Production Company: Channel Four Films
Co-Producer: Olivia Stewart
Distributor: Tobis Film GmbH & Co.KG