Christian Bale attends the premiere of Velvet Goldmine at the Village East Cinema in New York, New York (October 26, 1998)
Re: Christian Bale as Arthur Stuart in Velvet Goldmine (1998) dir. Todd Haynes
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I love you Priscilla Queen of the Desert I love you But I’m A Cheerleader I love you Velvet Goldmine I love you To Wong Foo I love you Hedwig and the Angry Inch I love you queer movies from the 90s that are fun and camp and over the top with characters that are messy and loud and make mistakes. We’re getting fun movies back can we bring back these
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Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Brian Slade in 'Velvet Goldmine' (1998)
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anyone else very normal about this movie?
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I love how in Velvet Goldmine the connections with real life are an open secret but there are also a lot of easter eggs for the most avid fans to enjoy. There are various degrees of references, from the more obvious ones to stuff like the club where Brian meets Curt, which is never named in the movie but if you're a fan you immediately know that it's supposed to be Max's Kansas City. Also the fact that these references have to be hidden to avoid getting sued is, in a meta way, kinda like the experience of watching old queercoded movies that couldn't legally be explicit, and being able to understand all the subtext and secret meanings that would fly over your average straight person's head, obviously Todd Haynes as a gay director is probably very familiar with this, so I really like that even in this explicitly queer movie there’s moments that have a double meaning that are specifically directed to a portion of viewers that know what they really mean, the movie even tells us so with the quote "Meaning is not in things but in between them", so the people that can read between the lines get the true meaning of the movie. In the end, even with its general appeal (since you don't need to know anything about the actual real life artists to enjoy the movie), Velvet Goldmine is a movie made by fans for fans, and I love that so much.
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I lied. I don’t like sex, put your clothes back on im gonna explain my in-depth analysis of the 1998 camp glam rock masterpiece of a film Velvet Goldmine directed by Todd Haynes
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velvet goldmine (1998) / the last waltz (1978)
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Finnish VHS release of Velvet Goldmine (1998)
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Christian Bale promotional photos for "Velvet Goldmine" (1998)
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