velvet goldmine – half-girl, half-robot

Toni Collette as Mandy Slade in Velvet Goldmine (1998)

I used to think it was silly that Haynes, in the 1984 scenes, outlined a vague conspiracy about bland corporate rock and its complicity with the security state. Now I’m not so sure—not when the much-heralded future of the entertainment industry is algorithmically generated home broadband sweeteners masquerading as art, and the act of consumption is beginning to resemble another British dystopia about aesthetic conformity, the one about being immobilized in a chair and subjected to an unrelenting torrent of brain-bleaching Content. Seen from the vantage of the endless 2020, Velvet Goldmine comes back around to universality. It inspires you to be not just a consumer, but an aesthete, curator, explorer, and invests those identities with life-or-death urgency.

That’s Me!
Mark Asch on Velvet Goldmine
(via alwaysalreadyangry)

The Death of Glitter Rock

goryfluff:

Sandy Powell’s fantastic costumes in Velvet Goldmine (1998) dir. Todd Haynes | [1]

v-e-l-v-e-t-g-o-l-d-m-i-n-e:

Velvet Goldmine (dir. Todd Haynes, 1998)

genekellys:

EWAN MCGREGOR in VELVET GOLDMINE dir. Todd Haynes

freshmoviequotes:

Velvet Goldmine (1998)

artofcinema:

velvet goldmine (1998)

‘it’s funny how beautiful people are when they’re walking out the door’

director: todd haynes

DoP: maryse alberti

magnoliatenenbaum:

Velvet Goldmine ✩ cast → Christian Bale is Arthur Stewart

Ten years. Ten years and the world had changed so completely that the life I’d led in England seemed like someone else’s life. Someone else’s story. Anyone’s but mine.