Sentences with phrase «velvet goldmine»

I highly recommend going through previous nominees for Best Limited Film for there you'll not only find more transgressive films about the white LGBT experience (Hedwig and the Angry Inch & Mysterious Skin, Velvet Goldmine & Beautiful Thing, Tomboy & Concussion) but especially films about the very type of characters I highlighted this past month.

Did you know Todd Haynes — the Oscar - nominated writer and director behind «Carol,» «Far From Heaven,» and «Velvet Goldmine» — cast his first feature film, «Poison,» through Backstage?

Haynes — who lovingly created period moods in «Far From Heaven,» «Velvet Goldmine» and «Carol» — realizes the roaring»20s and scruffy»70s looks smartly, with every detail perfectly placed.

Given a fall film season that finds Burwell on impressive display with the eccentric stop motion animated chamber score for Charlie Kaufman's «Anomalisa» the swaggering punk rock gangsterism of Brian Hegeland's «Legend,» the most emotionally impactful Burwell score belongs to «Carol,» his new collaboration with director Todd Haynes, Having first teamed for the 70s glam rock odyssey of «Velvet Goldmine,» then gone back to the 30s and 40s for the tormented career woman that netted HBO's «Mildred Pierce» miniseries a best score Golden Globe, Burwell and Haynes now journey to the 1950s.

After 1998 outing «Velvet Goldmine,» he reteamed with Moore for the much - lauded 2002 movie «Far From Heaven,» and more recent work has included «I'm Not There» (2007) and the HBO miniseries «Mildred Pierce.»

This is perhaps the most optimistic Haynes assessment, and Velvet Goldmine «s belief in the power of art makes it a more personal film than many audiences might be willing to accept.

Velvet Goldmine sums up Haynes» obsessions with pop culture, music, child and adult psychology, academic structure, sexuality, threes.

In the more recent past is Haynes» glam - rock feature Velvet Goldmine (1998).

«It really was the party to end all parties,» Haynes said of the Velvet Goldmine festival soiree, which was so fittingly lavish for the film that it is forever catalogued «in Cannes lore» by those who attended.

Cole is a troubled young child who lives with is mother Lynn (Toni Collette from Muriel's Wedding and The Velvet Goldmine), a struggling single mother.

They're so intimidated by an examination of the ever - shifting culture to see that Velvet Goldmine is also about the emotions and desires attached to those changing times.

What I personally find most impressive about Velvet Goldmine is the film's examination of artists and their gifts.

Does Velvet Goldmine kinda - sorta - maybe - if - you - tilt - your - head - sideways work?

Critics and audiences have admired director Todd Haynes (Far From Heaven, Velvet Goldmine) for his depiction of gay and lesbian themes in his films.

Velvet Goldmine reflects on these questions, coming up not with concrete answers, but more purely emotional ones.

It finds means of expression through pop music, and Velvet Goldmine focuses in on the Slade / Wild relationship that extends and destroys Fairy's vision.

Kay's Velvet Goldmine Site A fan's reflections on Haynes» glam - rock film.

The emotional, the intellectual, the physical, all coalesce in Velvet Goldmine to create a feeling of a time and a place.

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WONDERSTRUCK Director: Todd Haynes Starring: Oakes Fegley, Millicent Simmonds, Julianne Moore, Jaden Michael, Tom Noonan, Michelle Williams, Cory Michael Smith, Damian Young Director Todd Haynes» previous films have tackled some heavy adult subjects involving identity and sexuality in the 1950s (Carol, Far From Heaven), rock icons (I'm Not There, Velvet Goldmine, Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story), and a remake of a Joan Crawford classic (Mildred Pierce).

Eddie Izzard (Oceans 12 and 13, Dressed To Kill, Velvet Goldmine) is joining NBC's contemporary Hannibal Lecter series, «Hannibal,» as a guest star.

Watching Todd Haynes's seventh feature, Wonderstruck, it's hard not to think about certain hallmarks of the director's previous films: the sense of yearning and isolation found in Safe and Far from Heaven; the fixation on personal and historical past as characters come to terms with being outsiders in Velvet Goldmine; even the use of Barbie dolls as stand - ins for real people in Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story.

The Sixth Sense features quality acting by Osment as the young boy, and Collette (Velvet Goldmine, Clockwatchers) as his mother.

That it's his first film at Cannes since «Velvet Goldmine» bodes well.

But whereas Safe (95), Velvet Goldmine (98), and Far from Heaven (02) translate such thinking into bold metafilmic spectacle, Carol finds Haynes standing at zero distance from the material, which is derived for the first time from someone else's script, in this case written by Phyllis Nagy.

Todd Haynes delves into the velvet goldmine of Glam Rock and Brian Slade, a mod star who burns hot, then out by 1971.

In two of his films, Velvet Goldmine and August Rush, he also took over singing parts.

It's been six years since «Velvet Goldmine» and «Far From Heaven» helmer Todd Haynes last had a film in theaters — the uneven, but intermittently transcendent Bob Dylan picture «I'm Not There.»

He is best known for his roles in the films Velvet Goldmine, Bend It Like Beckham, Woody Allen's Match Point and his television roles as Elvis Presley in the biographical miniseries Elvis, which earned him a Golden Globe for Best Actor, and as King Henry VIII in the historical drama The Tudors.

Today it's hard to imagine the likes of Todd Haynes and Gregg Araki making colourful, explicit and confrontational queer films like Velvet Goldmine or The Living End.

Meanwhile, Ewan McGregor is arguably best known for his performance in «Trainspotting,» but he's also known for Todd Haynes» «Velvet Goldmine,» Baz Luhrmann's «Moulin Rouge,» the «Star Wars» prequel trilogy, Tim Burton's «Big Fish,» and more.

As an imperfect but heartfelt and exquisitely rendered portrait of the world's mysteries seen through wide, guileless eyes, the film can proudly stand next to VELVET GOLDMINE and FAR FROM HEAVEN in the oeuvre of an endlessly, passionately curious auteur.

It would be tempting to describe I'm Not There as being about six conflicting interpretations of Dylan, another Rashomon, another variant on Citizen Kane (a film that provided the structural template for Velvet Goldmine, Haynes's first shot at devising the method for this film).

Haynes has previously tried constructing Chinese boxes of allusion, quotation, and pastiche in Superstar and Velvet Goldmine but he masters this strategy in I'm Not There.

Their films, including Far From Heaven and Velvet Goldmine, have been celebrated by critics and moviegoers for their depiction of gay and lesbian themes.

Film Reviews: Arabian Knight by Eleanor Ringel Emma by Leslie Rigoulot The Sixth Sense by Thom Bennett Partial Filmography: About a Boy Arabian Knight The Dead Girl Eight and a Half Women Emma The Hours Little Miss Sunshine The Pallbearer Shaft The Sixth Sense Velvet Goldmine

Safe (1995) is one of the best films to have played in the Directors» Fortnight, and 1998's Velvet Goldmine, an In Comp selection, won a special prize for artistic contribution.

Todd Haynes» (Poison, Safe, Velvet Goldmine, Far From Heaven) British - American romantic drama Carol stars Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara (winner of Best Actress at Cannes) and Kyle Chandler.

In this week's You Have To See... we look at the iconoclastic Todd Haynes» glam rock tribute, VELVET GOLDMINE.

Andrej Trbojevic: A paean to the glossy heyday of glam rock with Ewan McGregor and Jonathan Rhys Meyers macking at the apex of their silver - screen virility, what's there not to like about Velvet Goldmine?

Over a decade later, Haynes» directed the decadent, if somewhat superficial Velvet Goldmine.

20 years ago today, Todd Haynes» film «Velvet Goldmine» debuted at Cannes; while the film was initially panned, its reputation has grown immensely

Todd Haynes» 1999 film «Velvet Goldmine» (Miramax) reimagines the Glam rock era and the iconic influence of David Bowie through the kaleidoscopic lens of «Citizen Kane» and the fictionalized persona of rock legend and bi-sexual pop icon Brian Slade (played by Jonathan Rhys - Myers).

She uses very different skills when shooting an Alex Gibney doc, where she relies on reactive instinct, than the more intellectual planning of a narrative film like Todd Haynes» «Velvet Goldmine,» Ryan Coogler's «Creed,» or Darren Aronofsky's «The Wrestler,» which requires that «when you go into a room, you know where to put the camera,» she said.

Director Todd Haynes may have made his name with a series of sly, sublime, and pop - savvy New Queer Cinema profiteroles like Poison, Velvet Goldmine, and Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, but in recent years he's resurrected the forgotten genre of what Old Hollywood called «women's pictures»: lachrymose melodramas in which glamorous ladies struggle... read more

Interpretations of music history have kind of become Haynes's thing (he also wrote and directed Superstar and I'm Not There), but with Velvet Goldmine he struck a few sour notes.

I saw Velvet Goldmine on my first ever date, and in it you get to see Ewan McGregor jumping around with his dick out, so I may be prejudiced about this one.

«Writer / director Todd Haynes's film, Velvet Goldmine, is his bizarre tribute to an incredibly wild period of musical history that obviously helped him find himself as a teen.»

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We get to see Nic as a small child in Africa, as a young horny teen (played by Jonathan Rhys - Meyers from the Velvet Goldmine) and as an adult (played by Julian Sands).