Silver for GoldLegit Reviews: Andy Warhol's muse Edie Sedgwick provides unique fodder for Bauhaus/Love & Rockets founder David J. He uses her short life to exhume his fondness for the Velvet Underground and Bob Dylan in a dozen songs that make up his woman-with-demons legiter, receiving its world premiere at Hollywood's Met Theater.
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Published: 2008-03-11
Provider: Variety.com
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Todd HaynesAward Central: Darkhorse directors also in the Oscar race -- No one can accuse Haynes of not breaking the mold when it comes to the all-too-predictable pop biopic. In his underground Karen Carpenter film "Superstar," he used Barbie dolls to paint an unsettling depiction of anorexia nervosa and distorted self-image; in "Velvet Goldmine," he rendered the glamrock movement as a glittery panorama of self-invention.
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Published: 2007-12-05
Provider: Variety.com
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