velvet goldmine

[lobelia321]

Velvet Goldmine is a brilliant movie!

And Ewan McGregar (whom I don't like) is bloody brilliant in it!



It is a visually delight, and aesthetically totally satisfying. I love the editing, I love the madness of it, I love the use of metaphors. I love the nostalgic mood of it, and the way it is about more than music. And I *love* what it does to Citizen Kane which is a film I find highly overrated. Todd Haynes (I want to see more, more, more of his movies now!) takes the basic frame story of Citizen Kane (journalist's interviews, flashbacks, rise and fall etc.) and twists and subverts it very, very cleverly. Squeeworthily! It's only towards the end that I realised *how much* he was subverting it and how different this particular journalist is from the non-involved outsider voice in Kane. What a plot twist! And what an ending!

I stared at extras until t'hubs came home and then told him that we have to see this film again tomorrow. He is going to *love* the McGregor stage scenes. *I* love the McGregor stage scenes! The first McGregor stage scene is fucking spellbinding!

And the *love*.... The heart eyes!

I was so glued to the TV that I never got to my chocolate trifle. Nor, alas, did I write Malta!fic.



I did, however, do a ffd through Monkey's Mask which doesn't seem like a fabulous film but quite watchable. I was ffding to get to John Noble whom none of us has ever seen in action but there he was!!!! I *swooned*. How absurd. I frozeframed him and checked him out *in colour*. I've never even seen a colour pic of him! Nobody has! His eyes are as brooding as they are in this icon plus they are blueish-green (*swoons*), and his *lips* are just gah. And his *voice*! Very deep and sonorous and a bit rumbling; it carries like a stage actor's voice would. He's also got quite a slight build.

I kept seeing him in Bern's arms!!!!!! *swoons again* They are so right for each other!!!!

Okay, end of fangirlish squeeing. I can't *wait* for Denethor.

Oh, and Marton is in that film, too! He's quite the dish although not as much of a spunk as he was as Yorgi in xXx,


Oh, and there's lots of full frontal nudity of the two lead women in bed. Kelly McGillis at one point says to Susie Porter while mauling Susie's mouth: "You're a great fuck but a lousy detective."

I will report more once I've seen it without my finger glued to the ffd.



Thank you so much for reccing Velvet Goldmine! What a revelation of a film!

Comments

[lazulus]

*runs squealing around the house*

Yes!!! Am so thrilled you loved it!!

VG fucking ROCKS!!!

[ukcalico.livejournal.com]

YES! yesyesyes! Oh lobelia, now you must see it again,/i> and love it more and then you will understand why I almost hyperventilated when you said velvet goldmine, what is that, isn't there a band with that name?

eeeeeeee. And then we must watch it all together! with freezeframe for certain moments! ohgod, what are the extras like? I never saw! and the nailpolish! tear-jerking chipped nailpolish! ee!

::falls down in overexcitement::

[ukcalico.livejournal.com]

and my icon! you get my icon now, with the blur and the pretty boys touching?

oh bugger, fucked up that i-tag, didn't I? oh well, it's apt for the tone. ;)

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I screamed when your icon appeared on my TV screen! Well, inwardly. And I almost frozeframed except I was too caught up in the movie and couldn't bear to stop it. And isn't there some *reinterpretation* of the personnel in this shot later on in the movie as well? Or at least *ambiguity*???

Am watching it again tonight with t'hubster. When he came home from his dinner, I talked about nothing but for half an hour.

Re:

[ukcalico.livejournal.com]

frozeframed! hee. I love those tenses. (And I love the orli-big icon! in a totally OT moment, ahem.)

And there is, there's ambiguity, and yes. yesyesyes. VG fixes my craving for subtle hot interesting m/m existence every time. And that moment in particular, aah. Everything I love about slash is in that moment, the romance and the heartache and the deceit and the fabulous clothes and the intimacy and the beautiful skin. Hence default. =)

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Everything I love about slash is in that moment, the romance and the heartache and the deceit and the fabulous clothes and the intimacy and the beautiful skin.

*dies*

*doesn't quite know why but is now atremble with desire to see that film again tonight*

I keep thinking of Curt Wild's tongue!

[lazulus]

Communal VG watching! You know it makes sense!

*dances Cal around the room to the strains of TV Eye*

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[ukcalico.livejournal.com]

TV Eye!!

Ohhhhyeah. especially the "you got tveye on me UH" moment. Let's just loop that, again and again.

xx
Cal, who knows almost the entire movie from memory, despite not seeing it in Over A Year (travesty).

[lazulus]

despite not seeing it in Over A Year (travesty).

Travesty doesn't even cover it!!

We must address this problem soon! When are you back in t'frozen north? I can come to Cambs on Fridays or weekends. Or we can do the London meetup.

We can meet up at mine for communcal DVD viewing and squealing.

*gets out diary*

[lazulus]

Am very pleased you enjoyed Cherries and am going to pimp my own VG fic, which is probably my favourite thing I have written. No pressure to read it (she said), and if you hate it you are welcome to say!! Anyway, it's here. If you read it, I hope you enjoy it.

Oh yes, we MUST have a communal screening when we are next together!!! You, me, Cal and Shelduck!

[the-oscar-cat.livejournal.com]

You beat me to it! I was going to pimp you! ::smirk::

::drags self back to work::

::runs back to dance under the glitter, lick the back of Christian's neck, and whisper dirty thing about Josh Hartnett in his ear::

::drags self back to work again::

::selotapes self to work chair::

::vows to return to this conversation and pepper it with over-thoughts::

[gabbyhope.livejournal.com]

GUH Ewan singing TV Eye oh yes. I'm so glad you enjoyed it! My advice is to stay away from the VG FPS. There's quite a lot of it, and I don't think I've read one that was noteworthy. There should be more RPS! What did you think of Christian Bale? (ROOFTOP) Personally, I've been in love with the man since I was eight (ahaha newsies), but in this he shines. He transforms from the naive youngster to the grown, jaded man very well. Not to mention mm, wanking.

"You're a great fuck but a lousy detective."

I wonder if my video place has this. Now I'm all antsy to see it... and John in action, of course. Uh huh.

[lazulus]

What Gabby fails to mention, is that she herself wrote a rather fabulous piece of VG RPS which can be found here.

*smooches gabby*

[gabbyhope.livejournal.com]

You are a little sneakster, you are. *cuddles* :)

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Oooh, thanks for rec. Have already snuck a look but more at home not in t'ref one. Can you stream bits of Monkey's Mask onto mpegs?

[lazulus]

Sadly I don't have the software to grab clips from DVD. I am looking into it, however. If I work it out, shall let you know.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I would send it! But I have PAL format. *kicks stupid interest-protecting enterprises and their stupid so-called regions* Is there anyone out there who can scan and do streaming and stick some of the bits onto mpegs?? Will ask lazulus.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Laz said to read Cherries so I did and how lovely it is! I hadn't even *thought* of that potential in that scene. (Duh.) The voyeurism is delicious. And very true to the canon-part of the film. I like that interweaving of fps and rps. And cherries! Are they the new strawberries?

[gabbyhope.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you! Laz is very sneaky that way.

mm, Christian/Ewan...

Are they the new strawberries?

bwahaha, I don't know, were strawberries a stape for a decade or something? hmm.

[celiaka.livejournal.com]

Mmm. Saw VG on my 14th birthday, and seeing it that young can seriously warp your mind for ever after. It's slash with pictures!

Oh look! A fansite. http://www.moonrainstar.com/diamondmeadows/

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I ran to the fansite and immediately clicked on Gallery and on Curt Wilde. How lemming-like because Curt Wilde has about twice as many pics on there as any other character.

As they say in Life of Brian: "We are all individuals!"

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

*squeals*

!!!

I'm so pleased you liked it! Communal viewing, definitely!

Todd Haynes is a genius, but all his films are completely different. See 'Poison' if you can get hold of it - it's an early one. VG is my favourite though, although I'm told by knowledgable flatmate that it's not his best work. *shrugs* Well, what do I know?

[gabbyhope.livejournal.com]

'Far From Heaven' is quite good, as well. *nods*

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I saw Poison about 3 years ago and didn't like it all that much. I found it a bit too arty-farty pretentious, trying too hard, too angsty.

But *this*...!!!! Plus I got it for only 5.99 on sale at HMV. Heh.

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

The HMV sale is a wonderful thing. I got it in the last one.

I remember liking Poison when I saw it, although it was quite a while ago, and I was probably awfully impressed by arty-farty pretentious angst at the time. Far From Heaven was good, as Gabby said. I liked Julianne Moore in that, plus it was just gorgeous to look at.

But Velvet Goldmine, I love.