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Release Date: 06 May, 2003 Retail Price: $14.99 OUR Price: $9.99 You SAVE: $5.00! Cast: Complete Cast (7 total) |
Velvet Goldmine Reviews
Based on Tony Zanetta's poorly written hatchet job of Bowie
Those who feel that the movie seems anti-Bowie are correct, which also accounts for Bowie's withholding of any of his songs for use in the film. Those who think the script is merely fiction with composite characters are sadly mistaken. The elaborate sets for the film are interesting, the music is good (excepting the obvious lack of Bowie), but almost everything else is awful. Velvet Goldmine's script is based on notorious scandal monger and slimeball Tony Zanetta's sophomoric and out of print "tell-all" book from his brief time working for MainMan, Bowie's first professional production company. Zanetta's book, "Stardust: The David Bowie Story" is in the grand tradition of exploitative vendetta books written by former employees of succesful artists.
It's a shame that the producers and director were able to use even a single Bowie song for the use as the film's title.
simply FANTASIA!
based on Tony Zanetta's brilliant book on how Bowie built his career on the backs of true artists like Wayne County and Cherry Vanilla, this film is a great look backwards for those of us who lived it and recognize the truth when we see it; highly reccommended, as is Zanetta's book, "stardust"; you'll want to read it more than once, trust me!
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