Velvet Rewind

So. This new David Bowie movie’s out. “Stardust”. It’s a movie about David Bowie that’s not allowed to use any of David Bowie’s music because no one in David Bowie’s family wanted it to happen.

But like . . . This exact thing already happened.

In the 90s, Todd Haynes, who went on to more mainstream biographical success with the multifarious Bob Dylan film “I’m Not There”, was set to direct a movie about Bowie called “Velvet Goldmine” until Bowie realized he didn’t like the specific biography that served as primary reference material for the film. Instead, Haynes turned the whole thing into a fantastical view of the glitter rock era’s general feel with weird touches like the idea that it began because of a magic gem Oscar Wilde’s extraterrestrial parents gave him. Also, Ewan McGregor was a composite of Iggy Pop and some other dudes, and he looked like Kurt Cobain. And he wasn’t famous yet. And neither was Christian Bale. Or Jonathatn Rhys-Meyers. Toni Collette. Eddie Izzard might have been the biggest star in it at the time.

Anyway, I love that movie.

Bonus Question!

Best Stardust movie?