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Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide: Todd Haynes’s Velvet Goldmine

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A man in an elaborate feathered costume stands onstage with confetti falling

Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Brian Slade in Velvet Goldmine Chris Forrester explains how filmmaker Todd Haynes expertly crafted a David Bowie biopic without actually making a David Bowie biopic. While much better known for his vivid invocations and reworking of classical melodrama — Safe (1995), Far From Heaven (2002), Mildred Pierce (2011), Carol (2015), and… Read more »

Gateways to Rock: Yellow Submarine and Labyrinth

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Poster for Yellow Submarine

  During “Funkology,” a conversation with Dr. Scott Brown at the IU Cinema, funk legend Bootsy Collins said he wanted to see less generation gap and more “generation flow.” Collins was eager to see more mutually beneficial conversations between people of different ages, as opposed to screaming matches about who is more ungrateful or more… Read more »

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