1998 Archive

  • Conspicuous by his absence from the soundtrack, Bowie as beautiful, androgynous space freak is all over Velvet Goldmine. Quite a few people, Bowie included, cattily dismissed the movie as a […]

    Velvet Goldmine

    Conspicuous by his absence from the soundtrack, Bowie as beautiful, androgynous space freak is all over Velvet Goldmine. Quite a few people, Bowie included, cattily dismissed the movie as a […]

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  • There’s a prejudice one finds even in seasoned reviewers of foreign films that each movie, as it stands, is the filmmaker’s referendum on his own culture. To be sure, this […]

    Eyes Of The Spider–and–The Serpent’s Path

    There’s a prejudice one finds even in seasoned reviewers of foreign films that each movie, as it stands, is the filmmaker’s referendum on his own culture. To be sure, this […]

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  • “This man is so old with evil, he should’ve been put down at birth,” Stephen Jones sings on this album, a distressing elegy on manhood. Baby Bird, only represented in […]

    Baby Bird – There’s Something Going On

    “This man is so old with evil, he should’ve been put down at birth,” Stephen Jones sings on this album, a distressing elegy on manhood. Baby Bird, only represented in […]

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