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Velvet Goldmine
1998
From gay director Todd Haynes comes a dazzling and quite unusual film about British glam rock of the ’60s, with thinly veiled portrayals of Bowie, Jagger and other androgynous rock luminaries. It stars Jonathan Rhys-Myers as the Bowie-esque Brian Slade and Ewan McGregor as a version of Iggy Pop named Curt Wild, with whom Slade’s wife (Angela Bowie-clone Mandy Slade, played by Toni Collette) finds him in bed — which, legend has it, is actually where Angela found David, only it was with Mick Jagger.
Homosexuality is used mostly to shock, although it’s refreshing to see the coy “androgyny” of the glam era resolved into actual gay sex for a change.
Hotness: 7
Romance: 5
Significance: 7
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