― Douglas, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 03:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 05:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― Jeff W, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
And probably had an impact on the credibility of the Carpenters' music as well. Wasn't it shortly after Superstar that Sonic Youth started playing them in between songs and everybody realised 'Close to me' was magic?
― James Ball (James Ball), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 21:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
the beauty is (i'll get to this point in a paragraph) the STUNNING attention to detail that Haynes did to authenticize the studio and performance scenes. even the way the metal glimmers in the various lighting shifts was impeccably replicated.
i had a copy of Superstar (along with two other Haynes' shorts He Was Once and Dottie Gets Spanked) and followed by a Carpenters video anthology so you could compare and contrast and study the various scenes that Haynes set up in miniature for the film... this tape is no longer in my posession... :(
as it stands, i think the way the film is interspersed with the soundbites/interviews, that whole 70s edu-documentary feel, the commentary on sexism, self-image, etc. all very classic... a triumph.
― gygax!, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 22:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― anthony easton (anthony), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 22:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gygax!, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 23:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://www.illegal-art.org/video/index.html#superstar
In windows media and real formats.
― J (Jay), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 02:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 23:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 23:21 (nineteen years ago) link
Believe it.
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 23:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 23:22 (nineteen years ago) link
The camera angles, lighting, and sets are amazing. And thematic use of the songs is tremendous. The story arc is totally played through the music selection. "Masquerade" at the party was especially brilliant.
― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 23:48 (nineteen years ago) link
This was from the Illegal Art DVD, and it seemed to be a relatively clean copy. (It was screened as one organization's response to National Copyright Week.)
― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 24 March 2005 00:10 (nineteen years ago) link
This is up on google video now, btw. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=622130510713940545#
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 08:28 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm just watching it for the first time.
It was neither as good as made out to be in this thread nor as bad. I appreciate what Haynes put into it, though. And yes, it was dark. I had no idea going in that it was going to be so serious. I thought it was going to be sarcastic, and am kind of relieved that it wasn't.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 09:21 (thirteen years ago) link
you didn't find any sarcasm inherent in the use of barbie dolls to represent all the characters in the film?
― sarahel, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 09:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I thought it would be that way going in, but the dolls were actually treated with an odd reverence.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 09:35 (thirteen years ago) link
sure - there was ambivalence, it was a bit challenging
― sarahel, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 09:43 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rACJWPd3VnI
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, 20 January 2013 10:56 (eleven years ago) link
Apparently a program of Todd Haynes "rarities" at UCLA this weekend included 4K restorations (with Sundance and UCLA support) of Superstar and Dottie Gets Spanked. (Haynes' pandemic project?) Did anyone here see this program?
There are also rumblings of a Criterion edition of Velvet Goldmine. While Superstar would make a pretty sweet bonus/easter egg, the consensus is that this could NOT be done legally in the US.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Tuesday, 21 June 2022 18:04 (one year ago) link
Superstar exists better as a cult object/circulated tape tbrr
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 21 June 2022 18:30 (one year ago) link