Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story: classic or what?

Believe it.

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.

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.)

This is up on google video now, btw. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=622130510713940545#

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.

you didn't find any sarcasm inherent in the use of barbie dolls to represent all the characters in the film?

I thought it would be that way going in, but the dolls were actually treated with an odd reverence.

sure - there was ambivalence, it was a bit challenging

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rACJWPd3VnI

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.

Superstar exists better as a cult object/circulated tape tbrr