Taking Sides: "Velvet Goldmine" versus "Almost Famous"

PSH as Lester Bangs was pretty awesome
Side-stepping the statutory rape groupie thing much less so

Randomly started watching clips the other night because of youtube recommendations - as not-particularly-good as the movie is, I'd totally watch a movie about Stillwater 2017, playing the Three Dog Night town arts festival circuit

I hated teh Veklvet Goldmine treatment of Iggy as someone with no rhythm. Preferred Almost Famous .

Velvet Goldmine.

I kinda love Velvet Goldmine, and as messy as it is I think it's the key to understanding Todd Haynes. He's made better films, but I think they become even better by watching Velvet Goldmine a couple of times and thinking about it.

20 years! Feels like 10

https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/almost-famous-20th-anniversary-reunion-1017345/

I was watching Gone Girl two nights ago, which is the only time I've seen Patrick Fugit (William) since.

His career really didn't take off. I forgot he was in Spun. Also really creepy in Queen of Earth.

finally saw the “Untitled” cut aka Bootleg version

if you hate the movie you’ll still hate it obviously but imo it’s better than the theatrical cut, has a lot more moments btw characters, it benefits from being a bit slower paced

there is an extra scene where Stillwater do an on-air radio interview with Kyle Gass playing a stoned radio dj that is hilarious & perfect
(imo you could put it in the dictionary under “Album Oriented Rock radio station”)

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/stillwater-almost-famous-cover-story-1165517/

William Miller's Stillwater story

Velvet Goldmine coming to Criterion!

https://www.reddit.com/r/criterion/comments/veyf4w/so_i_was_at_the_premiere_of_the_new_restoration/

LOOOONG overdue, just waiting on whenever the formal announcment is.