Music in Film: The Velvet Goldmine #1 – Enigmatic Chronicles of a True Artist in ‘Moonage Daydream’ (2022)

By: Tilly Long
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Being a Bowie fan first and a person second, it feels only right to start my first column entry with perhaps the first art-minded documentary made ‘about’ him. Chronological talking heads taught me about the man who fell to earth, in particular Jarvis Cocker-narrated The Story of Ziggy Stardust (2012), which depicts Bowie’s mime choreography…

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‘Labyrinth'(1986): Navigating the Maze of Womanhood

By: Flip Screen
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Dressed in a flowing, powder blue dress and with a crown of pink and white flowers intertwined atop her dark hair, a young girl tries to remember the one line that she has forgotten from her rehearsal of a fairy-tale. This is the opening scene of the 1986 film Labyrinth, starring Jennifer Connelly as Sarah…

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