directed and co-written by Todd Haynes
. The film tells the story of a pop star based mainly on David Bowie
's 'Ziggy Stardust' character and is set in Britain during the days of glam rock
in the early 1970s.
Sandy Powell
received another Academy Award for Best Costume Design nomination for the film. However, Powell did win the award for another film, Shakespeare in Love
.
The story follows a British journalist, Arthur Stuart (Christian Bale
), who has to search his own past when writing an article about the mysterious disappearance of a former glam-rock star, Brian Slade (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), for an American periodical.
I knew I should create a sensation, gasped the Rocket, and he went out. (Oscar Wilde - from the Remarkable Rocket)
Everyone’s into this scene because it’s supposedly the thing to do right now. But you just can’t fake being gay. You know, if you’re gonna claim that you’re gay you’re gonna have to make love in gay style, and most of these kids... just aren’t going to make it. That line, ‘Everybody’s bisexual’, that’s a very popular thing to say right now. Personally, I think it’s meaningless.
He thought he fucking was Maxwell Demon in the end – you know? And Maxwell Demon...he thought he was God.
The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history. (Oscar Wilde - from the Picture of Dorian Gray)
See yourself on stage, inside-out. Tangled garlands in your hair. Of course, you are pleasantly surprised.
(Said to Brian) You could be my main man.
You all know me – subtlety’s my middle name. It’s as subtle as the piece of skin between my vagina and my anus – ooh la! la! Now what’s that called, I can never quite remember...No man’s land? Oh gosh – my guiche, dah-ling!
It's funny how beautiful people look when they're walking out the door.
I knew it was over. I just didn't know it was up to me to make it stop.
Time, places, people,... they're all speeding up. So, to cope with this evolutionary paranoia, strange people are chosen who, through their art, can move progress more quickly.