How is it possible that Todd Haynes’s Velvet Goldmine, which first came out on DVD in the U.S. 10 years ago, hasn’t been re-released with an anamorphically enhanced transfer? When I’m watching glam rockers played by Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Ewan McGregor paw at each other, it should go without saying that I want to see it in all its widescreen glory, dammit!
I felt cheated when I rented Goldmine last night (having wrongly assumed the DVD had been upgraded somewhere along the line) and was treated to such a shoddy transfer. Miramax would never neglect a Kevin Smith movie like this, and Kevin Smith movies tend to majorly suck. It’s a conspiracy, I tell you, and I’d call shenanigans if I knew shenanigans’ phone number.
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