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Velvet Goldmine: 20 years on, has the time come for Cool Britannia's Citizen Kane?

Stephen Dalton, BFI, 22 May 2018

In the Britpop era, few films came more wildly ambitious than Todd Haynes' kaleidoscopic glam-rock epic. Now Bowie is dead and Britain has turned a corner, is it time for a reappraisal?

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