First & Last: Dark Dreams of the Past

first and last puzzles
the first line and the last image from a motion picture

Histories, like ancient ruins, are the fictions of empires."

Can you guess the movie? The answer is after the jump

That's Todd Haynes VELVET GOLDMINE (1998) a movie we like to talk about as it so happens.

Comments

[Sawyer]

Don't remember the screen shot, but I know the quote anywhere: Velvet Goldmine.

[Morgan]

Velvet Goldmine, of course!

(I wrote my senior thesis on this film - you could probably take any single image or line of dialogue and I would know.)

[brookesboy]

I've never seen this...need to put this in my queue.

[David]

I never get these but that image was instant. Possibly because I watched it on a loop for an undergrad essay once. I do love that I was allowed to write a whole essay on Todd Haynes' films.

[Christine]

I once had an actual dream where I was a musician, and I was hired to arrange the Velvet Goldmine soundtrack. Best dream ever.