Film critic Odie Henderson looks back at Jim Henson’s cult classic fantasy starring Jennifer Connelly and David Bowie.

As the filmmakers, songwriters and actors tell it, their “wackadoo” concept evolved over nine years and eight versions of “Golden” into a global phenomenon.

Back in the spring of 1997, Deftones made their way to Seattle where they recorded at Studio Litho to lay down their second album for Maverick Records. The band had rented a condo near the studio ...