Brett Morgen devotes an abundant documentary to David Bowie, mixing images from various sources and interviews in a euphoric trip.
Brett Morgen devotes an abundant documentary to David Bowie, mixing images from various sources and interviews in a euphoric trip.
By Stephen Goldszier Today, January 10, marks the 7th anniversary of the death of David Robert Jones, known throughout the world as David Bowie. He died in New York, after a cancer that went through in silence. Two days earlier, on his 69th birthday, she had launched his last album. Bowie accepted the diagnosis, but … Read more
David Bowie dreamed of impossible worlds (photo: ANSA) 13:44, 18 Apr•ROME APR 18 – “The Divine Alchemist”•ANSA writing (ANSA) – ROME APR 18 – “The Divine Alchemist”, by the Italian journalist Dalila Ascoli, is an unusual biography that explores the path of spirituality and esotericism to address the figure of an unprecedented David Bowie. … Read more
Director of The Kid Stays in the Picture, Chicago 10, The Rolling Stones: Crossfire Hurricane Y Cobain: Montage of Heck offers an extraordinary, colossal portrait of one of the most influential artists of all time. The film will have special showings in theaters of the Cinemark Hoyts and Showcase chains (including IMAX), almost all on … Read more
Alexander González Mike Marsland/WireImage At Netflix Bardo, false chronicle of a handful of truths, Daniel Giménez Cacho plays Silverio Gama, a renowned documentary filmmaker who is set to receive a prestigious award for his career as a journalist when he returns to his native Mexico after living with his family in Los Angeles for decades. … Read more
Sorry, your browser does not support videos In 2017, Brett Morgen had access to thousands of hours of unpublished and personal archives of David Bowie, made available by his estate. Morgen, who had directed the documentary Montage of Heck on Kurt Cobain in 2015, pays homage to the Thin White Duke, six years after his … Read more
Lhen the death of David Bowie was announced on January 10, 2016, the author of these lines was with an English friend living in Los Angeles, the city where Bowie confessed to having lived “the darkest years of his life” – in In fact, he had only stayed there for a few months, under the … Read more
For the diversity of his work and the… For the diversity of his work and the complexity of his personality, David Bowie deserved a separate film object, an evocation rather than an explanation. This is the bet taken up by “Moonage Daydream”, an extraterrestrial film, both enjoyable and cerebral, built like a psychedelic fresco. Previewed … Read more
Moonage Daydream is not a biopic. No more than a conventional biographical documentary. No witness, no specialist is there to tell the camera about the ups and downs of the life of David Robert Jones. Instead, the words of the artist David Bowie collected by his interviewers over time, drawn most often during the 70s, … Read more
This is Bowie told by Bowie. Brett Morgen directs the lens of his telescope towards the UFO of the rock’n’roll planet and zooms in on David Bowie’s protean microcosm down to the smallest detail. In his most recent documentary, the portrait painter of the seventh art, to whom we owe in particular Kurt Cobain: Montage … Read more