Documentary director Brett Morgan continually dazzles audiences with its immersive, loud and haunting musical documentaries. His creative use of stock footage, graphics, original animation, and interviews translate into films that make viewers feel like they’re inside his subjects’ heads. His last doc, the david bowie movie Lunar Reverie, is a glimpse into the mind of … 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
Review of the documentary “Moonage Daydream”, by Brett Morgen, about the life of British singer David Bowie. By John Stanisci Reading is cheating.Someone speaks in another room. The telephone rings. A bird flies past the window. The wind moves the branches of a tree. A car drives down the street honking its horn. Writing has … 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
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
In the dense hypermedia operation put together by Brett Morgen starting from the Bowiano archive, among more than a hundred years of cinema on which he elaborates a possible reappropriation with the aesthetics of the mash-up, some fragments emerge from Permutationsthe first film made and completed by John Whitney in 1968, as a result of … 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
Movie Stardust: first trailer for David Bowie biopic At the cinema from 26 to 28 September (15 – 21 September in IMAX) with Universal Pictures Italy Moonage Daydreama biographical documentary on David Bowie with unreleased footage and performances, Academy Award-winning director Brett Morgen (Cobain: Montage of Heck) examines the creative, musical and spiritual side of … Read more
Education Images Getty Images The blue city of Morocco is not the title of a children’s fairy tale: Chefchaouen, this is its name, has a history and real inhabitants, among the Andalusian-style houses painted in all shades of blue, so much so that it seems the historical center a bizarre swimming pool. All this would … Read more