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Posts Tagged "David Bowie"
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Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars **** (1973, David Bowie, Mick Ronson, Trevor Bolder) – Classic Movie Review 3672
Director D A Pennebaker’s indispensable 1973 British music documentary is a hunky-dory cinema verité film of David Bowie’s farewell performances as the androgynous Ziggy Stardust. The film takes all those who want to relive the […]
Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence **** (1983, David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Takeshi Kitano, Jack Thompson) – Classic Movie Review 3343
David Bowie gives a surprisingly persuasive performance as Major Jack ‘Strafer’ Celliers, a brave British prisoner-of-war in a Japanese camp, in 1942 in co-writer/ director Nagisa Oshima’s 1983 film Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, an unexpectedly […]
Absolute Beginners *** (1986, Eddie O’Connell, Patsy Kensit, David Bowie, Ray Davies, James Fox) Classic Movie Review 3257
Director Julien Temple’s 1986 ambitious attempt to adapt Colin MacInnes’s 1959 realistic novel about youth and racism in London into a big-budget fantasy musical fails to hit enough of the right notes. However it does […]
Labyrinth **** (1986, David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly, Toby Froud) – Classic Movie Review 3256
‘Jim Henson, George Lucas and David Bowie take you into a dazzling world of fantasy and adventure.’ David Bowie gives a memorable turn as the lead in the 1986 fantasy film Labyrinth. Behind the scenes, […]
The Man Who Fell to Earth **** (1976, David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark, Buck Henry, Bernie Casey) – Classic Movie Review 2992
Director Nicolas Roeg’s unique 1976 British sci-fi thriller The Man Who Fell to Earth is a challenging and mysterious fantasy. It is exasperating, mystifying, wildly self indulgent but strangely mesmerising and rather wonderful. The Man […]
When the Wind Blows **** (1986, voices of Peggy Ashcroft and John Mills) – Classic Movie Review 1970
In this bleak but beautifully produced and moving 1987 animated feature from director Jimmy T Murakami and Raymond Briggs, the artist and writer responsible for The Snowman, global nuclear war and its after-effects are seen […]
Basquiat *** (1996, David Bowie, Dennis Hopper, Gary Oldman, Jeffrey Wright, Benicio Del Toro, Michael Wincott, Courtney Love, Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe) – Classic Movie Review 816
Artist Julian Schnabel’s 1996 portrait of the New York art scene of the 80s and Jean-Michel Basquiat in particular, who in 1981 is propelled from an unknown 19-year-old graffiti writer into a rich and much-courted famous […]