David Bowie was a rock star. No argument there. Beyond that, categories may vary. Rock stardom was the necessary but far from sufficient condition for his career. Was Bowie a pioneer? Poseur? Hero?
David Bowie was always larger-than-life. Whether it was his incredible and colorful outfits, his idiosyncratic persona, or his unforgettable music, it is safe to proclaim Bowie as one of the most ...
The trailer for director Brett Morgen’s upcoming David Bowie biopic, Moonage Daydream, promises a technicolor, career-spanning look at the life of the late rock and roll space man. The movie that ...
Just before the Cannes Film Festival midnight-show premiere of the David Bowie documentary “Moonage Daydream,” the film’s writer, director, and editor, Brett Morgen, didn’t simply stroll down the red ...
David Bowie was rock ’n’ roll’s most adroit shape-shifter. At first, he was just an unusual-looking boy from Brixton, who, along with a cousin, “danced like elves” to 1950s American rock music. In ...
Hilary Remley is a News Writer at Collider. She is a recent graduate of SUNY Albany. Neon has released a cosmic new trailer for Moonage Daydream, a new documentary from director Brett Morgen that ...
If you’re looking for a documentary that charts neatly through the life of David Bowie, his 50-year discography and the coterie of musicians and producers he collaborated with—you better look ...
Director Brett Morgen has been taking great pains on the publicity circuit to stress that his kaleidoscopic collage epic “Moonage Daydream” is not a documentary about David Robert Jones. This isn’t ...
David Bowie unquestionably became a great rock star—the greatest ever, according to a tribute published by Rolling Stone after his death in 2016. Yet, it comes closer to the truth to call Bowie a ...
In 2017, nonfiction filmmaker Brett Morgen landed unprecedented access to a trove of material that would make any dedicated rockumentarian’s head explode: more than 5 million “assets” from David Bowie ...
Morgen uses the aesthetics of music video to show us how Bowie kept pushing art and life forward. The reason I bring this up is that I think it’s relevant to the aesthetics of “Moonage Daydream,” ...