Movies, shows and videos featuring or about David Bowie!
David Bowie has appeared in different forms of visual media: as an actor in narrative movies and television shows, as a subject in documentaries, as a narrator in at least one show, as a character portrayed by others, as a…
So, I finally saw The Linguini Incident. The 1992 romantic comedy cum caper movie stars Bowie and Rosanna Arquette along with some other familiar faces (including Man Who Fell to Earth co-star Buck Henry and Last Temptation of Christ fellow-actor…
I am re-upping this (slightly revised) post from about a year ago for what should be obvious reasons… — The Snowman is a short, animated British Christmas special that initially seems to have nothing to do with David Bowie—except that…
Eight years after Bowie’s death, it is easy to think of his songs, albums, and videos as existing all at the same time. But that’s not how we experienced them as they were released. In a somewhat weak attempt to…
Previously unreleased footage of David Bowie singing “Starman,” shot by Mick Rock, has been synced to the studio recording of the song and refashioned as an “official” video. It was put together in conjunction with the release of the Atmos…
“Heroes” was the second and final Bowie video directed by Stanley Dorfman, and, not including the videos made for the 1969 Love You Til Tuesday project, it was Bowie’s sixth overall video. Like most of its predecessors, Bowie remains fixed…
This curious video is labeled as “official,” apparently released in promotion of the Rock and Roll Star box set in June 2024. It pairs the album version of ‘Ziggy Stardust’ with concert footage filmed by Mick Rock in the early…
Bowie started appearing on American television talk shows at some point after he retired Ziggy Stardust, but he didn’t release an official video after the last of the Mick Rock-directed promos, “Life on Mars,” in 1973 until he reappeared in…
There are several short movies that count as “Space Oddity” videos, starting with the amusingly amateurish 1969 video that Bowie did as part of his Love You Till Tuesday compilation of promotional videos. By sheer coincidence, I am posting this…
Director Mick Rock takes his video-as-living-photograph technique to its ultimate with his third Bowie video. And it works stunningly well. “Life on Mars?” is one of Bowie’s best-known videos, capturing one of his most iconic looks (so much so that…