A Cinematic Experience
July 29, 2022 8:02 PM Subscribe
More than a teaser trailer, Moonage Daydream has a full-length peek [2m4s]. I really want this to play in the Dolby Cinema box in my town. Also, that might be my first time in a theater since the Before Times.
I consider it a good sign that Tony Visconti is featured prominently (for music supervision) in the credits seen at the end.
posted by Nerd of the North at 10:54 PM on July 29, 2022 [3 favorites]
posted by Nerd of the North at 10:54 PM on July 29, 2022 [3 favorites]
Did not know this was a concert film before I clicked.
First thought: Who did they get to play Bowie? He looks just like him.
posted by Sphinx at 11:47 PM on July 29, 2022 [1 favorite]
First thought: Who did they get to play Bowie? He looks just like him.
posted by Sphinx at 11:47 PM on July 29, 2022 [1 favorite]
Did not know this was a concert film before I clicked.
Uh, is it a concert film? This review makes it sound like...something else.
posted by The Tensor at 11:55 PM on July 29, 2022 [2 favorites]
Uh, is it a concert film? This review makes it sound like...something else.
posted by The Tensor at 11:55 PM on July 29, 2022 [2 favorites]
YAY!
posted by droplet at 12:04 AM on July 30, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by droplet at 12:04 AM on July 30, 2022 [1 favorite]
Thank you David. You've always been really very important to me, the words "David Bowie died" still don't seem to make any sense at all; how could they? Like colorless green ideas sleeping furiously it makes no sense. Recently I suffered a deep personal loss and the idea that somehow Bowie is still with us have taken on an even more personal sense. Again, thank you for all that you gave me.
I'll definitely be see this.
posted by os tuberoes at 12:29 AM on July 30, 2022 [4 favorites]
I'll definitely be see this.
posted by os tuberoes at 12:29 AM on July 30, 2022 [4 favorites]
WOW! I am definitely ready to sink in a seat AND sing out loud during this film!
posted by tarantula at 4:14 AM on July 30, 2022
posted by tarantula at 4:14 AM on July 30, 2022
Well this sounds disappointing (from the review linked above)
With apologies to Tin Machine groupies, the film says, implicitly, that the essential phases of his career took place from 1969, when “Space Oddity” was released, through the Glass Spider Tour in 1987.
If true then this is just a major failure.
posted by Ayn Marx at 2:36 PM on July 30, 2022
With apologies to Tin Machine groupies, the film says, implicitly, that the essential phases of his career took place from 1969, when “Space Oddity” was released, through the Glass Spider Tour in 1987.
If true then this is just a major failure.
posted by Ayn Marx at 2:36 PM on July 30, 2022
With apologies to Tin Machine groupies, the film says, implicitly, that the essential phases of his career took place from 1969, when “Space Oddity” was released, through the Glass Spider Tour in 1987.
...the essential phases of his career took place from 1969, when “Space Oddity” was released, until Scary Monsters (1980).
You know. IMO and all.
posted by jokeefe at 3:06 PM on July 30, 2022 [3 favorites]
...the essential phases of his career took place from 1969, when “Space Oddity” was released, until Scary Monsters (1980).
You know. IMO and all.
posted by jokeefe at 3:06 PM on July 30, 2022 [3 favorites]
Happy to get it and get it on a BIG BIG screen!
Oh lordy, you've got me started now.
Spokane had an IMAX theater. A real one. One that had been around since the early 70s. Iconic building, true IMAX 5-story tall screen, giant surround, playing 70mm sideways running prints... I saw three of the Harry Potter movies there and The Dark Knight and I loved it so much.
And then the theater complexes started building in-mall "FauxMAX" screens. They aren't 5 stories tall, they aren't big screens... they're slightly larger screens with the audience sitting closer to them. That's all.
When they built those, they took away the agreement to run First Run movies at the IMAX screens and moved it to the mall theaters. And so all the IMAX had to show was old-school IMAX documentaries and stuff, and it quickly died.
AND THEN THEY TORE THE ENTIRE BUILDING DOWN AND NOW IT IS GONE FOREVER.
So, yes, I would love to see this in IMAX. But I refuse to go to mall FauxMAX theaters, so maybe it'll play in the Dolby Cinema box here, which is really a very very good theater experience.
posted by hippybear at 4:04 PM on July 30, 2022
Oh lordy, you've got me started now.
Spokane had an IMAX theater. A real one. One that had been around since the early 70s. Iconic building, true IMAX 5-story tall screen, giant surround, playing 70mm sideways running prints... I saw three of the Harry Potter movies there and The Dark Knight and I loved it so much.
And then the theater complexes started building in-mall "FauxMAX" screens. They aren't 5 stories tall, they aren't big screens... they're slightly larger screens with the audience sitting closer to them. That's all.
When they built those, they took away the agreement to run First Run movies at the IMAX screens and moved it to the mall theaters. And so all the IMAX had to show was old-school IMAX documentaries and stuff, and it quickly died.
AND THEN THEY TORE THE ENTIRE BUILDING DOWN AND NOW IT IS GONE FOREVER.
So, yes, I would love to see this in IMAX. But I refuse to go to mall FauxMAX theaters, so maybe it'll play in the Dolby Cinema box here, which is really a very very good theater experience.
posted by hippybear at 4:04 PM on July 30, 2022
With apologies to Tin Machine groupies, the film says, implicitly, that the essential phases of his career took place from 1969, when “Space Oddity” was released, through the Glass Spider Tour in 1987.
...the essential phases of his career took place from 1969, when “Space Oddity” was released, until Scary Monsters (1980).
My wife and I listened to Black Star for the first time on our way to a friend's art opening. When it was over, we looked at each other and said "what the fuck was that?" We put the CD away, thinking we would never listen to it again.
6 months later while getting ready for work one morning I said "oh, what the hell" and took it out of the CD rack to listen to during my commute.
I had it playing in my car pretty much continuously for almost a year after that. It's that good.
posted by ZenMasterThis at 4:37 PM on July 30, 2022 [2 favorites]
...the essential phases of his career took place from 1969, when “Space Oddity” was released, until Scary Monsters (1980).
My wife and I listened to Black Star for the first time on our way to a friend's art opening. When it was over, we looked at each other and said "what the fuck was that?" We put the CD away, thinking we would never listen to it again.
6 months later while getting ready for work one morning I said "oh, what the hell" and took it out of the CD rack to listen to during my commute.
I had it playing in my car pretty much continuously for almost a year after that. It's that good.
posted by ZenMasterThis at 4:37 PM on July 30, 2022 [2 favorites]
I downloaded Blackstar on release and was doing my first listen through of it when I refreshed Google News and Bowie had died.
It's a really great album. The Next Day is really great. Reality was really good, but I haven't listened to it in a while. Continuing rolling backward, I can't see an album name that I don't have some appreciation for except for maybe Black Tie White Noise which maybe I need to listen to again too.
Blackstar, though... that's a fucking masterpiece.
posted by hippybear at 5:40 PM on July 30, 2022 [3 favorites]
It's a really great album. The Next Day is really great. Reality was really good, but I haven't listened to it in a while. Continuing rolling backward, I can't see an album name that I don't have some appreciation for except for maybe Black Tie White Noise which maybe I need to listen to again too.
Blackstar, though... that's a fucking masterpiece.
posted by hippybear at 5:40 PM on July 30, 2022 [3 favorites]
Yeah, Blackstar is an extraordinary piece of work from someone knowing it was their last. A summation of a life's work. No argument there. But I do believe that Bowie is beloved for his work in the 70s, and that those albums are what will last.
posted by jokeefe at 2:19 PM on July 31, 2022
posted by jokeefe at 2:19 PM on July 31, 2022
> You've always been really very important to me, the words "David Bowie died" still don't seem to make any sense at all; how could they?
I remember the day vividly because I heard the news while driving into the office and then ended up getting fired for the first time in my life later that morning. (There were plenty of jobs where I probably should have been fired but this naturally was not one of them.) It was a pretty shitty day all around.
I went on to find a better job. But I'm not sure that that's not the moment stuff really started to fall apart.
posted by bunbury at 5:54 PM on July 31, 2022 [1 favorite]
I remember the day vividly because I heard the news while driving into the office and then ended up getting fired for the first time in my life later that morning. (There were plenty of jobs where I probably should have been fired but this naturally was not one of them.) It was a pretty shitty day all around.
I went on to find a better job. But I'm not sure that that's not the moment stuff really started to fall apart.
posted by bunbury at 5:54 PM on July 31, 2022 [1 favorite]
And honestly, I don't know if it was performance art as life or life as performance art or a carefully crafted narrative told to the public that doesn't match what actually happened... but releasing an album on Jan 8 that is entirely about your own mortality and then dying on Jan 10 is a Bowie Level Statement that will never be topped.
posted by hippybear at 6:02 PM on July 31, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by hippybear at 6:02 PM on July 31, 2022 [2 favorites]
I get that people have their favorite periods for their favorite artists--I still refer to Born to Run, Darkness on the Edge of Town, and The River as Springsteen's Holy Trinity--and I personally found Let's Dance to be a disappointment after Scary Monsters. But, if someone's establishing that as an arbitrary cut-off point before Black Tie White Noise, their loss is huge. To my mind, it supplanted Let's Dance as the Bowie/Nile Rodgers collaboration, and is fantastic throughout.
posted by Halloween Jack at 4:42 AM on August 1, 2022
posted by Halloween Jack at 4:42 AM on August 1, 2022
Just came here to say that Blackstar slaps.
posted by badbobbycase at 4:12 PM on August 1, 2022
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