Tag: davidbowie

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Out on June 29th here in North America, Shout Factory releases --- to my knowledge --- a rarely-seen David Bowie film on Blu-ray, Just a Gigolo. Bowie stars as Paul Ambrosius von Przygodski, a Prussian solider whose been injured in...

David Lynch's oft-maligned film Fire Walk With Me has been recently released by the Criterion Collection, and it's way past time. The film has also steadily been gaining acceptance for daring to be much, much darker than the television show --- finally....

It’s safe to say that this Music On Screen podcast wouldn't exist if not for DA Pennebaker. I’m not even sure if music documentaries or the “rockumentary”, at least as we know the genre today, would exist if not for...

Many refer to photographer Mick Rock by his modern media tag, ‘the man who shot the 70s’. It would be easy for the sharp-eyed artist, who was long ago taken under the wings of modern heroes like Syd Barrett, David...

This week, we feature an especially rewarding set of recommendations for viewings over the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend. And I can't help but note the irony of celebrating the life of one of the greatest Americans who ever...

When we do these quizzes here at ScreenAnarchy, we try to couple them to current news. Often this news is the premiere of a movie, and we pick one of the actors. Sometimes, the occasion is a lot sadder, and...

Yesterday, David Bowie died. He was a music legend, a fashion icon, a damn fine actor, and he's left behind an enormous legacy of different kinds of art. I was tempted to ask everyone about what you think your favorite...

It's been a terrible 24 hours. Exactly that many hours ago, I was sitting here at my desk writing about the death of Angus Scrimm. And I wrote about Lemmy a week ago, I think. And now I'm doing the same...

For a film adapted from a semi-autobiographical novel by a writer who lived an incredibly storied life - and adapted by a near thirty-year veteran director, at that - Nagisa Oshima's famous Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence doesn't seem to reflect...

Nagisa Oshima's Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983), which is based on an autobiographical novel by the South African adventurer-soldier Laurens van der Post, is a homo-erotic culture clash set in a World War 2 internment camp. This film's international rock-star casting and multi-lingual...