Let’s Dance … Brett Morgen dances as he arrives at the 75th edition of the Cannes film festival for the screening of Moonage Daydream. Photograph: Patrícia de Melo Moreira/AFP/Getty Images Other than a bit of repetition, I honestly never felt the length of “Moonage Daydream,” a movie that wants you to get lost in it as an experience more than the “teaching tool” approach of the standard music doc. I got lost in it just as I often do in Bowie’s music. And somehow that act of getting lost—both in the music and the film about him—feels more rewarding than knowing where we’re going. Bowie speaks at one point about going into the deep water until just when your feet can’t touch the ground anymore. That’s where creativity can be found. That’s where this movie lives.

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The film is divided into nearly two dozen "chapters" in the DVD release with the first hour covering Bowie starting in London up to his departure to West Berlin. The second part of the film discussed and presents Bowie's extensive interests in the arts while in West Berlin outside of the music industry, such as his interest in oil painting and acrylic painting, as well as his interest in writing within the literary arts. Many examples of Bowie's portrait work in oils are presented showing the use of a modern representational style of portraiture combined with an experimental color palette for brightly lit representations in nearly kaleidoscopic color preferences for facial expressions. In his third phase covered in the last part of the film, Bowie emerges from a two year hiatus where he remakes himself in the image of a suave musical artist often dressed in tailored Saville Row double breasted men's business suits. Peter Bradshaw, in his review of the film for The Guardian, gave it a score of five out of five stars. [18] He called the film "a glorious celebratory montage", and wrote favourably of how the film "shows that his fans, especially the ecstatic young people at the Hammersmith Odeon and Earl's Court shows, were not different from Bowie: they became Bowie. Overwhelmed, transfigured, their faces looked like his face." [18] Robert Daniels, writing for RogerEbert.com, praised the film's editing, and called it "a bombastic, overstimulating, poignant, life-affirming, and risk-taking summation of the artist's ethos and maturation as a person. In short, Moonage Daydream is the film Bowie would've proudly made." [19] Fionnuala Halligan of Screen Daily called the film "a pristine sensory voyage, with astonishing sound", and lauded its presentation as "skilled and satisfyingly unconventional". [20] a b Seymour, Corey (24 May 2022). " Moonage Daydream Pays Astounding, Electrifying Homage to the Genius of David Bowie". Vogue . Retrieved 2 August 2022. August, 2022, Parlophone Records are proud to announce the musical accompaniment to the critically acclaimed forthcoming MOONAGE DAYDREAM, a film by Brett Morgen. Tallerico, Brian (12 December 2022). "Everything Everywhere All at Once Leads Chicago Film Critics Nominations". Rogerebert.com . Retrieved 12 December 2022.Austin Film Critics Association Award Nominations". Austin Film Critics Association. 3 January 2022 . Retrieved 3 January 2022. Anderson, Erik (15 December 2022). "6th Hollywood Critics Association Film Awards nominations: 'Everything Everywhere All At One,' 'The Banshees of Inisherin' lead". AwardsWatch . Retrieved 16 December 2022. Halligan, Fionnuala (23 May 2022). " 'Moonage Daydream': Cannes Review". Screen Daily . Retrieved 2 August 2022. An official teaser trailer for the film was uploaded to YouTube on 23 May 2022. [4] A full trailer was released on 27 July. [11] Release [ edit ]

a b c Brandle, Lars (12 July 2022). "David Bowie Documentary 'Moonage Daydream' Sets Release Date, Artwork". Billboard . Retrieved 2 August 2022. Pakistani trans drama wins Cannes 'Queer Palm' award". France 24. 27 May 2022 . Retrieved 28 May 2022. Moonage Daydream is a 2022 documentary film [1] about English singer-songwriter David Bowie. Written, directed, produced and edited by Brett Morgen, the film uses previously unreleased footage from Bowie's personal archives, [4] including live concert footage. [5] It is the first film to be officially authorized by Bowie's estate, [6] and takes its title from the 1972 Bowie song of the same name. [7] There are many reasons to watch Moonage Daydream on the big screen. For one, Morgen lets several of Bowie's concerts play out nearly in their entirety. He creates a cacophony of swirling emotions from Bowie's live musical performances, creating nearly a non-stop montage of exploding imagery and sound from beginning to end. Morgen connects all the different periods of Bowie's life in a way that pays immense respect to the musician. It shouldn't quite work the way it does, but even with its slightly repetitive nature, Moonage Daydream never feels redundant or boring. Like David Bowie himself, it is larger-than-life in the best way possible.Moonage Daydream is currently playing in select IMAX theaters nationwide. It will be available in IMAX until September 23rd, 2022. After that, it leaves IMAX theaters but will be still available theatrically in most major American cities.

a b c d e Monroe, Jazz (23 May 2022). "New David Bowie Film Moonage Daydream Gets First Trailer: Watch". Pitchfork . Retrieved 2 August 2022. John Warhurst, Nina Hartstone, Jens Rosenlund Petersen, Samir Foco, James Shirley, Elliott Koretz, Amy Felton, Louise Burton, Brett Morgen Sinclair, Paul (6 September 2022). "David Bowie: Moonage Daydream review". SuperDeluxeEdition. Archived from the original on 6 September 2022 . Retrieved 6 September 2022. At the turn of the 20th century, Friedrich Nietzsche proclaimed that God is dead and that man had killed him." "This created an arrogance with man that he himself was God. But as God, all he could seem to produce was disaster." "That led to a terrifying confusion: for if we could not take the place of God, how could we fill the space we had created within ourselves?" The companion album to MOONAGE DAYDREAM features songs spanning Bowie’s career and includes previously unheard material, unique mixes created for the film and this release along with dialogue from Bowie himself.Emmy Awards Complete Nominations List" (PDF). Academy of Television Arts & Sciences . Retrieved 12 July 2023. Busch, Jenna (27 July 2022). "Moonage Daydream Trailer: Revisit The Life Of Musical Genius David Bowie". /Film . Retrieved 3 August 2022. The documentary uses a montage-style editing format to convey a biography of Bowie, utilizing film clips and interviews from throughout his career. [9] The film starts with a 2002 quote of Bowie stating: MacCary, Julia; Shafer, Ellise (12 January 2023). " 'All That Breathes,' 'Fire of Love' Lead Cinema Eye Honors". Variety . Retrieved 13 January 2023.