David Bowie Changes
5 Episodes
As a chameleon who continually reinvented his musical persona, David Bowie was a natural actor who lent his singular yet slippery presence to a number of carefully chosen, always surprising film projects. While his first major screen role in Nicolas Roeg’s hallucinatory science-fiction epic THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH capitalized on his inherently alien androgyny, Bowie continued to prove a versatile, charismatic performer in films as diverse as Nagisa Oshima’s homoerotic war drama MERRY CHRISTMAS MR. LAWRENCE and the delightfully daft indie screwball THE LINGUINI INCIDENT.
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2:19:17Episode 1The Man Who Fell to Earth
Episode 1
Directed by Nicolas Roeg • 1976 • United States
Starring David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy ClarkTHE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH is a daring exploration of science fiction as an art form. The story of an alien on an elaborate rescue mission provides the launching pad for Nicolas Roeg’s visual tour de fo...
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2:03:25Episode 2Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
Episode 2
Directed by Nagisa Oshima • 1983 • Japan
Starring David Bowie, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Tom ContiIn this captivating, skewed World War II drama from Nagisa Oshima, David Bowie regally embodies Celliers, a British officer interned by the Japanese as a POW. Rock star Ryuichi Sakamoto (who also composed ...
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1:32:38Episode 3The Linguini Incident
Episode 3
Directed by Richard Shepard • 1991 • United States
Starring David Bowie, Rosanna Arquette, Marlee MatlinA brilliantly bizarro, lost-and-found gem of early-1990s independent cinema, this surreal screwball caper casts none other than David Bowie and Rosanna Arquette as Monte and Lucy, a pair of s...
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2:15:02Episode 4Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Episode 4
Directed by David Lynch • 1992 • United States
In the town of Twin Peaks, everybody has their secrets, but no one more than Laura Palmer. In this prequel to his groundbreaking 1990s television series, David Lynch resurrects the teenager found wrapped in plastic at the beginning of the show, fo...
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Basquiat
Episode 5
Directed by Julian Schnabel • 1996 • United States
Starring Jeffrey Wright, David Bowie, Dennis HopperJulian Schnabel brings the all-too-brief life and incandescent world of Jean-Michel Basquiat to the screen with this dreamily stylized tribute from one creative phenom to another. Jeffrey Wrigh...
