Articles tagged "david bowie"

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David Bowie: VH1 Storytellers

by Craig Carson

[15.Jul.09] :. David Bowie's VH1 Storytellers tells a sad tale: our hero lamentably mines adult contemporary territory while a former label looks for an easy payday.

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Best of the Test (vol.1): Bowie, Magazine, King Crimson, Orange Juice

by Matt White

[2.Mar.09] :. A look at some of the most memorable performances from the BBC’s Old Grey Whistle Test television program.

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Music Review

David Bowie: iSelect

by Mike Schiller

[24.Oct.08] :. iSelect is gold as far as newspaper pack-ins go.

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David Bowie: Live Santa Monica ‘72

by Zeth Lundy

[25.Jul.08] :. Bowie's first live U.S. radio broadcast, a show in Santa Monica, California with the Spiders from Mars, is officially released 36 years after the fact.

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 Feature

Gone and Not Forgotten: The PopMatters DVD Wish List

by Bill Gibron

[24.Jan.08] :. A lot of good movies are still missing from DVD. Here is a list of 25 that PopMatters feels have been unceremoniously left to simply fade away.

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Music Feature

David Bowie and the Crisis Pentalogy

by Mike Schiller

[4.Jan.08] :. The recently-released David Bowie Box documents the ten years or so before Bowie's heart attack, during which he worked his way through his midlife crisis.

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David Bowie: The Buddha of Suburbia

by Michael Keefe

[17.Oct.07] :. This largely forgotten not-actually-a-soundtrack album is only pretty good, but it did initiate an upswing in quality releases from the always unpredictable David Bowie.

 

David Bowie: Glass Spider Tour (Special Edition DVD / 2CD) [DVD]

by Tim O'Neil

[27.Aug.07] :. The Glass Spider tour seems to have been a crucial step on Bowie's road to recovery.

 

David Bowie: Young Americans

by Zeth Lundy

[8.Jun.07] :. Two new reissues illustrate different sides of Bowie: restlessly shifting gears from glam rock to soul in the '70s and embracing complacency in the bad-taste abyss of the '80s.

 

The Prestige (2006)

by Jesse Hassenger

[15.Mar.07] :. Fans of this wonderful film are left to puzzle not just over its thematic and narrative layers, but its respectable but perfunctory treatment here.

 

The Pay Off: The Best Film of 2006

by PopMatters Staff

[11.Jan.07] :. For many of the movies on PopMatters' 2006 list of the year's best films, it is clear that a heavy personal and professional stake was riding on the final product.

 

David Bowie: David Bowie: Under Review 1976 - 1979: The Berlin Trilogy [DVD]

by Michael Keefe

[21.Dec.06] :. Unless you're already a huge fan, it would be hard to justify laying out the cash for the hit-and-miss budget documentary Under Review 1976 - 1979: The Berlin Trilogy.

 
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Film Review

The Prestige (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Oct.06] :. This trick -- The Transported Man -- is at the center of the film's thematic concerns with replication, movement, and deception.

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David Bowie: Serious Moonlight [DVD]

by Michael Franco

[10.Apr.06] :. Serious Moonlight captures Bowie at the point where he began to falter. Even worse, it's a testament to the glossy absurdity of the '80s.

 

The Dick Cavett Show: Rock Icons

by Michael Buening

[26.Aug.05] :. For classic rock fans, the set contains some fascinating moments, and it's a testament to Cavett's willingness to play with format that they don't seem dated.

 

David Bowie: David Live / Stage

by John Davidson

[5.Apr.05] :. Masterpiece Theatre: David Live, re-mastered, re-issued (again)... and why it's worthy of re-appraisal.

 

David Bowie: Hours [reissue]

by Brian James

[9.Apr.04] :. Of all the figures in the rock pantheon, perhaps none have had a career as interesting as that of David Bowie. After struggling to make a mark as a mod, he tried reinventing himself as a campy...

 

David Bowie: Outside [remastered]

by Seth Limmer

[26.Mar.04] :. 1977 found one David Bowie and one Brian Eno holed up in Berlin, laying the sonic foundations for the brilliant trio of albums known by their single-word titles of Low,...

 

David Bowie: Earthling [remastered]

by John Davidson

[24.Mar.04] :. By his own estimation, David Bowie‘s Young Americans was “the definitive plastic soul” record of the ‘70s. That view, offered towards the end of the same decade,...

 

Labyrinth (1986)

by Jennifer D. Wesley

[1.Mar.04] :. Sarah is the origin and end of the fiction, its cause and effect simultaneously.

 

David Bowie: Aladdin Sane 30th Anniversary 2CD Edition

by John Davidson

[22.Aug.03] :. America missed the boat when it comes to David Bowie. They didn’t trust his quixotic impulse, failed to believe in the sincerity of his quickly sketched gestures. If his emergence in the guise...

 

David Bowie: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

by Charlotte Robinson

[29.Jan.03] :. For a music fan, it’s no easy task to choose just one album you’d never part with, but, for me, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars wins out mostly...

 

David Bowie: Best of Bowie

by Will Harris

[20.Jan.03] :. Is there anyone who would begrudge the Thin White Duke a two-disc greatest hits collection? I think not. Love him or hate him, it’s well documented . . . arguably to the point of making it a...

 

Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars (1973)

by Elbert Ventura

[30.Aug.02] :. Ziggy falters as a visual experience, a conspicuous failing considering its spectacle-obsessed subject.

 

David Bowie: hours…

by Sarah Zupko

[22.Oct.99] :. David Bowie is much too good for this. Please David, leave the “adult-boring” charts to Celine Dion, Mariah Carey and the rest of that lot.