David Bowie: The Music Videos 1979 – 2013
Watch That Man: David Bowie, Movie Star
August 2 - 8, 2013
Nine David Bowie music videos screen with Alan Yentob’s Cracked Actor (1975), a candid, haunting and ultra-rare documentary portrait shot during the 1974 Diamond Dogs tour.
Boys Keep Swinging (David Mallet, 1979)
Fashion (David Mallet, 1980)
Ashes to Ashes (David Mallet & David Bowie, 1980)
Let's Dance (David Mallet, 1983)
China Girl (David Mallet, 1983)
Jazzin for Blue Jean (Julian Temple, 1984)
Jump They Say (Mark Romanek, 1993)
The Hearts Filthy Lesson (Samuel Bayer, 1995)
The Stars Are Out Tonight (Floria Sigismondi, 2013)
Screening with:
Cracked Actor. Alan Yentob, UK, 1975; 53m
A candid, haunting and ultra-rare documentary portrait shot during the 1974 Diamond Dogs tour featuring behind the scenes footage that reveals Bowie’s fragile mental state as well as live performances of nine songs. In 1987 Bowie commented “I was so blocked … so stoned … I'm amazed I came out of that period. When I see that now I cannot believe I survived it. I was so close to really throwing myself away physically, completely.”
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