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Record Store Day has revealed the extensive list of limited edition vinyl, box sets, and other speciality releases that will be available as part of its 2024 edition taking place on Saturday, April 20th, 2024.

This year promises exclusive wax from Talking Heads, David Bowie, At the Drive-In, South Park, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Daft Punk, 100 gecs, Blur, The Replacements, Screaming Trees, Sonic Youth, Gene Clark, Fleet Foxes, and more.

You can find specifics on some of the most notable releases below, and find many more detailed at the Record Store Day website.

A live recording of Talking Heads’ November 1977 performance at Wcoz will be available as a 2xLP collection, featuring seven previously unheard songs from the original two-track tapes.

An early version of David Bowie’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, dubbed Waiting in the Sky (Before The Starman Came To Earth), will be released on vinyl.

Clockwise from top left: Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (Emi); Stop Making Sense (Palm Pictures); Prince: Sign O The Times (Cineplex Odeon Films); Madonna: Truth Or Dare (DVD: Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment); Homecoming: A Film By Beyonce (Netflix); U2: Rattle And Hum (Paramount Pictures) Graphic: Libby...

Clockwise from top left: Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (Emi); Stop Making Sense (Palm Pictures); Prince: Sign O The Times (Cineplex Odeon Films); Madonna: Truth Or Dare (DVD: Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment); Homecoming: A Film By Beyonce (Netflix); U2: Rattle And Hum (Paramount Pictures)Graphic: Libby...

It’s difficult to know what to make of Lisa Langseth’s Euphoria. At times it seems in the cusp of science fiction. But then… it isn’t. At other points it offers some clumsy attempts at social satire, and even dark humor. Yet when this 2017 Toronto International Film Festival world premiere is finally finished, it is clear that the film is no more than a standard drama. And a relatively weak one, at that.

Considering its stars, then, Euphoria must qualify as a disappointment. On paper, the idea of pairing Oscar winner Alicia Vikander and the always-intriguing Eva Green as estranged sisters is delightful. Vikander made her debut in Langseth’s Pure, and also drew raves in the director’s 2013 Tiff selection Hotell. It may not come as a surprise that Vikander fares best here. She, far more so than Green, develops a complex persona. How could audiences not expect more,...

Caitlyn Jenner got an earful of unpleasant words while attending a Trans Chorus of Los Angeles performance when the editor in chief of Wear Your Voice, Ashlee Marie Preston, told her, “It’s really f—ed up that you are here.” The Trans Chorus of Los Angeles (Tcla) is the largest group of trans and gender non-conforming people in the world who gather together to raise their voices in song. Saturday night’s event of “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars” was sponsored in part by a donation from Jenner. At the event, Jenner moved in to greet.

This article originally appeared on Real Simple.

What do you get for the father who has everything? He already has every power tool on the market, season tickets to see his favorite teams, and enough cool techy toys to last him a lifetime. Although he might not fancy himself a big reader, there’s nothing more thoughtful, or personal, than a book picked just for him.

The great thing about giving books as gifts is that even the father who thinks he’s learned it all can still explore a new world, learn more about his favorite hobby, or be...

Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach have First Encounters at the Quad Cinema Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

The Quad Cinema in New York reopens in grand style this Friday, April 14 with theatrical releases of Katell Quillévéré's Heal The Living (Réparer Les vivants), Terence Davies' A Quiet Passion and Maura Axelrod's Maurizio Cattelan: Be Right Back. Amy Heckerling will introduce Seven Beauties (Pasqualino Settebellezze) in the career retrospective for the great filmmaker Lina Wertmüller: Female Trouble.

Manchester By The Sea director Kenneth Lonergan first views Edward Yang's Yi Yi Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

First Encounters kicks off this Saturday with Greta Gerwig's first viewing of David Lynch's Blue Velvet. Jeffrey Deitch chooses Da Pennebaker's Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars, John Turturro picks Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali, Noah Baumbach nails Bruce Robinson's Withnail And I, Sandra Bernhard views Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Lola, and...

An eclectic mix of aural achievements, headlined by Judy Garland ("Over the Rainbow"), Barbra Streisand ("People"), N.W.A (Straight Outta Compton) and Vin Scully (the last Dodgers-Giants game at New York's Polo Grounds), have made it into the National Recording Registry this year.

Also included among the 25 treasures to be preserved by the Library of Congress: the albums The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars from David Bowie, Remain in Light from Talking Heads and Wanted: Live in Concert from Richard Pryor; the first episode of NPR's All Things Considered; the original cast album of...

Next month will mark the return of New York City’s Quad Cinema, a theater reshaped and rebranded as a proper theater via the resources of Charles S. Cohen, head of the distribution outfit Cohen Media Group. While we got a few hints of the line-up during the initial announcement, they’ve now unveiled their first full repertory calendar, running from April 14th through May 4th, and it’s an embarassment of cinematic riches.

Including the previously revealed Lina Wertmüller retrospective, one inventive series that catches our eye is First Encounters, in which an artist will get to experience a film they’ve always wanted to see, but never have, and in which you’re invited to take part. The first match-ups in the series include Kenneth Lonergan‘s first viewing Edward Yang‘s Yi Yi, Noah Baumbach‘s first viewing of Withnail and I, John Turturro‘s first viewing of Pather Panchali,...

Noah Baumbach has never seen “Withnail and I.” Kenneth Lonergan has always wanted to see “Yi Yi.” Sandra Bernhard hasn’t had the chance to catch “Lola.” As part of New York City’s Quad Cinema’s newly announced “First Encounters” screening series, they (and more creative types) are going to finally remedy that — and they’d like you to join them.

The newly revamped four-screen theater — set to reopen in less than in a month — has announced the first lineup of their newest series, which sees notable New Yorkers (helped by programmers Christopher Wells and Gavin Smith) picking a film they’ve never seen (but have always wanted to) to show on the big screen, complete with a post-showing Q&A with the rest of audience.

Check out the first official lineup for First Encounters below, with descriptions and other information provided by Quad Cinema.

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Marvel has released another TV spot for James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, and it features a song from David Bowie called "Suffragette City," which comes from the The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars album. This is the second song from the album that was used in the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise. The first film features "Moonage Daydream," and it's good to see Gunn was able to get another song from that album like he was hoping. Gunn is a huge fan of Bowie, and he said this after the musician's passing:

"Bowie was an idol of mine, huge and omnipresent. Few artists in any field have had as an indelible impression upon me as he has. To my mind, Ziggy Stardust is perhaps the greatest rock and roll album of all time. We featured “Moonage Daydream” in Guardians, but...

The year 2016 got off to a bad start with David Bowie’s surprise death in January, so it’s only fitting that January of 2017 will see the release of a new documentary on BBC about the singer-soongwriter’s life, “David Bowie: The Last Five Years.” A follow-up to director Francis Wheatley’s 2013 doc, “David Bowie: Five Years,” “The Last Five Years” is also directed by Wheatley and will focus on Bowie’s final albums, “The Next Day,” “Blackstar” and the off-broadway musical “Lazarus,” Pitchfork reports.

Read More: ‘Twin Peaks’: David Bowie Was Going To Be On The Showtime Series Before His Death

The film will include unseen interviews and archival footage, plus Bowie’s never-before-heard original voice on his last single, also entitled “Lazarus.” In the doc, record producer Tony Visconti says about Bowie’s recording of “Lazarus”:

“He would stand in front of the mic and...

Graham Nash has plenty of experience with the vagaries of rock & roll documentaries. Take Woodstock, for one: "There were three days of really good music and the movie was three hours," he says, "so there are a lot of great performances that have never been seen apart from bootlegs." No one knows that more than Nash, since Neil Young refused to be filmed during Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's career-making set at the festival. In the film, you'll hear an announcer say, "Crosby, Stills, Nash" – but no Young. "Neil threatened to deck anybody who filmed him,...

The renowned documentary film-maker delivered a masterclass with long-term collaborator Chris Hegedus.

Veteran documentarian D.A Pennebaker (Bob Dylan: Don’t Look Back) delivered a masterclass at Sheffield Doc/Fest on Sunday (June 12) in which he discussed his lengthy career in the business.

He was on stage with frequent collaborator Chris Hegedus, who is also his wife. The film-making duo were behind 1993 Oscar-nominated documentary feature The War Room and have worked together on several of projects.

Clips were shown from some of their most notable films including 1979’s Town Bloody Hall and 2009’s Kings Of Pastry, as well as...

Competition titles revealed; retrospectives of Ken Loach and Chantal Akerman; speakers include HBO documentaries president Sheila Nevins and revered filmmaker Da Pennebaker. Scroll down for competition films

Sheffield Doc/Fest (June 10-15) has unveiled the programme for its 23rd edition, including 160 feature and short documentaries, an alternate realities line-up and a series of on-stage interviews and debates with major filmmakers and industry figures.

As previously announced, Michael Moore’s Where To Invade Next will open the festival with the Us documentarian in attendance at Doc/Fest for the first time since 1998.

The UK premiere and Q&A will be live streamed to 114 cinemas across the UK through distributor Dogwoof. It marks the second time Doc/Fest has streamed its opening, following Pulp: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets in 2014.

There are a total of 27 world premieres, 15 international, 19 European and 52 UK premieres with documentaries from 49 countries including Mexico, Cuba, China and Peru.

Competition titles...

Competition titles revealed; retrospectives of Ken Loach and Chantal Akerman; speakers include HBO documentaries president Sheila Nevins and legendary filmmaker Da Pennebaker.Scroll down for competition films

Sheffield Doc/Fest (June 10-15) has unveiled the programme for its 23rd edition, including 160 feature and short documentaries, an alternate realities line-up and a series of on-stage interviews and debates with major filmmakers and industry figures.

As previously announced, Michael Moore’s Where To Invade Next will open the festival with the Us documentarian in attendance at Doc/Fest for the first time since 1998.

The UK premiere and Q&A will be live streamed to 114 cinemas across the UK through distributor Dogwoof. It marks the second time Doc/Fest has streamed its opening, following Pulp: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets in 2014.

There are a total of 27 world premieres, 15 international, 19 European and 52 UK premieres with documentaries from 49 countries including Mexico, Cuba, China and Peru.

Competition titles...

'Play Misty for Me': Rabid fan Jessica Walter makes life difficult for disc jockey Clint Eastwood. Clint Eastwood, 'Harry Potter' and 'The Decline of Western Civilization': Packard Campus movies Movies set in the world of music and/or radio are among the April 2016 highlights at the Library of Congress' Packard Campus Theater in Culpeper, Virginia. Packard Campus Recorded Sound Curator Matt Barton selected the documentaries and narrative features in this particular program, which, according to the Theater's press release, includes “several rarely projected films in original release prints from the Library's holdings.” Radio/music titles include: Clint Eastwood's 1971 feature film directorial debut, the thriller Play Misty for Me, starring Jessica Walter as a woman obsessed with both a late night disc jockey (Eastwood) and the song “Misty,” jazzily played by Errol Garner at the piano. Also in the cast: Donna Mills, frequent Eastwood director Don Siegel (Dirty Harry,...

“My Mother saw her first spaceship today… “

Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars screens Wednesday night March 2nd at Schlafly Bottleworks at 8pm as part of the Award-Winning ‘Strange Brew’ film series

Acclaimed documentarian D. A. Pennebaker had already filmed music icons like Bob Dylan and John Lennon before getting the gig to film David Bowie’s “farewell” concert at London Hammersmith Odeon in July 1973. Bowie was huge in Britain at the time but had yet to break out in America.The result was the 1973 concert film Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars.

Pennebaker’s approach to the concert is pretty conservative actually as we get a little bit of pre-show scene-setting, with Bowie getting made-up in his dressing room, chatting to his wife Angie, while cutting in scenes of his adoring, often lookalike fans outside. Without too much delay, however, the show’s on and Bowie and his band,...

Festival to host 60 UK premieres, including Time Out Of Mind [pictured] starring Richard Gere and Disney’s Zootropolis.

Glasgow Film Festival (Gff) has announced its full programme for its upcoming 12th edition, running Feb 17-28.

This year’s festival will host 60 UK premieres, 59 Scottish premieres, four European premieres and three world premieres among its line-up of 174 films. As previously announced, it will be bookended by the UK premieres of Hail, Caesar! and Anomalisa.

Richard Gere will attend Glasgow for the UK premiere of his new film Time Out Of Mind, while other guests include Ben Wheatley for the Scottish premiere of High-Rise, Game Of Thrones star Natalie Dormer for the UK premiere of The Forest, Joachim Trier for the UK premiere of Louder Than Bombs, veteran director Peter Greenaway and stuntman Vic Armstrong.

“The festival keeps moving forward, with new developments like our Industry Focus conference, whilst also maintaining our roots as an audience-focused festival where everyone can come...

Nearly 50 years after his first debut, and a week after his death, David Bowie has finally gotten a No. 1 album. Billboard reports that the rock star's last album, Blackstar, has debuted at No. 1 on its Billboard 200 chart, ending Adele's seven-week run at the top with 25. According to Billboard's metrics, Blackstar earned 181,000 equivalent album units, 174,000 of which were pure album sales (Billboard now counts streaming metrics in the total count). This was more than double Bowie's last sales high: 85,000 albums in the first week with the 2013 release of The Next Day. Additionally, nine other Bowie albums entered the Billboard 200, and two made it to the top 40: Best of Bowie landed at No. 4 and The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars at No. 21. The success of Blackstar and Best of Bowie puts the star in the rare...

Above: UK one sheet for The Man Who Fell to Earth (Nicolas Roeg, UK, 1976). Designed and illustrated by Vic Fair.David Bowie, who left our planet this week, appeared in some 20 movies, but his appearances on movie posters are restricted to just a handful of films. Many of his roles, especially in later years, were cameos or small, but significant, character parts. He memorably played Pontius Pilate in Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Andy Warhol in Julian Schnabel’s Basquiat (1996), and Nikola Tesla in Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige (2006); he appeared as himself in films as varied as Christiane F. (1981), Zoolander (2001) and Bandslam (2009); and he was endearingly strange as an FBI agent in the opening section of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992).His most important and iconic film role by far is his starring role as the titular alien in Nicolas Roeg’s The Man Who Fell to Earth...

Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars

Since the death of David Bowie earlier this week, tributes have poured in from all around the world. People remember him as a musician; as an icon who stretched the boundaries of gender; and, of course, as an actor. But whilst we remember his fantastic performances in the likes of Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence and The Man Who Fell To Earth, there’s a risk that we overlook the enormous contribution that he made to the film industry through his music. With over 400 soundtrack contributions across his career, he was one of the most prolific contributors the industry has ever known.

Bowie’s music first began to be used in films at the end of the Sixties and 1973 saw the release of the celebrated concert film Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars, but is wasn’t until 1981 that he first provided the soundtrack for a whole film.

So I had written this week’s column about Marvel’s next big event, Civil War II, and how they’re going to be killing off a major character. I wrote about how it’s unoriginal, uninspiring, and how I wish we could do better. I was even planning on titling it “Civil Disobedience.” Really clever stuff. Then I woke up at 5:30am on Monday, January 11th to news that I didn’t think I’d hear for many, many years to come: David Bowie has passed away. What I had written my column about no longer mattered to me, and I started writing a new one. This one. About how important David Bowie is to a great many people, including myself. I’m just one of those great many people. When I a kid, David Bowie wasn’t terribly important to me. I was aware of him. I...

In David Bowie’s expansive career, “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars” stands as the groundbreaking album that blew out minds, that made the English rocker become the special man, the concept album that gave us the captivating narrative of Bowie’s alien rock god persona — a spaceman who descends onto Earth to save it but discovers rock and roll instead. Bowie, who died at age 69 on Sunday, reinvented himself time and again, and he toured as Ziggy Stardust for a relatively short period: from February 1972, when he debuted the character in small London pub Toby Jug, to July 1973, when he retired the character at a sold-out concert at London’s Hammersmith Odeon Theatre. Even though the flamboyant, androgynous starman rocked Earth’s concert halls for only 18 months, the persona has become forever intwined with Bowie himself. The immortality of Ziggy and the iconic...

Music/fashion/film icon David Bowie succumbed to cancer Sunday at the age of 69, shocking the world. He reinvented himself so many times, it almost seems like this is just one more persona. He was living art, a chameleon who was light-years ahead of his contemporaries. In retrospect, he seemed immortal. Whether he was Ziggy Stardust or Jareth from Labyrinth or the androgynous Man Who Fell To Earth, the Thin White Duke defined innovation, inspiring acts as varied as Kiss and Lady Gaga to take on different images and personalities.

Even with his movie star good looks, he was an eccentric who, though embraced by the mainstream, was always an oddity, so he appealed to outsiders and oddballs. He got us, and we got him. His trailblazing music ranged from adult contemporary to pop to soul to glam rock, giving us classics like “Let’s Dance,” “Fame,” “Golden Years,” “Space Oddity,...

If you've seen Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, you may have noticed some slight stylistic similarities between Benicio Del Toro's character, the powerful extraterrestrial being known as The Collector, and David Bowie's "alien rock god" persona Ziggy Stardust. Speaking with me today about his upcoming Balkan war film A Perfect Day, Del Toro indicated that while the similarities were unintentional, as a longtime Bowie fan (and in light of Bowie's death on Sunday at the age of 69) he nevertheless welcomes the comparisons. "Anytime you put on like those big shoulder pads and the cape and you put your hair like that, we can trace it back to that David Bowie period with Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars," said Del Toro of the singer, who Guardians director James Gunn said was pondering a potential cameo in the film's forthcoming sequel in a Facebook post earlier today. "But...

It seems everyone has a David Bowie story to share today, and with good reason. The musician and actor inspired more than one generation with his bold, distinct, and inimitable artistic voice that always endeavored to be not just ahead of the curve, but on its own path. And it speaks to how many people he was able to touch that even big-league, blockbuster entertainment like "Guardians Of The Galaxy" could comfortably find a place for Bowie. Director James Gunn used "Moonage Daydream" from The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars in the first film, and as he revealed today on Facebook, he had grander aspirations when developing the sequel. Read More: The 8 Essential Movie Performances Of David Bowie "Just a very short while ago Kevin Feige and I were talking about a cameo role in 'Guardians Vol. 2,' and he brought up Bowie's name.

As we mourn the passing of David Bowie, we can’t help but marvel at how often his music has resonated with filmmakers, how often his songs were just what a movie needed to craft a key emotional moment. (HitFix’s Alan Sepinwall reflected on the prevalence and relevance of his music on both the big and small screen in this post.) Yet another time a filmmaker turned to Bowie, one you may have not seen: A 2008 short film called “Polarbearman.” It depicts a man trying to live normal life, as water levels in his house rise — simple and effective images to raise awareness about melting ice caps displacing polar bears. Lee Pace (“Pushing Daisies,” “Guardians of the Galaxy”) stars in the six-minute film, made for environmental awareness project Live Earth. Pace doesn’t say a word in the short, except for when he puts in his earbuds, listens to Bowie’s “Five Years,...

It is 2004 and Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars has just convinced a depressed, confused and impossibly lonely high school student to not take his own life. It is 2015 and “Heroes” blasts through the speakers as the same man, now older and happier and glad to be alive, joins the love of his life on […]

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Heartfelt tributes to David Bowie are popping up across the world. In the wake of the the rocker's death at the age of 69 on Sunday, fans are creating memorials in places that speak to them of the late icon. In Brixton, London, where Bowie was born on Stansfield Road, mourners have been leaving flowers and candles underneath a large mural painted by Australian street artist James Cochran in 2013. The neighborhood's Ritzy Cinema has paid tribute to the musician by writing "David Bowie, Our Brixton Boy, Rip," in large bold letters over the cinema's entrance. A street party will take place...

Heartfelt tributes to David Bowie are popping up across the world. In the wake of the the rocker's death at the age of 69 on Sunday, fans are creating memorials in places that speak to them of the late icon. In Brixton, London, where Bowie was born on Stansfield Road, mourners have been leaving flowers and candles underneath a large mural painted by Australian street artist James Cochran in 2013. The neighborhood's Ritzy Cinema has paid tribute to the musician by writing "David Bowie, Our Brixton Boy, Rip," in large bold letters over the cinema's entrance. A street party will take place...

David Bowie in 'The Hunger' with Catherine Deneuve. David Bowie movies: Iconic singer memorable as fast-aging vampire in 'The Hunger,' Nikola Tesla in 'The Prestige' Singer and sometime actor David Bowie, one of the iconic figures of the English-language music scene of the second half of the 20th century, died of cancer yesterday, Jan. 10, '16. Bowie (born David Robert Jones in the London suburb of Brixton) had turned 69 on Jan. 8. His son, filmmaker Duncan Jones (Moon), has confirmed Bowie's death on Twitter. Bowie was seen in only a couple of dozen movies during his four-decade show business career. Among his most memorable film roles were those in the titles listed below. The Man Who Fell to Earth Directed by Nicolas Roeg (Walkabout, Don't Look Now) from a screenplay by Paul Mayersberg (based on a novel by Walter Tevis), The Man Who Fell to Earth...

David Bowie in Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence Singer-songwriter, producer and actor David Bowie has died at the age of 69 following a battle with cancer.

His director son Duncan Jones confirmed the news on Twitter and a statement was released on his official social media accounts.

It read: "David Bowie died peacefully today surrounded by his family after a courageous 18-month battle with cancer.

"While many of you will share in this loss, we ask that you respect the family's privacy during their time of grief."

Bowie - who had only released his latest album Blackstar on his birthday last Friday - first rose to global prominence with 1972’s The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars and went on to forge a career lasting more than four decades.

He also made an early move into acting, starring in a number of memorable roles. In 1976, he played...

Death of the music, film and fashion icon confirmed by his son.

Musician, style icon and actor David Bowie has died aged 69, his son has confirmed.

The artist’s official Facebook account said: “January 10 2016 - David Bowie died peacefully today surrounded by his family after a courageous 18 month battle with cancer. While many of you will share in this loss, we ask that you respect the family’s privacy during their time of grief.”

The announcement was immediately followed by a wave of claims that it was a hoax, with fans unable to believe it was true.

But his son, the film director Duncan Jones (who took his father’s original surname), tweeted: “Very sorry and sad to say it’s true. I’ll be offline for a while. Love to all.”

Very sorry and sad to say it s true. I ll be offline for a while. Love to all. pic.twitter...

Sad news to report this Sunday night. Musical legend David Bowie has passed away at the age of 69. A singer, songwriter and actor, David Bowie was also a producer who helped pioneer the glam rock movement of the 70s and 80s. He also dabbled in art rock, soul, hard rock, dance pop, punk and electronica. Over the course of his 40 year career, he also appeared in movies such as the 1976 cult classic The Man Who Fell to Earth and Labyrinth in 1986. David Bowie succumbed to a long bout with cancer. The artist's personal social media accounts left this announcement about his passing.

"David Bowie died peacefully today surrounded by his family after a courageous 18 month battle with cancer. While many of you will share in this loss, we ask that you respect the family's privacy during their time of grief."

David Bowie just celebrated his 69th birthday this past Friday,...

Music legend David Bowie had died at the age of 69, it has been confirmed. The news was released late Sunday on his official Facebook page. A statement to fans read: "David Bowie died peacefully today surrounded by his family after a courageous 18-month battle with cancer. While many of you will share in this loss, we ask that you respect the family’s privacy during their time of grief." Very sorry and sad to say it's true. I'll be offline for a while. Love to all. pic.twitter.com/Kh2fq3tf9m— Duncan Jones (@ManMadeMoon) January 11, 2016 Bowie's son Duncan...

It doesn’t take a rock expert to know that David Bowie’s musical influence has cast a large shadow ever since he broke out as a quasi-alien pop star with his 1972 classic The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars. But one could have never heard a note of Bowie’s music (including his new album) and still be wowed by the extent to which the man’s various guises have, as you can see here, inspired a multitude of artists. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Bowie should be blushing. Bowie’s album Blackstar is out January 8.Starry-Eyed Folkie (ca. 1969) “Lucifer,” Sandman Neil Gaiman’s 1989 comic finds Lucifer abandoning Hell. The character’s look was based on “young, folksinger-­period Bowie,” Gaiman told the Chicago Tribune. “I imagined Lucifer as a junkie angel, and young Bowie was the closest we got.” Ziggy Stardust (ca.

Honorary Oscars 2014: Hayao Miyazaki, Jean-Claude Carrière, and Maureen O’Hara; Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award goes to Harry Belafonte One good thing about the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Governors Awards — an expedient way to remove the time-consuming presentation of the (nearly) annual Honorary Oscar from the TV ratings-obsessed, increasingly youth-oriented Oscar show — is that each year up to four individuals can be named Honorary Oscar recipients, thus giving a better chance for the Academy to honor film industry veterans while they’re still on Planet Earth. (See at the bottom of this post a partial list of those who have gone to the Great Beyond, without having ever received a single Oscar statuette.) In 2014, the Academy’s Board of Governors has selected a formidable trio of honorees: Japanese artist and filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, 73; French screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, 82; and Irish-born Hollywood actress Maureen O’Hara,...

D. A. Pennebaker — the filmmaker behind the famed 1967 Bob Dylan documentary, Don't Look Back — and his longtime partner Chris Hegedus have started a Kickstarter to fund their latest project, Unlocking the Cage, which chronicles the work of animal rights lawyer Steve Wise. As Pennebaker explains, Wise and his organization, the Nonhuman Rights Project, have been working to grant animals personhood, believing they will only get the protection they deserve if we no longer see them as things.

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Pennebaker and Hegedus have raised over $55,000 for their film,...

From "Don't Look Back" with Bob Dylan, "Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars" featuring David Bowie and "The War Room" about the team behind Bill Clinton's 1992 President campaign, the Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmakers D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus have long chronicled stories about passionate people. With their latest project, "Unlocking the Cage," they have an equally compelling character: lawyer Steve Wise, who has been taking legal measures to gain equal rights for animals. Wise is seeking personhood rights for animals, specifically for four chimpanzees in New York State. Pennebaker and Hegedus have been working on the film for the last two years and are now in a holding pattern until Wise presents his case to the Appellate Court this fall. Indiewire recently spoke with the legendary documentarians about why the story appealed to them and why they decided to turn to Kickstarter to raise money. With nine days left to go,...

Last week, I wrote a piece entitled “10 Artists That Are Essentially Computer Programs, looking at a few mainstream pop acts that I think have gutted the humanity of their songs by slathering them in autotune and other studio flourishes. But production doesn’t always have to be a liability to artistry. On the contrary, there are a slew of bands out there who can use the powers of the studio to turn already great songs into stunning, meticulously detailed soundscapes. These tracks urge us to turn up the volume so that we can take in every single detail of a recording, from the emotion in the singer’s voice to the perfectly rendered balance of the musical arrangement.

Back in 1972 when David Bowie dropped “Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars,” the vinyl album included a sticker that boldly proclaimed: “To Be Played At Maximum Volume.” The same spirit exists in the 20 tracks here.

Latitude 2013's line-up is coming together nicely. And while our own Total Film announcements are just a few weeks away from being officially announced, there have been a couple of new film-related line-up reveals to tide you over in the meantime. Latitude's celebration of David Bowie will come courtesy of Bowiefest in association with the Ica. It'll feature live performances alongside a special screening of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Not only that, but Svengali - a movie about the discovery of the next great...

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Sneak Peek the latest shock video from David Bowie, titled "The Next Day", previously banned by YouTube, reportedly over 'offensive content', due to the 'heavy use of religious imagery'.

In the video, Bowie, wears religious garments while performing in a squalid basement bar.

Cast also includes Gary Oldman ("The Dark Knight Rises") as a two-fisted priest and Marion Cotillard as a spaced-out hooker.

When Cotillard's hands suddenly bleed from stigmata marks, spraying other patrons including a virginal-looking innocent, Oldman's character yells at Bowie, "This is your doing...", followed by Bowie being flogged.

According to YouTube, the initial removal of the clip was a 'mistake' and it has since been posted with an adult-content warning.

"The Next Day" is the newest single from Bowie's critically-acclaimed new album, produced by Tony Visconti ("Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars").

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek David Bowie's "The Next...

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Release date: Monday 18th March 2013

There’s a certain irony that Suede’s comeback album, their first in ten and a half years since 2002′s lacklustre effort A New Morning, should arrive one week after David Bowie’s The Next Day.

Suede’s self-titled 1993 Mercury Prize winning debut was heavily indebted to glam-rock era Bowie, in particular Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars and, like that album, had a profound impact on the music of the era. This was an album don’t forget that precipitated the onset of Britpop, attracted almost unbridled adulation from the music press and drew the band comparisons with The Sex Pistols and The Smiths in terms of cultural significance. Bowie’s comeback has been lauded as one of the greatest in rock history; can Suede really pull off a resurgence one week later that anyone really cares about?

Thankfully,...

Trend-setter, impresario, phenomenon: David Bowie has shaped entire subcultures. Jon Savage traces the star's talent for reinvention and his catalytic encounter with William Burroughs

William Burroughs: The weapon of the Wild Boys is a bowie knife, an 18in bowie knife, did you know that?

David Bowie: An 18in bowie knife … you don't do things by halves do you? No, I didn't know that was their weapon. The name Bowie just appealed to me when I was younger. I was into a kind of heavy philosophy thing when I was 16 years old, and I wanted a truism about cutting through the lies and all that.

On 28 February 1974, Rolling Stone magazine published a remarkable encounter between David Bowie and William Burroughs. Entitled "Beat Godfather Meets Glitter Mainman", the event had been hosted in November 1973 by the American journalist A Craig Copetas. As published it took the form of a Q...

Some things are eternal, and luckily one of those things is the winsome and effete David Bowie. The vaguely gay 66-year-old superstar has proven his infallibility in a number of ways, including his masterpieces Aladdin Sane and Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, marrying Iman, the goddess of tender Somali chicness, and adding a hogshead of gayness to "Dancing in the Streets" with the aid of Mick Jagger. Thanks for it all, Bowie!

Now, after ten years without a new music video, he's back in business with "Where Are We Now?", a tuneful track and a refreshing dose of Bowie's provocative writing. It reminds me of '90s Joni Mitchell, when she bemoaned modern times on albums like Turbulent Indigo and didn't mind stating her contempt as plainly as possible. 

And get ready for some freaky imagery! That shrunken, warped Bowie head? Yeesh! Reminds me of Tori Amos' "A Sorta Fairytale.

The xx's second studio album Coexist has been named the UK's best-selling vinyl in 2012. The trio's collection beat David Bowie on the format's year-end charts to claim the top spot, after releasing the album back in September. Bowie landed at two with his 1972 classic record The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, reports the Official Charts Company. Jack White's Blunderbuss - which was the best-selling vinyl in the Us during 2012 - lands at three, while Adele is at four with 21. Overall vinyl sales increased for a fifth year in 2012, with a total of 389,000 units sold across the 12 months. The feat means sales of the format were up by 15.3% on 2011's sales of 337,000. "With more than 60 years of loyal service, the vinyl LP is by some margin the most enduring (more)...

Honorary Oscar 2012: D.A. Pennebaker Honorary Oscar 2012 recipient D.A. Pennebaker, 87, has directed more than 20 documentary features, among them Don’t Look Back (featuring Bob Dylan), Monterey Pop, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, Moon over Broadway, Kings of Pastry, and the 1993 effort The War Room, about Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign, which earned Pennebaker and co-director Chris Hegedus an Oscar nomination and a National Board of Review Award. [See previous article: "Honorary Oscar 2012: AFI Founding Director George Stevens Jr."] Additionally, Pennebaker is seen as one of the founders of the cinéma vérité movement, beginning with his collaboration as editor / [...]...

The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted tonight to present Honorary Awards to stunt performer Hal Needham, documentarian D. A. Pennebaker and arts advocate George Stevens, Jr., and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to philanthropist Jeffrey Katzenberg. All four awards will be presented at the Academy’s 4th Annual Governors Awards dinner on Saturday, December 1, at The Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center®.

Hal Needham is a legendary stunt performer and coordinator who has worked on more than 300 feature films including “The Spirit of St. Louis,” “How the West Was Won,” “Blazing Saddles,” “Little Big Man” and “Chinatown.” A pioneer in improving stunt technology and safety procedures, Needham also co-founded Stunts Unlimited, and is known for mentoring young stunt performers. In 1986, the Academy presented Needham with a Scientific and Engineering Award for the design and development of the Shotmaker Elite camera car and crane,...

Stuntman Hal Needham boasts in his autobiography that he “broke 56 bones, my back twice, punctured a lung and knocked out a few teeth.”

Those are the trophies from a life spent falling off horses, crashing cars, and plummeting from buildings for the sake of the movies. Now he can add a less painful one to the list — an honorary Academy Award.

Needham, 81, is one of four Hollywood figures selected late Wednesday to receive an honorary Oscar from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the upcoming Governors Awards, joining documentarian D.A. Pennebaker, American Film Institute founder George Stevens,...