“Books, music and movies have always provided an escape for me and my imagination, and ‘Labyrinth’ was formative for me.”Īs she grew older, Schlachter grew curious about Bowie’s musical career and raided her parents’ record collection. “To a 5-year-old, it was magical and mysterious,” said Schlachter. It’s a fascinating piece of art, and I will be shocked if an Oscar nomination doesn’t come its way in a few months.Ĭourtney Schlachter, who lives in Lewiston and owns Quiet City Books, said her love for Bowie began 35 years ago when, at age 5, she saw the film “Labyrinth” which stars Bowie and features his music. The end result of Morgen’s work is a meditation on, rather than a homage to, Bowie. Its 45 tracks include live or remixed versions of songs like “Hallo Spaceboy,” “Word On A Wing,” “Quicksand,” “Life on Mars?” and, gasp, “Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud.” “Wild Eyed Boy” is from Bowie’s 1969 “Space Oddity” album, and it’s an early, formidable example of his lyricism and vocal abilities. Speaking of which, the “Moonage Daydream” soundtrack is a must-have. 10, 2016, is still felt so universally by millions of us mere mortals who still wander the earth, anchored by the legacy he left behind in the form of 26 studio albums, not to mention several lives ones and rarities compilations that continue to surface. As the tears fell, I was reminded of how much I still miss Bowie and how much his absence since Jan. “Moonage Daydream” also featured a live version of “Heroes,” and this is the moment that broke me. It was astounding and included my favorite Bowie track “Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide” from the iconic 1972 album “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars,” but also several other deep album tracks, like the haunting “Warszawa” from 1977’s “Low” and “Rock ‘n’ Roll With Me” from 1974’s “Diamond Dogs.” Often backed by stunning visual imagery, Bowie waxes poetic about concepts like time and art.
Morgen masterfully stitches together interview bits so that Bowie’s voice told the story. I’m as hardcore as Bowie fans come, and my jaw was on the floor while my heart beat out of its ribcage for the 140 minutes of “Moonage Daydream.” So much of what was in the film I was seeing and hearing for the first time. The film takes its name from a song on Bowie’s seminal “Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars,” an album that’s now 50 years old but that hasn’t lost any of its potency.ĭirector Brett Morgen was given the keys to the kingdom when the Bowie estate granted him access to a bottomless treasure trove of rare and never-before-seen recordings, films, journals, archived footage and performance clips. Case in point, in one scene, there’s footage of Bowie out somewhere in public, and I realized that moment is captured in one of the many posters of him that I had on my wall in high school. The more time passes, the more I remember bits about the film and feel a fresh surge of appreciation. I have read a number of Bowie books and have seen a few other documentaries about him, but this level of intimacy by way of photographs, interview footage and live clips, is unprecedented. I saw it at an IMAX theater in Massachusetts and was gobsmacked by the amount of new material it contained. 16, and you can see it at a handful of theaters in Maine.
If you’re a big fan, your mind will be blown, because at times you’ll feel like Bowie is speaking directly to you and that you’re back in the mid-70s, dressed like him waiting outside one of his concerts in England.
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