{"id":270,"date":"2016-01-11T16:34:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T21:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/01\/11\/remembering-bowie-on-film\/"},"modified":"2016-01-11T16:34:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T21:34:00","slug":"remembering-bowie-on-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/01\/11\/remembering-bowie-on-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Bowie on film"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like everyone, we’re shocked and saddened by the death of David Bowie, rock god extraordinaire and cultural icon. Bowie was a true renaissance man who dabbled in music, performance, games, and yes, film. Attempting to quantify all his contributions to the arts is a fool’s errand, but we want to at least acknowledge some of the excellent work on film by a man described by Vice<\/i> as “fascinated with the moving image<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Everyone probably knows David Bowie best on the screen in the iconic role of Jareth the Goblin King in Jim Henson’s Labyrinth<\/i>. If that’s any indication, his film choices were eclectic. He also played the starring role in the Japanese World War II movie Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence<\/i> (HU DVD 10689<\/a>) and was the centerpiece of the ethereal, influential The Man Who Fell to Earth<\/i> (HU DVD 2658<\/a>). And you might not recognized his brief appearance as inventor Nikola Tesla in Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige<\/i> (HU DVD 3831<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Don’t forget the countless times other actors and filmmakers have paid tribute to Bowie’s work, most notably the David Bowie-themed episode of the HBO series Flight of the Conchords<\/i> (HU DVD 4831<\/a>). There’s also Velvet Goldmine<\/i> (HU DVD 687<\/a>), a film based so closely on David Bowie that the rock star nearly sued the production.<\/p>\n

And of course, see Bowie’s self-effacing cameo in Ricky Gervais’s Extras<\/i> (embedded above, also HU DVD 2992<\/a>).<\/p>\n

We’re glad Bowie brought his enormous talents to film. It’s a shame that he never got behind the camera apart from his music videos.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like everyone, we’re shocked and saddened by the death of David Bowie, rock god extraordinaire and cultural icon. Bowie was a true renaissance man who dabbled in music, performance, games, and yes, film. Attempting to quantify all his contributions to the arts is a fool’s errand, but we want to at least acknowledge some of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[290],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","category-recommendations","tag-related-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}