David Bowie: The Last Five Years
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| HBO | Release Date: January 8, 2018 |
Summary:
Francis Whately's documentary uses archival clips, music videos, and interviews with friends and collaborators who worked with David Bowie on his final two albums, The Next Day (2013) and Blackstar (2016) as well as the Broadway musical, Lazarus.
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Movie/Mini-Series, News/Documentary, Documentary, Music
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Dec 13, 2017
Dec 13, 2017
Jan 8, 2018
Season 1 Review:
If you are unfamiliar with the final, fertile phase of Bowie's career — which followed his retirement from performing, after a 2004 onstage heart attack — this is a fine introduction. If you know the period, there are many odd delights: goofy tour-stop footage, behind the scenes glimpses of videos in production, a good taste of "Lazarus" in rehearsal on stage, tales of genial collaboration, and lots of music.
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Jan 9, 2018
Jan 9, 2018
Jan 4, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Lifelong Bowie fans will be appeased by the amount of old material woven in between more recent interviews with Bowie’s band members and producers. But the film really doesn’t get going till it reaches his final projects, specifically his collaborations with jazz composer/bandleader Maria Schneider and saxophonist Donny McCaslin, which came to be among the more musically adventurous of his career.
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Air Date: January 8, 2018
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