LabyrinthDecember 5-6, 2008The Clay TheaterReview by Melissa BaronBetter than: David Bowie on the big screen is only trumped by one thing -- David Bowie live on stage.David Bowie and Jim Henson (not to mention Frank Oz) fanatics gathered at midnight Friday for the spectacular display of the epic 1986 film Labyrinth. The film chronicles a young but still hot and fantasy-obsessed Sarah (Jennifer Connelly) through her poor and hasty judgment as a result of teenage angst. Sarah immerses herself in t
Every time I see this trailer for Moon, directed by David Bowie's son Ducan Jones, I get stupid excited all over again.
How can the son of "Major Tom"--a man raised on two of my favorite authors, J.G. Ballard and Philip K. Dick--go wrong? Especially with Sam Rockwell as his main character? Film opens June 19 in S.F. Looks awesome.
I caught a showing of Moon, the debut sci-fi movie by David Bowie's son, Duncan Jones (also known as Zowie Bowie). The movie references classics like 2001 and Blade Runner, but it slowly twists into a chilling space odyssey that's slower than its inspirations, but leaves no less of an impact (Jones says he was also moved by Robert Zubrin's book Entering Space, about colonizing the solar system). The visually-rich, poetic tale is cautiously claustrophobic, the vastness of being alone among the
Saul Williams's facepaint resembled a dolphin crossed with the Star Trek logo​Saul Williams, Earl Greyhound, American Fangs
November 10, 2009
The Independent
Better Than: Gym Class Heroes, or 2009 David Bowie
With a head full of feathers and his face painted like a glittering Star Trek dolphin, experimental polymath Saul Williams exploded his latest witchcraft, the "Niggy Tardust Experience", all over The Independent Tuesday night.
Williams served labyrinthine raps between games of space-c