Moonage Daydream Release

Moonage Daydream had its world premiere at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival on 23 May 2022. It was released in IMAX and theatres in the United States on 16 September 2022. It is also expected to be released for streaming on HBO Max in spring 2023. The documentary was released in DVD format on 15 November 2022.

Moonage Daydream Marketing

An official teaser trailer for the film was uploaded to YouTube on 23 May 2022. A full trailer was released on 27 July.

Moonage Daydream Production

In 2021, Variety reported that Brett Morgen had been developing a film based on David Bowie, "for which an official title has not been disclosed, for the last four years."It is the first film to be officially authorized by Bowie's estate.Working in cooperation with the estate, Morgen was granted access to an archive of five million different items, including paintings, drawings, recordings, photographs, films, and journals.Tony Visconti, who spent years as Bowie's producer, serves as the film's music producer.

Moonage Daydream Synopsis

The documentary uses a montage-style editing format to convey a biography of Bowie, utilizing film clips and interviews from throughout his career. The film starts with a 2002 quote of Bowie stating:

"At the turn of the 20th century, Friedrich Nietzsche proclaimed that God is dead and that man had killed him."

"This created an arrogance with man that he himself was God. But as God, all he could seem to produce was disaster."

"That led to a terrifying confusion: for if we could not take the place of God, how could we fill the space we had created within ourselves?"

The film is divided into nearly two dozen "chapters" in the DVD release with the first hour covering Bowie starting in London up to his departure to West Berlin. The second part of the film discussed and presents Bowie's extensive interests in the arts while in West Berlin outside of the music industry, such as his interest in oil painting and acrylic painting, as well as his interest in writing within the literary arts. Many examples of Bowie's portrait work in oils are presented showing the use of a modern representational style of portraiture combined with an experimental color palette for brightly lit representations in nearly kaleidoscopic color preferences for facial expressions. In his third phase covered in the last part of the film, Bowie emerges from a two year hiatus where he remakes himself in the image of a suave musical artist often dressed in tailored Saville Row double breasted men's business suits.

The first hour of the film begins with a long film clip of Bowie performing a live version of a largely narrated version of "All the Young Dudes" before singing the choruses later made famous by Mott the Hoople's recording of the song. Bowie is picture in many clips from his glam rock years wearing heavily costumed outfits often experimenting with the signature transgender dressing associated with his early years. Bowie emerges from these pre-Berlin years as a significant rock-and-roll star on the London scene making an impact throughout much of Britain and the United States.

After moving to West Berlin, Bowie speaks in clips and interviews about the extensive impact which the aesthetics of German culture in West Berlin had upon his artistic sensibilities. Bowie is apparently deeply moved by the visual arts as he experiences them while in West Berlin, and this influences his own painting style in his own renderings of oil portraits and related efforts in his other oil paintings. The documentary's film style of montage also interlaces many film clips from over two dozen different films ranging from the silent era including the film Metropolis up to and including clips from the Stanley Kubrick-directed films Clockwork Orange and 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Bowie's third phase is covered by showing him appearing in his tailored Savile Row double breasted business suits and appearing in duets with multiple established artists such as Tina Turner and others. He is depicted as having entered the height of his career and formed a new life style with his new wife Iman Abdulmajid. Bowie dies at the age of 69.

Moonage Daydream (film)

Moonage Daydream is a 2022 documentary film about English singer-songwriter David Bowie. Written, directed, produced and edited by Brett Morgen, the film uses previously unreleased footage from Bowie's personal archives,including live concert footage.It is the first film to be officially authorized by Bowie's estate, and takes its title from the 1972 Bowie song of the same name.

Moonage Daydream had its world premiere at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, where it received positive reviews. It was released theatrically and in IMAX in the United States on 16 September 2022. It was shortlisted for the 2023 Academy Awards. 

Moonage Daydream

月光白日夢

Original title: Moonage Daydream

A cinematic odyssey exploring David Bowie's creative and musical journey. From visionary filmmaker Brett Morgen, and sanctioned by the Bowie estate.

Director: Brett Morgen

Writer: Brett Morgen

Stars: David Bowie(archive footage), Trevor Bolder(archive footage), Ken Fordham(archive footage)

Genres: Documentary, Music

Details

Release date: September 15, 2022 (Germany)

Countries of origin: Germany, United States

Language: English

Also known as: Moonage Daydream

Production companies: BMG, Live Nation Productions, Public Road Productions

Box office

Gross US & Canada: $4,218,925

Opening weekend US & Canada: $1,230,145Sep 18, 2022

Gross worldwide: $12,331,011

Technical specs

Runtime: 2 hours 15 minutes

Color: Color

Sound mix: Dolby DigitalIMAX 6-Track

Aspect ratio: 1.78 : 1

MOONAGE DAYDREAM

24-09-2022 上映, 135 分鐘, 英語(中文字幕)

故事簡介

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大衛寶兒一直地位超凡 ，影響音樂、文化、潮流界超越50年。這次請來角逐奧斯卡最佳紀錄片的大導演布雷特摩根 (Brett Morgen) 掌舵，親自主理這齣首部獲授權的電影。《MOONAGE DAYDREAM》更獲權威的David Bowie Estate全力支持，搜羅出海量他首度曝光錄像片段；在《波希米亞狂想曲：搖滾傳說》金像混音大師Paul Massey 鼎力加持下，貫穿著多首耳熟能詳的經典歌曲，魅力橫跨世代，持續啟發著世界各地無數樂迷，大家豈能錯過！

導演: 布雷特摩根

演員: 大衛寶兒

[US]

MOONAGE DAYDREAM

Opening on 24-09-2022, 135 minutes, English(Chinese Subtitles)

Synopsis

With MOONAGE DAYDREAM, Brett Morgen (The Kid Stays in the Picture, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, Jane) presents a genre defying immersion into the art and sounds of David Bowie. Considered one of the greatest artists of our time, David Bowie has been moving culture for over 50 years.

MOONAGE DAYDREAM is the first film to be supported by the David Bowie Estate, which granted Morgen unprecedented access to their collection. Told through sublime, kaleidoscopic imagery, personal archived footage, unseen performances, and anchored by David Bowie’s own music and words, MOONAGE DAYDREAM invites audiences to immerse themselves in the unique world that is “Bowie”.

In 2017, the estate presented Morgen with over 5 million assets. Included in the collection were rare and never-before seen drawings, recordings, films, and journals.

Morgen spent four years assembling the film and another 18 months designing the soundscape, animations, and color palette. For the film, the sound team - featuring Bowie’s long-time collaborator, friend and music producer Tony Visconti and Academy Award®-winning sound mixer Paul Massey (Bohemian Rhapsody) - remixed and translated Bowie’s original stems for big screens. Throughout his career, across generations, Bowie taught us that our differences were our strengths.

With MOONAGE DAYDREAM, Bowie provides us with a roadmap of how to survive the 21st century, inviting audiences to celebrate his legacy and enduring influence like never before.

Director: Brett Morgen

Cast: David Bowie