Sentences with phrase «bowie plays»

In the film, David Bowie plays Andy Warhol.

David Bowie plays Warhol's shy outrage straight.

While it's a bit slighter than some of his other pictures, it's arguably his most enjoyable — filled with endlessly quotable dialogue, pitch - perfect soundtrack choices and real heart — enough to make you want to stand up from your seat and go running down the street while 80's - era David Bowie plays joyously on the soundtrack.

And this film in which David Bowie plays the Goblin King, who has kidnapped a baby, whose sister (Jennifer Connelly) wants to get him back, is absolutely magical, thanks in part to the designs of fairy mastermind Brian Froud.

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It's unlikely the Tesla will be empty, just playing David Bowie's «Space Oddity» on repeat.

Shortly after the launch, Musk tweeted out a live camera shot of the dummy, called «Starman» after the David Bowie song that could be heard playing toward the end of the launch.

18) The fact that there is a later punk - driven attempt to democratize rock fame (and not in the fatuous way that Andy Warhol's «15 - minutes of fame» comment suggested) or that pop / disco artists like Michael Jackson and Madonna will pick up on Bowie's fame - playing and image - emphatic example, in Madonna's case overtly subordinating the music to the prerogatives of notoriety, do not alter what ALMOST FAMOUS is showing us, that rock can be thought of as a social phenomenon / scene that one might belong to («you're too sweet for rock and roll» is said not by a musician to a musician, but by a groupie to a rock writer), that is as fame - focused as it is music - focused.

It all kicks off with concerts at The Snow Barn, Southern Vermont's favorite live music venue, with Blackalicious on Wednesday, Backside Night on Thursday, Totally Submerged on Friday, Pink Taking Fish playing a night of Bowie on Saturday, and Roots of Creation on Sunday.

We have a rollicking parliamentary lesson in «pairing», «nodding through», «wrecking amendments» and the rather ominous «usual channels» — and to avoid too much of a history lesson for an evening at the theatre, it's all set to a soundtrack of David Bowie and Sex Pistols, provided by a live band playing in front of Big Ben's sad old face.

As PR for the space program, it rivaled the efforts of Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, who played guitar and sang David Bowie's «Space Oddity» on the International Space Station.

Goob is a rangy, awkward teenager, played by first - time actor Liam Walpole, who at various times reminded me of Spock, David Bowie, Malcolm McDowell and Ezra Miller in We Need To Talk About Kevin.

The Brazilian star who played a favela gangster on film and sang Bowie in Portuguese says he makes music to get people thinking as well as dancing

Needless to say, Harvey — who would've been played by David Bowie in a movie that was honestly punk — led a life dishonoured by the movie but one ripe for the silver screen all the same.

Either because he's become a hero of the internet or because he was played by David Bowie in The Prestige, Nikola Tesla has become the superstar of the quest to bring electricity to the world, and while this trailer for The Current War emphasizes Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse, Tesla's brief appearance does set...

Not that anyone seems to mind much: Soon enough, the rest of the cast is strutting jauntily back to the ship to the strains of «Queen Bitch,» a Bowie tune at last played in its original, red - blooded form rather than as an arch, acoustic knockoff.

Tracks like The Smith's «Asleep» and David Bowie's «Heroes» play crucial parts in the film.

In «A Bigger Splash», Swinton plays a Bowie - like rock star, Marianne Lane.

She's played so many brilliant characters — this week she's a David Bowie - like superstar in «A Bigger Splash».

Maybe the name won't ring a bell, but dos Santos, played by Seu Jorge, was the sailor seen throughout the 2004 film playing acoustic covers of David Bowie songs in Portuguese.

It's hard to watch — and Nolan takes pains to confuse our allegiances in ways that suggest a very British class tension (Borden and ace engineer Cutter (Michael Caine) share a Cockney brogue while Angier, a Yank, is cut from different cloth), a certain nationalism, and, in the figure of Nikolai Tesla (David Bowie) at play mad - scientist - like in a mythical Colorado Springs, a clearly delineated duel between magic and the notion that technology before its time is a kind of witchcraft.

Ten years after the falsified death of Brian Slade (Jonathan Rhys Meyers playing a Bowie inspired character), Arthur Stuart (Christian Bale), a former teenage glam rocker turned adult journalist, has been assigned to write an investigative piece on what happened to Slade following the fabled incident.

It's the familiar but potent story of two naïve young outlaw lovers - on - the - run: Bowie, a kid with a gun and Keechie, a girl with a heart to be broken (played by Farley Granger and Cathy O'Donnell, an unusually beautiful young movie couple).

Todd Haynes» 1999 film «Velvet Goldmine» (Miramax) reimagines the Glam rock era and the iconic influence of David Bowie through the kaleidoscopic lens of «Citizen Kane» and the fictionalized persona of rock legend and bi-sexual pop icon Brian Slade (played by Jonathan Rhys - Myers).

Evan Rachel Wood explains why she turned down a role in Mean Girls, talks about totally blanking on David Bowie lyrics while playing a tribute concert with his band and reveals how her fight for equal pay increased her check for Westworld Season 2.

So we got a lot of new characters, such as those played by David Bowie and Jack Bauer, and one notable cast replacement.

Speaking to the Huffington Post, casting director Amy Hubbard confirmed that it was David Bowie who director Peter Jackson originally wanted to play Gandalf, but the singer was sadly too busy.

When we learn that Diana has stolen precious jewels from Iran, the men chasing her, including David Bowie, playing a hit man, speed up the chase.

A key role yet to be cast is the male lead, Drew Bowie, played on Broadway by American Idol's Constantine Maroulis.

That was when I played Omikron: The Nomad Soul, a video game that changed the way I felt about David Bowie entirely.

Along with Robin Williams, Tim Curry, David Bowie and Brad Dourif, notable character actor John Lithgow was in the running to play The Joker in Tim Burton's 1989 Batman, which of course went to Jack Nicholson.

Having played Goblin Kings and strange beings from outer space, David Bowie's role as cyber god Boz in the 1999 PC release (a Dreamcast version was released in 2000) felt like a natural progression.

The real wild card is the legendary genius and scientific maverick Nikola Tesla, played here straightforwardly by Nicholas Hoult — and without much of the obvious rock - star allure that he had when he was played by David Bowie in Christopher Nolan's 2006 movie The Prestige.

As a bonus, we are treated to a fitting tribute of David Bowie with his hit «Starman» playing during the commercial.

Opening up to Midge Ure's cover of David Bowie's «The Man Who Sold the World» is a cinematically appropriate introduction that foreshadows Venom's identity, both through the content of the song and the fact that a cover is playing instead of the original, while building anticipation for the game proper to begin.

The game begins with an especially memorable scene of Snake waking up in the hospital from a coma as Midge Ure's haunting cover of David Bowie's «The Man Who Sold the World» plays in the background.

Here we share seven examples from around the web, with many playing on Bowie's iconic alter ego Ziggy Stardust or his first major hit, «Space Oddity», famously covered by astronaut Chris Hadfield while floating inside the International Space Station.

The Velvet Underground played there regularly, and the club witnessed regular appearances by Marc Bolan, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed and Alice Cooper.

I'd often fall asleep to the murmurings of their adult conversation and laughter rising up through the floorboards (my mother's laughter being the most memorable - I owe my va va voom to her), and Bowie would often be playing in the background.

The artist, who won the Turner Prize in 2004, represented Britain in the previous Venice Biennale in 2013 with a pavilion called English Magic, which included a film featuring steel bands playing Vaughan Williams and acid house, as well as images of David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust tour in the UK in 1972 - 73 alongside photographs of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

Simon Hucker, Senior Specialist in Sotheby's Modern and Post-War British Art Department emphasized the central role that art played in Bowie's creative and personal life, as evidenced by the diverse nature of the collection.

Alexandra is indicative of Bowie's far - reaching collecting interests, as well as his love of works with multiple layers of meaning and a sense of mischief and play.

The Bowie - Basquiat connection is best known through the lens of Julian Schnabel's 1996 film Basquiat, in which David played the role of the young artist's mentor and collaborator, Andy Warhol.

I however have no objection to any hunter hunting any large ungulate or predator in the 48 states or Alaska, as long as they limit themselves to a hunting knife, even a big hunting knife like a Bowie knife, to create a more level playing field.

But after a week — during which I asked HomePod to play my favorite tunes from artists like Beck, Talking Heads and David Bowie — the smart speaker still did not learn.

He asked the digital assistant to play a random song and hoped the machine would choose something from his favorite artists like David Bowie or Beck.