POSTPONED UNTIL LATER IN 2021! BFI announce David Bowie season: Bowie: Starman and the Silver Screen

December 4th, 2020 | by Nick
POSTPONED UNTIL LATER IN 2021! BFI announce David Bowie season: Bowie: Starman and the Silver Screen
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*Just in from the BFI*..

Due to the uncertainty of what tier London will be in on 1 January, we’ve decided to postpone #BFISouthbank’s David Bowie season to later in 2021.

We’ll confirm our January programme (& reopening plans) following the next government review of the tiers at the end of December.

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The BFI’s celebration of David Bowie will include screenings of films, TV work, documentaries and concert films, together with an accompanying series of films that inspired him and a special events programme.

BFI Southbank will kick off 2021 with Bowie: Starman and the Silver Screen, a month-long season celebrating actor and performer David Bowie, 5 years since his death. Running from 1 to 30 January, the season’s mixture of feature films, television and documentaries will show that, whether a bit-part, starring role or being just himself, David Bowie was always magnetic on screen.

Films screening in the season will include The Man Who Fell to Earth (Nicolas Roeg, 1976), Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (Nagisa Oshima, 1983) Christiane F. (Uli Edel, 1981), The Hunger (Tony Scott, 1983) and Labyrinth (Jim Henson, 1986), while documentaries, concert films and TV work will include Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (D.A. Pennebaker, 1979), Baal (Alan Clarke, 1982), Bowie at Glastonbury 2000 (BBC, 2000) and a collection of rare TV material from the BFI National Archive.

As a composer, innovator and concept artist, Bowie’s fascination for film fed an insatiable creative drive, which the season will also explore via a selection of titles that influenced him. Hooked to the Silver Screen: Bowie at the Movies will feature a range of titles, from 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968) and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1920) to Querelle (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1982) and Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976).

The season will also include special events at BFI Southbank and online via BFI YouTube. A highlight of the events programme will be the return of BUG, with comedian Adam Buxton, on what would have been Bowie’s 74th birthday – 8 January. Bowie’s engagement with film, theatre and design forged his high-concept approach to pop stardom and supercharged the evolution of music video. BUG Special: David Bowie will be a fan’s journey through the career of an artist whose influence on modern popular culture will continue to be felt for decades, featuring music videos, rare clips, animation and comedy. The full online events programme will be announced soon.

Some key Bowie titles, including The Man Who Fell to Earth (Nicolas Roeg, 1976) and The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese, 1988), and a number of the films from Hooked to the Silver Screen series will also be available for audiences across the UK to watch on BFI Player throughout January as well. It can be hard to look beyond Bowie ‘the star’ to appreciate the characters he portrayed, but 5 years on from his passing, Bowie’s star still sparkles brightly.

TICKETS..

Tickets for Bowie: Starman and the Silver Screen will go on sale to BFI Patrons and Champions on 14 December, BFI Members on 15 December and to the general public on 17 December. Audience members aged 25 and under can sign up and take advantage of £3 tickets to any film in the season, available to book in advance or on the day of the screening.

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