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Speaker 1: Good morning, Ben, Good morning guys. How are you good? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm really well. You don't even need me to review this,

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Speaker 1: Let's be honest, you've already made up your mind. Well,

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Speaker 1: we loved it, yes, official, the proficial word, banging on

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Speaker 1: about it for weeks now, since we first saw it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: well we all saw it together, didn't we We did,

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Speaker 1: we did. And then you've spoken to the director Brett Morgan.

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Speaker 1: I've spoken to the director Brett Morgan. So we're a

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Speaker 1: full bottle on moon Age day dream. Yes. And for

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Speaker 1: people who haven't been following along with this, so this

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Speaker 1: is a documentary about David Bowie from a director Brett Morgan,

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Speaker 1: who specializes in biographical filmmaking. That's a little bit left

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Speaker 1: of center. It's a little bit out of the box, right,

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Speaker 1: Like it's not your traditional doco where you get a

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Speaker 1: lot of facts and figures and at the end of

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Speaker 1: it you go, Okay, now I know all of the

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Speaker 1: details about this person's life, like I've just read a

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Speaker 1: Wikipedia page. He doesn't make movies like that. Like he

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Speaker 1: made a film about Kurt Cobain called Montage of Heck,

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Speaker 1: which was like an incredible portrait of Kurt Cobain and

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Speaker 1: his relationship with Courtney Love and his drug use and

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Speaker 1: all this kind of stuff. It was quite controversial because

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Speaker 1: people who are very close to Navana weren't happy with

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Speaker 1: how Kurt Cobain was depicted in the film, that it

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Speaker 1: didn't focus on all of the other aspects of his life.

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Speaker 1: But people who were really close saw that some real

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Speaker 1: authenticity there, and it gave people, I guess, an insight

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Speaker 1: into what it was like to be Kurt Cobain. He

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Speaker 1: did something similar with Jane Goodall, like the famous iconic

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Speaker 1: primatologist and anthropologist, so he I loved that he did

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Speaker 1: a documentary. He's done a lot of interesting stuff, like

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Speaker 1: he looks at he looks at who are the most

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Speaker 1: interesting people who have tapped into some sort of aspect

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Speaker 1: of human understanding that the rest of us can't even imagine.

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Speaker 1: And Kirk Cobain is one of those people. Jane Goodall

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Speaker 1: is one of those people. David Bowie, of course, is

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Speaker 1: one of those people. And so he set out to

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Speaker 1: tell this story of David Bowie. He went and spoke

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Speaker 1: to the estate. He actually spoke to David Bowie before

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Speaker 1: he died about doing a film together because he wanted

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Speaker 1: to do something really kind of artistic that tapped in

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Speaker 1: to David Bowie's process more so than you know, the

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Speaker 1: details of his life. Yeah, we're d born in such

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Speaker 1: and such. Yeah, so many doccos and all. But it

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Speaker 1: was going to take it was going to take, you know,

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Speaker 1: fifty hours of filming with David Bowie, and David Bowie

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Speaker 1: just didn't have the time to do it. So he

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Speaker 1: said he was semi retired. He was semi retired. He

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Speaker 1: was like arms, just hanging out and do the main thing.

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Speaker 1: And so it never happened until he died. But the

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Speaker 1: estate remembered that conversation, and so they're like, okay, let's

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Speaker 1: let's go ahead, let's do it. Give you access to

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Speaker 1: the archive of footage of David Bowie's artworks that a

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Speaker 1: lot of them had never seen a lot of day before.

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Speaker 1: And then and then off he went. And you know,

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Speaker 1: people who go into this expecting to, you know, see

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Speaker 1: how many copies Ziggy Star are sold in the nineteen seventies,

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Speaker 1: you're not going to get that. It doesn't even acknowledge

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Speaker 1: that Bowie is dead. It doesn't, which is which is

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Speaker 1: you might think that is bizarre for a documentary. You watch,

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Speaker 1: you watch, it's two hours and fifteen minutes, and at

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Speaker 1: the end of it, if you didn't know Bowie was dead,

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Speaker 1: you'd think he's still alive. Hear his voice a lot.

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Speaker 1: You'd walk out of the cinema and go, oh, what's

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Speaker 1: Bowie up to these days? Which is really quite strange.

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Speaker 1: It plays so loose with the facts. But what it

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Speaker 1: doesn't I think play loose with is the truth. Like

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Speaker 1: this is kind of ultimate cosmic, universal truth of David

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Speaker 1: Bowie and who he was as an artist that shines

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Speaker 1: through in this film so clearly. As you see him

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Speaker 1: in interviews, as you see him like on stage, you

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Speaker 1: see him in some very intimate moments, but you also,

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Speaker 1: you know, get a sense of who he was as

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Speaker 1: an artist, like this dude who was introverted, he didn't

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Speaker 1: socialize very well, but then he would get up on

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Speaker 1: stage in front of sixty thousand people and become this

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Speaker 1: you know, alien rock god from another planet. It's truly

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Speaker 1: truly spectacular, And of course there's a lot of songs,

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Speaker 1: more than forty Bowie songs in this from from way

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Speaker 1: back to the way back to the start of his career,

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Speaker 1: all the way through to you know, the sort of

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Speaker 1: the phase he went through in the nineties to Black

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Speaker 1: Star and what happened towards the latter stage of his career. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's there's some exhaustive archival material here which is really

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Speaker 1: very very special to see. The interestant thing is Space

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Speaker 1: out of Tea, right, because that was recorded in released

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Speaker 1: in sixty nine, so well before Ziggi and everything else.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't sort of appear in the film until three

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Speaker 1: quarters of the way through, and so there's some really

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Speaker 1: interesting use of the of the music here as well.

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Speaker 1: If you're a Bowie fan, like you have to see

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Speaker 1: this movie, like this is absolute must see. If you're

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Speaker 1: not a Bowie fan, this will probably turn you into one.

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Speaker 1: And if you're a Harry Styles fan, I would really

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Speaker 1: seeing this movie and you realize, oh, hang on a minute,

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Speaker 1: Harry Starles is not the first person to do some

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Speaker 1: of this stuff, and you'll see you know just how

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Speaker 1: influential Bowie was and how you know what he was

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Speaker 1: doing back in the early seventies. It's amazing to think

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Speaker 1: what he was doing in the early seventies would still

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Speaker 1: be considered pretty cutting edge today twenty twenty two. It's

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Speaker 1: still ahead of his time. Now, yeah, it's freaky, it's amazing,

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Speaker 1: and so yeah, this is one of my absolute favorite

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Speaker 1: films of the year. All Right, how many Aladdin signs

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Speaker 1: are you giving it? I want to give this one

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Speaker 1: four and a half, four and a half. You don't

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Speaker 1: do that very for three quarters, just for you, guys,

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Speaker 1: three quarters with the extra quarters out of you guys.

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Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna paint their faces. A record breakout

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Speaker 1: is a record break Okay, thank you, Ben, Thanks guys. Okay,

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Speaker 1: talking movies,