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Stardust (2020 Film)
''Stardust'' is a 2020 biographical film, biographical drama film, drama film about English singer-songwriter David Bowie and his alter-ego Ziggy Stardust (character), Ziggy Stardust, directed by Gabriel Range, from screenplay co-written by Range with Christopher Bell. Johnny Flynn stars as Bowie, alongside Jena Malone and Marc Maron in supporting roles. ''Stardust'' was released in the United States on November 25, 2020 by IFC Films. It received negative reviews from critics and only grossed $62,251 at the box office. Premise The film focuses on Bowie's abortive first tour of the US in 1971, his troubled relationships with his wife Angie Bowie, Angie and half-brother Terry Burns, and his creation of the Ziggy Stardust persona. Cast Production Casting In August 2019, Johnny Flynn was revealed in a first image portraying Bowie. Marc Maron, Jena Malone, Aaron Poole, Roanna Cocharne, Jorja Cadence, Annie Briggs, and Ryan Blakley were cast in supporting roles, along with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Range
Gabriel Range is a British filmmaker, who is probably best known for his fictional political-documentary about the assassination of George W. Bush in ''Death of a President (2006 film), Death of a President''. Range worked in journalism before moving into documentaries and docudrama. In 2003, he wrote and directed ''The Day Britain Stopped'', a feature-length drama told in the style of documentary. The film earned Range a nomination for a British Academy (BAFTA) TV Craft Award for Best New Director and won a Royal Television Society Craft and Design Award. In 2005, Range wrote and directed ''Death of a President (2006 film), Death of a President'', which had its debut at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival. The film won a total of six awards including; the International Critics Prize (FIPRESCI) at Toronto, the International Emmy Award for the TV Movie/Mini-Series category, the RTS Television Award in the Digital Channel Programme category from the Royal Television Soc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IFC Films
Independent Film Company (formerly IFC Films) is an American film production and distribution company based in New York City, New York. It is an offshoot of IFC (U.S. TV channel), IFC, owned by AMC Networks. It mainly distributes independent film, independent features under its own name, select world cinema, foreign films and documentaries under its Sundance Selects label, and co-distributes genre films with Shudder (streaming service), Shudder. It operates the IFC Center. History The IFC Films division has a predecessor film label, Next Wave Films, designed to release movies, which was in operation from 1997 to 2002, when it was shut down and folded into IFC themselves. IFC also launched a film company, IFC Productions, which set up operation in March 1997 to produce their own feature film projects. On January 18, 1999, IFC launched a film label Agenda 2000, which set up their own film projects, which have their world premiere on IFC. On September 26, 2000, IFC launched its ow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amsterdam (Jacques Brel Song)
"Amsterdam" is a song by Jacques Brel. It combines a powerful melancholic crescendo with a rich poetic account of the exploits of sailors on shore leave in Amsterdam. Musically, it takes its base melody line from the melody of the English folk song Greensleeves. Brel never recorded this for a studio album, and his only version was released on the live album '' Olympia 1964,'' he also did not like the song at all and that performance remains his only one of the tune. Despite this, it has been one of his most enduringly popular works. It was one of the songs Mort Shuman translated into English for the musical '' Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris''. Brel worked on the song at his house overlooking the Mediterranean at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, the house he shared with Sylvie Rivet, a publicist for Philips; a place she had introduced him to in 1960. "It was the ideal place for him to create, and to indulge his passion for boats and planes. One morning at six o'clock h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Yardbirds
The Yardbirds are an English rock music, rock band formed in London in 1963. The band started the careers of three of rock's most famous guitarists: Eric Clapton (1963–1965), Jeff Beck (1965–1966) and Jimmy Page (1966–1968), all of whom ranked in the top five of ''Rolling Stone'' magazine's 2011 list of 100 greatest guitarists. The band's other members during 1963–1968 were vocalist/harmonica player Keith Relf, drummer Jim McCarty, rhythm guitarist Chris Dreja, and bassist Paul Samwell-Smith, with Dreja switching to bass when Samwell-Smith departed in 1966. The band had a string of hits throughout the mid-1960s, including "For Your Love", "Heart Full of Soul", "Shapes of Things", and "Over Under Sideways Down". Originally a blues-based band noted for their signature "rave-up" instrumental breaks, the Yardbirds broadened their range into pop music, pop, pioneered psychedelic rock and early hard rock, and contributed to many electric guitar innovations of the mid-1960s. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Wish You Would (Billy Boy Arnold Song)
"I Wish You Would" is a song recorded by Chicago blues musician Billy Boy Arnold in 1955. It was developed while Arnold was performing with Bo Diddley and incorporates a Diddley-style rhythm. Called "a timeless Chicago blues classic", "I Wish You Would" is Arnold's best-known song and has been recorded by several artists, including the Yardbirds, who recorded it for their debut single in 1964. Original song "I Wish You Would" was developed from "Diddy Diddy Dum Dum", a song Billy Boy Arnold wrote and sang with Bo Diddley. Leonard Chess, the owner/producer of Diddley's record label, Checker Records, planned to record the song as Diddley's second single. However, Arnold heard that Chess did not like him, so he took the song to Chess' rival, Vee-Jay Records. Vee-Jay suggested that he change the lyrics, so Arnold came up with "I Wish You Would". The song features a one-chord modal blues structure with a repeating guitar figure and Diddley-style rhythm. Backing Arnold (vocal and h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie M
Annie may refer to: People and fictional characters * Annie (given name), a given name and a list of people and fictional characters with the name * Annie (Malayalam actress) (born 1975), Indian actress who works in Malayalam-language films * Annie (Telugu actress) (born 2001), Indian actress who works in Telugu-language films * Annie (singer) (born 1977), Norwegian singer Theatre and film * ''Annie'' (musical), a 1977 musical ** ''Annie'' (1982 film) *** ''Annie'' (1982 film soundtrack) *** '' Annie: A Royal Adventure!'', a 1995 telefilm sequel ** ''Annie'' (1999 film) *** ''Annie'' (1999 film soundtrack) ** ''Annie'' (2014 film) *** ''Annie'' (2014 film soundtrack) * ''Annie'' (1976 film), a British-Italian film Music * ''Annie'' (Anne Murray album) (1972) * "Annie" (song), a 1999 song by Our Lady Peace * "Annie", a song by SafetySuit * "Annie", a song by Pete Townshend from '' Rough Mix'' * "Annie", a 1972 song by Sutherland Brothers * "Annie", a 1995 song by E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woody Woodmansey
Michael "Woody" Woodmansey (born 4 February 1950) is an English rock drummer best known for his work in the early 1970s as a member of David Bowie's core backing ensemble that became known as the Spiders from Mars in conjunction with the release of Bowie's 1972 LP '' The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars''. With the death of Bowie in January 2016, Woodmansey became the last surviving member of the Spiders. In May 1978, he became the drummer of the band Screen Idols, who had success with two albums in the UK. Career Woodmansey joined Bowie's backing group Hype at the suggestion of guitarist Mick Ronson in late March 1970, replacing drummer John Cambridge. On his first impression of Bowie, Woodmansey said in 2015: "This guy was living and breathing being a rock & roll star." On Woodmansey, Bowie said in 1994: "He was quite open to direction and in a way sort of carried out what I wanted done much more than most of the other drummers I have worked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Bolan
Marc Bolan ( ; born Mark Feld; 30 September 1947 – 16 September 1977) was an English guitarist, singer-songwriter and poet. He was a pioneer of the glam rock movement in the early 1970s with his band T. Rex (band), T. Rex. Bolan strongly influenced artists of many genres, including glam rock, Punk rock, punk, post-punk, New wave music, new wave, indie rock, Britpop and alternative rock. He was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2020 as a member of T. Rex. In the late 1960s, he rose to fame as the founder and leader of the psychedelic folk band Tyrannosaurus Rex, with whom he released four critically acclaimed albums and had one minor hit "Debora". Bolan had started as an acoustic singer-writer before heading into electric music prior to the recording of T. Rex's first single "Ride a White Swan" which went to number two in the UK singles chart. From 1970 to 1973, T. Rex encountered a popularity in the UK comparable to that of the Beatles, with a run ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Cade
James Cade is a Canadian actor. He is best known for playing Harmon Tedesco in the 2010 SpikeTV sitcom '' Blue Mountain State''. He graduated from the National Theatre School of Canada and has since then performed in several theatre productions in Toronto, including Single Threat's production of ''A Quiet Place''. Other theatre companies Cade has worked with include Unspun Theatre, Crate Productions, Convergence Theatre and Native Earth Performing Arts. by J. Kelly Nestruck at www.theglobeandmail.com Cade has also been a guest combat instructor and acting coach at both [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mick Ronson
Michael Ronson (26 May 1946 – 29 April 1993) was an English musician, songwriter, arranger, and producer. He achieved critical and commercial success working with David Bowie as the guitarist of the Spiders from Mars. He was a session musician who recorded five studio albums with Bowie followed by four with Ian Hunter (singer), Ian Hunter, and also worked as a sideman in touring bands with Van Morrison and Bob Dylan. A classically trained musician, Ronson was known for his melodic approach to guitar playing. Ronson and Bowie produced Lou Reed's ''Transformer (Lou Reed album), Transformer'' with Ronson playing lead guitar and piano and writing string arrangements, which brought him mainstream recognition. The album is considered an influential landmark of the glam rock genre, anchored by Reed's most successful single, "Walk on the Wild Side (Lou Reed song), Walk on the Wild Side". In 2008, John Cougar Mellencamp credited Ronson for helping to arrange his most successful hit si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Poole
Aaron Poole (born March 17, 1977) is a Canadian actor. Early life Poole grew up in Barrie, Ontario and attended Barrie Central Collegiate. He is a graduate of the Etobicoke School of the Arts and George Brown College. He is of Italian descent. Career Poole's credits include the films '' Killing Zelda Sparks'', ''Adoration'' and '' This Beautiful City'', and the television series ''Strange Days at Blake Holsey High'' and '' ZOS: Zone of Separation''. He was nominated for Best Actor at the 29th Genie Awards for his performance in ''This Beautiful City''. Poole starred in Ed Gass-Donnelly's second feature film '' Small Town Murder Songs'' in 2010. He also appeared in the movie '' Fury''. Poole is an executive producer and one of the lead actors in ''The Conspiracy'', a mockumentary thriller which opened at one location in Toronto on July 19, 2013, and is expected to hit other major cities in Canada a few weeks later, followed by some U.S. cities. Thereafter, he worked on a film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
