Peter Gabriel / David Bowie documentaries
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Festival, here are a few documentaries you may enjoy:
Growing Up On Tour: A Family Portrait follows Peter Gabriel on the
Growing Up tour of 2002. With his eldest daughter filming, his second
daughter singing, and his new wife and baby joining him on the road,
Gabriel juggles his life as a musician and family man. (39 minutes)
Reality is interpreted from conversations with, and songs by, David
Bowie. An abstract portrait of Bowie in which questions and answers
chase themselves, and meaning is profoundly absurd. Shot in 35/Super
16/Super 8mm, the film is 99 percent without special efects, despite
images not quite of this world. Songs include "Never Get Old", "The
Loneliest Guy", "Bring Me the Disco King", and "New Killer Star". (29
minutes)
(BTW, rumor has it that Bowie and Iman are slumming it in Woodstock,
waiting for their new house to be built.)
The films will be shown together (with another film on Bela Fleck and
Edgar Meyer) on Friday, October 15, at 9:30 pm, at Bearsville Theater,
Bearsville, NY; and Sunday, October 17, at 2 pm, at Upstate Films in
Rhinebeck, NY.
The festival runs Oct 13-17. For more info or advanced tickets, click on
www.woodstockfilmfestival.com.
Happy autumn,
Sharon