Brett Morgen talks about his David Bowie Film "Moonage Daydream" . 

He got to read his journals. My God. What a privilege

Miss him so much the world was a better place with him around.

I followed his Young Americans tour across the U.S. Quit college to do it! lol I was privileged to know him and all of his band members. I had first seen him in the fall of 1972, which I had been waiting for since 1970. He was an amazing man.

love David Bowie, but as far as I'm concerned this definitely never gave him justice, it was just one big long out of sequence, flashing scenes, that went on forever, anaphylactic seizure, nightmare, that literally made me feel sick with all these flashing images, that continued throughout the movie with some in between interesting dialogue from David himself, but that's all I would take away from this movie. 2 out 10 and I'm being generous.

Just saw the movie, half was great and half sucked, and I am a die-hard lifelong Bowie fan all the way back to Ziggy. Most of the first 20 mins could have been cut to 5 mins, it was so dark and grainy, and too much time was spent on Ziggy. With access to all archive footage, and music it was disappointing. When David lived in Berlin there was no footage or mention of living and working and parting with Iggy for 2 years! Where was The whole Young Americans Era after David left Berlin and moved to New York? Why did they not show any footage or music while working on Young Americans Album? No Mention of The Thin White Duke!? John Lenon worked on Fame in the Studio with David and Luther Vandross was a backing vocalist. Young Americans was his most successful album to date! Where were the sound clips and footage of Young Americans, Fame, Rebel Rebel, Changes, Diamond Dogs and on and on!? Oh and they wait and play Starman at the end on the rolling credits!?? WTF? Lots of relevant times and iconic songs missing, and way too much dark abstract B roll film. Disappointed!

I wish the movie was about David Bowie versus a stylistic and muddled interpretation of the “experience” of Bowie. Very deflating from its beginning.

Terribly disappointing- entire sections copied and pasted from well known source material like cracked actor and ricochet. Where was all the unseen material from the archive? The Bowie philosophy of life started to get cringey by the end. Plus the ending was a worse take of what Bowie did brilliantly with a black Star…. What a waste of a great opportunity

I wanna live.. I wanna live.. I wanna live.. Wow and you did... and you will live on through the amazing legacy you left! ⭐🕴️⚡❤️😘

David Bowie is a phenomenon of creation, the embodiment of innovation and the accomplishment of a new action. An ingenious creator of a comprehensive meaning that is difficult to comprehend. And this film is exactly what a David Bowie film should be - experimental, unprecedented, challenging, eclectic, vibrant and exciting. Brett Morgen, you did an incredible job. I am grateful to this director for giving this miracle. The film itself became the phenomenon that David Bowie was. Brett's final story is heartbreaking.

They should do a 'Get back' movie and make it 4-5 hours long. There was too much left out.

Like any great art, the audience member gives meaning to what they see/hear/feel. That’s the genius of Bowie.

The genius of david bowie reduced in an avalanche of images of noise without any common thread. The director had access to the archives to a gold mine and in 5 years he made a porridge on the bottom of snippets of far too intellectual and pompous interviews which don’t serve Bowie. White screens punctuate the "film": lack of inspiration? A stream of stills film images are visual assaults unrelated to what Bowie is saying. No common thread. Images of Bowie in 83 accompanied by earlier songs bursts of laughter stains of paint echoes added to fill an obvious lack of talent. Nothing about the next day Heathen Reality! A snippet of shameful Blackstar. Unpublished ones are extremely rare. Nigel Marshall would have made a diamond out of all these treasures. The director turn it into an indigestible porridge. I will remember Hello Spaceboy Craked Actor and all his songs. It makes me think: the film Ricochet is shown at least twice. Ricochet never… Ziggy Stardust: did the director bet everything on the fame of the lightning bolt? Before Ziggy: nothing. Complete mess. complete disappointment. I’m pissed so I'll stop it here. Love on ya ⭐️

I worked on the Musical Lazarus and I found Moonage Daydream horrific to watch, it feels like a random blend of repetitive footage . uncomfortably loud and long with no story at all. And the movie totally ignores the final stage of Bowie's life.

Saw it last night. Quite spectacular, beautiful, made you think, full of insight into the mind of David Bowie. RIP

The film is VERY hard work, I say this as a Bowie fan from the 70s - who saw this on iMax the day of its release - I was bored, not by the content, but by the relentless onslaught of it's presentation - which was repetitive to the point of excruciation...

Mr. Morgen did an Excellent job, his film is impressive and very strong to those of us who loved Bowie and how he impacted our lives. I was fortunate to have seen Bowie four times (74, 76, 90 and 2002), my only regret is that the film only features the Diamond Fogs era of the ones I saw but nothing on Station to Station and very little on the Reality tour but in all, I highly recommend the film to all Bowie fans and the best of it, it's in IMAX.

With Bowie's estate giving permission to archive footage, the use of his music & the entire back catalogue it all went to a total waste I'm afraid. Mr Morgan certainly wasn't the right director to try and galvanize the greatest musical project to date. It should have gone to a leading Bowiephile Brit who knew & understood David's thought & creative genius, somebody like Mark Adams, Nicholas Pegg or Kevin Caan. It's OK people on here commenting that they liked, loved or hated the film, saw him a few times live etc but when die hard fans like myself who lived through Bowie's entire career, collected everything they could, met him on numerous occasion, saw him live in concert over 125 times and then are asked to pay & watch the film....It does hurt. There is stuff out there that Mr Morgan never had access to but I doubt it would have helped in any way. Before a few months ago I only sold one piece of my collection, a White Label promo of 'Station To Station' with colour sleeve. And who bought it, David himself. He never had it in his collection. Well, when I was in hospital last November I was thinking who gets my collection when I die....Nobody...so in the last few months I have started selling it off. Sold about 20 items that made over 6 grand so far. Here's hoping the other 3 thousand items can earn me a bit more. Love on ya... (PS. who was the idiot on this BBC Breakfast broadcast that put up 'Starman' from TOTPops... 1973 when it should have stated 1972)

What they mean by archive is he trawled through RU-vid. The film is essentially a mash up of Ziggy The Motion Picture and Ricochet. It's the laziest film making I've ever seen and the outcome is shockingly bad. Terrible man and terrible film.

David Bowie never died he only made his way to Mars! 🤟🤟✌️

This movie is FABULOUS!!!

As a life long Bowie fan since 1972 when I bought Ziggy I am looking so forward to seeing his. Just hope the theaters here will show it. I saw him live three times and he was perfection in his voice, band and show. A true master! My favorite male solo artist. Still miss him.

I first learned of Bowie in 73 from my step sister. I was hooked and couldn't wait to buy his next offerings from then on. The Serious Moonlight Tour was my first concert and ended with the Reality Tour. Had I fully appreciated the musical journey as much as he appreciated life I think I'd feel more content... what a perspective. The film, albeit a work of art, sadly didn't cover some key albums enough in my opinion. That said, this is a vision from the director and I loved every moment. going to see it for the third time this week. If you have a chance, this needs to be seen in IMAX. The mixing of the music is amazing and will dance all around the theatre.... Best line paraphrased: "Everyone at some point will wish they appreciated life more."

with all the stuff he had access to he didn't do well, most of the stuff was already online, boring!!

I saw Ziggy Stardust in 1973 in Brighton. Absolutely spectacular show that was!

Absolutely a briljant film about an unique amazing genius human being.

Saw the movie recently in the iMax Glasgow. It was amazing to see and hear the finer detail of your findings on DB himself. Thanks 🙏

I watched it on a lot of mushrooms a few nights ago, phenomenal film Just wow

Bowie was a genius

If he had access to everything in the archives I don’t understand why he kept repeating the same clips over and over again in the film for no apparent reason… and not much new footage either. Was a bit disappointing tbh I’m all for a cinematic Bowie experience but the whole thing was very repetitive and dragged on a bit because of that. Also lots of unrelated loud noises and sound effects that muddied Bowies music, didn’t really enhance it in a positive way. I left the theatre feeling quite underwhelmed sadly.

I met David as a photographer in 1978 while he was performing Heroes on TV. Mind blowing experience at that time for me.

My Lord! A genuinely interesting interview with an artist, and conducted by the BBC! The interviewers stepped aside and allowed him to speak. This is unheard of.😮

David to me is a Dr WHO of the music Industry..so many characters..I believe he was every single one of them and they were all him !!!... Music created a shamanic dance which gave birth to Ziggy, The Thin white Duke ,Major Tom....One by one...all came through..all facets of David's inner self..brought to life as a living man ..

i cannot watch this when you have been a BOWIE FAN from 17 years old to 63 AND i met him AND did my first year ART THESIS on him i am not sure

This documentary sucked. It acted as if Bowie's career ended in 1995, one song removed from first hit album Let's Dance (1983). That's twelve years of ignoring Bowie's musical life just in the movie. Then, the producer ignored the next twenty years of Bowie's music. Again. How sucky could this documentary get? Never before seen? Bullshit.

I got my Ziggy Stardust Album while in high school, and the monument I played it I was hooked on this album, its has to be one of my memorable times of teenage years

Naga said nothing true, it isn't unseen footage about his life, it's all rehashed stuff

Long live the Bowie!!!

Brett Morgen looks like Henry Winkler 😀 eeehhhh 👍👍

Love Bowie. Unfortunately, you won't find much new in this doc. It's a bit tiresome.

I'm a huge Bowie fan .. But just wasn't impressed.

I'm going to see this film this evening! Here in the Netherlands, Nijmegen!

BRAVO, this was an excellent job done! VERY happy to have experienced it in the iMAX theater, great interview, thank you! 👏

I love Bowie and the film this guy made was useless considering he declared loads of unseen footage when real fans like me have seen it all before.

What a great film!! David was a true genius!

I think he was also totaly afraid of death!!...

Shame that the all important chorus of 'Oh You Pretty Things' was cut out. It is a defining song

The director looks like he sleeps on a park bench

Fantastic Work on the film. Unforgettable and Original as Bowie himself. Thank You!

I still miss DB.

Shame he was interviewed by the BBC. Awful interviewers.

Thank You Brett for this masterpiece movie!

It's very and interesting that Bret says he watched all David's interviews and learned a lot about how David thought.... I have watched about 1k videos of David talking, mostly interviews and I think the moonage daydream movie showed the complete opposite of what how David seemed from what he spoke. David hated people always bringing up Ziggy and disdained the rock'n'roll lifestyle, yet moonage daydream seemed intent on painting David as Ziggy the rock god. At least that's how I see it

It is pretty clear, the female interviewer knows nothing about David Bowie, and is just like a piece of wood

Saw him at the tower theater 3 times first time was his ziggy aladinsane tour second was his diamonds dog tour which actually I was there the night he recorded his David live album. And a few times after that like his stage tour two nights…man I miss the guy.

These ghastly amateurish BBC presenters ! So cringey and no presence.

I usually like documentaries. But this was the weirdest one I have ever watched. Wasn’t to my liking…… super boring and never gave me information about him.

Doesn't the male interviewer look like David a bit? Looking forward to the film...

Brett! Where are your shoe-shoes, silly?!

A life in CinemaScope!!...

Being a Bowie fan since the 70s. I feel a tad disappointed. My god it was so overlong. I found the dark kaleidoscopic mishmash of visual & aural psychedelics unintelligible & pretentious. Bowie philosophical wittering on about the nature of time, life and other cosmic ethereal twaddle was almost laughable... No mention of real flesh and blood characters like Angie Bowie, Mick Ronson, Mike Garson, Iggy Pop etc. Much of his incredible and life-altering music got lost in a sea of unfocused otherworldly noise and jabbering... Finally what the f**k was the girl with tail about? Will not be buying the DVD.

Cannot watch that woman on BBC breakfast.It’s hard to watch the BBC nowadays anyway. #DefundtheBBC

Fantastic film❤️

I took my 14-year-old to see the film. Afterwards she told me she liked Luhrmann's Elvis better. (Don't know if it was the gender bending of David Bowie or the sheer beauty of Austin Butler that swayed her. LOL. Ahhh, the teen years!)

I love some of Bowie's music. "Cygnet Committee" (cygnet= young swan)Webster's Dictionary,Copyright,2001 is a great example of DB's methods of cutting up newspapers randomly to get lyrics,song titles,etc. His inhuman detachment enables him to play soooo many characters thru his life convincingly ,relentlessly experimenting, to find one that would bring him success. Listen to his early music(Images 66'-68', The Man Who Sold The World, Hunky Dory,wearing dresses and all.Thank God some of his music was worthwhile, thru his chaotic and petty meanderings. From dance hall, thru acoustic-based folk/rock,androgynous hard rock,white soul,pop, etc.he amazed us with meaningful lyrics at times ,despite his news-clipping what-the-fl*ck.Lyrics aside,and before 1980, I have the following LPs on my best of all-time list: Z Stardust,Aladdin,Images 66"-68", and S. Oddity. But now, I want a truthful ,in depth documentary. Now despite my scrutiny---, 4 out of 25 all-time fav albums ain't bad. Thanks,Mr.Bowie.

ruined by Morgen

Pity the interviewers have absolutely nothing interesting to ask!

❤️🇺🇾👑

Hair product gone insanely wrong.

Saw it last night. It did have some extraordinary footage but it was too long by about 40 minutes.

fucin hell im glad i dont have a tv , theses media people are weird

"The place that was alluding him" yeah I'm sure we know what he means.

"Had a heart attack....my life was out of control." Aha u get it.

Only saw a few clips so far.., yikes David had some ugly yellow teeth at one part

01:14 Good stuff!

Time marches on. Face it folks.

I just saw the movie today. She - the reporter in the studio obviously haven’t made her research.

i hope it's nothing like the terrible Elvis movie..

We can't "pin it down" because because guy was off his head most of the time.

I don't get how somedays naga wears glasses then doesn't wear them for weeks strange...l,ve got to wear glasses 24/7 and l absolutely hate them..also where was she during the period of the queen's death until the funeral??..she also comes out with some strange statements drawing attention to herself maybe the BBC wanted to pull her out the firing line incase she embarrassed them...pretty girl but a bit extrovert

Doesn’t look like life on mars ! Fool he’s nice

Not even close fool

Might have been OK if you were tripping other wise it was a colourful mess of a documentary,,