Brett Morgen thought about calling his film simply “Bowie." Because for the director, there is no David Jones, the given name of the British rock star who morphed into David Bowie. With glam-rock icon ...

Brett Morgen's David Bowie documentary “Moonage Daydream ” plunges into the mind of the rock star — it puts a ray gun to Bowie's head — and comes away with something that, at its best, is a gift of ...

Brett Morgen’s “Moonage Daydream” concedes that figuring out David Bowie is an impossible task. There’s no attempt to understand where Bowie's artistic motivation came from, how his natural gifts were ...

David Bowie was rock ’n’ roll’s most adroit shape-shifter. At first, he was just an unusual-looking boy from Brixton, who, along with a cousin, “danced like elves” to 1950s American rock music. In ...

The first thing to know before seeing “Moonage Daydream,” Brett Morgen’s dazzling, exhaustive and exhausting memoir of David Bowie’s life and career, is that it assumes the viewer already knows a lot ...

David Bowie performs onstage during his "Ziggy Stardust" era in 1973 in Los Angeles. Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Filmmaker Brett Morgen has added Grammy winner to a list of career ...

Brett Morgen's David Bowie documentary “Moonage Daydream” plunges into the mind of the rock star and comes away with something that, at its best, is a gift of sound and vision. It goes without saying ...

In the case of “Moonage Daydream” — the significance of the second word of the title in this impressionistic film cannot be overemphasized — that different way is to let the man himself do all of the ...