Programmed January 2025

David Bowie Changes

As a chameleon who continually reinvented his musical persona, David Bowie was a natural actor who lent his singular yet slippery presence to a number of carefully chosen, always surprising film projects. While his first major screen role in Nicolas Roeg’s hallucinatory science-fiction epic The Man Who Fell to Earth capitalized on his inherently alien androgyny, Bowie continued to prove a versatile, charismatic performer in films as diverse as Nagisa Oshima’s homoerotic war drama Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence and the delightfully daft indie screwball The Linguini Incident .