Sound Unseen Review: Stardust

The birth of Bowie the icon retold with more glimmer than glitter

"...Stardust is a grand attempt to tell the story of..."

Nov. 16, 2020 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Stardust

Bowie before he became Ziggy in this less-than-glittering docudrama

"...Stardust is a grand attempt to tell the story of..."

Nov. 27, 2020 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars

Pennebaker's documentary captures the final concert of the Ziggy Stardust tour at the Hammersmith Odeon outside London on July 3, 1973.

"...history of rock, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, D.A. Pennebaker's documentary captures..."

Dec. 10, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Touch of Stardust

Its peek behind the scenes of filming Gone With the Wind make this novel a delectable summer treat

"...A Touch of Stardustby Kate Alcott Doubleday, 296 pp., $25..."

June 12, 2015 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

Stardust

This uneven adaptation of Neil Gaiman's bestselling novel is clogged with too much fairy dust.

"...a veritable font of cinematic restraint in comparison to Stardust. The plot eliminates much of Gaiman's original novel while..."

Aug. 10, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Angels in Stardust

Alicia Silverstone and AJ Michalka star in this story of a small-town dreamer.

Feb. 21, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Deconstructing Harry

"...his fiction. It's his most personally revealing movie since Stardust Memories, riddled as it is with lacerating insights and..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Prince Charming: Adam Ant

King of the Wild Frontier returns to Austin – tonight

"...a character the iconic British pop star played, Ziggy Stardust-style, as the Eighties’ first true pop star. Catch him..."

July 26, 2013 Music Post by Tim Stegall

SXSW Music: Capsula

Latins' full-length cover of Ziggy Stardust shoots the moon

"...performing its full-length cover of David Bowie landmark Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, what else could he..."

March 16, 2016 SXSW Post by Alejandra Ramirez

Tuesday SXSW Interview

Argentine rockers Capsula cover Bowie's Ziggy Stardust to open SXSW Music 2016

"...titled Dreaming of the Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders From Mars in 2012, which they..."

March 11, 2016 Music Feature by Alejandra Ramirez

'The Bowie Project: A Rock & Roll Soundpainting'

Ziggy Stardust and the Thin White Duke serve as inspirations for Ariel Dance Theatre's new dance-and-music collaboration

"...about the time Bowie began taking off his Ziggy Stardust glitter, introduced it to Austin in the Nineties and..."

Jan. 31, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Billy Stritch and Klea Blackhurst: Hoagy on My Mind

The songwriting genius of Hoagy Carmichael explained by the great Billy Stritch

"...If you've heard "Stardust" – and how could you not, with it having..."

Feb. 26, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Steve Earle,
Willie Nelson

"...Steve EarleCopperhead Road (Deluxe Edition) (Geffen) Willie NelsonStardust (Columbia/Legacy)..."

Aug. 8, 2008 Music Review by Doug Freeman

The Outfit

Gangster flick is well-tailored but somehow still a little saggy

"...miss that ever exists for his David Bowie in Stardust, and I didn’t care for him much in 2018’s..."

March 18, 2022 Movie Review by Sarah Jane

Austin Film Festival Adds Nine Days and Welcomes the WWE's Brothers of Destruction

New Winston Duke/Zazie Beets movie as opening night film

"...two closing night films, starting with David Bowie biopic Stardust (which will also be part of the newly-announced Sound..."

Oct. 15, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Sound Unseen Fest Comes to Texas

Hybrid music/movie fest brings Zappa, Stardust, more

"...club scene in Dark City Beneath the Beat; and Stardust, with Johnny Flynn as David Bowie on the tour..."

Oct. 14, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Good Times Ain't Over

Freddy Powers keeps on truckin'

"...had a national reputation and tours across the country. Stardust..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, Tammy Wynette, Marty Robbins

Reissues

"...Willie NelsonStardust (Columbia/Legacy)Merle HaggardBig City (Columbia/Legacy) Johnny Cash Live at Folsom..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Music Review by Jerry Renshaw

A Sort of Legend

Author Neil Gaiman is a fantastist and storyteller. Marc Savlov talks to the author and reveals why he's also a legend. Sort of.

"...Gaiman has also penned a number of novels (Neverwhere, Stardust), short stories and journalistic essays (collected in 1993's Angels..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Books Feature by Marc Savlov

The Pen May Be Mightier Than the Sword, but Sometimes It Makes You Want to Slit Your Wrists

The Austin Film Society's latest series zooms in on creative block

"...ailing MGM's coffin; Woody Allen's black-and-white, bleak, kind-of comedy Stardust Memories (1980); Bob Fosse's surreal song-and-dancer, All That Jazz..."

May 2, 2014 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

David Bowie

Reissue

"...edition follows a similar reissue in last year's Ziggy Stardust as a hardback minibook with a bonus disc of..."

Aug. 15, 2003 Music Review by Kent H. Benjamin

Dancing About Architecture

Noise ordinance debate blows over -- for now -- while Internet radio crisis threatens, and SIMS crisis subsides.

"...and our own Daniel Johnston paired with the Legendary Stardust Cowboy, from whom Bowie borrowed the Stardust moniker for..."

May 10, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Food-O-File

"...South Austin the newest neighborhood party venue is the Stardust Club where an enterprising group has taken over a..."

Dec. 27, 1996 Food Column

Five Things to Experience at Fusebox Festival

The return of the avant garde and experimental drama and artextravaganza

"...1-5pm. dadaLab, 2824 Real The Illustrious Blacks: Beyond the Stardust..."

April 8, 2022 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The King’s Daughter

Long-delayed historical fairy tale is an overdue oddity

"...Matthew Vaughn, there is more than a dash of Stardust in the final product. Rather than undermine the film,..."

Jan. 28, 2022 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Sound Unseen Drops Full Playlist

Online music film fest adds Bee Gees, Sound of Metal

"...STARDUST D: Gabriel Range (UK, 109 min, Minnesota Premiere) David..."

Oct. 21, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Forgotten Era of Glitter Rock in Mid-70s Austin

The Austin Punk Chronicles, chapter two, part one: glam rock (1972-76)

"...considered the hideous, snarling, bratty li'l brother of Ziggy Stardust...."

Jan. 17, 2020 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Pain and Glory

Almodóvar's latest classic is a self-portrait by a great, aging artist

"...For Salvador, his are no stardust memories, glimmering with sentimentality and over-ebullient fans. His journey..."

Oct. 25, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Her Smell

Elisabeth Moss is a the center of a rock and roll tornado in this heartbreaking ballad of self-destruction

"...two movies with 1973's That'll Be the Day and Stardust a year later, but it's always about the up..."

April 19, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Boy George’s New Life

Culture Club frontman relives the Seventies

"...years and 11 months when I saw the Ziggy Stardust concert. It was the one before the last-ever Ziggy..."

July 4, 2018 Music Post by Tim Stegall

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