
Bowie’s first, most high-profile and probably finest big-screen performance was as the helpless, homesick alien Thomas Jerome Newton in Nic Roeg’s remote, snowblind space oddity.
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He's played an alien, a vampire, an FBI agent, a Roman general and a goblin with vegetables stuffed down his pants. But somehow he always manages to remain uniquely Bowie. We track the on-screen ups and downs of one of the world's most fascinating and enigmatic performers.
'David Bowie Is Happening Now' screens live in UK cinemas on Tue Aug 13, with some encore screenings on the weekend of Aug 16-18.
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