Floria Sigismondi directed this video for David Bowie’s new album, titled “The Stars (Are Out Tonight),” produced by Black Dog Films. In the form of a short film, the video for the second single from the 66-year old rocker’s forthcoming album The Next Day features actress Tilda Swinton and depicts “a twenty-first century moment in its convergence of age, gender and the normal/celebrity divide,” according to Bowie. This is the third time Sigismondi has collaborated with the singer, having directed Bowie’s “Little Wonder” in 1996 and “Dead Man Walking” in 1997.
Bowie and Swinton play a 50’s style couple enjoying a typical suburban life until they are preyed upon by a celebrity couple (supermodels Andrej Pejic and Saskia De Brauw). These “stars” cruelly antagonize this “normal” pair as they invade the Bowie-Swinton psyches in a variety of guises. Norwegian model Iselin Steiro also appears as a young David Bowie look-alike that lives next door. Sigismondi depicts one world vampirizing the other, a perceptive view of our current societal obsession with tabloid voyeurism.
Sigismondi is currently developing her second motion picture. She is represented by Black Dog Films for music videos and Believe Media for commercial work.
“Beatles ’64” Documentary Captures Intimate Moments From Landmark U.S. Visit
Likely most people have seen iconic footage of the Beatles performing on "The Ed Sullivan Show." But how many have seen Paul McCartney during that same U.S. trip feeding seagulls off his hotel balcony?
That moment — as well as George Harrison and John Lennon goofing around by exchanging their jackets — are part of the Disney+ documentary "Beatles '64," an intimate look at the English band's first trip to America that uses rare and newly restored footage. It streams Friday.
"It's so fun to be the fly on the wall in those really intimate moments," says Margaret Bodde, who produced alongside Martin Scorsese. "It's just this incredible gift of time and technology to be able to see it now with the decades of time stripped away so that you really feel like you're there."
"Beatles '64" leans into footage of the 14-day trip filmed by documentarians Albert and David Maysles, who left behind 11 hours of the Fab Four goofing around in New York's Plaza hotel or traveling. It was restored by Park Road Post in New Zealand.
"It's beautiful, although it's black and white and it's not widescreen," says director David Tedeschi. "It's like it was shot yesterday and it captures the youth of the four Beatles and the fans."
The footage is augmented by interviews with the two surviving members of the band and people whose lives were impacted, including some of the women who as teens stood outside their hotel hoping to catch a glimpse of the Beatles.
"It was like a crazy love," fan Vickie Brenna-Costa recalls in the documentary. "I can't really understand it now. But then, it was natural."
The film shows the four heartthrobs flirting and dancing at the Peppermint Lounge disco, Harrison noodling with a Woody Guthrie riff on his guitar... Read More