As part of our ongoing Saying Bye and celebration (I would like to think it’s that) of all things Bowie it’s surely time to include his acting career. His Wikipedia Filmography lists over 30 credits, before concert films and videos are taken in account. Here’s my top 4 Bowie film moments:

The Man Who Fell To Earth His best film surely, one of the best acting performances by a musical artist ever in a feature film, and one of the best films of the seventies. Making it clearly had a profound effect on him, as the Thin White Duke is basically an extension of Thomas Newton back into the musical world. Film stills adorn two of his best albums. I love everything about this film from start to finish, but the moment where he picks out his contact lenses in the bathroom to reveal the alien beneath is just a brilliant piece of film-making.

2. Zoolander. His best ever cameo.

3. Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence. Not a great film, but two great visual moments – Bowie rocking a boater and blazer as a schoolboy, and being buried up to his neck in sand.

4. The Snowman prelude. What a » Continue Reading.