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David Bowie 1947 – 2016 Words are failing me today but a few short days ago, on David Bowie’s 69th birthday, I wrote a brief remembrance of my favorite Bowie concert experience and posted it ...

https://cinebeats.wordpress.com/2016/01/11/remembering-david-bowie/

As a film journalist I have often tried to focus my attention on underappreciated films, actors and directors. Unsurprisingly, this has led me to write about a number of gay/LGBT films as well as...

https://cinebeats.wordpress.com/2015/06/27/celebrating-gay-pride/

I recently wrote about the often overlooked 1980s pop music extravaganza ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS (1986) for The Cultural Gutter. The film has grown on me a lot over the years thanks to a central perfo...

https://cinebeats.wordpress.com/2015/04/14/an-80s-pop-music-extravaganza-absolute-beginners-1986/

“Histories, like ancient ruins, are the fictions of empire. While everything forgotten hangs in dark dreams of the past, ever threatening to return.” – Todd Haynes, Velvet Goldmine When Vel...

https://cinebeats.wordpress.com/2011/08/30/velvet-goldmine/

David Bowie in The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) I got knocked flat by a nasty flu bug that has kept me in bed all week. I’m still on the mend and not fully recovered but I wanted to post a quic...

https://cinebeats.wordpress.com/2011/02/19/what-a-week/

David Bowie in the ’60s It’s impossible to put into words the impact that David Bowie’s music has had on me throughout the years, but there probably isn’t another living music artist who ...

https://cinebeats.wordpress.com/2008/10/27/david-bowie-is-the-image-1967/