Space Oddity

...a lunar outpost. The film, the first for director Duncan Jones, is certainly reaching for the same stars, the ones that his dad, David Bowie, shot through like a brilliant comet with the song/album "Space Oddity" in 1969. So it's easy as...

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...excellent Twilight Zone episode, but Moon's premise is particularly suggestive of a song by Jones's father, David Bowie, whose 1969 hit "Space Oddity," took a depressed astronaut as its protagonist. Occupying an even more obscure corner of...

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...mining colony in Moon, which opens wider Friday. It's also similar to the alienated plight of Major Tom in Space Oddity, the futuristic 1969 hit that launched his father, David Bowie. Thanks to a multi-city PR campaign and favorable...

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...and a good feel for the kind of low-key detail that helps imbue life and vitality into what could have been a dry and intellectual cinematic exercise. He's aided here in no small way by Sam Rockwell, who works wonders in a difficult role...

In this article: Moon, Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Stanley Kubrick, Claustrophobia, and Moonage Daydream

...during the final leg of a three-year stay on a mining base on the moon. It may bode well that director Duncan Jones is the son of "Space Oddity" singer David Bowie. Also stars Kevin Spacey. "Summer Hours" We encourage your comments, but...

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