If #bowieislife means something to you, then good news: a few of David Bowie’s films are set to screen throughout April at alternative cinema Bangkok Screening Room, which will be showing three movies starring the late legendary rock singer.
The first movie to screen is the 1983 British-Japanese war film Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, in which Bowie stars as Major Jack Celliers, a prisoner of war at a Japanese prison camp based in Java, Indonesia’s Java. The film will screen with Thai and English subtitles from April 4 through April 20.
Don’t miss this cult classic on a silver screen — the sensual gothic horror flick The Hunger sees Bowie and Catherine Deneuve as a vampire couple living in luxury in New York City, killing people for their blood. The film will show with Thai and English subtitles on April 18 and April 21.
The final film on the list — Bowie as Jareth the Goblin King, the main antagonist of Labyrinth. The fantasy movie revolves around a teenage girl’s quest to rescue her brother from an otherworldly maze ruled by Jareth. The film will screen with Thai and English subtitles on April 19 and April 20.
Gotta love that ‘do.
Tickets for each film are 300 baht each for adults, and 200 baht for students and children. We’d recommend purchasing them in advance — we suspect these showings are very likely to sell out — which you can do online here.
Bangkok Screening Room is one of the city’s most popular alternative cinemas, and has been open since 2016. It sits on the second floor of the Woof Pack Building on Soi Sala Daeng 1, and is reachable from MRT Lumphini (exit 2) or BTS Sala Daeng (exit 4).
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