Moonage Daydream Set for Imax Return; Director Brett Morgen’s David Bowie Doc has been hailed as the “greatest rock movie of the decade.”

monday dream return to the big screen.

Brett Morgen’s award-winning documentary about David Bowie will be re-released on Imax screens nationwide for limited engagements beginning Monday, December 5 at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood. From December 7 to 13, the film will be shown at six Imax locations in the Los Angeles area, including China, and on Imax screens in New York, Chicago, Boston, San Diego and other cities.

monday dream has already become by far the highest-grossing documentary film in cinemas this year, earning more than US$12 million worldwide so far, including US$4.2 million domestically. The theatrical distributor NEON calls it “the best rock film of the decade”.

In a release, NEON said: “David Bowie fans around the world were immersed in the ultimate Bowie experience when it was first released in theaters [in mid-September] and can relive this unique film in exceptional image clarity and next-generation Imax precision sound. The reintroduction of Imax offers audiences a truly spectacular and immersive experience.”

The documentary had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May and has been nominated for three Cinema Eye Honors nominations, five Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards and one IDA nomination for Best Music Documentary. In October, monday dream was included in the DOC NYC shortlist of best documentaries of the year.

“Told through sublime, kaleidoscopic imagery, performance and music, Morgens’ lengthy experimental cinematic odyssey explores David Bowie’s creative, musical and spiritual journey,” NEON noted. “The film is directed by David Bowie’s own narration and is the first officially licensed film about the artist.” The distributor added that it will be “48”. [Bowie] Music tracks remixed from their original stems.

Tomorrow, actor and musician Jack Black, filmmaker Mark Romanek (who directed Bowie’s ‘Jump’ video) and musician and Bowie collaborator Mike Garson meet for a Q&A after Monday’s Imax screening at 7 p.m. monday dream at TCL Chinese. The director frequently talks to fans on Twitter, answering questions about his creative choices on the film and explaining his meticulous approach to color grading.

“I wanted Let’s Dance to be alive and well fed,” he wrote in a tweet. “The audience contained very little detail, so we decided to add color blocks. At this point in the classification, we were quite stuck with our palette, so we added teal, pink and orange where we could.”

Morgen wrote, directed, produced and edited the documentary. He revealed that he suffered a heart attack while filming, perhaps in part due to his ruthless approach to filmmaking.

“The only thing I can share with David [Bowie] artistically and creatively I make it very difficult for myself,” he told Deadline’s Peter White in September. “Five years later there was a moment when I saw the Bee Gees documentary which I love. I cried because I thought why can’t I do this? It seems so fluid and like something you don’t have to kill yourself for. But I didn’t. I don’t know what it is about me that I like to have new adventures. I am proud that I did not repeat it The child remains in sight and try different ways.”