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The woman who was David Bowie's "China Girl" has spoken of her shock and sadness over his death on Sunday. More than 30 years ago, Geeling Ng was plucked to fame when she scored a role in the video for one of Bowie's biggest hits. In addition to working in a café in Sydney, Australia, Ng was a part-time model whose agent asked her to audition for the video. "It was just a modelling job," she told the New Zealand Herald. "I went along to the casting and got the part!" Ng said she was surprised to hear Bowie had died,...

The woman who was David Bowie's "China Girl" has spoken of her shock and sadness over his death on Sunday. More than 30 years ago, Geeling Ng was plucked to fame when she scored a role in the video for one of Bowie's biggest hits. In addition to working in a café in Sydney, Australia, Ng was a part-time model whose agent asked her to audition for the video. "It was just a modelling job," she told the New Zealand Herald. "I went along to the casting and got the part!" Ng said she was surprised to hear Bowie had died,...

A new documentary about David Bowie and his Australian experience will have its Australian premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival on Sunday.

Let.s Dance: Bowie Down Under explores the forgotten story behind Bowie.s biggest hit record . and how an unlikely journey, deep into the Australian outback, led to its unprecedented success around the world.

The film features never-before-seen archive footage of Bowie, plus new interviews with key collaborators and commentators..

Charting the unique 35mm shoot for Let.s Dance . from the remote outpost of Carinda to Sydney.s Parramatta Road . the film explores Bowie.s fascination with Australia, at a pivotal moment in time.

The film introduces the forgotten stars of Bowie.s groundbreaking videos, Joelene King and Geeling Ng, as well as award-winning filmmakers David Mallet and Julien Temple, lauded MTV host and Rolling Stone Us editor, Kurt Loder, music historian, Norman Jay MBE, and renowned academic,...

Stars: Yoson An, Rebekah Palmer, Fiona Feng, Catheryn Wu, Geeling Ng, Charles Chan, Ian Mune | Written and Directed by David Blyth

I get a perverse thrill out of terrible dialogue in movies. You know what I mean – the kind of cliched, hackneyed writing that sounds like it came right out of some washed-up actor’s mouth on a cheap cardboard set in a parody of old Hollywood. The thrilling part, you see, is that it’s more entertaining when the actors reciting the dreadful lines (and usually the filmmakers putting words in their mouths) don’t actually know that what they’re saying is utter tripe.

“You look like you’ve just seen a ghost!” one character exclaims to another at one point. That point being immediately after she’s just seen a ghost. That’s totally my jam.

As you can probably tell, I had rather a lot of fun with Ghost Bride.