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Based on Walter Tevis 's 1963 novel of the same name, the film follows an extraterrestrial named Thomas Jerome Newton (David Bowie) who crash-lands on Earth seeking a way to ship water to his planet, which is suffering from a severe drought, but finds himself at the mercy of human vices and corruption. [6]
The Man Who Fell to Earth: Directed by Nicolas Roeg. With David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark, Buck Henry. An alien must pose as a human to save his dying planet, but a woman and greed of other men create complications.
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- Drama, Sci-Fi
- Nicolas Roeg
- 1976-04-08
On August 16, 1960, 32-year-old U.S. Air Force Capt. Joe Kittinger ascended in a helium-balloon-tethered gondola to 102,800 feet (roughly 19 miles) above the Earth … and jumped. His free-fall lasted 4 minutes and 36 seconds.
The Man Who Fell to Earth is a daring exploration of science fiction as an art form. The story of an alien on an elaborate rescue mission provides the launching pad for Nicolas Roeg’s visual tour de force, a formally adventurous examination of alienation in contemporary life.
- Thomas Jerome Newton
Oct 8, 2016 · The Man Who Fell To Earth held up a mirror, of art reflecting life and vice versa, to Bowie’s paranoid, lonely, fractured persona — and forty years on, as StudioCanal release their 4K ...
In the 35 years since its first release, Nicolas Roeg’s “The Man Who Fell to Earth” has attained such cult status that it was remade in 1987 for television, and its poster can be glimpsed in the recent “Green Lantern.”
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The Man Who Fell to Earth. 138 minutes ‧ R ‧ 1976. Roger Ebert. July 23, 1976. 3 min read. It requires an almost courageous leap of the imagination to take Nicholas Roeg’s “The Man Who Fell to Earth” seriously. Here’s a film so preposterous and posturing, so filled with gaps of logic and continuity, that if it weren’t so solemn ...
