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He’s curiously passive — not one of those aliens hellbent on a mission, but a man almost dreamy at times. As science-fiction films go, this is a unique one. It focuses on character and implied ideas, not on plot and special effects. It’s very much a product of the 1970s, when idiosyncratic directors deliberately tried to make great films.
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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 there’d be the temptation to laugh aloud.
Jun 21, 2011 · Go back now and thrill to the movie's evocative terrain, stretching from the canyons of Manhattan to the wide, open spaces of the Southwest---a poetic place of motels, banal government stooges and ...
Oct 8, 2016 · amzn.to. 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 ...
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Apr 24, 2022 · In 1976 cinematic classic "The Man Who Fell to Earth," David Bowie's iconic alien Thomas Jerome Newton easily blends into humanity.He strolls into a small Kentucky town, lays down on a bench ...
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The Man Who Fell to Earth is a 1976 British science fantasy drama film [4] directed by Nicolas Roeg and adapted by Paul Mayersberg. [5] 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 ...