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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 ...
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
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The Man Who Fell to Earth is a 1976 British science fantasy drama film directed by Nicolas Roeg and adapted by Paul Mayersberg. Based on Walter Tevis's 1963 novel of the same name, the film follows an extraterrestrial (Thomas Jerome Newton) 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 ...
Oct 8, 2016 · Bowie, like his alien alter-ego Thomas Jerome Newton in Nicolas Roeg’s The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976), saw himself as a stranger in a strange land from the back of a limousine travelling ...
Dec 16, 2008 · Playing Newton as pale, gaunt, and tremulous, Bowie made his exquisite film acting debut in The Man Who Fell to Earth, in a role that chimed iconographically with his androgynous, futuristic pop persona of the early seventies. Until his apparent genderlessness is revealed (and causes Mary-Lou’s accident), his most striking characteristic is his orange hair, a beacon that seems at times to ...
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Sep 16, 2022 · The original Man Who Fell to Earth (it was revived as a Showtime/Paramount+ series this year) is now considered a sci-fi classic, revered by directors like Christopher Nolan, who cast Bowie as ...
