The Man Who Fell to Earth (Special Edition)

The Man Who Fell to Earth (Special Edition)
by Nicolas Roeg

The Man Who Fell to Earth (Special Edition)
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Actor: Bernie Casey, Buck Henry, Candy Clark, David Bowie, Rip Torn
Director: Nicolas Roeg
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1 EX
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 139 minutes
Published: 2003
DVD Release Date: 2003-02-11
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay

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Movie Review: The men who fell to earth
Summary: 5 Stars

This is a very strange movie, but it's cool at the same time. It's not for childen. and i wouldn't want it to be. I don't care how old it is, but, i think the weirder it is the better. They could make it a little more weird though, make it more scary.

I love David Bowie's music.

Summary of The Man Who Fell to Earth (Special Edition)

While other films directed by Nicolas Roeg have attained similar cult status (including Walkabout and Don't Look Now), none has been as hotly debated as this languid but oddly fascinating adaptation of the science fiction novel by Walter Tevis. David Bowie plays the alien of the title, who arrives on Earth with hopes of finding a way to save his own planet from turning into an arid wasteland. He funds this effort by capitalizing on several highly lucrative inventions, and in so doing becomes the powerful leader of an international corporate conglomerate. But his success has negative consequences as well--his contact with Earth has a disintegrating effect that sends him into a tailspin of disorientation and metaphysical despair. The sexual attention of a cheerful young woman (Candy Clark) doesn't do much to change his outlook, and his introduction to liquor proves even more devastating, until, finally, it looks as though his visit to Earth may be a permanent one. The Man Who Fell to Earth is definitely not for every taste--it's a highly contemplative, primarily visual experience that Roeg directs as an abstract treatise on (among other things) the alienating effects of an over-commercialized society. Stimulating and hypnotic or frightfully dull, depending on your receptiveness to its loosely knit ideas, it's at least in part about not belonging, about being disconnected from the world--about being a stranger in a strange land when there's really no place like home. --Jeff Shannon.

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