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Nicolas Roeg's first film shot in America, The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976) is a complex, difficult film which is as much about the reactions of a foreigner to the country as it is a traditional narrative. Typically, Roeg takes a straightforward source - in this case, Walter Tevis' novel - and cuts it up to suit his favoured style, which proceeds through the non-linear connection of images and ideas.



As with Mick Jagger in Performance (d. Donald Cammell/Roeg, 1970), Roeg uses David Bowie as much for his stage persona as for his acting abilities, although Bowie gives a fresh, naturalistic performance. The qualities of aloofness, strangeness and sexual androgyny which Bowie projected in his stage persona are integral to the scheme of the film, which demands Newton to be both recognisably human yet entirely alien.



Assisted by a script from his recurring collaborator Paul Mayersberg, Roeg uses his typically dazzling editing style to mix past and present, deliberately disrupting a traditional sense of time passing. He also makes notable use of the recurring images of water and, memorably, of Newton sitting, drugged, in front of a wall of television sets, whose programmes often ironically counterpoint the storyline.



Underneath the surface, this is a hackneyed moral tale of purity corrupted by experience, but it is distinguished by its style and the extraordinary images concocted by Roeg and his cinematographer Anthony Richmond. America seems a rich and strange country, impossibly overwhelming. The deserts of New Mexico are a potent image of aridity, reflected in flashbacks to Newton's planet. However, the repetitive use of explicit sex, although often amusing, seems included more for commercial than artistic reasons.



In its examination of loneliness and lost love, this is Roeg's most moving film. Like Chas in Performance and John in Don't Look Now (d. Roeg, 1973), Newton is an outsider in an alien world, whose inability to understand his new environment seals his fate. His quest for water is destined to fail because, to the outsider, America is too much of a distraction, and human frailty seems to infect everything it touches.

A masterpiece from German Cinema.

Charlton Heston by Franklin J. Schaffner-1968.

R.S's the best film which he could ever made.

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It's the future. The world has changed drastically. There are now several major cities, which have exploded in population, and where everything is taken care of in a clinical yet efficient manner. People living in the cities have to follow a set of strict codes, failure to comply means you will be evacuated from the cities and sent to the outside world, where life is hard and where you are more or less left on your own.

Sorry again. Moon Shot, 2009 does not exist in FLIXTER. I use this space.

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Later I also saw Moon. It is serious Science fiction movie. 6th Clon managed to come back Earth. The rest has been badly cheated.

New York City, 2095 where a variety of humans and aliens live together. A mysterious pyramid appears over the city and from within various Ancient Egyptian gods emerge out of hibernation. The god Horus takes the form of a falcon and flies down across the city. Elsewhere a mysterious woman with blue hair and white skin turns up. Dr Elma Turner puzzles over the fact that Jill, as the mystery woman is named, has no memory of who she is, appears to only be three months old and that her organs are arranged differently from other humans. Meanwhile Horus takes over the body of Nikopol, a man who has just emerged from thirty years in criminal suspension. Horus provides Nikopol with a cast iron replacement for his severed leg and then takes over his body to set out to find Jill. At the same time, the city authorities are determined to stop what they perceive as the threat of the pyramid.