Bernie Casey, Buck Henry, Candy Clark
Thomas Jerome Newton is a humanoid alien who comes to Earth to get water for his dying planet. He starts a high technology company to create the vast fortune he needs to build a return spacecraft.. He...( read more
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DVD Release Date: July 5, 2000
Stats: 784 reviews
I liked the general idea of the film, Bowie's performance; and, only at first, the mysterious, convoluted plot, but after a while I got tired of all that. Overlong and too scattered for my taste.
So, lets get this straight: "The Man Who Fell to Earth" is a film, starring David Bowie as an alien, that involves such scenes as a girl speaking into a young Rip Torn's penis, and several kinky alien sex scenes that, at one point, involve erotic gunplay? Sign me up!
Alas, the f...( read more)
Roeg at the top of his powers here. Perhaps the last time I found his particular style of film making quite so interesting.
Not what I was expecting...very bizarre and cool. Warning: contains full frontal nudity.
Sorry to say that I got very, very bored with this one. David Bowie is the man, but not enough spandex and too much sex with that same chick.
its awesome cuz db's in it! XD its pretty freaky though! :P
Howww strange LOL i haven't seen the whole lot! :P
Even if it only exists on a visual level, Nicolas Roeg's sci-fi art film is a dazzling piece of work; but it doesn't just exist on a visual level. Underneath all the strange, dreamlike visuals is an interesting social commentary. I was more interested in the inventiveness of the ...( read more)
I had always wanted to see this one because it seemed like the kind of work that Dacid Bowie would do an I was right it was very long an run kinda slow, but it was still very good.
Bowie playing an alien, suits him like a hat pulled down at the front. From the man who brought us 'Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars' and Supermen and loving the alien. My fav scene is when his girl carrys him up the flight of stairs as his nose bleeds...
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