The Man Who Fell to Earth

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Celebrated auteur Nicolas Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth is a daring, artistically ambitious science fiction film that was made a full six years before Blade Runner, widely considered a masterwork of British-American cinema.

Newton is an extraterrestrial who goes to Earth on a desperate mission of mercy. David Bowie / film tie-in featuring illustration of Bowie-like figure on cover and two stills from Man Who Fell to Earth film on inside front and back covers. UPC: 9780993306075 Genre: Cult “Those who know The Man Who Fell to Earth only from the film version are missing something. Samuel J.

Starring rock icon David Bowie in the title role, the film showcases Roeg's dazzling, kaleidoscopic style and is at once a mythic parable, a provocative love story, a study of existential loneliness and a compelling portrait of exile and alienation, set in the vast, desolate spaces of the American Southwest.