Ashes to Ashes: David Bowie In Memoriam
Thursday, March 3 | 5:30 & 8:30 pm
Starring David Bowie (1947-2016) in his first feature-film role, The Man Who Fell to Earth tells the story of space traveler Thomas Jerome Newton. A family “man” on his distant, dying planet, Newton comes to earth in search of water. There, he contacts attorney Oliver Farnsworth (Buck Henry) with a series of original inventions that will make him extraordinarily wealthy. He also develops a relationship with New Mexican hotel clerk Mary-Lou (Candy Clark), to whom he eventually confides his identity. British director Nicolas Roeg (Walkabout, Don’t Look Now) makes aggressive use of parallel structure and telephoto zooms in this sci-fi cult capsule of the sexually free seventies, though it is Bowie’s otherworldly, almost alien presence that provides the film with its most memorable dimension.
Director Nicolas Roeg 1976 United Kingdom 140 minutes R DCP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfccDapMA14
