The Man Who Fell to Earth – review

David Bowie is perfect in the lead role of Nic Roeg's prescient stranded-alien taleAlan Yentob was responsible for getting David Bowie his proper first feature-film gig, after director Nicolas Roeg watched his legendary 1974 documentary Cracked Actor; Bowie stepped seamlessly from one outsider's odyssey across the American mindscape into another. He is like ET's spindly, sexy older brother as stranded alien Thomas Jerome Newton, seeking to transport water back to his parched planet. Bowie's skew...

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