The Man Who Fell to Earth
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Growing Up Roeg: Glenn Kenny Remembers Getting Into the Films of the Late Nicolas Roeg
In the hours after I heard of Nicolas Roeg’s death in late November, I wrote on my blog about how confounding and exhilarating it was to be a teenage cinephile in the 1970s, when Roeg was doing what I consider to be his most outstanding work. The notes I posted attracted the attention of a producer for BBC’s World Service, who invited me to do an audio interview. In that interview, I admitted that even as I thrilled to such films as Performance, Walkabout, Don’t Look Now and The Man Who Fell To Earth, I did not, at that time […]
by Glenn Kenny on Dec 20, 2018 -
Lady Vengeance: The Man Who Fell to Earth
It was only a matter of time before this trippy sci-fi film featuring a disarmingly strange but impossibly stylish early-1970s David Bowie as an alien navigating Earth would make the rounds once again. Nicolas Roeg’s The Man Who Fell to Earth, a cult classic whose Criterion Collection DVD has been out of print for years, has just finished a near-entirely sold-out run at New York City’s Film Forum on a beautiful new 35mm print and will be touring the rest of the country in the coming months. While the film seems dated at times, downright incoherent at others, its reflection […]
by Farihah Zaman on Jul 8, 2011
