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As Nicholas Roeg's film The Man Who Fell To Earth is screened across Britain next week, David Gritten revisits the bold imaginative film - and David Bowie, its orange-haired, alabaster star.
In case you feel our patriotic instincts need an extra boost in this lull between the Diamond Jubilee and the London Olympics, there’s currently a Made in Britain season in cinemas across the country each Tuesday. This brief season aims to showcase five classic British films, starting with Passport to Pimlico and finishing with Quatermass and the Pit. Of these the most interesting must be Nicolas Roeg’s The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), starring David Bowie as a humanoid alien confronting the weirdness and excesses of American society. It divides critics, many of whom find the film visually dazzling but its narrative muddled and confusing....
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