"Film Festival. David Bowie won the Saturn Award for Best Actor for his work in the film. Roger Ebert of the ""Chicago Sun-Times"" awarded the film 2½ stars of four; while he complimented parts of the film and the directing, he was dismissive of the plot, writing in his review that the film is ""so preposterous and posturing, so filled with gaps of logic and continuity, that if it weren't so solemn there'd be the temptation to laugh aloud."" When re-released in 2011, Ebert gave the film three stars, stating that readers should ""consider this just a quiet protest vote"
"on its list of 100 best British films. British Film Institute included it on its list of ""50 late night classics"" demonstrating its popularity as a midnight movie. The Man Who Fell to Earth The Man Who Fell to Earth is a 1976 British science fiction film directed by Nicolas Roeg and written by Paul Mayersberg, based on Walter Tevis's 1963 novel of the same name, about an extraterrestrial who crash lands on Earth seeking a way to ship water to his planet, which is suffering from a severe drought. The film retains a following for its use of surreal"
"one of the most important and influential horror films ever made. Similarly to ""Performance"", he cast musicians in leading roles for his next two films ""The Man Who Fell to Earth"" and ""Bad Timing"". ""The Man Who Fell to Earth"" (1976) stars David Bowie as a humanoid alien who comes to Earth to collect water for his planet, which is suffering from a drought. The film divided critics and was truncated upon its U.S. release. Despite this, it was entered into the Berlin International Film Festival where Roeg was nominated for the Golden Bear. It is today considered an important"
"Return to Earth (film) Return to Earth is a 1976 American biopic TV movie that originally aired on May 14, 1976 on ABC. The film stars Cliff Robertson as astronaut Buzz Aldrin and Shirley Knight as Joan Aldrin. Based upon Aldrin's 1973 book of the same name, the film dramatizes the emotional difficulties of Aldrin's life following his trip to the moon on Apollo 11. The film was directed by Jud Taylor, and Aldrin served as a consultant. Based upon his own book of his ordeals, the film is story of Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk upon the"
"Down to Earth (1947 film) Down to Earth (1947) is a musical comedy starring Rita Hayworth, Larry Parks, and Marc Platt, and directed by Alexander Hall. The film is a sequel to the film ""Here Comes Mr. Jordan"" (1941), also directed by Hall. While Edward Everett Horton and James Gleason reprise their roles from the earlier film, Roland Culver replaces Claude Rains as Mr. Jordan. Hayworth stars as the Muse Terpsichore who is annoyed that popular Broadway producer Danny Miller (Parks) is putting on a play which portrays the Muses as man-crazy tarts fighting for the attention of a pair"
"David Bowie"" (Titan, 2004, revised and updated 2011). This list is selective. For a more complete list, see Nicholas Pegg's ""The Complete David Bowie"". David Bowie filmography The late English musician and actor David Bowie (1947–2016) held leading roles in several feature films, including ""The Man Who Fell to Earth"" (1976) (for which he won a Saturn Award for Best Actor), ""Just a Gigolo"" (1978), ""Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence"" (1983), ""The Hunger"" (1983), ""Labyrinth"" (1986), and ""The Linguini Incident"" (1991). Films in which he appeared in a supporting role or cameo include ""The Last Temptation of Christ"" (1988) and ""Zoolander"""
"Gone to Earth (film) Gone to Earth (1950) is a British Technicolor film by the director-writer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It stars Jennifer Jones, David Farrar, and Cyril Cusack, and features Esmond Knight. The film was significantly changed for the American market by David O. Selznick and retitled The Wild Heart in 1952. ""Gone to Earth"" is based on the 1917 novel of the same name by author Mary Webb. The novel was all but ignored when it first appeared, but became better known in the 1930s, as the neo-romantic revival gathered pace, even inspiring a 1932"
"poorly at the box office but has since become a cult classic. Down to Earth (1947 film) Down to Earth (1947) is a musical comedy starring Rita Hayworth, Larry Parks, and Marc Platt, and directed by Alexander Hall. The film is a sequel to the film ""Here Comes Mr. Jordan"" (1941), also directed by Hall. While Edward Everett Horton and James Gleason reprise their roles from the earlier film, Roland Culver replaces Claude Rains as Mr. Jordan. Hayworth stars as the Muse Terpsichore who is annoyed that popular Broadway producer Danny Miller (Parks) is putting on a play which portrays"
"Down to Earth (1917 film) Down to Earth, also known as The Optimist, is a 1917 American comedy romance film starring Douglas Fairbanks and Eileen Percy, and directed by John Emerson. Most of the principal photography was filmed in Yosemite National Park. Bill Gaynor (Fairbanks) follows Ethel (Percy), the girl he loves, to a sanitarium she is staying to recuperate from a nervous break down. Ethel had previously refused his proposal in favor of a socialite, Charles Riddles (Charles K. Gerrard). Bill hatches up a plan to save Ethel and the other hypochondriacs from the sanitarium, taking them on his"
"David Bowie filmography The late English musician and actor David Bowie (1947–2016) held leading roles in several feature films, including ""The Man Who Fell to Earth"" (1976) (for which he won a Saturn Award for Best Actor), ""Just a Gigolo"" (1978), ""Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence"" (1983), ""The Hunger"" (1983), ""Labyrinth"" (1986), and ""The Linguini Incident"" (1991). Films in which he appeared in a supporting role or cameo include ""The Last Temptation of Christ"" (1988) and ""Zoolander"" (2001). Bowie also appeared on several television series including ""Extras"", ""Dream On"", and the horror anthology series ""The Hunger"". He won a Daytime Emmy"
"Down to Earth (2001 film) Down to Earth is a 2001 American fantasy-comedy film directed by Chris and Paul Weitz and written by Chris Rock, Lance Crouther, Ali LeRoi and Louis C.K. It is the third film based on Harry Segall's stageplay ""Heaven Can Wait"", preceded by ""Here Comes Mr. Jordan"" (1941) and ""Heaven Can Wait"" (1978). The film stars Chris Rock as Lance Barton, a comedian who is killed before his time on Earth is through. He is given another chance to continue his life, but in the body of a rich middle-aged white man. The film was released"
"moments of acting bravado delivered by Theresa Russell, Tony Curtis, and Gary Busey. As a weird meditation on sex, power, knowledge, and fame, this is a four-star treat for those who savor exotic movie fare...Nicolas Roeg (""Don't Look Now"", ""The Man Who Fell to Earth"") draws out the inner psychological nuances of the drama and delivers the philosophical freight in Terry Johnson's screenplay."" The film was entered into the 1985 Cannes Film Festival where it was nominated for the Palme d'Or and won the Technical Grand Prize. The soundtrack to the film was released on the British label ZTT Records."
"Down to Earth (1995 TV series) Down to Earth is a British television situation comedy, aired in 1995 on BBC One. It was devised by John Esmonde and Bob Larbey and starred Richard Briers, who also featured in Esmonde and Larbey's earlier series ""The Good Life"" (1975-1978) and ""Ever Decreasing Circles"" (1984-1989). One series consisting of seven episodes was produced. Richard Briers played Tony Fairfax, who upon graduating from Oxford University had been appointed as a ""cultural advisor"" in a South American banana republic (as a university friend was its president) and was used to a life of luxury, only"
"Nicolas Roeg Nicolas Jack Roeg (; 15 August 1928 – 23 November 2018) was an English director and cinematographer, best known for directing ""Performance"" (1970), ""Walkabout"" (1971), ""Don't Look Now"" (1973), ""The Man Who Fell to Earth"" (1976), ""Bad Timing"" (1980), and ""The Witches"" (1990). Making his directorial debut 23 years after his entry into the film business, Roeg quickly became known for an idiosyncratic visual and narrative style, characterized by the use of disjointed and disorienting editing. For this reason, he was considered a highly influential filmmaker, with such directors as Steven Soderbergh, Christopher Nolan, and Danny Boyle citing"
"Airport 1975 Airport 1975 (also known as Airport '75) is a 1974 American air disaster film and the first sequel to the successful 1970 film ""Airport"". ""Airport 1975"" is directed by Jack Smight, produced by William Frye and Jennings Lang and has a screenplay by Don Ingalls. The film stars Charlton Heston, Karen Black and George Kennedy, as well as Gloria Swanson in her final screen appearance. The plot concerns the dramatic events aboard an airborne Boeing 747 when a small aircraft crashes into the cockpit causing the fatalities of senior crew and the blinding of the pilot with no"
"Who Fell to Earth""."" Charles Champlin of the ""Los Angeles Times"" described Bowie as ""perfect casting"" but thought the film was ""a muddle,"" and suspected it was because he reviewed a version trimmed by 20 minutes for its U.S. run: ""That would do a lot to explain why the movie proceeds from the provocatively cryptic to the merely incomprehensible."" Kim Newman of Empire gave the movie five stars out of five, describing the film as ""consistently disorientating and beguilingly beautiful."" Its status as a cult classic has been echoed by critics, especially as it was a popular hit with Midnight"
"The Man Who Fell to Earth (novel) The Man Who Fell to Earth is a 1963 science fiction novel by American author Walter Tevis, about an extraterrestrial who lands on Earth seeking a way to ferry his people to Earth from his home planet, which is suffering from a severe drought. The novel served as the basis for the 1976 film by Nicolas Roeg, ""The Man Who Fell to Earth"", as well as a 1987 television adaptation. Thomas Jerome Newton is a humanoid alien who comes to Earth seeking to construct a spaceship to ferry others from his home planet,"
"Breakout (1975 film) Breakout is a 1975 action film from Columbia Pictures starring Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Robert Duvall, John Huston, Sheree North and Randy Quaid. Bronson and Ireland, the lead actor and actress, were married in real life. The film is notable for giving the usually serious Bronson a more comedic, lighthearted role. Harris Wagner (Huston) frames Jay Wagner (Duvall). In order to keep him silent, Jay is incarcerated in a Mexican prison. Jay's wife Ann (Ireland) is unhappy at this turn of events and hires a Texas bush pilot in Brownsville, Texas, Nick Colton (Bronson) and his partner"
"moon, and the problems he had after the mission and his return to Earth, including the breakup of his marriage, a nervous breakdown and his hospitalization for psychiatric problems. Return to Earth (film) Return to Earth is a 1976 American biopic TV movie that originally aired on May 14, 1976 on ABC. The film stars Cliff Robertson as astronaut Buzz Aldrin and Shirley Knight as Joan Aldrin. Based upon Aldrin's 1973 book of the same name, the film dramatizes the emotional difficulties of Aldrin's life following his trip to the moon on Apollo 11. The film was directed by Jud"
"brief appearance as an extra. In 1976 he earned acclaim for his first major film role, portraying Thomas Jerome Newton, an alien from a dying planet, in ""The Man Who Fell to Earth"", directed by Nicolas Roeg. ""Just a Gigolo"" (1979), an Anglo-German co-production directed by David Hemmings, saw Bowie in the lead role as Prussian officer Paul von Przygodski, who, returning from World War I, is discovered by a Baroness (Marlene Dietrich) and put into her Gigolo Stable. Bowie played Joseph Merrick in the Broadway theatre production ""The Elephant Man"", which he undertook wearing no stage make-up, and which"
"Falling Down Falling Down is a 1993 thriller film directed by Joel Schumacher and written by Ebbe Roe Smith. The film stars Michael Douglas in the lead role of William Foster, a divorced and unemployed former defense engineer. The film centers on Foster as he treks on foot across the city of Los Angeles, trying to reach the house of his estranged ex-wife in time for his daughter's birthday party. Along the way, a series of encounters, both trivial and provocative, cause him to react with increasing violence and make sardonic observations on life, poverty, the economy, and commercialism. Robert"
"films"" and, according to Powell's cinematographer, Christopher Challis, ""one of the most beautiful films ever to be shot of the English countryside"". Gone to Earth (film) Gone to Earth (1950) is a British Technicolor film by the director-writer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It stars Jennifer Jones, David Farrar, and Cyril Cusack, and features Esmond Knight. The film was significantly changed for the American market by David O. Selznick and retitled The Wild Heart in 1952. ""Gone to Earth"" is based on the 1917 novel of the same name by author Mary Webb. The novel was all but"
"To the Ends of the Earth (film) To the Ends of the Earth is a 1948 American crime film noir directed by Robert Stevenson and written by Sidney Buchman and Jay Richard Kennedy. The drama features Dick Powell and Signe Hasso. In 1935, United States Narcotics Agent Michael Barrows (Powell) is assigned to find an unidentified freighter suspected of smuggling drugs. When he and the Coast Guard spot it along the California coast, they give chase. Barrows watches helplessly through binoculars as the freighter captain has about a hundred chained slave laborers thrown overboard to drown. The ship escapes by"
"premiered at BFI Southbank before being released in cinemas across the UK on 9 September of that year. Since its original 1976 release, ""The Man Who Fell to Earth"" has achieved cult status. On film review site Rotten Tomatoes, the film has achieved an 82% rating based on 52 reviews, the critical consensus stating: ""Filled with stunning imagery, ""The Man Who Fell to Earth"" is a calm, meditative film that profoundly explores our culture's values and desires."" Metacritic reports an 81 out of 100 rating based on 9 critics, indicating ""universal acclaim"". It was entered into the 26th Berlin International"
"The Man from Earth The Man from Earth is a 2007 American drama science fiction film written by Jerome Bixby and directed by Richard Schenkman. It stars David Lee Smith as John Oldman, the protagonist. The screenplay was conceived by Jerome Bixby in the early 1960s and completed on his deathbed in April 1998. The film gained recognition in part for being widely distributed through Internet peer-to-peer networks, which raised its profile. The film was later adapted by Schenkman into a stage play of the same name. The plot focuses on John Oldman, a departing university professor, who claims to"
"Candy Clark Candace June Clark (born June 20, 1947) is an American actress and model. She is well known for her roles as Debbie Dunham in the 1973 film ""American Graffiti"", for which she received a nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and Mary Lou in the 1976 film ""The Man Who Fell to Earth"". Born in Norman, Oklahoma to Ella (née Padberg) and Thomas Clark, a chef, she grew up in Fort Worth, Texas. She attended Green B. Trimble Technical High School. Clark's first acting role was the character of Faye in John Huston's film ""Fat City"""
"The Rain People The Rain People is a 1969 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Alongside Shirley Knight, leading players are James Caan and Robert Duvall, both of whom would later work with Coppola in ""The Godfather"". Future film director and Coppola friend George Lucas worked as an aide on this film, and made a short making-of documentary film, ""Filmmaker"", about it. The film also won the Golden Shell at the 1969 San Sebastian Film Festival. The film received mixed initial reviews, but modern reception is more often positive. The current DVD release from Warner Archive appears to be from"
"a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer-Female. Airport 1975 Airport 1975 (also known as Airport '75) is a 1974 American air disaster film and the first sequel to the successful 1970 film ""Airport"". ""Airport 1975"" is directed by Jack Smight, produced by William Frye and Jennings Lang and has a screenplay by Don Ingalls. The film stars Charlton Heston, Karen Black and George Kennedy, as well as Gloria Swanson in her final screen appearance. The plot concerns the dramatic events aboard an airborne Boeing 747 when a small aircraft crashes into the cockpit causing the fatalities of senior crew"
"The Woman Who Fell to Earth ""The Woman Who Fell to Earth"" is the first episode of the eleventh series of the British science fiction television programme ""Doctor Who"". It was written by new head writer and executive producer Chris Chibnall, directed by Jamie Childs, and was first broadcast on BBC One on 7 October 2018. It stars Jodie Whittaker in her first full appearance as the Thirteenth Doctor, and introduces the Doctor's new companions – Bradley Walsh as Graham O'Brien, Tosin Cole as Ryan Sinclair, and Mandip Gill as Yasmin Khan. The episode also guest stars Sharon D. Clarke,"
"one of Coppola's five best films, calling it ""hypnotic"". The Rain People The Rain People is a 1969 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Alongside Shirley Knight, leading players are James Caan and Robert Duvall, both of whom would later work with Coppola in ""The Godfather"". Future film director and Coppola friend George Lucas worked as an aide on this film, and made a short making-of documentary film, ""Filmmaker"", about it. The film also won the Golden Shell at the 1969 San Sebastian Film Festival. The film received mixed initial reviews, but modern reception is more often positive. The current"
"The Land That Time Forgot (1975 film) The Land That Time Forgot is a 1975 British-American fantasy/adventure film based upon the 1924 novel ""The Land That Time Forgot"" by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The screenplay was written by Michael Moorcock and James Cawthorn and directed by Kevin Connor. The cast included Doug McClure, John McEnery, Keith Barron, Susan Penhaligon, Anthony Ainley and Declan Mulholland. The movie begins with a bottle with a written manuscript inside it being thrown into the sea, hoping for it to be discovered later. Floating to coast of England, a sailor discovers the bottle and opens to"
"Ride the Man Down Ride the Man Down is a 1952 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane, written by Mary C. McCall, Jr., and starring Brian Donlevy, Rod Cameron, Ella Raines, Forrest Tucker, Barbara Britton, Chill Wills and J. Carrol Naish. The film was released on November 25, 1952, by Republic Pictures. Celia Evarts and her brother John inherit the valuable Hatchet Ranch after their father dies in a blizzard. Other cattlemen and cowboys in the region immediately try to take advantage, grazing on the land and using its water for free. Celia's brother is also shot and killed."
"Statten Roeg. They later divorced. Roeg was married to Harriet Harper from 2005 until his death in 2018. On 23 November 2018, Roeg died in London of natural causes at the age of 90. Actor Donald Sutherland (who named one of his sons after Roeg) described Roeg as a ""fearless visionary"". Filmmaker Duncan Jones, the son of David Bowie, who starred in ""The Man Who Fell To Earth"", also paid tribute to Roeg, calling him a ""great storyteller"" and ""inimitable"". Roeg is credited on the following films: Nicolas Roeg Nicolas Jack Roeg (; 15 August 1928 – 23 November 2018)"