The Man Who Fell to Earth

a film by Nicolas Roeg

This was the final film of the cycle «Hasta que el futuro nos alcance» of Filmoteca Canaria.

• 6 February: Sleeper by Woody Allen (1973)
• 20 February: Alphaville: une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution by Jean-Luc Godard (1965)
• 5 March: A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick (1971)
• 12 March: Fahrenheit 451 by François Truffaut (1966)
• 19 March: The Man Who Fell to Earth by Nicolas Roeg (1976)

In spite of being the newest item on the list, The Man Who Fell to Earth aged the worst. Mr. Bowie is probably the main reason the film acquired the cult status, but I was much more impressed by Candy Clark’s performance as Mary-Lou.

Here’s a curiousity: Nicolas Roeg was also a director of photography in Fahrenheit 451. Those were the days when film directors knew how to handle a camera.