A pale, red-haired man in a dark hooded wool coat stands in profile with a stern, distant expression. Behind them, a still lake reflects the lights of a small building on the tree-lined far shore. At right, a glowing blue globe light sits on a red shelf bolted to a rough wooden post.

4K Film: The Man Who Fell To Earth - 50th Anniversary

About 4K Film: The Man Who Fell To Earth - 50th Anniversary

David Bowie’s first starring role was as Thomas Jerome Newton, an alien outfitted in human skin who’s forced to come to earth to save his dying planet. Director Nic Roeg found in Bowie’s eccentricity just what he was looking for: not an actor trying to play an alien, but a lost soul trying to play a human.

Paradoxically, this outlandish sci-fi tale of an androgyne extra-terrestrial with superior intelligence riding thermals of fame and fortune in consumerist America before falling victim to all-too-human vices is almost a documentary portrait of Bowie at that time.
 

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Duration includes trailers, adverts and any Q&A/panel. For events such as NT Live, Colour Box and Reel & Meal there will be minimal advertising. We do not admit latecomers after the main feature has started and we have a limited food & drink policy.

MAC’s cinema programme has been generously supported by BFI Film Audience Network and Film Hub Midlands.

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