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	The Man Who Fell to Earth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Man Who Fell to Earth is a 1963 novel by 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.
		Thomas Jerome Newton is a humanoid alien who comes to Earth seeking to construct a spaceship to ferry others from his home planet, Anthea, to Earth.
		The Antheans he will ferry to Earth will flourish and hopefully make use of their superintelligence to influence Earth to peace, prosperity, and safety from the apocalypse.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Man_Who_Fell_to_Earth (682 words)

	The Man Who Fell to Earth: Special Edition (1976)
		Earth features Bowie as Thomas Jerome Newton, an alien who comes to our planet to seek water for his arid home world.
		Earth seems more conventional the 2001 and not quite as good, but the similarities exist, as the Kubrick flick clearly acted as an influence.
		The Man Who Fell to Earth appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 2.35:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
	www.dvdmg.com /manwhofelltoearth.shtml (1916 words)

	DVD REVIEW: THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The performers are exceptional, especially Rip Torn as the college professor who never met a pretty coed he couldn't bed.
		The DVD features the complete, uncut version of "The Man Who Fell to Earth." I remember seeing the film in a theater, and it wasn't nearly this long (140 minutes) nor this frank.
		Roeg shoots his films like an artist, and "The man Who Fell To Earth" is a gorgeous pallette of warm earth tones and striking colors.
	www.lightviews.com /manwhofelltoearth.htm (873 words)

	The Man Who Fell to Earth (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Man Who Fell to Earth is a 1976 science fiction film directed by Nicolas Roeg 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 was based on the novel by Walter Tevis, The Man Who Fell to Earth, and was later remade as a less-successful 1987 television adaptation.
		The government, who has received the tip that he is an alien through Bryce, holds him captive in an overstimulative apartment where they continuously send him through rigorous and inhumane tests, amongst them an x-ray of his eyes, to which he is hypersensitive and burns the contact lenses in his disguise to his eyes permanently.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Man_Who_Fell_to_Earth_(film) (1235 words)

	The Man Who Fell to Earth: The Criterion Collection DVD review
		“The Man Who Fell to Earth” is a science-fiction story in the vein of Bradbury, where the idea of technology and extraterrestrial life is examined on a thoughtful level, instead of at a mechanical one.
		Each man is a longtime member of the performing arts community and is therefore able to comment gracefully and knowledgeably about many things.
		“The Man Who Fell to Earth” is a demanding, thought-provoking film that holds up in many ways but is sure to confuse many of today’s viewers who are unused to Roeg’s style and who do not have the patience to sit, watch and think.
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	FAHRENHEIT 451 + THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (ANCHOR BAY) - DVDs
		It returns the new wave director to the arena of the "found"--the old man reciting his "work" to a child is at once the hope of a future and the uncertainty of comprehension that dogs the filmmaker at this point in his career.
		The Man Who Fell To Earth (considering, too, a moment where Newton watches seven television sets at once) isn't so much the quest of a quiet Anglophone alien looking for the salvation of his planet, but a cautionary fable about the ultimate emptiness of God, love, and affluence.
		The Man Who Fell To Earth is how Truffaut described Hitchcock's The Birds: an apocalyptic tone poem set at a moment at the beginning and end of time.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/fahrenheitmanwhofell.htm (1860 words)

	The Man Who Fell to Earth
		The Man Who Fell to Earth is a Nicolas Roeg film about an alien whose planet is dying from drought.
		After watching a lot of Earth TV with his family, he decides to visit Earth because it has lots of water.
		On the other hand, The Man Who Fell To Earth was a real achievement, and somewhat ahead of its time, although the uncut version is a very long watch.
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	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: The Man Who Fell to Earth
		The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) opens as its title suggests, with an interplanetary vehicle piercing the earth's atmosphere, a splashdown in a New Mexico lake, and one lone visitor walking up an isolated road to the nearest small town.
		Novelist Walter Tevis loved gifted losers — his first novel, The Hustler, was adapted for the hit 1960 film starring Paul Newman, and while his follow-up The Man Who Fell to Earth seemed light-years away from the pool halls of Tevis's youth, their thematic parallels are notable.
		If The Man Who Fell to Earth contains any flaws, there are perhaps two — moments of sex and nudity that may have marked "serious" films of the New Hollywood but seem disruptive by contemporary standards, and several small mini-montages in the story that look somewhat dated and too formalistic.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/m/manwhofelltoearth_cc.q.shtml (971 words)

	The Man Who Fell to Earth Summary
		Up till then, Newton had been defending himself by telling them that he was just a freak, and a man who had spent his entire life in the mountains, But then the head of the CIA mentioned an aspirin box that Newton had been carrying at first, but had thrown away in a garbage can.
		The CIA man then asked Newton to help them build weapons, but Newton continually declined saying that he was not a scientist, and that he was chosen for this mission for his physical strength alone.
		Newton had asked the CIA man if he was going to tell everybody about it, but he had just laughed and said that if he did, no one would believe him.
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	David Bowie Wonderworld Columnists: Zigbot - The (Super)man Who Fell To Earth
		In The Superman, the closing track to Bowie's foreboding 1971 album, The Man Who Sold The World, he sang of a man who had finally achieved his fall to Earth.
		It was a "loveless isle" populated by "wondrous beings chained to life," who yearned to break free from the shackles of eternity so that they may fall to a more mortal state.
		And perhaps this very uncertainty is the dizzy rush that this lovely man who fell to earth wanted to experience in the first place.
	www.bowiewonderworld.com /cols/zigbot04.htm (1123 words)

	Del Rey Online \| The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis
		The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis
		T.J. Newton is an extraterrestrial who goes to Earth on a desperate mission of mercy.
		The Man Who Fell to Earth can be seen as the story of a very hip, space-age Passion--about a savior who comes to Earth not to save us but his own people, and who is, in effect, crucified dead and buried."
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	Amazon.ca: Man Who Fell To Earth: DVD: David Bowie,Rip Torn,Candy Clark,Buck Henry,Bernie Casey,Jackson D. Kane,Rick ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Man Who Fell to Earth is definitely not for every taste--it's a highly contemplative, primarily visual experience that Roeg directs as an abstract treatise on (among other things) the alienating effects of an over-commercialized society.
		He lands on earth and begins his project to send water to his devastated planet by amassing the wealth that he needs to do this.
		At some point, excruciatingly sad and lonely, longing for his family, he reveals himself to her for who he truly is, shedding his earthly appearance, only to be met with absolute horror and repugnance by her at the sight of him.
	www.amazon.ca /Man-Fell-Earth-David-Bowie/dp/B00007JMCX (2029 words)

	Under the Radar - The Man Who Fell to Earth & Bad Timing Review
		British director Nicolas Roeg is being celebrated with the Criterion Collection releases of his sci-fi classic The Man Who Fell To Earth and his sexual obsession thriller Bad Timing.
		David Bowie stars in The Man Who Fell to Earth as Thomas Jerome Newton, an alien who comes to Earth to save his decaying planet and makes millions off of future technology to see his hopes shatter under the influence of conniving businesses.
		The second disc includes interviews with practically everyone who was involved in the film, including co-stars Candy Clark (American Graffiti) and Rip Torn (Freddy Got Fingered), and Walter Tevis, the author of the book on which the movie was based.
	undertheradarmag.com /themanwhofell_badtiming.html (401 words)

	Monsters At Play: The Man Who Fell to Earth Review
		Much ado was made (and still is) about this being David Bowie's feature debut - and his reputation certainly propelled the film into near-instant cult status - but it's anything but a vanity vehicle for a rock star with dramatic aspirations; Bowie reportedly took on the project for no other reason than it looked interesting.
		Roeg's universe juxtaposes ordinary Earth objects with surreal alien visions, to the point where even an upset tray of cookies resembles a slo-mo fleet of flying saucers.
		Earth tones are set against shocking candy colors with razor-sharp clarity.
	www.monstersatplay.com /review/dvd/m/manwhofell.php (1233 words)

	Home Theater & Sound -- The Man Who Fell to Earth - ****
		David Bowie is the titular character, come to earth in search of a way to take water back to his dying planet.
		Henry’s unguarded affection for another man is doomed from the start, and he leaves you feeling the pain.
		The Man Who Fell to Earth was to be his magnum opus, but when Cinema 5 Distribution, the American distributor of the film, saw it, they pronounced it unintelligible and cut 30 minutes, which really did make it unintelligible.
	www.hometheatersound.com /dvd/man_who_fell_to_earth.htm (473 words)

	The Man Who Fell to Earth News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Man Who Fell to Earth News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		Yet his best-known movie, 1976's The Man Who Fell To Earth, was always a kind of enigma to me.
		According to Variety, Warner Independent Pictures and Cherry Road Films are remaking The Man Who Fell to Earth, with scribe Oren Moverman set to adapt.
	www.topix.net /movies/the-man-who-fell-to-earth (616 words)

	The Man Who Fell to Earth
		In Nicolas Roeg's sci-fi tale based on the novel by Walter Tevis, a humanoid alien from a dried-up husk of a planet falls to Earth in a spaceship--and later falls again metaphorically through alcohol abuse and the manipulations of a hostile culture.
		Ferrell stars as an IRS auditor battling an unseen narrator who seems to be leading him toward an untimely demise in "Stranger Than Fiction," in theaters now.
		The Man Who Fell To Earth is mentally stimulating, adventuresome, and imaginative.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/man_who_fell_to_earth (489 words)

	Nicolas Roeg: The Man Who Fell To Earth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Nicolas Roeg: The Man Who Fell To Earth
		The mystically melancholic story of an alien who comes to Earth from a distant, doomed planet to look for a means of survival for his people.
		The Man Who Fell To Earth - An Essay by Douglas Lain
	www.phinnweb.org /roeg/films/themanwhofelltoearth (182 words)

	The Man Who Fell To Earth - Moviefone
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	DVD.net : The Man Who Fell to Earth - DVD Review
		The Man Who Fell to Earth is an amazing film, still as relevant today as it ever was.
		The Man Who Fell to Earth remains a classic of science fiction and I imagine it will for a long time to come.
		David Bowie is excellent as the man who fell - Thomas Newton - as are the supporting cast of brave souls who seem to get their gear off at any given opportunity for a bit of bedroom antics.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=3038 (1252 words)

	Film-Forward Review: [THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH]
		The American version of the film was much maligned by director Nicolas Roeg, who felt the edits left the movie choppy and difficult to follow.
		The Man is beautiful to watch, showing, as it does, Earth from Newton’s alien perspective.
		Mayersberg is occasionally pretentious and silly, throwing around names and ideas as disparate as Baudelaire, The Who and the UFO mythos of New Mexico (much of the film was shot in that “UFO state”).
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	eBay - Product Info - eBay - VHS: The Man Who Fell to Earth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Connected throughout by intercut clips of television programs, classic movies, and film soundtracks, THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH is an fine example of the postmodern technique of work referring to its own medium and history.
		He plans to infiltrate Earth with his clever inventions, based on studying television signals from the planet, and form a company with a patents attorney that hires an engineer to help him save his planet.
		Upon landing on Earth, one of the first things we notice is his fondness for water.
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	MAN WHO FELL Remake in the Works
		David Bowie in THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH.
		The story centers on an alien who comes to Earth disguised as a businessman to procure water for his parched planet.
		After IMDB-ing for the TV version you mention, I discovered that TMWFTE is based on an original novel.
	www.mania.com /49948.html (456 words)

	Nicolas Roeg
		There is a palpable sense, especially in British film circles, that the trademarks of Roeg's best work - the intricate use of flashback, the unapologetic use of jump cuts and zooms, the far-flung settings, and the obsessive characters - have lost their power to astonish and have shown distinct signs of self-parody.
		It was through this crowd he met Cammell, a painter who had reached the end of his tether with naturalism, and was reinventing himself as a screenwriter with Duffy (Robert Parrish, 1967) and The Touchables (Robert Freeman, 1967).
		The Man Who Fell to Earth, an ambitious tale about an alien (David Bowie) who comes to Earth in order to save his dying planet, also demonstrates Roeg's ability to reinvent and transcend the limitations of a genre.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/02/roeg.html (1830 words)

	Classic Science Fiction Reviews
		On a parallel track, we have been watching the hipster romantic entanglements of Professor Nathan Bryce (Rip Torn), who is a swinging intellectual prone to bedding his students.
		Once employed, he gets to meet Newton, who informs him that his mission is to perfect a spacecraft.
		Alas for all ambition, but The Man Who Fell to Earth has not held up well after a quarter of a century of societal and cinematic advancement.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue254/classic.html (1029 words)

	Movie Info for The Man Who Fell to Earth on MSN Movies
		Based on a novel by Walter Tevis, The Man Who Fell to Earth achieved cult film status for David Bowie's performance as Thomas Jerome Newton, aka "Mr.
		In this deeply allegorical science-fiction drama, Newton is an alien from a planet that is dying for lack of water, and he has been sent to earth to find a way to ship some of the earth's plentiful supply to his home planet.
		But instead of pressing forward with plans to save his home planet, he becomes enamored of Earth's low-down ways and of his strange, passive relationship with his elevator-operator girlfriend, Mary Lou (Candy Clark).
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	Amazon.com: The Man Who Fell to Earth - Criterion Collection: DVD: David Bowie,Rip Torn,Candy Clark,Buck Henry,Bernie ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A thin, pale, androgynous David Bowie is THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH -- Special Edition (Anchor Bay), a two-disc set of Nicolas Roeg's film.
		An alien being, disguised as a human, comes to earth to seek a way to save his home planet from turning into an arid wasteland.
		The Man Who Fell to Earth is the ultimate 1970s sci fi film -- Star Wars was about hardware, this film is about how an alien may well experience life on Earth.
	www.amazon.com /Man-Who-Fell-Earth-Collection/dp/B000A88EVE (2792 words)

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