The Man Who Fell to Earth: Novel to Film – Samuel J. Umland

Celebrated auteur Nicolas Roeg’s ”The Man Who Fell to Earth” is a daring, artistically ambitious science fiction film that was made a full six years before ”Blade Runner”, widely considered a masterwork of British-American cinema. Starring rock icon David Bowie in the title role, the film showcases Roeg’s dazzling, kaleidoscopic style and is at once a mythic parable, a provocative love story, a study of existential loneliness and a compelling portrait of exile and alienation, set in the vast, desolate spaces of the American Southwest.