Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Harmonia (A) on July 26, 2004 at 22:39:13

In Reply to: The Man Who Fell To Earth posted by mishmashmusic on July 26, 2004 at 11:17:38:

But I have a soft spot for TMWFTE. I'm a big fan of the director, Nic Roeg. I'm also fond of Walter Tevis' original book.Yes, drugs were around the production (Bowie looks like he's gonna evaportate any second). Things didn't go smoothly during production, the film got hacked...there are two versions, the longer one is better and more cohesive, but neither version is exactly keen on linear plotline.

Talk about typecasting...David really is believable as an alien though, isn't he?

Perhaps better examples of Roeg's oevre would be Walkabout, Performance (James Fox and Mick Jagger) and Don't Look Now (Juie Christie and Donald Sutherland). Roeg doesn't/didn't make popcorn flicks, but I think they're pretty fine flicks.

Bowie played it very straight in the WWII movie Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence.