I am sort of surprised this movie has never been discussed here. I love it—as far as sci-fi goes, it's the arty side, but in a good way; David Bowie (who I've never really found attractive) is stunning throughout it, and the visuals are hallucinatory and gorgeous. It's one of Nicolas Roeg's best movies, second only to "Don't Look Now", in my opinion. I have the Criterion Collection Blu-ray, which is now super rare, and one of my prized possessions.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 12 | December 14, 2020 6:45 PM |
I loved it in 1976. But I was high.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | December 14, 2020 1:55 AM |
I remember we all dropped tabs of acid to see it. The only way to see it.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | December 14, 2020 2:01 AM |
We were all high back then. We smoked everything except our shoes. You had to be high to get thru a Candy Clark performance.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | December 14, 2020 2:24 AM |
Kinda boring.
Interesting only because of Bowie.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | December 14, 2020 4:05 AM |
The Lincoln Town Car was so very outer space.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | December 14, 2020 2:36 PM |
Whatever happened to his family back on his home world?
Did they die from dehydration?
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | December 14, 2020 2:46 PM |
I remember it being depressing.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | December 14, 2020 2:57 PM |
It was a bore but Valerie Perrine of course stole the movie.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | December 14, 2020 3:00 PM |
I saw this in its original release, at the Plaza Theater in New York. During the day, not many in the audience. I felt the film was a straightforward story, complicated by its directorial approach and visual flourishes.
Curiously, as the audience was departing afterward, the ushers were handing out printed sheets of about 20 plot points, explained for the inquiring viewer. The movie was a big flop, with people complaining about the confusing story.
I thought Bowie was typecast as a weird alien. But he wasn’t a very good actor, which didn’t help much.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | December 14, 2020 3:01 PM |
I recall that in one fairly late scene, set out in the country someplace, that big black car swings around facing the camera, before the Bowie character gets out of the car, and just for a second you can clearly see Roeg and his camera crew reflected in the grill-work of the car.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | December 14, 2020 3:02 PM |
Also water is probably the most plentiful resource in the galaxy - so it's unlikely a space faring race would have to travel all the way to Earth to get it. They'd also probably have the tech to just conjure it by putting molecules together.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | December 14, 2020 3:03 PM |
Shows how little you know, R11.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | December 14, 2020 6:45 PM |
