Nicolas Roeg’s The Man Who Fell to Earth is playing next Tuesday and Wednesday, the 29th and 30th, at the New Beverly in LA. Significant not only because it’s a staggeringly brilliant, eerily prescient, 35 year old masterwork, but also for it’s obvious influence on Alan Moore’s Watchmen. David Bowie plays an alien who’s kind of like a hybrid Adrian Veidt / Dr. Manhattan, there are images that appear to have been directly lifted in the comic (Buck Henry and the Comedian both getting tossed through the window, for instance), and long ago, before he completely soured on adaptations, Moore actually suggested Roeg for the Watchmen film.
It’s on a double bill with Roeg’s Walkabout, which i’ve never seen, but appears to be about a naked family swimming, or something, based on google image search.
One Response to “The Man Who Fell to Earth at the New Beverly next week”
Sigh. While this doesn’t make me at all wish I lived in L.A., it does make me wish Oklahoma gave two shits about showing interesting not-first-run films.
And fuck me, never made the connection on Watchmen and MWFtE- Roeg would have directed the fuck out of a Watchmen movie.