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BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE Featurette

Blu-ray Review: The Man Who Fell To Earth

An alien arrives to bring water to his planet in David Bowie's first movie The Man Who Fell To Earth . Review by Matt Cummings When Actor and Musician David Bowie died in 2016, it was as if the whole universe felt the weight of his loss. An individual of the highest order, Bowie forged new limits in music throughout his exceptional career, yielding several spectacular successes and others which are still waiting for the mainstream to embrace. The same could be said of his acting: never one to choose vanilla projects, Bowie's well known for 1988's Labyrinth and his cameo in 2001's Zoolander . But his career took off years before in 1976's The Man Who Fell to Earth , an art-house film if there ever was one. Misunderstood at the time for being a series of unorthodox visual montages instead of a connected narrative, it's eventually matured in critic's minds to become a stinging commentary on corporations. But the story of an alien who comes to Ear...

THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH Arrives On Limited Collector's Edition Blu-ray Combo Pack January 24

Relive the imaginative and compelling cult classic, The Man Who Fell to Earth , when the Limited Collector’s Edition arrives on Blu-ray Combo Pack (plus Digital HD) January 24 from Lionsgate. International icon David Bowie stars in his unforgettable debut role as an alien who has ventured to Earth on a mission to save his planet from a catastrophic drought. In honor of David Bowie’s legacy, the limited collector’s edition Blu-ray Combo Pack includes never-before-seen interviews, brand new artwork, a 72-page bound book, press booklet, four art cards and a mini poster. Hailed as “the most intellectually provocative genre film of the 1970s” by Time Out, the remastered The Man Who Fell to Earth Limited Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Combo Pack will be available for the suggested retail price of $34.99. Thomas Jerome Newton ( David Bowie ) is a humanoid alien who comes to Earth from a distant planet on a mission to take water back to his home planet. BLU-RAY/DVD/DIGITAL HD SPECIAL FEATURE...