https://vo.rs/tags/david-bowie/Latest from the David Bowie desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Thu, 03 Oct 2024 09:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/the-man-who-fell-to-earth-bowie-as-the-loneliest-alien/<p>Casting is sometimes an act of clairvoyance. When Nicolas Roeg put David Bowie at the centre of <em>The Man Who Fell to Earth</em> (1976), he hired a rock star at the most extraterrestrial moment of his career — gaunt, milk-pale, chemically hollowed, already performing alienation for a living — and asked him to play an actual alien. The result is one of the eeriest fits of performer and part in the genre. Bowie barely acts, in the conventional sense. He simply exists on screen as something that does not belong, and Roeg builds a whole shattered, sorrowful film around that presence.</p>Thu, 03 Oct 2024 09:00:00 +0000