Producer · 1932

Michael Deeley

3: briefs
13:00: average
39 min: in total

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The Man Who Fell to Earth

Nicolas Roeg · 1976

Nicolas Roeg’s 1976 adaptation of Walter Tevis’s novel follows Thomas Jerome Newton (David Bowie), an alien who lands in New Mexico to secure water for his drought-ravaged planet. Using advanced knowledge, he amasses wealth and builds a rocket — but becomes entangled in human relationships, addiction, and surveillance. Shot by Anthony B. Richmond in New Mexico, with a fragmented, atmospheric score by John Phillips, the film treats estrangement as perceptual, not biological. Its power lies in cumulative mood, not plot mechanics.

13:00

Blade Runner

Ridley Scott · 1982

Ridley Scott's 1982 science fiction film, adapted from Philip K. Dick's novel, sends former police officer Rick Deckard after a group of fugitive synthetic humans, or replicants, hiding in a decaying future Los Angeles. Shot by Jordan Cronenweth with a score by Vangelis, it underperformed on release and split critics over its pacing, only to be reissued in seven different versions and become one of the defining works of neo-noir and cyberpunk cinema.

13:00

The Deer Hunter

Michael Cimino · 1978

The Deer Hunter follows three steelworkers from a Russian-American mill town through a wedding, a hunting trip, the Vietnam War, and its long aftermath. Michael Cimino's film, shot partly in Thailand and built around Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and John Savage, uses an unusually long, unhurried domestic opening to set up a war sequence built on captivity and Russian roulette, then spends its final third on men who came home changed in different, irreversible ways.