Bruce Bennett

Tag: David Bowie

  • A rogue performer: Bowie on film

    A rogue performer: Bowie on film

    Turning on the radio on Monday morning and hearing about David Bowie’s death was probably the first time I have been truly upset to hear about the death of a public figure. I have been listening to his music since I bought a cassette of Let’s Dance when I was 13, and his importance to me and to others was that…

  • Another way of seeing, another way of being: Nicolas Roeg’s The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)

    Another way of seeing, another way of being: Nicolas Roeg’s The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)

    Introduction to Nicolas Roeg’s The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) Bruce Bennett (Lancaster University) Dukes Cinema 5th Jan, 2015. (This is the introductory public talk I gave for a screening of this film as part of the current season of SF films distributed by the BFI, ‘Days of Fear and Wonder’). The Man Who Fell…