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Under the Skin
Why this pick
Its alien observer moves through Earth with the same cool estrangement and unsettling sensuality, using stark imagery and elliptical encounters rather than explanatory science fiction.
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MOVIE1976 2h 18m GBR
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Keep the feeling.
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The Brother from Another Planet
Why this pick
Another silent extraterrestrial outsider navigates a very human, imperfect America; it shares the fish-out-of-water premise but gives it a warmer, socially observant texture.
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Solaris
Why this pick
For the contemplative, melancholy side of Roeg’s film: an otherworldly encounter becomes a spacious meditation on memory, longing, and the limits of understanding another being.
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High Life
Why this pick
Its austere cosmic isolation, bodily unease, and fractured emotional intimacy echo the dislocated mood of Newton’s Earthly experience, while remaining fiercely physical and enigmatic.
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The Quiet Earth
Why this pick
A lone man’s altered reality is rendered with haunting emptiness and growing instability, making the familiar world feel as alien and emotionally unmoored as Roeg’s Earth.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Thomas Jerome Newton is a humanoid alien who comes to Earth from a distant planet on a mission to take water back to his home planet,
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
David Bowie
Thomas Jerome Newton
Buck Henry
Oliver Farnsworth
Bernie Casey
Peters
Rip Torn
Nathan Bryce
Candy Clark
Mary-Lou
Claudia Jennings
Peters' Wife