The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
Jun 3, 2001Alienated Alien Visitor
Nicolas Roeg's film featuring David Bowie as an alienated alien visitor to Earth, a film that is equal amounts brilliance and pretentious distractions
Buck Henry
Heaven Can Wait (1978)
Jan 18, 2001Afterlife Mixup
Warren Beatty co-directs/stars in a remake of the afterlife film Here Comes Mr Jordan. Amiably lightweight but this was over-praised at the time, inexplicably receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture
Eating Raoul (1982)
Apr 19, 2007Killing Kinksters Black Comedy
Paul Bartel's black comedy where he and Mary Woronov play a snobby couple who pose as kinksters to lure swingers and then kill them off. all to fund setting up an exclusive restaurant
Defending Your Life (1991)
Oct 15, 2001Afterlife Comedy
Albert Brooks directed/starring comedy in which he plays a man in the afterlife on trial, required to defend the dull and ordinary life he led, at the same time as he begins a romance with Meryl Streep
Breakfast of Champions (1999)
Sep 11, 1999Kurt Vonnegut Adaptation
Disappointing adaptation of the Kurt Vonnegut novel from Adam Rudolph that substitutes Vonnegut's satire for clumsy, ham-fisted farce that never gives us any clear idea what it is satirising