THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (50TH ANNIVERSARY) W/ LIVE BOWIE MUSIC!

NOVEMBER 24

Cult Classic Collection

"It will tumble from the sky..." It's David Bowie Night at the Jane Pickens Theater & Event Center!

To mark the 50th anniversary of the release of director Nicolas Roeg’s (Don’t Look Now) seminal science fiction odyssey, THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, the JPT is thrilled to screen a 4K rerelease of this wonderfully weird cult classic. Featuring a startling and era defining lead performance from David Bowie (The Prestige, Labyrinth) in his debut feature role and based on the cult novel by Walter Tevis, The Man Who Fell to Earth endures as, not only a bitingly caustic indictment of the modern world but, also, a poignant commentary on the loneliness of the outsider.

To fully embrace the aristry of the otherworldly talent who was David Bowie, rock out to a 50 minute set of incredible LIVE Bowie music played on stage before the film by David Tessier's 6 piece All Star Stars. The band will play the entirety of Bowie's legendary album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars!

“Power, space, time and a visitor.”

Thomas Jerome Newton (David Bowie) is a humanoid alien who comes to Earth from a distant planet on a mission to take water back to his home planet in the midst of a catastrophic drought. Using the advanced technology of his home planet to patent many inventions on Earth, Newton acquires incredible wealth as the head of a technology-based conglomerate (aided by leading patent attorney Oliver Farnsworth (Buck Henry, The Graduate) that he intends to use to finance the construction of a space vehicle to ship water back to his planet.

Newton embarks on a relationship with hotel maid Mary-Lou (Candy Clark, American Graffiti) and makes progress with the construction of his vehicle but soon finds his true identify at risk via his roguish colleague and confidant Dr. Nathan Bryce (Rip Torn, Men in Black) who threatens not only his relationship with Mary-Lou, but his freedom and chances of ever returning home.

Live Music @ 6:30, Movie @ 7:30.