As Nicolas Roeg’s enigmatic, unclassifiable film – in which David Bowie plays an alien visiting Earth – turns 50, we look back at Tom Milne’s deciphering of it. From our Summer 1976 issue.

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He has a beard, a splitting maul, and a house in Michigan. Is that enough to convince America that he’s a man of the people?