Lists
- ranked 56 in TV Cream's Top 100 Films
- ranked 361 in They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? 1000 Greatest Films (August 2005)
- ranked 377 in They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? 1000 Greatest Films (March 2006)
- ranked 415 in They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? 1000 Greatest Films (December 2006)
- one of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
- one of OFCS Top 100 Sci-Fi
An alien posing as a human (David Bowie) sells advanced technology to finance a spaceship. Weird and stylized, full of arresting images, but its narrative tricks were too influential and now seem unremarkable: seems confused and aimless without that context.