The film stars David Bowie in his first dramatic role. Bowie died in January after an 18 month battle with cancer. He was 69.

Star Cinema programming manager Hannah Morton said the cinema will be screening the uncensored R-rated version.

“Fans may not have yet had the opportunity to see (this version), particularly on the big screen,” she said.

“Many of us at Star Cinema, and our patrons, were devastated at the unexpected loss of one of the great icons of our lifetimes.

“This is a wonderful way to celebrate his life and work in music, on screen and as one of the greats of popular culture.”

After the film, Star Cinema will play back to back Bowie classics on the sound system until midnight, with the bar open all night.

People who attend are encourage to dress in something inspired by Bowie.

The Man Who Fell to Earth screens at 7pm on February 13 at Star Cinema. Bookings are essential. To book phone 5446 2025.

Star Cinema screenings of Suffragette and Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict finish this week. Reviews (by Richard Jones) below.

MAUD Adams works in a laundry sweatshop in 1912 and is tasked one late afternoon to deliver a parcel of clothes to a west London client.

Disembarking from a double-storey autobus Maud (Carey Mulligan) is forced to lie prostrate on the pavement as women commit an act of terrorism --- throwing stones through the windows of West End department stores.

Militant female activists are demanding women be given the right to vote. They create panic on the streets as shouts of ‘votes for women’ ring out around the sounds of glass shattering.

It’s the start of Maud’s radicalization. Earning far less than her male counterparts in the laundry and without a vote, what can compel the ruling elites to help her and her female co-workers?

Her role model is local pharmacist Edith (Helena Bonham Carter) whose scientific expertise is crucial later in the story when the women craft a bomb.

The men aren’t sympathetically portrayed. Maud’s laundry employer (Geoff Bell) is a brute and a sexual predator while her husband (Ben Whishaw) and police special branch Inspector Steed (Brendan Gleeson) are products of their times.

Steed describes Edith to his fellow police as “highly educated and without scruples” as police surveillance is ramped up.

Even though Maud and several others are fictional, there are two real-life women amidst all these struggles. Suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst (Meryl Streep, in a brief three-minute cameo) and Emily Wilding Davison (Natalie Press), whose final personal sacrifice forms the climax of the movie, were actual people.  

WE wouldn’t know nearly as much about the life of celebrated art collector and innovator Peggy Guggenheim unless long-lost audiotapes had been tracked down.

Director Lisa Immordino Vreeland discovered the 1970s tapes Peggy had made with her official biographer and the collector’s succinct recollections are vital to her life story.

For instance, she revealed she’d had seven abortions during a long and lusty life, not only discovering artists and their works but also sleeping with them.

These latter disclosures in her memoirs discomfited many when Peggy named names. There was a tryst with noted playwright Samuel Becket when the pair spent four days in a Parisian bed.

Constantin Brancusi was also among her many lovers while Marcel Duchamp became her art adviser.

It all started when Peggy inherited $US450,000 when she was 21 just before 1920. The money allowed her to live an independent life in Europe.

How she smuggled her many, now priceless, avant-garde works of art out of Paris in 1940 under the Nazi’s noses was a real achievement.

Setting up anew in New York Peggy helped discover Jackson Pollock. She describes herself as the “midwife of abstract expressionism.”

She married sculptor Max Ernst and later displayed her collection of 326 works in a half-built palazzo on Venice’s Grand Canal.

One personal fact is fascinating. Peggy flicked her tongue in and out of her mouth, lizard-like, when speaking --- apparently unaware of this habit.