― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 19:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― jones (actual), Friday, 17 September 2004 19:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 17 September 2004 20:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 20:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 17 September 2004 20:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― shookout (shookout), Friday, 17 September 2004 20:09 (nineteen years ago) link
a question i have is: why does my dad say that this is the only movie that has ever frightened him? is it because he's catholic?
― firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 17:42 (nineteen years ago) link
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― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 22:06 (nineteen years ago) link
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― stupid fuckign carpet thing (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 22:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 22:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ian Riese-Moraine. To Hell with you and your gradual evolution! (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 22:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― stupid fuckign carpet thing (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 22:48 (nineteen years ago) link
(saw with a friend who waited about thirty seconds after it faded to black and then said 'ah. so that's how it ends.')
― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 23:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 23:43 (nineteen years ago) link
I've only seen Walkabout, Don't Look Now, and The Witches, but I can wholeheartedly recommend all three. So, jeah.
― Girolamo Savonarola, Wednesday, 13 April 2005 23:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 14 April 2005 00:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Girolamo Savonarola, Thursday, 14 April 2005 00:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tom May (Tom May), Thursday, 14 April 2005 00:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 14 April 2005 00:19 (nineteen years ago) link
an alledgedly 'rare' interview with el roeg. i interviewed him about a year ago. because of an old story about ian penman, i was quite daunted, but we didn't get drunk and it was okay. however, i found it difficult to talk about the 60s, the crowd he moved in, and donald cammell.
― N_RQ, Friday, 3 June 2005 08:17 (eighteen years ago) link
also, more roegly, is it just me or is 'the man who fell to earth' total bollocks?
― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 12 December 2005 13:00 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 09:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 22 June 2006 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― jeffrey (johnson), Thursday, 22 June 2006 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Friday, 23 June 2006 07:45 (seventeen years ago) link
I saw Roeg introduce a screening of Eureka once. He seemed nice enough, and astute on the logistics of making movies. The last half hour of Eureka might be a bit crappy, but it's too long since I've seen that one too. You could probably argue that most of his post-Don't Look Now stuff is flawed.
But he's done some unique, beautiful work and it's a crying shame he hasn't been able to make more of his own movies.
― Half loaf, half pompadour (noodle vague), Friday, 23 June 2006 07:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― admrl, Thursday, 29 March 2007 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 29 March 2007 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pye Poudre, Thursday, 29 March 2007 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba, Thursday, 29 March 2007 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link
man
walkabout is so fuckin good
that opening sequence... edited so well. it really sets up everything, the characters, the ideas, the vibe, the visuals.... amazing.
― sir gaga (s1ocki), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 17:49 (thirteen years ago) link
look at that. antony gibbs, one of the editors, also did RONIN!
― sir gaga (s1ocki), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Got to Walkabout in an empty theater a year or so ago and it was a great experience.
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link
If real life was a Nicolas Roeg film, the next scene would begin with Nicolas Roeg waking up - then cut to a car passing by a phone box - then cut to the sun setting - then cut to Nicolas Roeg waking up again but with the sound of a car crash.
― Ashley Pomeroy
lmfao and also otm
― flappy bird, Sunday, 25 November 2018 05:19 (five years ago) link
@flappy (hopefully this works):https://i.imgur.com/GydIJi8.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/Ofmls9e.jpg
― Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Sunday, 25 November 2018 14:47 (five years ago) link
time for me to revisit some of these. I still constantly confuse him with Ken Russell.
― akm, Sunday, 25 November 2018 16:18 (five years ago) link
here's how to unconfuse them: if the film is any good it's by nic roeg
― mark s, Sunday, 25 November 2018 16:33 (five years ago) link
accurate xxp thanks wins im gonna look for a copy later. If it’s based on the script it must be pretty different from the movie, since it was never conceived or shot as a non linear story if you can believe it
― flappy bird, Sunday, 25 November 2018 16:47 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DehV5v-WBxM
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 25 November 2018 17:13 (five years ago) link
lol and wow @ that Bad Timing paperback!
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 26 November 2018 08:49 (five years ago) link
he photographed two rather different Dick Lester films: Petulia and Funny Thing/Forum
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 November 2018 18:58 (five years ago) link
Didn’t know/had forgotten about him working on Fahrenheit 451
― Gottseidank, es ist Blecch Freitag (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 26 November 2018 19:14 (five years ago) link
watched bad timing for the first time last night. that is certainly a thing that exists
― single bed mentality (||||||||), Monday, 26 November 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link
Go on
― flappy bird, Monday, 26 November 2018 20:33 (five years ago) link
a T Russell perf for the ages
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 November 2018 21:33 (five years ago) link
Current wrapup
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6062-nicolas-roeg-the-reinventor
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 05:23 (five years ago) link
They got Thompson on the job for the obit at S&S (nobody else was getting that gig) and its an almost exotic history of post-war Brit film.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 22:39 (five years ago) link
Thanks
― Gottseidank, es ist Blecch Freitag (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 23:08 (five years ago) link
Like many directors, he filled in time making commercials (including those tea-drinking chimps),
― Alba, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 07:19 (five years ago) link
This PG Tips titbit is massive news to me.
The S&S Roeg obit is by David Thompson with a p, not to be confused with David Thomson without a p, author of the Biographical Dictionary of Cinema.
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 07:25 (five years ago) link
Thanks Ward, I saw the 'p' and thought that wasn't how I recalled it but I was too lazy to google.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 07:58 (five years ago) link
The no-p one is not a fan of roeg iirc
― Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 08:01 (five years ago) link
What is wrong with him?
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 08:06 (five years ago) link
I think Thomson thinks he Roeg was a cinematographer, not a director:
https://i.imgur.com/jEiGuU8.png
― Alba, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 09:00 (five years ago) link
thomson on the chimp ad is brutal
― mark s, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 10:24 (five years ago) link
Whatever bubbles bubbles up
― Gottseidank, es ist Blecch Freitag (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 11:11 (five years ago) link
as I long suspected, Insignificance isn't very good.
bcz of his history w/ the real Marilyn, Tony Curtis is extra creepy in his scenes with T Russell.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 February 2019 02:35 (five years ago) link
Insignificance blows. Theresa Russell's Marilyn is terrible. Don't know why it's not lumped in with the rest of his spotty & weightless 80s work - I prefer Track 29. Eureka is the end of his imperial phase even if it is too long. But the drop-off from Bad Timing to Insignificance to Track 29 is staggering.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 7 February 2019 06:25 (five years ago) link