― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 22:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― NamC, Wednesday, 13 April 2005 22:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 22:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― 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
― jz, Monday, 12 December 2005 13:14 (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
See it in an empty theater.
"i don't suppose it matters which way we go"
― jed_, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link
walkabout is amazing.
kinda scared about checking out the rest tbh.
― I thought "escargot" was a snail? (Matt P), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 17:54 (thirteen years ago) link
is it the beginning or the end where shes standing at the sink, washing dishes, and the sun is coming in & the city noises fade into the sound of water running? theres something about the look on her face and her posture that carries so much weight
the colors in this too
― coining (Lamp), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 17:54 (thirteen years ago) link
there's a strong argument for antony gibbs/roeg as co-auteurs imo
see "petulia", which roeg shot and gibbo edited
but also "the knack" (another gibbs-lester film) is really tight and kinda pre-empts the roeg steez too
― Greatest contributor: (history mayne), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
the john barry score is my favorite
― velko, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
slock did u get a copy of the walkabout blu-ray? saw its out next week
bad timing is still probably my fave roeg
― coining (Lamp), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 18:08 (thirteen years ago) link
the man who fell to earth rly awesome too
is anyone going to make challopsy claims for his later stuff (like post eureka i guess)
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 18:10 (thirteen years ago) link
― coining (Lamp), Wednesday, May 12, 2010 2:08 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark
ya
GORGE
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film3/blu-ray_reviews51/walkabout_blu-ray/900_waklkabout_blu-ray3.jpg
― sir gaga (s1ocki), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 18:41 (thirteen years ago) link
New "Walkabout" transfer on Criterion DVD, no? I can't remember if my old DVD is anthropomorphic or not, but regardless at the same time sort of don't feel like shelling for a new DVD when I'd prefer to see this on Blu-ray, even though I don't have a Blu-ray player since I'm waiting for what comes after Blu-ray. Which leaves me ... where? Nowhere.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 19:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha, whoops - anamorphic. Must be the cold medicine. I would gladly pay for a collectible anthropomorphic "Walkabout" DVD.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 19:17 (thirteen years ago) link
it's on bluray. i don't understand the question.
― sir gaga (s1ocki), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link
old crit dvd NOT anaphylactic iirc
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