Nicolas Roeg

I remember little about it beyond a lot of overt eccentricity but an interesting piece I came across at the time (when I watching all of his films in a row) argued how T29 was postmodern whereas Roeg’s normal mode is modernist.

The bit with the sisters laughing when they're on their own in Don't Look Now has haunted me like very few movie images. I still don't know why they're laughing. Not sure i want to.

Saw a restored Blu of Bad Timing recently, never seen the film before.. wow that last 15 minutes or so is one nasty trick to play on your audience.

Where is Bad Timing out on blu? That’s one of my favorite movies

I've seen Track 29 but I too can remember almost nothing about it, which is probably not a good sign

Twitter suggesting he's passed on, hell of a streak in the 70s and early 80s.

rip big man :(

family just confirmed, via bbc :(

:(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9w41F_f9cs

Rest Well and thank you.

Jim O’Rourke having some feelings today. Performance is so great.

RIP, just the other week I bought a 2nd hand copy of the NOVELISATION of bad timing, a thing that exists

RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFxfn3LakeM

You made some insanely beautiful stuff, man. RIP.

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.

and an intense crash zoom in there somewhere

An accommodating and mischievous interviewee. RIP, you utterly lovely man.

fuck!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dsz7OwBXoAA9AAy.jpg

RIP, just the other week I bought a 2nd hand copy of the NOVELISATION of bad timing, a thing that exists

― Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins)

wtf where

what is it called?

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 (hopefully this works):

https://i.imgur.com/GydIJi8.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/Ofmls9e.jpg

time for me to revisit some of these. I still constantly confuse him with Ken Russell.

here's how to unconfuse them: if the film is any good it's by nic roeg

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DehV5v-WBxM

lol and wow @ that Bad Timing paperback!

he photographed two rather different Dick Lester films: Petulia and Funny Thing/Forum

Didn’t know/had forgotten about him working on Fahrenheit 451

watched bad timing for the first time last night. that is certainly a thing that exists

Go on

a T Russell perf for the ages

Current wrapup

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6062-nicolas-roeg-the-reinventor

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.

Thanks

Like many directors, he filled in time making commercials (including those tea-drinking chimps),

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.

Thanks Ward, I saw the 'p' and thought that wasn't how I recalled it but I was too lazy to google.

The no-p one is not a fan of roeg iirc

What is wrong with him?

I think Thomson thinks he Roeg was a cinematographer, not a director:

https://i.imgur.com/jEiGuU8.png

thomson on the chimp ad is brutal

Whatever bubbles bubbles up

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.

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.

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.