Nicolas Roeg

@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.