Nicolas Roeg

David. Gulpilil.

how does one pronounce "Roeg" please?

Sound of Claudia Schiffer, The (2000)
Samson and Delilah (1996) (TV)
Hotel Paradise (1995)
Full Body Massage (1995) (TV)
Two Deaths (1995)
Heart of Darkness (1994) (TV)
"Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, The" (1992) TV Series (episode "Paris, October 1916")
Cold Heaven (1991)
Witches, The (1990)
Sweet Bird of Youth (1989) (TV)
Track 29 (1988)
Aria (1987) (segment "Un ballo in maschera")
Castaway (1986)
Insignificance (1985)
Eureka (1984)
Bad Timing (1980)
Man Who Fell to Earth, The (1976)
Don't Look Now (1973)
Walkabout (1971)
Performance (1970)

Committed suicide after his movie Wild Side (1995) was recut against his wishes. This was Cammell's fourth feature film in 25 years.

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?

(saw with a friend who waited about thirty seconds after it faded to black and then said 'ah. so that's how it ends.')

I've only seen Walkabout, Don't Look Now, and The Witches, but I can wholeheartedly recommend all three. So, jeah.

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.

also, more roegly, is it just me or is 'the man who fell to earth' total bollocks?

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.

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.

look at that. antony gibbs, one of the editors, also did RONIN!

Got to Walkabout in an empty theater a year or so ago and it was a great experience.

See it in an empty theater.

"i don't suppose it matters which way we go"

walkabout is amazing.

kinda scared about checking out the rest tbh.

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

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

the john barry score is my favorite

slock did u get a copy of the walkabout blu-ray? saw its out next week

bad timing is still probably my fave roeg

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)

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, 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

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.

Ha, whoops - anamorphic. Must be the cold medicine. I would gladly pay for a collectible anthropomorphic "Walkabout" DVD.

it's on bluray. i don't understand the question.

old crit dvd NOT anaphylactic iirc

is anyone going to make challopsy claims for his later stuff (like post eureka i guess)

― nakhchivan, Wednesday, May 12, 2010 7:10 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

i prefer the one that came after 'eureka' (the one with marilyn monroe and einstein) to 'eureka', which i didn't understand. 'relativity'? s.thing like that.

Insignificance. Felt a bit stage-bound to me at the time tbh, but then the last 3rd of Eureka is pretty nuts and maybe not in a good way. I think The Witches is a near-great kids movie, but I am a bit of a Anj Huston stan.

It wasn't so much a question as a conundrum. This movie is gorgeous, so I would like to upgrade my current 1st gen Criterion edition. However, it feels like a waste of money to upgrade to the new SD DVD when the new Blu-ray would look even better. Except that I personally haven't and won't make the switch to Bluray, because in many ways that seems like an even bigger waste of money. So the conundrum is that I can't justify an upgrade even though I totally want an upgrade and would appreciate the upgrade. I'm stuck in stasis waiting out the format switch, as I believe Bluray is totally transitional.

FWIW, I hear the "Walkabout" Bluray is actually kind of shoddy and hampered by extensive edge enhancement.

It wasn't so much a question as a conundrum. This movie is gorgeous, so I would like to upgrade my current 1st gen Criterion edition. However, it feels like a waste of money to upgrade to the new SD DVD when the new Blu-ray would look even better. Except that I personally haven't and won't make the switch to Bluray, because in many ways that seems like an even bigger waste of money. So the conundrum is that I can't justify an upgrade even though I totally want an upgrade and would appreciate the upgrade. I'm stuck in stasis waiting out the format switch, as I believe Bluray is totally transitional.

http://littlevic.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/rodin-thinker-main_full.jpg

That's me, on the can, just reading the lo-fi James Vance Marshall novel instead.

who did you hear that from? (that the bluray is shoddy)

Saw it reviewed and discussed a few places. But edge enhancement bugs some people on some systems more than others, and in fact this may not be an example of EE at all (some interesting stuff here: http://www.criterionforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=287240). I'm sure it looks pretty good, though overall I get the sense responses to Criterion Bluray in general have been pretty here and there. It took the company a few years to get up to snuff with plain ol' DVDs, too - what with the massively belated 16X9 support and even its late in the game decision to windowbox certain films for no good reason - so Bluray should be no exception. People may be picky because "Walkabout" is a particularly pretty film, and its Bluray upgrade was I believe first mentioned a couple of years ago.

ya, the anamorphic thing was kinda bizarre.

but this one looks pretty good to me. tho i'm not an HD expert in those matters.

and apparently... i'm right!

check this out josh:

http://www.hometheaterforum.com/forum/thread/300063/a-few-words-about-walkabout-in-blu-ray

and that's from the DON of restoration.

a lot of times video nerds complain about shit that looks like... you know... film, and not like, the kind of pure HD crystal clarity u get in planet earth and transformers and stuff. suspect this is one of those times.

haha yeah exactly. fwiw we got a copy of the days of heaven bluray release (most recent one ive got) & it looks incredible

gah i need that, but i bought the reg on DVD not too long ago... but still...

that transfer is just ridiculous.

Echoing whoever praised the John Barry score. So awesome.

Found Walkabout kind of a chore. Plus the framing went all screwy when Jenny Agutter went swimming, and that didn't help.

Nice interview with Roeg about the way he works, its origins, and some interesting specifics from his movies.

saw don't look now last night. was massively disappointed, thought it was pretty bad ultimately. heavy-handed obvious symbolism, horribly shallow characterisation, reliant on a lot of dodgy all-foreigners-are-inherently-creepy assumptions (if you don't buy this the film falls apart really), a terrible ending (who was the woman in red in the end? utterly laughable) and no real plot to speak of

cinematography was good i guess but that's sort of my last priority when watching a film

is anyone going to make challopsy claims for his later stuff (like post eureka i guess)

― nakhchivan, Wednesday, May 12, 2010 7:10 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

PUFFBALL B-)

Anyone read the autobiog?

'don't look now' gets better and better each time I watch it.
― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, September 17, 2004 3:04 PM (9 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that's kinda weird, did you ask the video store about that?
― amateur!!st, Friday, September 17, 2004 3:06 PM (9 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think this is one of my funnier moments.

Saw the restored Don't Look Now projected for the first time tonight (had seen it before on DVD). Just glanced at this thread and pretty much disagree with all of this from The Lex

saw don't look now last night. was massively disappointed, thought it was pretty bad ultimately. heavy-handed obvious symbolism, horribly shallow characterisation, reliant on a lot of dodgy all-foreigners-are-inherently-creepy assumptions (if you don't buy this the film falls apart really), a terrible ending (who was the woman in red in the end? utterly laughable) and no real plot to speak of

Biggest complaint is that for me the movie drags between Sutherland seeing Christie & The Sisters on the boat and him taking the blind sister back to hotel from the police station.

How was the arena Nic Roeg doc? (Catching up on various things at the mo. so need someone to tell me whether I should watch it ASAP)

The Man Who Fell To Earth sure is nuts--mostly in a good way, although I'd have been happy to lose half an hour, starting with the four or five most hysterical scenes. Best performance, Bowie. Nice to see Candy Clark--except for the two American Graffitis, I don't think I'd ever seen her in anything else. "Blue Bayou" scoops Lynch by a decade.

iron out everything interesting. unusual stance!

Some great Rip Torn in this.

Definitely had the best line in the film--theater went crazy. I also thought the worst overacting came from him in the scenes with his students.

Wrong about Candy Clark--she's also in Zodiac (secretary at the Chronicle), and I would have seen her in the Big Sleep remake, too.

royg

ROEG DUDE

roge?

Rogue.

roger

New interview with Candy Clark up on the TV Guidance Counselor podcast

http://www.tvguidancecounselor.com/

^ Unfortunately she talks more about her appearances on Circus with the Stars than about Nic Roeg

Just glanced at this thread and pretty much disagree with all of this from The Lex

lol of course Lex hated a movie about grieving parents

"Track 29" is showing at the local arthouse cinema next Friday. Worth watching?

Rather you than me. Dennis Potter had lost it by this point and Gary Oldman has never had it.

looks like Track 29 is on FilmStruck. anyone seen it? is there anything past Insignificance worth checking out?

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.