"'They were down for each other.' If one wanted to pitch the concept of BAD TIMING in six words, this comment by its director, Nicolas Roeg, couldn’t be bettered." https://t.co/vz8q7uHPIK pic.twitter.com/36IKqRi4yi— Criterion Collection (@Criterion) August 15, 2018
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 02:37 (five years ago) link
RIP. One of the greatest filmmakers ever
― flappy bird, Saturday, 24 November 2018 17:47 (five years ago) link
thought Performance and Walkabout were both really great as his first films
― Dan S, Sunday, 26 January 2020 02:33 (four years ago) link
both seemed to be about the mystery of communication, although it was more explicit with Walkabout
― Dan S, Sunday, 26 January 2020 03:29 (four years ago) link
my theory for what it's worth is that after five films that played with time in his inimitable way roeg made a film -- insignificance -- whose actual topic was time, and there are no good films whose actual topic is time, and he broke his best tool
but performance to bad timing is an amazing run
― mark s, Tuesday, August 1, 2017 2:45 AM (two years ago)
agree with this
― Dan S, Saturday, 22 February 2020 01:18 (four years ago) link
Track 29 was really misanthropic, I didn't think it was very good but enjoyed watching it
― Dan S, Sunday, 1 March 2020 07:02 (four years ago) link
since the most recent post on this roeg thread is about T29 i'll revive this one. playing on tubi now so i gave it a go. hoo boy. find gary oldman's presence nearly unbearable in every frame he appears. and totally wonky performances from the folks, who i normally adore. i think the one good thing i can say is that it looked like absolutely a blast to build a crazy elaborate model train set and then get to film it getting blown to bits in slo-mo!
― andrew m., Tuesday, 5 July 2022 18:50 (one year ago) link
from the folks = from the REST of the folks
― andrew m., Tuesday, 5 July 2022 18:51 (one year ago) link
I've seen everything that got a vote here and nothing that didn't, and haven't enjoyed the former enough to delve into the latter. Walkabout is probably the best, otherwise his specialty seems to be queasiness.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 16:00 (one year ago) link
I think I watched Walkabout on a television and need to see it again. Fortunately, I can check it out from the library. I think there was one other film by Roeg that I watched after seeing Walkabout but don't remember the title. Walkabout also had this silent anything can happen vibe at one point without speech that I can't characterize properly and hope I remember correctly to experience it again.
― youn, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 16:29 (one year ago) link