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Nicolas Roeg |
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Director / Cinematographer |
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1928 - |
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Born August 15,
London, England |
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Key
Production Countries: UK, USA |
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Key Genres: Drama,
Psychological Drama, Satire |
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Key
Collaborators: Tony
Lawson (Editor), Stanley Myers (Composer), Theresa Russell (Leading
Player), Jeremy Thomas (Producer), Allan Scott (Screenwriter), Anthony
B. Richmond (Cinematographer), David Brockhurst (Production Designer),
Rick McCallum (Producer), Paul Mayersberg (Screenwriter), Harvey
Harrison (Cinematographer) |
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Worth
a Look: Performance
(1970)* [co-directed by Donald Cammell], Don't Look Now (1973)*, The Man
Who Fell to Earth (1976)*, Bad
Timing (1980), Eureka (1981), Insignificance (1985), The Witches (1989) |
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Approach with Caution:
Walkabout (1971)* |
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Duds:
Castaway (1987), Track 29 (1988) |
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* Listed in TSPDT's
1,000 Greatest Films
section. |
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Links: [
Amazon
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IMDB ] [
All-Movie
Guide ] [
Senses
of Cinema: Great Directors ] [
Film Reference ]
[
Britmovie Biography ] [
Gerald
Peary Interview ] [
SFX
Magazine Interview ] [
Jump Cut Article (1974) ] [
Screen Online Biography ] |
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Books: [
Nicolas
Roeg: Film by Film ] [
The
Films of Nicolas Roeg: Myth and Mind ] [
Fragile Geometry: The Films, Philosophy, and Misadventures of Nicolas
Roeg ] [
Nicolas Roeg ] |
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"A
former clapper boy, lighting cameraman and cinematographer who
belatedly moved into directing, Roeg never seemed totally at
ease in front of the camera (or, perhaps more accurately, beside
it). His visuals are often wonderful, but his later scripts can
be woeful, particularly in the case of Eureka (1983)...If
this all sounds unduly critical, it shouldn't be taken as such,
for Roeg's standards and his expectations of himself are high,
and his is a genuinely eclectic talent which can provoke, puzzle
and satisfy in roughly equal measures." -
Mario Reading (The Movie Companion, 2006) |
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"Nicolas
Roeg is a visual trickster who plays havoc with conventional
screen narratives. Choosing an oblique storytelling formula, he
riddles his plots with ambiguous characters, blurred genres,
distorted chronologies, and open-ended themes to invite warring
interpretations." -
Joseph Lanza & Rob Edelman (The St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia, 1998) |
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"From
his directing debut Performance (made with Donald
Cammell) onwards, Roeg deployed a fragmented, associative
editing style to shift between reality and fantasy, fear and
desire, past, present, and future in diverse genres... Excepting
Walkabout and Don't Look Now, the results, while
intriguing, have often lacked coherence; the narrative
complexity and bold, baroque images can seem a gloss imposed on
conventional stories." -
Geoff
Andrew (The Director's Vision, 1999)
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"A director of exotica, mood, and place, Roeg must learn to
handle narrative with more assurance." -
William R. Meyer (The Film Buff's Catalog, 1978) |
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Please
note that the rating given for this director (see top-right) is based
only on the films we have seen (listed above). Films by this director
that we haven't seen include
Cold Heaven
(1992), Two Deaths (1994), and Puffball (2006). |
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