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Director - Feature filmography and DVDBeaver links:
Full Body Massage (1995),
Two Deaths (1995), Hotel Paradise (1995),
Heart of Darkness (1994), Cold Heaven (1991),
The Witches (1990),
Track 29
(1988), Castaway (1986),
Insignificance (1985),
Eureka (1984),
Bad Timing
(1980),
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976),
Don't Look Now (1973),
Walkabout (1971),
Performance (1970)
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Suggested Reading
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info)
The Films of Nicolas Roeg : Myth and Mind
by John Izod
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On a superficial level, Nicolas Roeg's films
are fascinating to look at but difficult to comprehend. Time is nonlinear
and lacks monotonic flow. The characters are difficult to understand. The
narratives seem to break down. Natural laws seem to be undermined and
questionable, laughable conventions. Logic is imbued with a sense of
mysticism. Under the surface of the films, lurks a foreboding beyond
description; possibly beyond comprehension. This is the world in which
Roeg's characters live, forge their identities and make their choices. A
world and identities which they cannot escape, which drive their decisions
to their inevitable conclusions. Using the complete gamut of cinematic
techniques, from Welles-like mise-en-scene to innovative editing and sound,
from elaborate camera angles to intricately placed objects - symbols, Roeg
stretches the potencies of narrative filmmaking while challenging both
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