Directed by Nicolas Roeg
6 Episodes
The thrillingly innovative films of Nicolas Roeg are dazzling, chronology-scrambling puzzles that explode the rules of cinema and leave the viewer to piece together the shards. Distinguishing himself first as a cinematographer for directors such as François Truffaut and Roger Corman, Roeg made the leap to directing with a remarkable run of films that frequently courted controversy but have gone on to become cult classics, including the dreamlike Australian odyssey WALKABOUT and the shockingly transgressive BAD TIMING. Among the most radical and uncompromising British films of the era, these visceral, provocative works opened narrative cinema up to a brave new world of stylistic and psychological complexity.
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Walkabout
Episode 1
Directed by Nicolas Roeg • 1971 • Australia
A young sister (Jenny Agutter) and brother (Luc Roeg) are abandoned in the harsh Australian outback and must learn to cope in the natural world, without their usual comforts, in this hypnotic masterpiece from Nicolas Roeg. Along the way, they meet a yo...
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2:02:12Episode 2
Bad Timing
Episode 2
Directed by Nicolas Roeg • 1980 • United Kingdom
Starring Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey KeitelAmid the decaying elegance of cold-war Vienna, psychoanalyst Dr. Alex Linden (Art Garfunkel) becomes mired in an erotically charged affair with the elusive Milena Flaherty (Theresa Russell)...
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1:48:54Episode 3
Insignificance
Episode 3
Directed by Nicolas Roeg • 1985 • United Kingdom
Starring Theresa Russell, Gary Busey, Tony CurtisFour unnamed people who look and sound a lot like Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio, and Joseph McCarthy converge in one New York City hotel room in this compelling, visually inventive ...
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Track 29
Episode 4
Directed by Nicolas Roeg • 1988 • United Kingdom
Starring Theresa Russell, Gary Oldman, Christopher LloydThe ever-provocative Nicolas Roeg brings his flair for the strange, the kinky, and the surreal to this outré Oedipal psychodrama. Unhappily married to a neglectful husband (Christopher Lloy...
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09:19Episode 5
Roeg on Roeg
Episode 5
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Trade Secrets: Nicolas Roeg and Jeremy Thomas
Episode 6
Director Nicolas Roeg and producer Jeremy Thomas discuss the making of BAD TIMING in this rare on-camera interview, conducted in London, in 2004.