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Directed by Nicolas Roeg

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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Directed by Nicolas Roeg

6 Episodes

  • Walkabout
    1:40:40
    Walkabout
    Episode 1

    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...

  • Bad Timing
    2:02:12
    Bad Timing
    Episode 2

    Bad Timing

    Episode 2

    Directed by Nicolas Roeg • 1980 • United Kingdom
    Starring Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey Keitel

    Amid 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)...

  • Insignificance
    1:48:54
    Insignificance
    Episode 3

    Insignificance

    Episode 3

    Directed by Nicolas Roeg • 1985 • United Kingdom
    Starring Theresa Russell, Gary Busey, Tony Curtis

    Four 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 ...

  • Track 29
    1:30:32
    Track 29
    Episode 4

    Track 29

    Episode 4

    Directed by Nicolas Roeg • 1988 • United Kingdom
    Starring Theresa Russell, Gary Oldman, Christopher Lloyd

    The 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...

  • Roeg on Roeg
    09:19
    Roeg on Roeg
    Episode 5

    Roeg on Roeg

    Episode 5

  • Trade Secrets: Nicolas Roeg and Jeremy Thomas
    28:04
    Trade Secrets: Nicolas Roeg and Jeremy Thomas
    Episode 6

    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.

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