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Nicolas Jack Roeg, born in August 15, 1928 in London, is an internationally-known cinematographer and film director. Contributing to the ocular look of Lawrence of Arabia and Roger Corman's The Masque of the Red Death, and co-directing Performance, he would later get a guiding inflict behind such landmark films when ''Don't Look Now, Walkabout and The Man Who Fell to Earth'', which starred David Bowie.

These & his more pictures come known for their apply of the cut-up technique, through which the linear story is given the freshly & less conventional meaning. Typically, Roeg may photograph his stories inside disjunctive & semi-coherent ways that merely fill feel in the film's final moments, whenever the important piece of facts shells. These techniques, & Roeg's unambiguously foreboding feel of atmosphere, develop greatly influenced late filmmakers like Ridley Scott and François Ozon. His late films, notwithstanding, use at times received the colder reception per viewing public.

Filmography

Films as director
Performance, with Donald Cammell (1970) Walkabout (1971) ''Don't Look Now 1973 The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession (1980) Eureka (1982) Insignificance (1985) Castaway (1986) Aria, with decade more directors (1987) Track 29 (1987) Sweet Bird of Youth (TV) (1989) The Witches (1989) Cold Heaven (1990) Two Deaths (1994)

Selected films as cinematographer
The Masque of the Red Death (1964) Nothing But the Best (1964) Doctor Zhivago (1965) (uncredited) (some scenes) Fahrenheit 451 (1966) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966) Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) Petulia (1968) Performance (1970) Walkabout'' (1971)

Yahoo Groups: Nicolas Roeg
Mailing list for fans of the director's films.

Gerald Peary interviews Nicolas Roeg
The topic was Roeg's latest film, 'Bad Timing - A Sensual Obsession', starring his youthful wife, Theresa Russell. From the Real Paper, Boston.

Nicolas Roeg
Filmography, news, and forum.

Nicolas Roeg Interview - The Man Who Fell to Earth.
From SFX Magazine August 1999. Nic talks about his work.

Nicolas Roeg
Profile by Lee Hill.

Nicholas Roeg at IMDb
His biography and filmography.


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