Indian Express (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
British film-director Nicolas Roeg turns 80 this month, an occasion as any to reassess his cinematographic legacy.
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
His most recent film, Puffball, didn't exactly win over the critics, but one sentence in the entry for cinematographer and director Nicolas Roeg in Wikipedia, at least as it stands now, does rather neatly sum up his... significance: "Contributing...
Jahsonic (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Nicolas Roeg turns 80 today. He made his best creative work before 1986. Castaway was his last great film and he made several world cinema classics. White of the Eye by Donald Cammell Instead of focusing on Roeg’s own output, I’d like you to have this[1] clip from White of the Eye by Roeg’s brother in arms [...]
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
Pictures from Roeg's gallery'I think I scratched surfaces that people would prefer were left alone' says Nicolas Roeg (right), seen here with actor Donald Sutherland on the set of PuffballAfter a decade in the doldrums, the veteran British film director is back with an adaptation of Fay Weldon's acidic novel, 'Puffball', writes Donald Clarke IT IS THE SPRING of 2006 and I am standing...
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
After years away from the director's chair, the legendary Nicolas Roeg returns with a mystery thriller adapted from Fay Weldon's novel. Rating:2
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
... is intended to placate the targets of this critique.Understandably, this film is often compared to Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now and Michael McKenzie's review of the R1 disc talks a little about this. For all my words above, I would tend to agree with his assessment that this film "is primarily a murder mystery told in a relatively conventional manner", but I do feel it is useful...
Filmmaker Magazine: Blog (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
In Summer, 2005, the filmmaker Barbara Schock wrote a spirited piece for Filmmaker about studying film with critic and artist Manny Farber, who died on Tuesday. Mirroring Farber's rapid-fire thinking, Schock makes you feel like you're in his classroom as she writes about the man, his syllabus, and his teaching style. We've posted it in our Web Exclusives. Here's the intro: The phenomenal
RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
... Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) Will feature a high definition digital transfer approved by director Nicolas Roeg, and an uncompressed stereo soundtrack. Audio commentary by Roeg and actors David Bowie and Buck Henry New video interview with screenwriter Paul Mayersberg Performance, video interviews with actors Candy Clark and Rip Torn Audio interviews with costume designer May...
The blog Film (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Nick Roeg's latest release shows that when directors return to film-making after a break they need to do it right.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Philip French: A transposition from Somerset to Ireland of Fay Weldon's 1980 novel, Nicolas Roeg's first film for some years, is slight and uncharacteristically straightforward
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
"The release today of the movie Puffball is timed to honour the impending 80th birthday of its distinguished director, Nicolas Roeg," notes Mark Lawson in the Guardian. "But the screening date also marks another cinematic anniversary: it's exactly 35...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Last updated July 20, 2008 10:29 a.m. PTDVDs: 'Aria'86 minutes. Rated R. One of the more peculiar artifacts of '80s cinema, "Aria" consists of 10 short films of scenes from wildly different operas (Signors Verdi and Puccini, meet Monsieurs Lully and Rameau), each from a different director. Filmmakers include Robert Altman, Derek Jarman, Nicolas Roeg, Julien Temple, and, inescapably, Ken...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Time was when a new Nicolas Roeg film would have been a proper date for the diary.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
... of an audience/Murphy rapprochement. Horatia HarrodPuffball (18)advertisementVeteran Brit director Nicolas Roeg wove so much cinematic magic early in his career - from 1973's psychological thriller Don't Look Now, to very nearly coaxing a decent actor's performance out of David Bowie in The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976) - that he can be forgiven the patchiness of his more recent films....
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
... we can, without wishing to be rude, safely assume to be in the twilight of their careers. Nicolas Roeg, whose comedy Puffball is in cinemas this Friday, turns 80 in August; the 88-year-old French auteur Eric Rohmer and the Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira, now in his 100th year, both have new films out in September. Together, these three men have a combined age of 268.Such long...
