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Samson and Delilah (1996) Nicolas Roeg, Dennis Hopper, Elizabeth Hurley, Eric Thal
Mara and her husband Manoa are both upstanding and religious Israelites living Read More »
Heart of Darkness (1993) Nicolas Roeg, Tim Roth, John Malkovich, Isaach De Bankolé
A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing Read More »
Two Deaths (1995) Nicolas Roeg, Sonia Braga, Patrick Malahide, Ion Caramitru
Set during a recent European revolution, when the students have just begun to rise Read More »
Performance (1970) Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg, James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg
Chas, a violent and psychotic East London gangster needs a place to lie low after a hit that should never have been carried out. Read More »
Eureka (1983) Nicolas Roeg, Gene Hackman, Theresa Russell, Rutger Hauer
Arctic prospector Jack McCann, after fifteen years of solitary searching, becomes one of the world’s wealthiest men Read More »
The Witches (1990) Nicolas Roeg, Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Jasen Fisher
A young boy, recently orphaned, is taken to England by his grandmother. Read More »
Castaway (1986) Nicolas Roeg, Oliver Reed, Amanda Donohoe, Georgina Hale
Middle-aged Gerald Kingsland advertises in a London paper for a female companion to spend a year with him on a desert island. Read More »
Bad Timing (1980) Nicolas Roeg, Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey Keitel, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
The setting is Vienna. A young American woman is brought to a hospital after overdosing on pills, apparently in a suicide attempt. Read More »
Track 29 (1988) Nicolas Roeg, Theresa Russell, Gary Oldman, Christopher Lloyd, Drama, Mystery
A doctor’s wife tires of his obsession with model trains, and spends her days wondering about the son she gave up for adoption at birth. While eating at a roadside cafe, she encounters a British hitchhiker, who turns out to be her son. They spend time together trying to find a bond. The son begins to hate the husband, and the wife begins worrying about the safety of her husband and his train set.
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Don’t Look Now (1973) Nicolas Roeg, Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason, Horror, Thriller, Drama
John and Laura Baxter are in Venice when they meet a pair of elderly sisters, one of whom claims to be psychic. She insists that she sees the spirit of the Baxters’ daughter, who recently drowned. Laura is intrigued, but John resists the idea. He, however, seems to have his own psychic flashes, seeing their daughter walk the streets in her red cloak, as well as Laura and the sisters on a funeral gondola.
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The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) Nicolas Roeg, David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark, Sci-fi, Drama
The Man Who Fell to Earth is a daring exploration of science fiction as an art form. The story of an alien on an elaborate rescue mission provides the launching pad for Nicolas Roeg’s visual tour de force, a formally adventurous examination of alienation in contemporary life. Rock legend David Bowie, in his acting debut, completely embodies the title role, while Candy Clark, Buck Henry, and Rip Torn turn in pitch-perfect supporting performances. The film’s hallucinatory vision was obscured in the American theatrical release, which deleted nearly twenty minutes of crucial scenes and details.
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Insignificance (1985) Nicolas Roeg, Gary Busey, Tony Curtis, Theresa Russell
Four 1950’s cultural icons (Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio Read More »