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Nicolas Roeg

Nicolas Roeg
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Nicolas Roeg at 43rd KVIFF in 2008
Born Nicolas Jack Roeg
(1928-08-15) 15 August 1928 (age 88)
London, England
Occupation Film director, cinematographer
Years active 1963–present
Spouse Susan Stephen (1957–77; divorced); 4 children
Theresa Russell (1982–?; divorced); 2 children
Harriet Harper (2004–present)

Nicolas Jack Roeg CBE BSC (/ˈrɡ/; born 15 August 1928) is an English film director and cinematographer.

After National Service he entered the film business as a tea boy moving up to clapper-loader, the bottom rung of the camera department, at Marylebone Studios in London. Early in his career Roeg was a second-unit cinematographer on Lawrence of Arabia, then cinematographer on Roger Corman's The Masque of the Red Death and François Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451. He co-directed and photographed Performance in 1970. He later directed such films as Walkabout, Don't Look Now and The Man Who Fell to Earth.

Roeg's films are known for having scenes and images from the plot presented in a disarranged fashion, out of chronological and causal order, requiring the viewer to do the work of mentally rearranging them to comprehend the storyline. They seem, "to shatter reality into a thousand pieces" and are "unpredictable, fascinating, cryptic and liable to leave you wondering what the hell just happened. ..."

A characteristic of Roeg's films is that they are edited in disjunctive and semi-coherent ways that make full sense only in the film's final moments, when a crucial piece of information surfaces; they are "mosaic-like montages [filled with] elliptical details which become very important later."

These techniques, and Roeg's foreboding sense of atmosphere, influenced later filmmakers such as Steven Soderbergh,Tony Scott,Ridley Scott, François Ozon and Danny Boyle.


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