tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3369610344911858466.post3007126214751707280..comments2024-01-09T04:01:00.672+00:00Comments on Breakfast In The Ruins: Deathblog: Nicolas Roeg (1928-2018)Benhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14951955227326548340noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3369610344911858466.post-52849385416229244782019-01-10T02:21:47.771+00:002019-01-10T02:21:47.771+00:00Performance is a masterpiece and Don't Look No...Performance is a masterpiece and Don't Look Now is an excellent blend of drama and giallo. I missed all of Roeg's later films after The Witches, a film I forgot about right after leaving the theater. Bad Timing was compelling and bizarre enough without Harvey Keitel's off-kilter accent and odd mannerisms.Elliot Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17964519903027517480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3369610344911858466.post-88519358929400731922018-12-01T19:55:35.498+00:002018-12-01T19:55:35.498+00:00Thinking back, that evenings films followed Perfor...Thinking back, that evenings films followed Performance with Karloffs “The Man They Could Not Hang”, which the video also caught. What a solid Friday evening of scheduling that was - I’d lay good money for a channel to do that nowadays!Maurice Mickelwhitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05415253943533672436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3369610344911858466.post-52016414309627479842018-11-27T16:21:31.507+00:002018-11-27T16:21:31.507+00:00'Confessions of a Window Cleaner' and '...'Confessions of a Window Cleaner' and 'Performance' sounds like a great accidental double-bill!<br /><br />Both very different British reactions to the sexual revolution, I suppose...!? Well, both feature long-haired chancers running around in the buff in grotty semi-detched properties, anyway...<br /><br />I'm very much looking forward to watching 'Bad Timing', when the time is right (no pun intended).Benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14951955227326548340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3369610344911858466.post-9337295908682294122018-11-26T13:27:17.464+00:002018-11-26T13:27:17.464+00:00I loved Roeg when younger - mainly because of acci...I loved Roeg when younger - mainly because of accidentally seeing Performance on Channel 5 one night in about 97, after my video overran from recording Confessions of Window Cleaner and caught Performance too (whilst also forever entrapping me in a highbrow/lowbrow taste conundrum), then hoovered up the greatest hits in short order whilst wondering quite how The Witches fits into a CV of cut-up cinema.<br /><br />Really though, the one that left most of an impression on me and the one I saw about 6-7 years later, so wasn't part of the initial viewings, was Bad Timing. Now thats a cold, somewhat disturbing film, and grossed me out at the time......but its the one I find time for if I'm going to watch a Roeg.<br /><br />There was a very good documentary about him on telly a number of years back, the name of which I can't recall. Was a BBC1 Imagine job.Maurice Mickelwhitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05415253943533672436noreply@blogger.com