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According to Ephraim Katz, Nicolas Roeg’s birthday is in
December. According to the Internet Movie Database, it is in August.
So we thought it would be fitting to celebrate the 77th birthday
of the magician of modern cinema, the great connoisseur of ambiguity,
in September by showing two of his greatest films. Starting with
Performance, his 1970 collboration with the late Donald Cammell,
Roeg met the challenge of narrative storytelling with the power
of uncertainty. His films seemed to be operating free of gravity,
according to a secret source of energy known only to the gods.
Manny Farber and Patricia Patterson put it beautifully: “Roeg’s
very athletic films are filled with baroque strategies — jumpy
and jazzy editing, a topsy-turvy scale, an aquarium-like space
in which hush is a major effect along with the sense of people
floating dreamily toward the front of a stretched out, sinister
vastness.”
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Don’t Look Now, Roeg’s justly celebrated
adaptation of the Daphne Du Maurier story, is one of the
great films of the 70s, as entrancing as it is profoundly
unsettling — not to mention remarkably sexy. Furthermore,
it’s practically a guarantee that when you walk out
of the theater, it’ll be a while before you cease
flinching every time you glimpse the color red.
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SEPT 1: 1:15 PM
THU
SEPT 1: 6:15 PM
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Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession is another great Roeg film, a chronologically skewed inquiry into the circumstances behind a young woman’s suicide attempt and the odd behavior of her lover, an American psychologist. Roeg makes just as much of the city of Vienna here as he does of Venice in Don’t Look Now, and the performances of Art Garfunkel and Theresa Russell in the leads are wrenching portraits of psychological and spiritual extremity. |
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SEPT 1: 3:30 PM
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