Nicolas Roeg
Nicolas Jack Roeg ( ROHG; 15 August 1928 – 23 November 2018) was an English film director and cinematographer, best known for directing Performance (1970), Walkabout (1971), Don't Look Now (1973), The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), Bad Timing (1980) and The Witches (1990). Making his directorial debut 23 years after his entry into the film business, Roeg quickly became known for an idiosyncratic visual and narrative style, characterised by the use of disjointed and disorienting editing. For this
Defining films
In their own words
Roeg was influenced by Luis Buñuel's Los olvidados and Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon for their unsentimental depictions of youth, and by Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali for its evocation of childhood innocence in a harsh natural world.
You saw films like Breathless, which was terribly exciting because it broke all the rules. It was a film that said you didn't have to follow the classic narrative.
